High Notes: The Best Live Music in Portland This Week, July 14-19
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
John Chandler, GoLocalPDX Contributor
Weirdos courtesy of Moloichphotos.com (image cropped)
So much quality rock, so little time. Be sure to get plenty of sleep, choose wisely, and dress to impress, because the stars are coming out this week!
Adolescents, Weirdos
July 14 @ 9pm
Anyone with even a passing interest in old-school SoCal punk should be front and center for this one. Adolescents have been thrashing about since 1980 and are responsible for several indispensible anthems including “Kids of the Black Hole,” a portrait of teenage aimlessness and ennui rendered in bold strokes.
Of the Hollywood-based Weirdos, writer Pleasant Gehman notes, “The Weirdos were thousands of disparate splinters of pop culture that somehow meshed into an amazing band. They were Screaming Lord Sutch. Mad Magazine, the Manson Family, the Rolling Stones, Pop Tarts and Space Food Stix, Twiggy, the Brady Bunch and Charlie's Angels, Jimmy Carter, Andy Warhol and Son of Sam, wrapped up in a messy Day-Glo package...”
$17. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St.
Ray Davies Day
July 15 @ 8pm
Established three years ago in a savvy political move by then-Mayor Sam Adams, this annual celebration of Davies and the music of the Kinks is a much-anticipated event circled on the calendar of young and old alike. This year, Welfare State, Michael Maker and the Complaint Department, the Minders, Slutty Hearts, Hauer Things, and an all-star ensemble called the Thin Line Livers (members of Sunset Valley, Heatmiser, and Swoon 23), will put forth their finest interpretations from the Kinks catalogue, in a benefit for the Oregon Music Hall of Fame.
$8. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave.
Project Pabst
July 17-19
Buckle up for three days of high-caliber rock shows in a variety of settings, from the open-air Zidell Yards to several prominent Portland clubs. There are no lightweights in this lineup, with Weezer, Run the Jewels, Buzzcocks, Blondie, TV on the Radio, and Thee Oh Sees, supplying the marquee value, while local groups Wampire, Hustle and Drone, and Wild Ones will appear in supporting roles. Sadly, it appears the club shows with Roky Erickson (Saturday at Star Theater) and the Mummies (Sunday at Dante’s) are already sold-out.
Various venues.
Shannon & the Clams by Nadia Lee Cohen
Shannon and the Clams
July 17 @ 9pm
This freewheeling Oakland trio is the musical equivalent of a “graveyard,” the name given to a carefree mixture of soda flavors dispensed in equal measure from a self-serve machine. The results seem at once dangerously unnatural and eerily familiar, as Coke, orange, Sprite, and Dr. Pepper are forced to coexist in the confines of a single cup. Shannon and the Clams deliver several heady dollops of girl-group heartache, rockabilly swagger, ’50s doo-wop balladry, and garage-sale guitar primitivism into a 64-ounce gulp that tastes like a delicious dream and well worth a dentist’s scolding.
$12-14. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St.
Graham Nash
July 18 @ 8pm
Often unfairly pegged as the lightweight by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young snobs, Graham Nash was already an international rock star with the Hollies—a band that had far more hits than Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds combined—long before he ever bumped into those bloody Yank hippies in the latter part of the 1960s. With half a century of songs to draw from, Nash will tiptoe through the times, from early British Invasion pop to Summer of Love sentimentality to Save the Whales/No Nukes idealism.
$56. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.
John Chandler has been writing about rock and/or roll for 25 years with The Rocket, Portland Tribune, Portland Monthly, Magnet, Dagger, No Depression, and Puncture. He also writes about beer, booze, and bars for Portland's BarFly website and plays in a couple goofy bands when the mood strikes him. He can most often be found at the wheel of horrificflicks.com, a review website dedicated to horror movies.
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