the next INCUBATOR (a super dope Open Mic at Someday Lounge) set for Tuesday October 14th, 2008

Someday Incubator: Experimental to conventional theatrical and musical performers shall each have their moment to woo the audience and wow the world. The stage is open to vanity and variety, to the ethereal and the edgy. Boldness and brazenness is encouraged to take the stage. Adaptations, permutations, accelerations, and a diverse range of thrills, chills and spills nurtured in the recesses and corners shall be stripped from their crevices to razzle dazzle. Bring something provocative....reveal your creative efforts by candlelight or by stage light....reveal and revel in hatching your visions....

You know you have friends who are scandalous, jocular, peculiar, out of this world, restless, facetious, closet extroverts who are in need of a stage! Please tell them to contact me! There still slot's available. Walk-in's are welcome, however, those who are serious about playing please sign up by email before October 14th.

saintgoldie@gmail.com

This will be my first official time hosting Incubator. I will be there at 8pm. I hope you can show the love and stop by for a drinkie-poo or snacky. As always, Ryan Olson of Synchronicity Frequency is the sound guy! He will make everyone sound beautiful!

Someday Lounge
INCUBATOR Tuesday October 14th, 2008
Starts right at 9pm ends bt Midnight
125 NW 5th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209

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Keeping Tabs on our beautiful blogger Gabriel Darling!

This blog post isn't about Portland indie music. It's about one of CIMTB's bloggers. Yeah she doesn't blog all of the time BUT I adore her!

This is a video promoting a future dance tour
produced by lizziemoves multimedia group.

More info at: www. lizziemoves. org
presented by Lizzie Karr + friends (Gabriel Darling)

Tuesday, August 26th!!!
8-10PM
@
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th
Portland, OR

$7-$15 sliding scale
5% pf proceeds to Central Asia Institutue

ALSO!!!

Tomorrow (Tuesday the 19th) is Incubator.
Incubator is a kick ass, baaaad ass OPEN MIC!
@
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th
Portland, OR
9pm til 11pm-ish
If you want to try out some of your "stuff"
and have a great sounding place to "do it" at,
with a wonderful sound guy,
you should totally come and check it out!

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Ben Meyercords Live Music Picks for March 3 - March 5

So, it has been pointed out to me that my weekly live music posts are long. Like Dickens's novel-long. There fore I have decided to cut it in half. Or as much in half as you can cut seven days. I will now list Monday through Wednesday as one post and Thursday though Sunday as another. A weekday edition and a weekend edition, if you will. So with out further ado, here is the Weekday Edition:

Monday, March 3rd

Usually Valentine's has something goin on on Mondays, but their music calender ended on Friday and has not been updated but it might be worth stopping by. But if you want some confirmed shows check these out:

• March Fourth Marching Band is continuing their five year anniversary at the Crystal Ballroom. This will be a dance party. And I don't mean a bunch of hipster kids spazzing out while flailing their arms like crazy. I mean. there probably some of that too/. But I am talking about everyone moving. You will have your modern dancers, hippie swayers, normal people head bobbing, and probably so much more. If the Fourth don't supply enough of a party for you, your dancing needs will be covered by not one but two DJs (DJ Jooro and DJ Globalruckus)Plus Balkan Beat Box will make their first Portland appearance ever. Let me answer your next question. Balkan Beat Box, according to Wikipedia (get ready for a lot of wiki-links), "establish their own unique sound by fusing the musical styles of Jewish, Mediterranean and Balkan traditions as well as the cultural influences of their home turf of New York City with some hints of electronica." All of this for $14. This is ALL AGES, so the doors are at 8 PM.
• Or you could just go to the tube and catch a very hip Portland band, Chromatics, play for FREE. This will go down at 11 PM.

Tuesday, March 4th

Much is happening on Tuesday. Can you handle it?

