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Daily Email - Wednesday - 10/8/2025

October 08, 2025

Nobel Peace Prize winner, global education icon, actual living legend Malala Yousafzai is hitting the stage to talk courage, change, and what the future should look like — and you could be in the room. Enter to win tickets!

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • Folk-rock’s weirdest wordsmith is back on the road. Catch Dan Bern at Mississippi Studios on December 7 to hear songs about Marilyn, Monet, baseball, God, and the apocalypse (sometimes all in one verse).

  • Adventure Club, the dubstep duo that soundtracked your 2012 feelings is back on the Throwback Tour, hitting the decks with OG bangers like “Crave You” and “Need Your Heart” at 45 East on December 18+19.

  • Avant-metal, jazz, chamber goth... whatever you call it, Kayo Dot turns sound into ritual. Enter the haunted opera at Mississippi Studios on January 22.

  • The Moss creates indie surf rock with a heartfelt touch. Get sun-drunk without leaving the building next April at Hawthorne Theatre.

  • The Midnight makes retro future pop for your inner 80s movie protagonist. Secure tickets to the Time Machine Tour swirling into Crystal Ballroom in May.

WIN STUFF WEDNESDAY

We’re giving away tickets to a Taylor Swift Rave where you can scream-sing and swap bracelets like it’s 1989, a live stop of A Charlie Brown Christmas that'll hit you right in the holiday feels, and a Great Gatsby ballet that brings the roaring ’20s to life in full glittery, dramatic glory.

THIS WEEK

⛩️ Acid Mothers Temple

Tomorrow @ Mississippi Studios (8PM)

Japan’s freakiest psych collective is back to melt minds and summon cosmic chaos. Experience heavy fuzz and interstellar vibes with Acid Mothers Temple.

🎸 Covet

Tomorrow @ Wonder Ballroom (8PM)

Delicate, dizzying, and loud in all the right ways, Covet blends math rock precision with dream-pop feels.

📣 Stephen Kellogg & Chris Trapper

Tomorrow @ Polaris Hall (8PM)

Two troubadours, one stage. Expect stories, harmonies, and a night that feels like swapping life advice over whiskey with your most poetic friend with Stephen Kellogg & Chris Trapper.

🎻 The World of Hans Zimmer

Tomorrow @ Moda Center (7:30PM)

The man behind Inception, Gladiator, Dune, and basically your entire emotional soundtrack is bringing his epic scores to the stage with a full orchestra, lasers, and likely some goosebumps. Enter the world of Hans Zimmer.

🇬🇧 The Martin Sexton Abbey Road Show

Tomorrow @ Aladdin Theater (8PM)

One of the finest voices in Americana is taking on The Beatles, reimagining Abbey Road with soul, grit, and that signature Martin Sexton spin.

Lord Huron at Moda Center

Lord Huron returns to haunt your heart. Cinematic as a Western, dreamy as a desert night, Lord Huron makes music for disappearing into the unknown with reverb-soaked ballads and haunting harmonies.*

LOCALS ONLY

  • Let’s scare up some business. DoPDX is where the weird ones click, and during spooky season, we’re thriving. So if you’ve got a haunted house, fall fest, creepy cocktail, or just want to sling some holiday cheer before it curdles — get in now.

  • Slowcore band Duster has a side project, and you can see them perform at Mother Foucault’s Bookstore during a fundraiser for Gaza Soup Kitchen on Friday.

  • Pickles, kimchi, kraut, miso, mead, kombucha, kefir, beer... if it bubbles, brines, or blows your taste buds’ mind, it’s here. Get down to the Portland Fermentation Festival at Eco Trust tomorrow.

  • Follow your favorite artists on DoPDX and we’ll hit you up before they hit the stage — presales, tour drops, last-minute shows, all of it.

Song of the day: Outro - M83