Win Tickets ($50): No Vacation @ Aladdin Theater | w/ Luna Li, Bedroom Pop

We are giving away a pair of tickets to No Vacation @ Aladdin Theater on April 20. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed April 15.

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From our sponsors:
No Vacation
April 20, 2024
Doors 7PM, Show 8PM | $25 | All Ages
More info: etix.com

Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR 97202

No Vacation originated from San Francisco circa 2015 and quickly received attention for the nostalgic bedroom-pop sounds off of their debut mixtape, Amo XO, and surf-rock single, “Dræm Girl.” Early 2017, No Vacation delivered their hazy EP Intermission and wildly successful single “Yam Yam,” which has garnered 90 million Spotify streams along with nearly one million views on a beautifully crafted music video.

No Vacation demonstrated the meticulous patience in their craft by releasing their latest EP Phasing at the end of 2019. As an unsurprising reflection of No Vacation’s “quality of quantity” attitude, The Fader described Phasing as “easily their best yet, eschewing the promising but semi-ironic beach-punk of their early days in favor of smart, beguiling dream pop.”

The quintessence of No Vacation’s songwriting can be described as “a mixture of happiness with a tinge of sadness,” highlighting Sab Mai’s signature subdued vocals supported by Nat Lee’s classical string and piano background and Harrison Spencer’s distinct shoegaze guitars.

In 2023, the era of Post-Covid, No Vacation resides throughout California and has reunited to deliver a standout live performance, selling out the West Coast and CDMX and making appearances at California’s Outside Lands and Maryland’s All Things Go festivals.

No Vacation’s dynamic live set transforms their sentimental and emotional recordings into sentimental memories filled with energy, dancing and an overly welcoming and loving community. No Vacation has solidified their live performance by having James Shi, (co-writer on Intermission), rejoin them on stage to play drums along with multi-instrumentalist Alex Togashii on synthesizers & cello.

Luna Li
Luna Li is more than a musical project. It’s a world unto itself, and a kingdom of its creator’s making. For the Korean-Canadian, Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist songwriter, composer, and producer Hannah Bussiere Kim, the universe of Luna Li is hyperlush and inclusive by design. It’s an evolving, musical transmission that takes its cues from nature’s healing properties to explore vulnerability and identity. A blend of indie rock and psych; where experimental neoclassical morphs into pristine pop, Luna Li is the sound of an everyday symphony, crafted from the perspective of the female gaze.

Luna Li’s debut record Duality (featuring Jay Som, Dreamer Isioma, and beabadoobee) wrestles intimate, otherworldly questions to the ground in order to better understand the collective. Capable of both detonating an incendiary riff, or slipping into the splendor of celestial strings, the album’s power lies in its most delicate moments. “Each song on the album has some element of light and dark,” Luna Li says. “Where there’s happiness there’s still uncertainty; where there’s anxiety there’s also beauty; and where there’s tension there’s freedom.”