• March Fourth Marching Band (get it March 4th...March Fourth, ha) wraps up its three day Fifth Year Anniversary at the Crystal Ballroom with Gamelan X, Nanda, and Kazuma. Let me some this show up for you. Marching band, Stilts, Fire breathers, World Dance music, Acrobats, "Kung Fu acro-fighting", and more. It is $14 for this ALL AGES show. The doors are at 8 PM.
• Gabriel Darling has The Incubator back in full effect at Someday Lounge. It is an open stage for you to incubate all sorts of creativity. Worth checking out. This FREE event starts at 9 PM.
• Zilla Sake has an open mic every Tuesday hosted by amazing songstress Y La Bamba. Worth Checking out. The music starts at 8:30.
  
• The Doug Fir is having Tilly and The Wall tap dancing through town on Tuesday. Seriously, they don't have a drummer. Instead they have a super cute lead tap dancer with two other super cute girls who sing and play instruments and will occasionally tap as well (and there is a dude playing guitar). They are on tour with fellow Omaha natives Capgun Coup. You may be asking why I am I listing this show. To that I would say that Team Love label mates and local Portland band, A Weather, is opening (officially making it a local show). The show is $12. The music starts promptly at 9 PM.
• Rotture is hosting a regular event they call "Mancampus". This time around they have Mahjong (Chicago), Alan Singley & Pants Machine, Loose Control, and Old Time Relijun. Looks like a pretty good mixed bag of bands here. All for $7. The music starts at 9 PM.

Wednesday, March 5th

There are several shows today that have a possibility of being good. I will be the first to admit that all of the following shows feature bands whose music I do not know too well. You could call this your Wednesday Night crap shoot of shows:

• The Roseland Grill will be hosting Malbec (LA), Charmparticles, and Adrian H and the Wounds. I have never heard of Malbec, but AristeiA played with Charmparticles they were pretty good. Adrian H and the Wounds played a benefit show with Meyercord about a month back (this doesn't mean much). By going to this show, you stand to loose $8-$10. Show time is at 8 PM.
• Rotture is having a show with Pwrfl Power(Seattle) and Capillary Action(Philly) along with locals We Quit. I have read interesting things about Pwrfl Power and We Quit. I know nothing of Capillary Action. You stand to loose only $7 on this one. Show time is at 9 PM.
• Holocene is having a show featuring Gil Mantera's Party Dream (Ohio) and locals The Fast Computers and Gejius. I like Gejius and know that he puts on a fun show. I know nothing of the other two except that I once saw The Fast Computers name on the Kelly's Olympian Marque and thought to myself, "I have a fast computer". Not enough information to judge a band. So you stand to loose $7.
• Mississippi Pizza is having a show with Dr. Something & The Poppin' Fresh Love Engines (reaching new highs of ridiculous band names) and The Ocean Floor. I feel like I have been meaning to see The Ocean Floor for some time. Anyway, as with most early Mississippi Show it is FREE, ALL AGES and at 6 PM. Not a whole lot to loose.

So even in this shortened version of my live music picks, I seem to have written quite the post. Oh well. Let me know what you think of the new format. And say hello to me if you see me a any of these shows.

-Ben


Dr. Something & The Poppin' Fresh Love Engines playing while dressed as Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem @ the Rererato photo taken directly from their myspace page
They play @ Mississippi Pizza on Wednesday

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Meet the Baters! (Incubator Recap)

January 28th, 2008 was another beautiful, wonderful night of magical sounds (thanks to Ryan the sounds guy aka Synchronicity Frequency). Tonight was all music.

Here are the people I met for the first time tonight:

• Port Townsend transplant, WA Usana Tron

• Anna Todaro of "The Biggest Little Art Gallery In Portland!" with Eric McEwen

• Guitarist David Lamkins

Myrrh Larsen graced us with his final performance of Tori Amos' "Pretty Good Year"!

More later! -- Ste. Goldie

P.S. I talked to Rudements' George Johnson at length about things he would rather not be associated with in public! But I want to tell you about this show next Thrusday (which will be First Thursday) at Rotture...

