Explore the bounty of live performances that our city has to offer with our monthly, personalized recommendations from our Air and Music Teams.
From Inessa Anderson – Music Director
Saint Motel – an American indie pop band from Los Angeles, whose music has been described as everything from “dream pop” to “indie prog.”
Roseland Theater
Tuesday, March 3rd
Show 8PM
Tickets
Keane – Keane are an English rock band from Battle, East Sussex.
Roseland Theater
Friday, March 6
Show
Grace Potter – Grace Evelyn Potter is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actress who formed Grace Potter and the Nocturnals in 2002 before going solo.
McMenamin’s Crystal Ballroom
Friday, March 13th
Show 8:00 PM
Negativland – Negativland are legendary American experimental artists that originated in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their particular musical practice incorporates found sounds and musical samples into their collage compositions. Genres include experimental music, industrial and avant-garde music. Not for the faint of heart! Hah!!
Holocene
Saturday, March 21st
Show – This is an early show. It begins at 6PM!!!
From Asia Wagner – Music Curator for Fresh Vibe/ the host of beat|side
Schaus – an album release party for local electro-pop project Schaus opens with an incredible, emerging local talent Amenta Abioto, and a friend of the station Jame Doe.
Holocene
Thursday, March 12th
Show 8:30 PM
Peter Bjorn and John – the neo-psychedelic trio from Sweden, celebrating 20 years of music-making.
Doug Fir Lounge
Friday, March 27th
Doors 8:00 PM/Show 9:00 PM
From Jenna D – the host of Theme for a Tuesday
Saint Motel w/ guest KOLARS – “An evening with the Los Angeles based quartet whose breakout single, “My Type,” displays their penchant for crafting big and bright party-starting pop music.”
Roseland Theater
Wednesday, March 4th
Show 8:00 PM
Wilco – “Throughout the past two-plus decades Wilco has won multiple Grammy Awards, released ten studio albums, as well as a trio of albums with Billy Bragg penning music to lyrics by Woody Guthrie. They have founded their own record label (dBpm Records) and festival (Solid Sound), and 2020 sees them curating Sky Blue Sky, a destination concert experience in Mexico, for the first time. The Chicago sextet continues to be regarded as a live powerhouse, as described by NPR, ‘To see Wilco on stage is to hear the best of the best.'”
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Monday, March 23rd & Tuesday, March 24th
Show 7:30 PM
From Veronica Bisesti – the host of Subculture
Hot Snakes with Kills Birds – Hot Snakes brings San Diego post-hardcore to Portland along with up-and-comers Kills Birds.
Doug Fir
Friday, March 6th
Show 9:00 PM
Pussy Riot with Deli Girls – Stand up for your rights and SEE this band!!!
Wonder Ballroom
Wednesday, March 18th
Show 8:30 PM
Bikini Kill with Table Sugar – Long awaited reunion and return of the original Riot Grrrls!
Crystal Ballroom
Sunday/Monday, March 22/23
Show 8:00 PM
From Patrick Meigs – the host of The Mixtape
Five Letter Word – a local band whose blend of harmonies and musicianship is simply incredible. This is going to be a great show!
From the Five Letter Word website: “Mix three singer-songwriters, several stringed instruments, and a variety of percussive techniques, and you get Five Letter Word. This Portland, OR-based trio of powerful women includes Leigh Jones (guitar, percussion), Clara Baker (fiddle, guitar, banjo) and Audra Nemir (bass), blending their signature harmonies into songs from folk to bluegrass to blues and beyond. Recent winners of the 2018 Northwest String Summit Band Competition, Five Letter Word takes inspiration from the harmonic tradition of groups like the Wailin’ Jennys, Dixie Chicks, and The Wood Brothers, and add their own special flair to create a sound that is “uniquely infectious” and a show that is “delightful, with a few unexpected twists.”
The Goodfoot Pub and Lounge
Thursday, March 5
Show 8:00 PM
Amanda Shires – “… an American singer-songwriter and fiddle player. Shires has released six solo albums, her most recent To the Sunset on the Silver Knife label in 2018. In 2019, she founded a country music group called The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby. She has performed as a member of the Texas Playboys, Thrift Store Cowboys and Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, as well as in a duo with Rod Picott.”
Aladdin Theater
Tuesday, March 10
Show 8 PM
Drive By Truckers – “The Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country/Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia. Two of five current members are originally from The Shoals region of northern Alabama and met as roommates at the University of Alabama, and the band strongly identifies with Alabama. The group also has roots in Richmond, Virginia.” They also now have roots in Portland, where Patterson Hood now lives. The last time they played here, it was a barn burner of a show!
Wonder Ballroom
Friday and Saturday, March 20 and 21st
Show 9 PM
Candace – Candace is an incredible local Portland band. The last time I saw them play, they quite simply blew my mind!
“Candace infuses their music with a sense of mystery and brooding atmosphere. Psychedelic and shoegaze influences emerge throughout the catalogue: the atmospheric tones of early Verve, a droning pulse reminiscent of Loop. Some songs bounce gleefully forward with a pop sensibility, while some keep a cool distance and move with a language distinctly their own.”
Mississippi Studios
Friday, March 20th
Show 9 PM
- Portland Radio Project in Willamette Week’s Give Guide - December 18, 2021
- Drop-In Session with Night Heron - June 13, 2021
- Drop-In Session with Joe Kye - May 24, 2021
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