SATURDAY, JUNE 21st
Doors at 7PM, Music at 8PM
$7 in advance/$9 at the door
ALL AGES & BAR with I.D.

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A COLLECTIVE SUBCONSCIOUS
(ACS) is an instrumental post-rock band from Portland, Oregon. Having been compared to musical acts such as Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Jakob, Tool, and Isis, A Collective Subconscious bring their own unique style of vast, atmospheric, heavy, and melodic instrumental post-rock. On stage, ACS delivers an intriguing array of sound and live video that’s complimented with themes of social commentary, nature, industrialism, and the abstract.

https://www.facebook.com/acollectivesubconscious
http://www.reverbnation.com/acollectivesubconscious
http://acollectivesubconscious.bandcamp.com/

BONAFIDE
A band spanning generations and sonic landscapes. Bonafide is made up of the father and son rhythm section of Andrew and Scott Quackenbush, playing lead guitar and co-writing the tunes is Adam DeBates and rounding out the quartet is Elvicious Cash on lead vox and rhythm guitar. They’re keeping the dream of the 90’s alive in song, and flannel.

https://www.facebook.com/bonafideband

SUPERCHURCH

A three-piece band from Salem with
Derek Vaslev – Guitar/VOX
Jordan Dent – Bass/VOX
Trask Schulte – Drums/VOX

https://www.facebook.com/pages/SUPERCHURCH/688420714548391

FRIDAY, JUNE 20th
Doors at 7PM, Music at 8PM
$7 in advance/$9 at the door
ALL AGES & BAR with I.D.

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MARK LEMHOUSE
Genre-defying, Handy-nominated explorer of Americana, Blues, and any other roots music style that strikes his fancy, Lemhouse has a distinctly contemporary songwriting voice filtering the emotion of Hank Williams Sr. through the attitude of Tom Waits.

http://marklemhouse.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-american-yard-sale

THE SCHUMANN FREQUENCIES
Melodic fuzz-laden indie brilliance that will leave you swerving to inspired tunes and staring at your laces with a smile. Fine products of Chicago, Maine, and Oregon vintage underground roots that are bound to spark nostalgia.

https://www.facebook.com/theschumannfrequencies/app_6452028673

BUBBLE CATS
Hiss’ “Forever Alone” examines the dilemma of a lovesick Medusa with haunting guitar effects during the verse, à la early Pixies, then buckles into a ’70s chorus brimming with spot-on harmonies. “Safe Word,” an S&M fantasy tune from Purr, is a busy swing number bustling with peppy drums, jazzy guitars, and trumpets. On both songs, the band showcases their technical dexterity, which is one of Bubble Cats’ more immediately notable attributes.

“I just like playing badass shit,” says Riggs. “Back to not being perceived as a joke band, you walk this line. I don’t want people to be depressed. I want to play fun music for people to listen to.” -Ryan J. Prado at Portland Mercury

http://bubblecats.tumblr.com/

Who: Years (Salem Progressive Rock), Pony Village (Portland Melodic-Mellow Rock), Orchards (Salem Layered Dark Rock), and Art House Marquee (Salem Emo/Punk Rock)

What: A Live Concert Showcase!

Where: Level B Theater Pub – 445 High Street NE Salem, OR 97302

When: Friday June 13th. Doors at 7pm – Show begins at 8pm

$3 Door charge, with Presale at Ranch Records @ $5

Andy Blankenheim’s In Flight Booking presents a diverse night of music from Salem Emo rock by Art House Marquee, Portland’s Country-tinged Indie band Pony Village, Salem Progressive Dynamos Years, and Darkwave band Orchards. Following is a Link To Andy’s FB Event:

 >>> https://www.facebook.com/events/1406274996317790/

Review by Jake Ten Pas, a Portland Freelance Writer

Pony Village is the name of a mall outside North Bend. It’s also the name of a band from Portland.

On the surface, these two facts have very little to do with each other. While the mall sells trinkets and knickknacks, the group peddles moody rock music featuring hushed vocals, shifting arrangements, crisp drums and subtle uses of guitar effects.

But the name isn’t completely tongue-in-cheek. Dig a little deeper, and connections emerge.

“A lot of the lyrics Ryan writes deal with memories and things from his past, things from his youth, things he went through,” drummer Jonah Nolde says of Pony Villagebandmate Ryan Barber (guitar, lead vocals), who grew up in the North Bend area north of Coos Bay. “It’s definitely his ideas that come through in the songs.”

Sung in a voice akin to the sandpaper-tongued falsetto of Doug Martsch from Built to Spill, Barber’s lyrics can move from longing to accusation in the space of a verse, recalling the mercurial emotions evoked by the shopping malls of the teenage years.

YEARS ONLINE:

http://www.yearsyearsyears.us/

We are Years, Years are We, Of All the Years, We are but Three:

ART HOUSE MARQUEE ONLINE

http://arthousemarquee21st.bandcamp.com/

Who: Find Your Smile (Salem Melodic Rock), Sama Dams (Portland Experimental Rock), The Weather Machine (Portland Folk Rock), and Mary’s Peak (Salem Pop Duo)

What: A Live Concert Showcase!

Where: Level B Theater Pub – 445 High Street NE Salem, OR 97302

When: Saturday June 7th. Doors at 7pm – Show begins at 8pm

$9 Door charge, with Presale at Ranch Records @ $7

Local sensations- Find Your Smile join Portland up-and-coming avante-garde rockers Sama Dams with Willamette Graduate Slater Smith and The Weather Machine, and new local pop duo Mary’s Peak.

Praise for SAMA DAMS:
Ned Lannamann, Portland Mercury, March 26, 2013
What a tangled web Sama Dams weaves, and what an enjoyable one to get caught in. The Portland group—named after their clarion-voiced frontman, with the space moved one letter over to avoid confusion with our former mayor—release their new full-length, No Vengeance, at tonight’s showhttp://cdncache1-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10×10.png. It’s a challenging, mathy step forward for the local trio, embracing the technical intricacies of bands like Dirty Projectors and Slint and shrugging off the band’s cozier, folkier sound of the past. It’s also a phenomenally impressive piece of work, demonstrating a fearless exploratory spirit as opposed to trying to be willfully obscure. While I haven’t yet found anything on No Vengeance that hits me on a gut level like their splendid 2011 EP Draw This Bitter Blood, I’m gonna keep listening—no matter what level of accessibility they’re working on, Sama Dams is one of Portland’s most interesting, and best, bands. >>>

http://sama-dams.com/

FIND YOUR SMILE ONLINE:
http://fysband.com/

THE WEATHER MACHINE ONLINE:
http://weathermachinemusic.com/

MARY’S PEAK ONLINE
http://www.maryspeakband.com/