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The same night as the Dawes/Brett Dennen show just down the road, two eponymous local acts took the stage for Port City Music Hall‘s weekly TWO show. Both 60′s psych/britpop-inspired rocked Jeff Beam (his band dropped the Ice Storm… part) and Foldsian piano man Will Gattis have have featured albums here on HillyTown in the past, and Beam even played the winter Picnic event that we curated (that reminds me, look out for the summer Picnic music lineup to be announced before long, and get those vendor applications in!). Both acts performed strongly, but Gattis deserves extra credit for playing through an illness (food poisoning, potentially) that made him leave the stage multiple times, returning each time to get right back into the next song. Read on for photos from the show! Read on…
On Tuesday night, two of Portland’s newer and fastest-rising bands played a TWO show at Port City Music Hall. Hi Tiger started the night with their Joy Division-inspired dark art pop, while Sunset Hearts‘ synthy, 80′s tunes that take on a Talking Heads and Morrissey tone, closed it out. Check out the full photo gallery by David Zwickerhill below.  Hi Tiger  Portland’s preeminent popster, Kurt Baker, is about to drop a new limited edition single with two tracks recorded by Jon Wyman – “Don’t Steal My Heart Away” b/w “Why You Gotta Lie” – just in time for his TWO show at Port City Music Hall tomorrow (2/22/11). The $2, two local band show (with $2 beers) will also be the cd release party for Grand Hotel‘s new disc, In Color. Check out the track Walken to get a taste of the band’s OK Go meets Radiohead style – the album will be available at the show for just $2! That’s a potential full night of music, drinking, and merch for under $10. Not bad! Here’s what Kurt has to say about his new track, which you can hear for the first time below:
UPDATE: The limited exclusive on this stream is over! Thanks for looking though! Don’t Steal My Heart Away by Kurt Baker Make sure to check out a new podcast interview with Kurt (and Kris “Fingers” Rodgers) thanks to our friends at Freezing Process. Keep reading for some videos and more goodies from both Kurt Baker and Grand Hotel. Read on… Oh hey, Metal Feathers kinda put out a new, free Go see them for just $2 at Port City on 2/15 with Spouse. Following the massive success of their winter local music series, TWO, Port City Music Hall is at it again with another slew of $2 shows on Tuesday nights (mostly), which kicked off last night with what looked to be a packed house (I only saw in passing, on my way to what turned out to be a sold out Clash Of The Titans at Empire – congrats to the Talking Heads Band!). Check out the full lineup for TWO V2.2: April 27: ATHAME + DEAD SEASON
Word is that the TWO Local Music Series at Port City Music Hall (Tuesdays, two bands, $2 cover, $2 beers) is going well (see photos from last week’s Dilly Dilly + Lady Lamb show there)… and in the interest of a bit of self-promo, here’s the flyer (above) for tomorrow’s installment of the concert series, featuring Marie Stella (the band I play in) with Metal Feathers. MF have a new jam up on their myspace called “City Hall” which I highly recommend you go and listen to, like right now. Very good. However, before that, there’s tonight. Chicago’s Maps & Atlases are at SPACE with openers Brenda and Dead Man’s Clothes, who will be making their SPACE debut, so come out and support them!
Now one year old, Port City Music Hall has announced plans to get some local original music happening on Tuesdays to help get us all through this winter. Every tuesday, from January 19 to April 6, 2010 (at 8pm), the venue will host two bands for just $2 at the door, with $2 draft beer specials. Here’s what they’ve got on the schedule: January 19: Pubcrawlers + Build A Machine |
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