Win Tickets ($136): Dogstar w/ The Backfires @ Crystal Ballroom | Keanu Reeves, Alt-Rock
We are giving away another pair of tickets to Dogstar w/ The Backfires @ Crystal Ballroom on September 17. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed September 14.
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September 17, 2026
6:30PM doors, 8PM show | $68 | All Ages
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Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209
Let the record show that here in 2026, Dogstar is clearly All In Now.
After a long 20 years of silence as a band, this California-based power trio – guitarist and lead singer Bret Domrose, drummer Robert Mailhouse, and bassist Keanu Reeves – surprised many and perhaps even themselves when they returned in fine form in 2023 with a new album that found the three joyfully making music again and doing it all Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees. Only two years later – after extensive touring in America and around the world playing everywhere from sweaty rock clubs to giant outdoor festivals – Dogstar is returning with strong new songs that leave no doubt that this little band that could is back for good with a powerful sound that is bigger and better than ever before.
Dogstar is a group of three friends who have slowly yet surely become a band of brothers – a group with multiple talents committed to picking up the pace and locking into life as a working and increasingly beloved rock band who are excited to get back on the road this summer.
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I had tickets to see Dogstar when they were here before but missed the show because I was called out to help fight a forest fire but winning these tickets would make up for missing that show. Fingers crossed.
Dogstar would be amazing to see!!!
There is no spoon!
Leave a Comment? Just trying to pick my jaw up off the floor… like, duh… how can you possibly think of something good, let alone intelligent to say when it’s Dogstar; Oops, formerly known.
Love you man…
PLEASE pick me 🤞
Side Note: if not, let me run a sweat lodge for ya, aye 🪶🙌
Dogstar @ Crystal… what more reason is possible?
I have often had some saucy dreams of Keanu Reeves. Would be cool to make these dreams a reality.
This would be so righteous!!!
What a band!!!
this would be a lot of fun!
Dogstar… Yes, Please!
Dogstar…Yes, Please!
Oh what a great experience this would be !
Oops wouldn’t be able to go will be at another show
So scratch last entry
Yes, Please and Thank you!
Woof!
I love Dogstar and Keanu Reeves so much that I married a guy who was a guitarist who could have been his look alike. Unfortunately it did NOT work out.
Would love to go!
Ok, Keanu is just one of the coolest guys ever, and Dogsrar is just an awesome band! So glad they’re back on tour! This would be an amazing show at the Crystal. Thanks for the chance, PDXPIPELINE! 🙌🏼
Great Sounding Southern Cal Band…and Keanu!!!
In this 35th anniversary year of Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey this would be so excellent to see!
Keanu is a legend on many levels and I would love to see him perform live.
Would be a killer show to see, and to see Keanu IRL…!!
Would love to catch this show!
I’d love to take my best friend to see them!
What a great way to kick off fall! I’d love to go to this show.
I need to fulfill my lifelong dream of seeing Keanu and the guys 🤩
Pick me! Pick me!
I’d love to win these tickets because Dogstar has such a unique sound, and seeing them live would be an incredible experience. Add The Backfires to the lineup, and it sounds like the perfect night of live music. I’d be counting down the days if I won! 🎸🎶
🐾🐾 paws up! Pick me:) would make my tail wag yo Dee yoyo
I’ve never seen them live! Pick me! 🐕🦺⭐️
Point break live.. Yes please!
Absolutely!
I would LOVE to BOUNCE with Dogstar! Plus Crystal ballroom is dabomb.com baby!
My mom has been a HUGE all around Keanu Reeves fan for decades now. It would be the opportunity of a lifetime to take her to see Dogstar live. Fingers crossed!
Dogstar was my first concert soooooo long ago at the old La Luna — would be fun to see them again!
Woah! Need I say more? (okay, maybe: free tickets please!)
Awesome I love dogstar and a chance to meet keanu even better 💗🩵
Ahhh would love to go!!!!
Just saw Dogstar perform on Jimmy Fallon. Would love to go see them live.
Would love to see them live!
Totally!
A must have band to see before I die!
“That’s why it’s going to work!”
i would love this so much to see it live
I missed the first time he was in Portland and would love to see them now 🙂 please & thanks
Keanu and me go way back (met him while working as a PA on Constantine) but I’ve still never seen him play music! Hook a boy up!!
Dogstar! I’m in !!!!!!!! 😁🎉🎼🎵🎶
Double entry is that cheating? — i hope not.
No way! Would love to go
Officially entered to win.
I have always thought it was so dope that Keanu also had a band. As a fellow Native Hawaiian, I would love to go see this show and see this awesome human being and his bandmates in person.
Keanu? In Portland? Playing a bass guitar? Must see!!!
Would love to see Dogstar live!!!
Um, wowowow. Gahhhh. YES, please.
Have always wanted to see Dogstar but never got the chance!! Please!!
Yes please 🙏🙏
Oooh yeah baby, woof
Keanu has a Beagle..I have a Beagle
Can’t believe he’s still doing this
I have got to see dog star. I need to see dog star. Dog star is coming to Portland. I live in Portland. When they are in Portland I will be there too. We will be in Portland at the same time. I must see dog star.
oh my god! me and my partner like NEVER agree on music, but we would both LOVE LOVE LOVE to see this and it’s RIGHT around our anniversary. please help make me the coolest wifey ever????
How did I not know that Keanu was in a band!?!?
To see this bad and if course Keanu perform
This would be amazing omg!!
This would be amazing for me and my girlfriend! We both love Dogstar and would freak out if we got these tickets!
Dogstar’s music has been on repeat for me lately. I’d love the chance to see them live and share the experience with my friend who is a big Keanu Reeves fan!
I have missed seeing them 2 times now, hopefully not this time!
I’ve been a huge fan for a long time! One of the few bucket list bands I still have to see.
I had no idea Keanu Reeves was in a band what the heck
Love Crystal Ballroom and now my son is finally 21 and can join me… + Dogstar!!! #90sVIBES
There’s something incredibly cool about seeing a band reunite after 20 years and come back because they genuinely love making music together. I’d love the chance to experience Dogstar live and be part of this unexpected second chapter. Plus, I’m not going to pretend seeing Keanu Reeves play bass isn’t a pretty fantastic bonus!