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From dj zen_hound comes another edition of the Portland show calendar. There’s always something cool happening any given night of the week in Portland, and I spent several hours scouring the internet to make it into a list, just for you! While not intended as an exhaustive, definitive list of EVERY SINGLE SHOW happening in Portland, it is still a pretty big list, expansive in scope and diverse in sounds, and I hope you enjoy and benefit from it. Read on!
Saturday 6/14
Farewell Show with Owen Broder: Owen Broder, Darrell Grant, Bill Athens, Christopher Brown III
For fans of: jazz, chamber jazz, improvised music, modern jazz, swing, R&B, neo-soul, soul jazz, new jazz, post-bop
The 1905 (830 N Shaver St) https://www.the1905jazz.club
10PM Lab with Zyanna Melada and AJ Allida
FFO: jazz, R&B, soul, neo-soul
The 1905 (830 N Shaver St) https://www.the1905jazz.club
U Sco, Casual Hex (record release), So Pitted, Conspire
FFO: Experimental music, jazz, prog, punk rock, experimental rock, metal, post-punk, alternative rock, grunge, nu-metal
The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St) https://www.thefixinto.com/shows
Soundcastle 2025: Young Hunter, Death Parade, Dysgenia, Contranistas, Wave Mosaic
FFO: doom metal, psychedelic rock, stoner rock, alternative rock, doomgaze, progressive metal, progressive rock, experimental rock, post-punk, post-rock, art rock
High Water Mark Lounge (6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd) https://www.highwatermarklounge.com
Bastard Salt, Cactus Man, Mouthbreather
FFO: hardcore punk, post-punk, noise rock, sludge, alternative rock, grunge, heavy rock, post-hardcore, math rock
Lay Low Tavern (6015 SE Powell Blvd)
Moshpit X Feral Freaks Present: FURRY RAVER PRIDE with God Boat, Happy Halcore, Lil T4T, Gorelizard, Akemie, 9-5 Hyperfuck
FFO: experimental electronic, hardstyle, trance, cybergrind, dance, digital hardcore/digicore, hip hop, hyperpop, noise pop, power electronics
The Six Below Midnight (3341 SE Belmont St) https://themidnightsocietypdx.net/the-sx
Hypermask, a long covid awareness party: digifae, Theresa Sweetheart, Surgery Season, mimete
FFO: hyperpop, dance, experimental, fairy pop, lo-fi, midi, experimental pop, dreampop
Virtua Gallery/Xhurch at Lloyd Center Mall (2201 Lloyd Center Ste B216)
Sunday 6/15
The Lovedarts, Fox Medicine, !mindparade
FFO: psychedelic blues, garage rock, alternative rock, bubblegum doom, noise rock, grunge, prog, sludge, art rock, avant-garde, freak folk, neo-psych, post-punk, experimental rock
The Lollipop Shoppe (736 SE Grand Ave) https://www.lollipopshoppe.com
Tragic Lovers, Las Cruxes, Cryr
FFO: punk rock, post-punk, death rock, indie rock, rock en español, black metal, goth rock
No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd) https://www.nofunportland.com
@tlas (Machado Mitiga, Ben Wolden, Matt Holmes)
FFO: hip hop & R&B, jazz, neo-soul, progressive rock, contemporary jazz, alternative rock
Starday Tavern (6517 SE Foster Rd)
Monday 6/16
Zola Jesus (solo piano)
FFO: dark ambient, art pop, hypnagogic pop, experimental pop, dark folk, alternative, electronic, solo piano
Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St) https://www.holocene.org/events
No Knock, Malakili, Arsenal Mall, Social Ills
FFO: punk rock, hardcore punk
Kenton Club (2025 N Kilpatrick St) https://www.kentonclub.com
Tuesday 6/17
FFO: coldwave, darkwave, goth rock, new wave, post-punk
Wonder Ballroom (128 NE Russell St) https://wonderballroom.com/events
Wednesday 6/18
Orrin Evans Trio Presented by Creative Music Guild: Orrin Evans, Tina Raymond, Eric Revis
FFO: jazz, modern jazz, contemporary jazz, avant-garde, experimental, free jazz
The 1905 (830 N Shaver St) https://www.the1905jazz.club
FFO: punk rock, dark punk, doom, doomgaze, post-punk, post-goth, metal experimental rock, hardcore, post-hardcore, post-rock, sludge metal, dark meditative rock, desert rock, drone, heavy metal
High Water Mark Lounge (6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd) https://www.highwatermarklounge.com
