- Alpenrose Dairy Opera House Stage
- Brody Theater Studio Stage
- Duniway Park Outdoors
- Towne Lounge Live Music
Featured in Drink Guide 2007
Bartender’s lament: He’s afraid of the bar’s sloped-floored basement with center drain—the spot used to be a funeral home.The Towne Lounge has two beers on tap and a selection of flavored vodkas, along with TV dinners for the tragically ironic (often found here). But it remains a popular destination because of its eclectic, ever-solid live music schedule. Curated almost entirely by longtime Portland booker Chantelle Hylton’s Blackbird Presents, the Towne Lounge is one of a handful of small PDX venues where patrons can find the future of Northwest music. If that means slugging tiny bottles of Sessions and spendy pints of Stella Artois in this dimly lit joint (a cross between the Alamo and the Sands), so be it. These are the sacrifices we make for rock ’n’ roll. FOOD/DRINK SPECIALS, LIVE MUSIC, DJs. (CJ/WC)
Events Today
Saturday September 6
Musicfest NW: Chicharones, Eskimo and Sons, Atole, Paper/Upper/Cuts
Towne Lounge 9 pm. $5.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday September 9
The Rosewood Thieves, The Dead Trees, Slow Fires
[BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS] The Dead Trees' "Shelter" starts off like an indie-rock archetype, with some jangly lead guitar, syncopated drums, and plenty of wistful backing "ohs" and "ahs." And then a whistle line comes in, and the intensity thickens, and you realize that these dudes might be borrowing from prime Pavement, but shit, they do it well. The track appears on their 2007 EP, Fort Music, and the boys—local transplants who escaped the close-knit confines of Cambridge last year—are gearing up a full-length for later this year. It's also not the least bit surprising that they've opened for Albert Hammond Jr. before, and the pairing is rather fitting: Many of the band's tracks sound like the Strokes getting high and tripping out on some serious Americana. Things are restrained, just a bit hazy—but would you want it any other way? MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Towne Lounge 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Wednesday September 10
Miss Massive Snowflake, Dramady, Sleepwalk Kid
Towne Lounge 9:30 pm. $5.
Thursday September 11
The Morals, Pasqualle
Towne Lounge 9:30 pm. FREE.
Friday September 12
Cavil, Church, The Union Line
Towne Lounge 9:30 pm. $5.
Saturday September 13
See Me River, Kaylee Cole, AAN
Towne Lounge 9:30 pm. $5.
Tuesday September 16
Jeff Hanson, Krist Kruger
[LITHE, EFFEMINATE FOLK] Jeff Hanson's voice is just short of weightless; it's like a clutch of matted feathers or a mattress of lavender lace—a high, gentle, plaintive tone. Even after years of admiring the Wisconsin-born musician's soft-focus folk tunes, one can't quite suppress a double-take given the disparity between Hanson's X appearance and the brittle falsetto wafting from the speakers. He's out tonight promoting the just-released Madam Owl—his third album—with folk elaborator Krist Kruger, who sometimes goes by the name Southerly. RAY CUMMINGS. Towne Lounge 9:30 pm. $5.