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My Heart On for Incubator @ Someday Lounge

Reasons to go to Incubator at the Someday Lounge tonight:

1. black leather couches upstairs
2. The acoustics
3. Feel supported, encouraged to participate.
4. Interesting people show up and share their art
5. Vive l'arte I LOVE THE SOMEDAY LOUNGE!
6. FREE FREE FREE FREE
7. Gabriel Darling

Tonight if you are broke, brokenhearted, brimming with enthusiasm, or bored with your surroundings please stop by. Say Hi! Stay a while and INCUBATE!

Incubator at the Someday Lounge
TUESDAY NIGHT
Please join us starting at 8PMish and going till midnightish!
125 NW 5th, PDX, OR!
21+ / Free
www.somedaylounge.com

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Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for Jan. 28th to Feb. 3rd

Hello Portland Music Scene. How are you? I know it has been some time since I have seen you. I don't know how to say this so I guess I will just say it. I have been have been having a love affair with my bedroom (I did not want to leave it last week and was doing pretty good job, though I occasionally made it as far as my living room) . I suppose what I mean Portland Music Scene, is that you need to do better to sway my interests. Oh. I see that you actually have some shows that I will not miss this week. Good.

The rest of you who live in Portland and surrounding areas can come these shows as well. Here they are:

Monday, Jan. 28th

• Not a whole lot going on this night. To be honest, if I was going to go to a show, it would be to to be super awesome yet non-Portland bands Liars (free ep for download at their website) and No Age (have heard of them) at the Wonder Ballroom. Wait, I just found out there is a local band opening. Yay! an excuse to list this show. Nordic (who don't know much about, but apparently they are the Mercury's "band of the week") is the local band I referred to as "opening". I would imagine that they are pretty good if they are playing this show. As always with the Wonder Ballroom, this is an ALL AGES show. It costs $12 (plus service charge). Music starts at 8 PM.
• Hey did you know that there is a Portland Music Awards. Crazy. I guess it is some sort of awards show for Portland music. NW Noise wrote this about it. Seems pretty weird. Portland Music Awards will feature: Art Alexakis; Leigh Marble; The Dimes; Drew Shoals Collective; Ohmega Watts; Debra Arlyn; Josh Hodges; Carlyle; Papa Salty; Soundspell; Gunnar Roads; Uprite Dub Orchestra; Ashleigh Flynn; Caleb Klauder; Sammy Lind; Key of Dreams ; Craig Marquardo; Rose City Chamber Orchestra (I apologize, but I am not going to link to all of these bands). There are a couple of good people playing it, ie Josh Hodges (of Sexton Blake and Starfucker) and Ohmega Watts, but Art Alexakis is playing the event so it is hard to take seriously. Plus it costs $20 to get in. Plus it is at the Roseland. Plus it starts at 7PM.
  

Tuesday, Jan. 29th

I'd like to say that I am glad that there usually isn't any shows going in on Tuesdays. This is mainly because over the last couple of months I have become addicted to open mics (only the good ones though).

• The Someday Lounge has a good one hosting by CIMTB contributer Gabriel Darling. It is called The Incubator. Sign up is at at 8:30. The free event starts at 8-ish and lasts until Midnight.
  
• Zilla Sake has the other good one every Tuesday. This one is hosted by Y La Bamba (one of my favorite musicians). The sign up for the (also free) event is at 7:30 and it starts at 8PM.

Wednesday, Jan. 30th

Usually Wednesday there are too many shows. Fortunately this week I can only find two that I can recommend. Actually, they are timed in a way that is possible to see part of both shows (the good parts anyway).

• I think David Evan is awesome. I predict others will soon catch on, so this Wednesday might be one of your chances to "see him when". He is playing at a restaurant called Calypso. It is a free show at 7 PM.
• The other show is at The Doug Fir. Basically this is a benefit to help raise money for Brent, a faithful employee of the Doug Fir. You see his folks place basically burned down in an unfortunate turn of events just two days before Christmas. They live in Texas (the state from which I came from), so I figured I would help out by playing some music (it is all I can really do) . You can help out by paying to see said music. Actually, there are 17 bands total playing the event, they call it Brentfest. For a sliding scale of $5 to $15 it is a good deal. But there is more. Prizes will be raffled off during the night. Prizesfrom: doug fir
  patagonia
  jupiter hotel
  color bomb tattoos
  wack hair studios
  ace hotel
  bridgeport brewing
  holden
  photos by kyle oddson
  dakine
  hair cuts by bethany and holly!
  
