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Daily Email - Wednesday - 10/15/2025

October 15, 2025

Some bands make music for highways. Richy Mitch & The Coalminers make music for the moments between the mile markers. Win tickets to hear their harmony-heavy indie-folk live on November 15!

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • What started as a one-off tribute to garage rock's golden age turned into one of Portland’s most reliably unhinged live acts. Get tickets to see The Pynnacles with fellow locals Black Shelton and The American Dream at Mississippi Studios.

  • Haley Johnsen’s Pajamarama is a full-on pajama party for your soul. Get tickets to experience powerhouse vocals, cozy vibes, and grooves that’ll have you dancing in your slippers like no one’s watching at Mississippi Studios.

  • !mindparade sounds like a cult started a psych-pop band in a haunted art gallery. Become a part of the hive mind at Mississippi Studios.

  • Ska’s not dead, it’s just in Seattle. Mustard Plug and The Toasters are skanking straight through Portland at Star Theater this January.

  • WonkyWilla’s Galactic Circus Tour is rolling into Crystal Ballroom like a disco comet crash-landing on a synth-pop spaceship.

WIN STUFF WEDNESDAY

Photo: Portland Folk Festival

It’s Win Stuff Wednesday — your midweek reminder that good things do come easy. We’ve got tickets and bragging rights up for grabs. Enter now and let the universe do its thing.

THIS WEEK

🤝 AMP Music Festival

Today - Friday @ Multiple Locations

The only fest where you can mosh, cry, and change a life in three days. AMP Fest is taking over Portland for three days with bands like Camp Crush, OGRE, and Death Parade — plus rising youth artists from the Artist Mentorship Program.

🎤 Kassi Valazza

Tomorrow @ Mississippi Studios (8PM)

Kassi Valazza’s psych-tinged country sways with slow-burning storytelling and a voice that sounds carved from canyon walls.

📣 Oliver Hazard & The Last Revel

Tomorrow @ Aladdin Theater (7:45PM)

Oliver Hazard & The Last Revel are teaming up for a night of harmonies, heartbreak, and folk that hits like a front porch thunderstorm.

🤘 Asphyx

Tomorrow @ Star Theater (7PM)

Asphyx is bringing their death-doom fury stateside, and it’s gonna be loud, slow, and absolutely crushing. Prepare for guttural growls, chainsaw riffs, and a crowd that smells like leather and apocalypse.

📚 Elizabeth Gilbert

Tomorrow @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (7:30PM)

Eat. Pray. Love. Elizabeth Gilbert is stepping off the page and onto the stage for a night of big questions, honest answers, and maybe a little magic.

LOCALS ONLY

  • Spend Halloween drinking some of the best beer in town at 10 Barrel Brewing’s Phantom of the Brewhouse event, featuring a live DJ and a costume contest.

  • Sandy Hut is going all out this Halloween, featuring a $200 costume contest prize, DJ sets, drink specials, and more.

  • Dream House Bar is hosting a Halloween Flash Tattoo event on October 27, featuring live music. First come, first-served.