- Embers Stage
- Wilf's Restaurant and Bar Stage
- Goldsmith Performance Lab Stage
- Brody Theater Stage
- Oregon Casket Building Stage
- Valentine's Live Music
- Amazon Cafe CLOSED Live Music
- Backspace Live Music
- Barracuda Live Music
- Berbati's Pan Live Music
- Darcelle XV Live Music
- Dirty Duck Tavern Live Music
- Ground Kontrol Live Music
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- XV Live Music
Featured in Drink 2008
Someday Lounge looks, at first glance, like the westside version of the Doug Fir. But that’s only skin deep. This swank multi-level nightspot has a soft spot for experimental music, noise and performance art, which, coupled with a vegan menu and large selection of bottled and imported beers, gives it some exotic appeal. The upstairs loft area is outfitted with leather couches and an observation deck for watching the night’s performers from a safe distance, while downstairs usually buzzes with a mix of socialites and outsiders. Someday manages to both support a breadth of eclectic music (Thursday nights, for example, are home to some of Portland’s best hip-hop DJs) and maintain a fancy bar—a good call for those who like their downtown adventures to be well-decorated.
Perfect Patron: Art-school dropouts and overworked graphic designers looking for some ear candy. (CJ)
HAPPY HOUR 4-8 PM NIGHTLY.
SMOKE-FREE, LIVE MUSIC, DJS, ARTY STUFF.
Upcoming Events
Saturday July 4
Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth, Lesbian, HC Minds, Aranya
Someday Lounge 9 pm. FREE.
Friday July 10
Lactacious, Saucy Yoda, Very International Love, Gumar Band
[SEXY TIME] It's almost unfair for a trio of scantily clad women to start rapping about sex. It's a pretty basic law of nature that shit is going to blow up. So even if the three members of Lactacious—Dirty Oh, Bad Dre Dre and Em Snatch—are MCs of varying ability and aren't going to blow your mind with lyrical subtlety, they have a natural advantage over their male counterparts. But Lactacious knows its strengths on debut Strong and Wrong, and plays to them well: It combines Le Tigre's shout-along choruses ("We're three rich bitches from the middle of the street!") with Peaches' shocking sensibility ("Is it too much to ask/ For you to suck my ass/ If you meet my beat/ I will beat your meat"). There's a man behind these women, and not in the way they rap about—local producer Ca$io (a.k.a. Cassidy DeMarco, who also moonlights as Gouseion and Brokaw) provides the kind of grade-A, glitched-out beats that have gained him international acclaim. And at the end of the day, Lactacious proves it's not as single-minded as it affected to be on "Meet My Beat": The group raps vaguely about the environment ("Rocks and Sand"), self-empowerment ("Fire Song") and safe sex ("Healthy Sex"). I knew there was a message here somewhere. CASEY JARMAN. Someday Lounge 9 pm. $3. 21+.
Saturday July 11
Prince vs. Michael Jackson Party!, DJ Dave Paul, DJ Indica Jones
[EPIC DANCE-OFF] A battle like the one tonight between Michael Jackson (R.I.P.) and Prince ranks right up there with Godzilla versus Megalon (or Barkley), or Moby Dick versus Ahab. And while MJ has sadly left us, his footprints forged a canyon worthy of the title Eighth Wonder of the World. Were it a battle of stage presence, it would hardly be worth the time, because MJ’s blinding charisma runs away with the gold. But this is a bout of remixes, pitting two DJs with a love and respect for their heroes against one another. On top of original classics, cut up and reassembled, DJs Indica Jones and Dave Paul will incorporate tracks from associated acts like the Jackson Five and the Time. MARK STOCK. Someday Lounge 9 pm. $6. 21+.