  and many more to be confirmed soon!
  Sound exciting. Yes, yes it does. So you might even benefit yourself by attending this benefit. Did I mention the schedule? No I did not. But here it is: opener
  kacie sims 8pm
  
  james low 8:20
  
  hanz araki 8:40
  
  ocelli 9pm
  
  alan singley and the pants machine 9:20
  
  bombs into you 9:40
  
  the state of oregon 10:00
  
  solovox 10:20pm
  
  new york rifles 10:40
  
  raffle!!!! 11pm
  
  london and the look 11:30
  
  the orange collection 11:50
  
  chris tsefalas band 12:10
  
  meyercord 12:30
  
  adrian and the wounds 12:50
  
  negative zen 1:10
  
  titans of oblivion 1:30 Petty cool huh? Though I am not familiar with a lot of these bands. I am excited to see them. It will be a lot of fun regardless of whether they are good or not. Show starts at 8PM.

Thursday, Jan. 31st

There are several shows happening tonight. For example:

• The Know is having a free show featuring At Dusk, Church, and Ghosties. I have listened to all of the bands and it sounds like a good show. Plus At Dusk features Carey Clark who is all around good guy (he is heavily involved with PDX Pop Now! and fighting issues with the OLLC). Ghosties is part of the Boy Gorilla crew who features a lot of talented young folk in this town. Again the show is free. Music starts at 8 PM.
  
• The Ash Street Saloon is having Eux Autres, Shane Watt, Krista Muir, and Ley Lines play a show. It is not a completely local show (half the bands are Canadian the other half are Portlanders), but I have heard nothing but good things about local brother sister duo Eux Autres. The show costs you only $5. Music starts at 9 PM.
• The Holocene will also host some Canadians as We Are Wolves take the stage. More importantly, former Wet Confetti peeps, Reporter, are playing. DJ Nightschool and DJ Partyallthetime will be spinning records through out the night as well. The show costs $6. Doors at 9 PM.
  
• A while back Gabriel Darling recommended that we all go see The Slants. Here is a chance to do so at Berbati's Pan. The New Wave Electro Asians are set to play all over the place in the coming months. Thursday they will be joined by local punks Lickity and the live laptop pop that is Gejius. But seriously, I saw Gejius play at PDX Pop Now! 2007 and it was good times. The show costs $5. The show starts at 9 PM.

Friday, Feb, 1st

I am going to list two shows. I am only going to one.

• My favorite musician right now (those who know me know that I am always talking about her) is Y La Bamba. I just think she is top notch. I am stoked to get to see her play more than the two songs alloted at the Zilla open mic. She is playing at Nine Muses. Ocelli also will play. I don't know much about them but I will see them on Wednesday at the Doug Fir thing. The cost is $5. Music starts at 9 PM.
• If you want to see something free you can head over to the Mississippi Studios and catch Modernstate play with Moodring, and Mr. Fredrick. It is free. Show starts at 10 PM.

Saturday, Feb. 2nd

There are many shows on Saturday that will be good. But just like Friday I have already decided which show I will attend.

• We're From Japan! is playing at Kelly's Olympian (426 SW Washington Portland, OR 97204). In order to get his lady friend, Andi Camp, to see his band play, John from WFJ! arranged for her band, My Brightest Comet to play as well. Did I mention that John plays in that band too? Well, he does. Both band are awesome. Anyway, I am all over this show. Castle will be opening the show. The cost is not listed but I would be willing to throw down some cash on this show, so should you. Show is at 9 PM.
• Dante's occasionally will have a good show. Saturday night is one of those nights. John Doe (ex-X) will be in town playing with locals Richmond Fontaine, Mike D and the Thee Loyal Bastards, and Miss Derringer. I can vouch for all but Miss Derringer and even that is three out of four bands guaranteed to rock. It is $8 in advance and $10 at the door. It starts at 9 PM.
• The Roturre has a show going on Saturday that I wouldn't mind seeing. The Maybe Happening who I all whatev's about have Nick Jaina, who I think is great, and Dat'r, who are really fun to see, opening for them. It is a cd realease party so there is a chance that they have some new material that is as great as the openers. Only one way to find out. The show costs $6. Doors are at 9 PM.
• One more thing on Saturday. Kimya Dawson (formerly of the Moldy Peaches) is doing a free instore performance at Music Millennium playing songs from the Juno Soundtrack. I know she isn't local but it is happening at a local record shop so I figured it counts. Free. Music starts at 3 PM.

