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Daily Email - Thursday - 10/9/2025

October 09, 2025

Let’s start with some good news: Dolly Parton is alive and well. We can breathe a sigh of relief. Now, back to business. For even better news…

Calling all heartbreakers, lovers, and reputation defenders: it’s a Taylor Swift Rave. DJs spinning deep cuts and bangers, friendship bracelets flying, and zero chill required. Dress code? Whatever era you’re in.*

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • Bert Kreischer is hitting Moda Center with the party-starting, shirtless chaos you've come to expect. Prepare for big laughs, bigger energy, and probably some wild storytelling that ends in tequila. Don’t miss it.*

  • Austra’s back with synths that shimmer like haunted glass and vocals that could summon ghosts in January. Operatic electro-pop? Sign us up.

  • Rodney Crowell is a country legend with a poet’s pen and a hell of a band. From honky-tonk burners to heartbreaker ballads, get to Aladdin Theater in February.

  • Sequins will fly. Drama will swirl. Dancing with the Stars Live is hitting the road with jaw-dropping routines and fan-fave celebs. Catch them in Portland this February.

  • YUNGBLUD rolls into town like a punk-rock hurricane in smeared eyeliner. Get tickets when he hits Theater of the Clouds in May.

LATE NIGHT GUIDE TO PORTLAND

Photo: Izakaya Kichinto

Some nights, you don’t want the party to end. Other nights, you just want pancakes and a quiet place to spiral. Either way, we’ve got you. This is your ultimate guide to late-night hangs — the places that keep the lights on when everything else shuts down.

TOMORROW

🎶 Ravyn Lenae

Tomorrow @ Crystal Ballroom (8PM)

Neo soul queen Ravyn Lenae delivers her new album Bird’s Eye, a neon swirl of alt-R&B, Prince worship, and psychedelic heartbreak. This one’s for the romantics and the people who still buy incense.

🎸 Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Tomorrow @ The Get Down (8PM)

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears are bringing their sweat-soaked, garage-funk revival to the stage. Think James Brown if he’d grown up stealing amps from punk bands.

📣 Wombo

Tomorrow @ Mississippi Studios (9PM)

Wombo makes the kind of art-rock that feels like getting lost in a thrift store mirror maze. Angular basslines, sing-speak vocals, and enough weird to keep it cool.

🎧 Invent Animate / Silent Planet

Tomorrow @ Roseland Theater (6:30PM)

Invent Animate and Silent Planet are co-headlining a night built for existential meltdowns and immaculate breakdowns. Bloom In Heaven Tour Pt II hits like poetry screamed through a collapsing cathedral.

😂 Jiaoying Summers

Tomorrow @ Aladdin Theater (7PM)

Jiaoying Summers is flipping stand-up on its head on the What Specie Are You Tour. She’s fearless, viral, and borderline unhinged in the best way.

LOCALS ONLY

  • Portland zombies, ghosts, and ghouls will be dancing to Michael Jackson’s Thriller as part of the global event Thrill The World at Irving Park on October 25.

  • If you want to carve pumpkins but don’t want hundreds of seeds on your floor, join the Pumpkin Carving Party at both locations of Portland Nursery on October 19. Pumpkins, tools, and paint pens supplied!

  • Remember how we mentioned a $100 cash drop? Well, there’s a stark difference between a hint and giving it away completely, and we aren’t going to make it easy on you!

  • Treefort Fest in Boise just dropped six hints alluding to this year’s lineup. Can you guess who they are?