By Mady Mackey Local Portland producer and artist Kid Ferris just released his new album, Metanoia, on July 19th, 2024. Metanoia will be Kid Ferris’s first full album release since his EP, Vessels, released back in 2020. The album contains 10 tracks, ranging in style from chillwave to a subtle indie pop feel. This collection not only showcases his evolution since his last EP but also solidifies his ability to write and produce music.  Metanoia opens with “FaiTH,” a track that serves as a perfect gateway into Ferris’s personal music landscape. With its ethereal melodies and introspective ..read more

Project Pabst, the classic summer brew-sponsored festival returns to the Portland waterfront on the 27th and 28th of July, 2024, a full decade after the first iteration of the festival back in 2014. Eleven was there to cover the lineup then, and we’ll be back this year to check out the wide-ranging slew of artists, including headliners Billy Idol (Saturday) and Big Thief (Sunday), alonside T-Pain, Violent Femmes, Soccer Mommy, Alien Boy, and more. Stay tuned! Tickets to the festival can be found here. The post Project Pabst returns to PDX! appeared first on Eleven PDX ..read more

In 1991, filmmaker and musicologist Harry Smith nibbled on his “just desserts” when he received a Grammy Award for contributions to American Folk Music. Harry, who never walked a blatant path or thought in a straight line, stumbled his way onto the stage to succinctly announce: “I’m glad to say my dreams came true. I saw America changed by music.” While Harry Smith knew that music to transform America, he couldn’t calculate his impact on culture—especially on the underground, art, and Portland scenes. More than 30 years later, we’ve just passed Harry’s centennial year, offering us a chance to ..read more

A door stands open on the beach, framing the incoming surf. This is the opening shot of the new video for “Energy” from Julia Logue, and also serves as the framing metaphor for the Portland singer’s most ambitious video to date. “Energy” is the penultimate track on Welcome To Your Sunrise, Logue’s debut record released just at the end of last year, and the song serves as the setup to the record’s titular closer, the dusky arpeggios building over a lurching beat, with Logue looking for a way through. Repeated throughout the song are the following lines, more mantra than hook: I don’t like what ..read more

It seems fitting that the sun was shining the day Brainstory came to town, one of the first late spring days in Portland that carries with it the faint tune of summer. Brainstory is a sunny band, unequivocally Californian, and sprawling into all the nuances of that descriptor, taking up the lineages of jazz, rock, soul, and r&b, drawn cross-country and baked together under the light of a psychedelic star. As the sun set, they took the stage at Mississippi Studios to the pause menu theme from Goldeneye N64 before launching into an opening jam, and then into “Listen,” the third track from th ..read more

Land of Talk, the indie rock band hailing from Quebec, took center stage at Portland’s beloved Mission Theater on May 9th. The band started off the set with their song, “Your Beautiful Self,” captivating the audience with their electrifying yet calming stage presence. The crowd was swept up in lead singer and guitarist Elizabeth Powell’s dynamic voice, soaking in every perfectly-tuned note. Powell showcased their exceptional vocal range, delivering each lyric with precision and passion. The group as whole has a magnetic presence, drawing the audience into the heart of every song. The bands ..read more

HELP: Ogre: All photos by KC Jonze The post HELP & Ogre at the High Water Mark; March 2nd, 2024 appeared first on Eleven PDX ..read more

From the opening bars of EATING OVER THE TRASH, the new self-produced album from Old Grape God, the pressure is mounting. If you’ve been counting, it’s the Portland rapper’s staggering 41st release, and that number is itself a testament to the truth of the project’s emotional core, which is learning how to balance the external pressures of life by exerting equal and opposite pressure back outwards. For Old Grape God, that outward pressure is the act of creation, a positive force which allows the artist to maintain an equilibrium with their environment. If all the talk of unseen pressures soun ..read more

Barna Howard live at the Lollipop Shoppe. All photos by Carissa Bedrosian Pereira The post Barna Howard at The Lollipop Shoppe; February 21, 2024 appeared first on Eleven PDX ..read more

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