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All Ages // Art Showcase 3 PM Event 5 PM // Free
The electrifying “Star Awards” at this year’s PDX HIP HOP WEEK, honoring a decade of hip hop culture in Oregon! This momentous celebration will take place at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, a fitting venue for such a historical occasion. Featuring legendary hip hop pioneer Cool Nutz, alongside captivating performances by Karma Rivera, Majik9, Mighty, Jae Lava, D•T, King Thayo, Sayu, Jumbo, DJ Avelanche, DJ O.G.TOO, the talented Manifest Dance Agency, and special surprise guests! The heart of the celebration is to honor individuals from various elements of hip hop, recognizing their invaluable contributions to the culture’s growth outside of industry protocols. These honorees have and are paving the way for future generations to thrive. The event will be skillfully hosted by Trail Blazers DJ and PDX HIP HOP Week Co-Founder DJ O.G.ONE, alongside the charismatic radio personality DJ Klyph. Together, they will keep the energy high and the audience engaged throughout the celebration. Don’t miss this chance to be part of a milestone event celebrating ten years of PDX HIP HOP Week, where culture, community, and artistry come together for a night of inspiration and joy!
*Vendor/Art Showcase from 3 PM – 5 PM, show starts at 5 PM
21+ // Doors 7 PM // $12 DoS
DJ Wednesday spinning tunes before, during and after the show. An evening filled with post-punk, shoegaze an darkwave in partnership with XRAY FM
Shadowlands – Dark postpunk dreamscapes by members of Murderbait and former members of Phantom Lights and the Minds. Post-punk, dark-wave, shoegaze, from Portland Oregon.
Kallai – formed in the summer of 2023 by members of Trance to the Sun, Luscious Apparatus and Lost Echoes. While inspired by the post-punk, shoegaze and doom acts of the past few decades, Kallai’s perspective is evolving with those scenes and seeking to spin sounds that unfold throughout time. Portland, Oregon
Hawks Do Not Share is dream-pop band from Portland, Oregon.
21+ // 8:30 PM Doors 9 PM Show // $5 Adv $8 DoS
Diositopes:
Diositopes' new project, Snake Recognize Snake, will be performed on this night. Many of these songs will not be played live again, in line with the project's sole focus on genre-bending, demolition, and experimenting that has garnered a cult-like status in Portland..
KUMA:
No Requests presents: Native Tongues – A Labor Day Weekend Celebration
Date: Sunday, August 31, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: McMenamins White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St, Portland, OR
Admission: Free | 21+
Celebrate the legacy of the Native Tongues collective—A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, and more—with an all-vinyl tribute set by Portland’s own No Requests DJs, DJ Klyph and DJ Ambush. Expect golden era hip-hop classics, deep cuts, and a community vibe in one of the city’s most intimate venues.
Presented by No Requests DJs, KlyphWorks, and DSTRCT9 Creative Solutions.
All Ages // 7 PM Doors 8 PM Show // Tickets $36 & up
About TOPS:
Musicians David Carriere, Jane Penny, Marta Cikojevic, and Riley Fleck — write timeless music that reliably threads immediacy and depth. Bury the Key, their first full-length since 2020 and with new label home Ghostly International, is a captivating reintroduction for the Montréal band: ever refined, undoubtedly masters of their melodic craft yet unafraid of evolving and testing themselves against different, at times darker tones. The album faces feelings once locked away, engaging the give-and-take between happiness, hedonism, and self-destruction. While often inhabited by fictional figures, their glowing, grooving, self-produced songs draw from personal observations: intimacy (both inside and outside the band), toxic behavior, drug use, and apocalyptic dread. When recording started, they noticed a shift and leaned in, jokingly dubbed “evil TOPS,” says Penny. “We’re always kind of seen as a soft band or like naive or friendly in a Canadian way, but we made it a challenge to really channel the world around us.” Through the lens of a looming epoch and the clarity that comes with age, TOPS dip into a more sinister disco realm with Bury the Key, giving their soft-focus sophisti-pop a sharpened edge.
21+ // Doors 7:30 PM // Tickets $18 DoS
Denver-based lyricist and producer Deca brings the Growing Young Tour to Portland for a night of thought-provoking rhymes and immersive beats. Catch him live on Wednesday, September 10th at Twilight Café, delivering cuts from his latest project alongside fan favorites that showcase his signature blend of introspection and boom bap.
Featuring special guests:
Spinitch – bringing raw energy and lyrical sharpness
No Requests DJs – setting the vibe with Golden Era heat and head-nod classics
Pull up early, catch the full lineup, and tap in with real ones.
🎤 It’s not just a show—it’s a vibe.
SATURDAY LINEUP
Aminé
Amaarae
Zack Fox (DJ Set)
Chlothegod
SUNDAY LINEUP
Thundercat
Smino
MIKE
Donta
For those who miss my pre-pandemic era recurring dance party Club Nitty Gritty, you'll want to be sure to show up for the next edition of FLAME World Famous Kenton Club!
It's the Nitty Gritty edition of Flame featuring gritty rhythm 'n' grooves of the 1950s & 1960s (mostly).
R&B
Garage
Soul
Blues
Latin (mambo, boogaloo, etc)
Roots Rock 'n' Roll
Chuck Berry, Ruth Brown, Otis Redding, Tina & Ike Turner, Perez Prado, Yma Sumac, The Fabulous Wailers, Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf & SO much more!
Get ready to get DOWN and GRITTY on the dance floor!
All Ages // Friday Sep 19th through Sunday Sep 21st // Single Day and Full Festival Pass
The Third Annual Cascade Equinox Festival is coming back to Central Oregon to celebrate the 2025 Autumnal Equinox. The musical lineup paired with the unique immersive experiences of visual and performance art, workshops, kids activities and camping make Cascade Equinox more than just a music festival. Alongside a curated selection of local wineries, breweries and eateries and a market featuring unique nomadic and artisanal crafts set against the majestic landscapes of the Pacific Northwest High Desert, Cascade Equinox is an event not to be missed.
Single day passes along with a multitude of camping and curated experiences plus lineup information and schedule can be found at www.cascadeequinox.com
Mammoth NW Presents:
Oddisee – The Good Fight 10 Year Anniversary Tour
Friday, October 10th, 2025 8:00PM
Hawthorne Theatre
21 & Over only with valid photo ID
All Ages // 7 PM Doors 8 PM Show // $33 and up
About Frankie Cosmos:
Different Talking, the sixth and, so far, best album by NYC indie-rock four-piece Frankie Cosmos, seems to exist across time and space, as we all kind of do. It’s a collection of fragments and memories, remembered places, and reinterpreted feelings that adds up to a lucent, humming whole: a sturdy, worldly indie-rock record about aging and the passage of time that nonetheless manages to feel sharply current.
Frankie Cosmos lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter Greta Kline has long been heralded as one of contemporary indie music’s most deft and most necessary writers, but on Different Talking, her lyrics soften out slightly, the wry cynicism that defined recent records now giving way to an acknowledgment of the awesome, and necessary, fallibility of the human brain and heart.
To classify Different Talking as a return to form, or at least a return to the lush directness of earlier Frankie Cosmos records, would be rude but also wholly incorrect: as Different Talking makes clear, you can never return to the comfort and bravery of your early twenties, but that person always kind of lives inside you, no matter how much you change. Different Talking is about finding that person, honoring them, and learning from them. “A lot of the album is about being grown up and figuring out how to know yourself – like, ‘What is moving on?’” says Kline. “How do we move on when we’re addicted to a cycle of haunting our own past? Writing songs is just the way through that.”