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Daily Email - Friday - 8/8/2025

August 08, 2025

 Rose City Comic Con returns to the Oregon Convention Center September 5-7! Let your fandom flag fly and meet some of your FAVORITE stars like cast members from The Goonies and Battlestar Galactica! Get your badges today at rosecitycomiccon.com/badges!*

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • Hollywood Undead is back to scream-sing your inner chaos into the mic.
    This rap-rock wrecking crew still delivers mosh-pit anthems laced with angst and rage. Get tickets for Roseland Theater in September.

  • Global bass, reggaetón, house, and straight-up chaos collide when JSTJR hits the decks for a 360 set at 45 East on November 1.

  • Metalcore vets Like Moths To Flames deliver breakdowns that could shatter concrete and lyrics that cut like glass. Get in the pit at Hawthorne Theatre on November 4.

  • Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist cooked up a classic. Now they’re serving it live. Hear it live at Roseland Theater on November 6.

  • Ternion Sound’s live sets are a deep dive into subterranean dubstep: dark, heady, and built for heads who like their subs warm and wobbly. Catch them with The Widdler at The Den on November 8.

FREE STUFF FRIDAY

Photo: Swan Island Dahlias

Your wallet can relax — Portland’s got a grip of free events this week. We’re talking blooming chaos at the Dahlia Festival, Sneaker Week flexing hard, street fairs turning neighborhoods into dance floors, and more zero-dollar fun you don’t wanna miss.

THIS WEEKEND

🚨 LCD Soundsystem

Tomorrow - Sunday @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater (6:30PM)

No one captures existential dread you can dance to like LCD Soundsystem. James Murphy and co. are back with the synths, the cowbells, and the brutally honest anthems that make aging feel cool (or at least tolerable).

🎧 Com Truise

Tomorrow @ The Get Down (9PM)

Com Truise makes music for androids with feelings. His synthwave slaps like a neon daydream - retro-futuristic, emotionally glitchy, and dripping with analog swagger. Think Blade Runner at a roller rink.

🎤 Too $hort

Tomorrow @ Roseland Theater (8PM)

Before your favorite rapper ever touched a mic, Too $hort was already saying “Biiiiiitch!” into one. The Bay Area legend is back, spitting filthy truths and freaky party wisdom over beats that raised generations.

🤠 Waxahatchee

Tomorrow @ Pioneer Square (7PM)

Waxahatchee songs feel like reading someone’s diary with your heart in your throat.
Katie Crutchfield’s voice hits like sunlight through a cracked window - warm, honest, and a little haunting.

🤘 Simple Plan and Bowling For Soup

Sunday @ Theater of the Clouds (6:30PM)

Your emo phase just filed a PTO request. Simple Plan and Bowling for Soup are teaming up for a pop-punk nostalgia trip that smells like Axe body spray and teenage angst.

LOCALS ONLY

  • The Hot Sauce Expo is back, and it’s bringing fire-breathing vendors, tear-inducing tastings, and enough Scoville units to legally qualify as a crime scene.

  • Another street fair? We’re not complaining! On September 6, head down to Clinton Street Fair for food stalls, live music, local art, and more!