Sunday, Feb. 3rd

Today is my day of rest. Mostly because there are no shows that interest me. Though I might just be unaware of them.

So those are the show I would have you see. If you happen to see me at one of these shows please say hi. If you don't see me at one of these shows. You should comment on the blog and be all "Hey Ben, WTF?" I will then proceed to apologize.

-Ben

p.s. you should comment on the blog anyway

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[Updated 8/26/08]Open Mic Nights! -- An Indie Music Staple

Open Mic's have many purposes:

1. work on stage fright
2. meet new people
3. share/shape your artistry
4. support your friends
5. have FUN!

Two of the BEST open mic's in Portland, Oregon are:

SUCK ON MY MIC

Suck My Open Mic
Wednesday Nights Hosted by Tamara J. Brown
@ The Alberta St Pub
1036 NE Alberta, Portland, OR.
"Performers of all sorts, come knock our socks off! We promise to reciprocate!" 7:30 (sharp) sign up, show starts at 8pm!

and

Someday Lounge Incubator

THE NEXT INCUBATOR WILL BE OCTOBER 14TH 2008
Hosted by Goldie Davich
@Someday Lounge Incubator
125 NW 5th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
"movement artists, performance artists, musicians, idealists, conceptual thoughts and ideas shall take their flights of fancy for this weekly night staple. Participants and cohorts, dreamers, party crashers, brashness and courage shall all be explored to bring forth the slumbering splendor lurking in the undiscovered creative territories of this fair city Portland."

Both open mic's are:
+21
Hosted by incredibly creative, talented, supportive and endearing women.

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BLOGGING LIVE FROM SOMEDAY LOUNGE INCUBATOR

Hey did you know Someday lounge streams all of their shows live?

http://www.somedaylounge.com/virtual_stage/

Me and Maria Jett and Adam Steinfink are up stairs camped out. Each of us on our own black leather couch. Adam is taking a nap (he's going to the studio to practice with Brandon at midnight). Maria is ordering books and CD's from a stack of catalogs. Me? I'm blogging while watching live art.

John Clayton Something The 3rd is drawing on his computer and it's projected on a screen on the back of the stage and Myrrh Larsen is playing guitar and singing along to the drawings. With the drawings?

Gorgeous and delightful Gabriel Darling is wearing a pleather baby doll dress! And she just bummed a smoke from me... she's up to something!

Two guys just gave me their cards so they get a shout out

Todd from PONCHO LUXURIO
and
Ben from ANALOG ABUSE and ONEWORD (i think he said he's a dj)

now Michael Pan is playing the IMPERIAL MARCH from Star Warz... nice! oh wait now he's playing the saxophone... shit. i don't knows any of these guys names... um. they better get upstairs and introduce themselves

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the next Incubator at the Someday Lounge on Tuesday, October 30th.

Good luck getting a show at Someday Lounge but EVEN BETTER LUCK to you for showing up to the wonderful Tuesday night "open mic" called Someday Incubator hosted by a genuine delight Gabriel Darling . (self portrait on the left)

In her own words:

just in case you were wondering and would like to participate.

please join us at the next Incubator at the Someday Lounge on Tuesday, October 30th.

it shall be full of mirth and mayhem and delights...
or not...

it might be some delightful squeeze from one season to the next season...

wishing that the ocean swell was enough to quench even the most demanding of fires....

have a lovely time,

gkd

Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209

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