Die Right, Object Unto Earth, Trauma Club
FFO: progressive rock, indie rock, math rock, post-hardcore, post-rock, emo jazz, new wave
Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St) https://www.holocene.org/events
Rich Halley 4, Quinn Walker Quartet
FFO: jazz, avant-garde, free jazz, indie jazz, modern jazz, new jazz
Turn! Turn! Turn! (8 NE Killingsworth) https://turnturnturnpdx.com/entertainment/
Thursday 6/19
Juneteenth Emancipation Jazz Concert: Nicholas Grier, Christopher Brown, Chibia Ulinwa, Patrick Goličnik, Noah Simpson, Marcus Lattimore
FFO: jazz, R&B, soul
The 1905 (830 N Shaver St) https://www.the1905jazz.club
Frantarctica, Old City, Griefer, Unga Dunga
FFO: punk rock, post-hardcore, screamo, skramz, hardcore punk, anarcho-punk, crust punk, post-crust, post-punk, heavy rock, experimental rock, noise rock
The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St) https://www.thefixinto.com/shows
Jewelry Exchange, Juice Mouth, FO/PO (tape release + tour kickoff)
FFO: alternative rock, emo, krautrock, noise rock, post-punk, post-rock, drum & bass, jazz, improvised music, beats, instrumental
Swan Dive (727 SE Grand Ave) https://www.lonelygodpdx.com
Seymour Glass, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Shin Chida, Carousel
FFO: experimental, ambient, noise, avant-garde, music concrete, sound art, industrial, synth, drone, tape loops, field recordings
Turn! Turn! Turn! (8 NE Killingsworth) https://turnturnturnpdx.com/entertainment/
Friday 6/20
Dancing Plague, Centrifugal Force Machine, At The Heart Of The World, Static Ghost
FFO: electronic body music, coldwave, darkwave, goth, industrial, dark electro, industrial techno, synthpop
Black Water Bar (5115 NE Sandy Blvd) https://www.instagram.com/blackwaterpdx
Cyrus Nabipoor “Guts” EP Release: Jack Radsliff, Garrett Baxter, Micah Hummel
FFO: jazz, modern jazz, crossover jazz
Jack London Revue (529 SW 4th Ave) https://www.jacklondonre`vue.com/event/
Ogre, Bliss Foxx (album release), Give Me The Money, Ignoring Olivia
FFO: math rock, noise rock, post-punk, garage rock, alternative rock, punk rock, power pop
Mission Theater (1624 NW Glisan St) https://www.mcmenamins.com/mission-theater
Ravine (record release party), Sorcia, Gunk
FFO: heavy metal, doom, sludge, power groove, stoner metal
Twilight Cafe & Bar (832 SE Grand Ave) https://www.twilightcafeandbar.com/calendar_list
Saturday 6/21
10PM Lab with AJ Allida: Choose Love – A Fundraiser for Gender-Affirming Surgery. AJ Allida, Xylyn Hathaway, Dae Bryant, Zyanna Melada
FFO: jazz, improvised music, free jazz
The 1905 (830 N Shaver St) https://www.the1905jazz.club
@tlas (Machado Mitiga, Ben Wolden, Matt Holmes)
FFO: hip hop & R&B, jazz, neo-soul, progressive rock, contemporary jazz, alternative rock
Firkin Tavern (1937 SE 11th Ave)
Salo, Blister, Cranefist, Glen & the Sunshine Gang
FFO: synthpop, post-punk, anarcho-punk, dance music, death disco, synthpunk, death rock, goth, industrial
The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St) https://www.thefixinto.com/shows
Juice Falls, House of Warmth, Left on Read
FFO: indie rock, pop punk, grunge, shoegaze, slowcore
No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd) https://www.nofunportland.com
Cherry Batter (album release), Machine Country, Grolixes, IX of Swords
FFO: hardcore punk, noise, indie rock, screamo, shoegaze
Swan Dive (727 SE Grand Ave) https://www.lonelygodpdx.com
Earthbound, Sheenjek, National Diet
FFO: progressive rock, heavy rock, experimental rock
Twilight Cafe & Bar (832 SE Grand Ave) https://www.twilightcafeandbar.com/calendar_list
Sunday 6/22
Ænigmatum, Liminal Shroud, Isenordal
FFO: black metal, death metal, blackened death metal, experimental metal, doom metal, baroque, funeral doom, neo-folk
Twilight Cafe & Bar (832 SE Grand Ave) https://www.twilightcafeandbar.com/calendar_list
That will do it for this week. Thank you for reading, for supporting Freeform Portland, and local music.
- dj zen_hound, host of the show WHOA THIS IS HEAVY, Friday 2pm.
