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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Tonight! Tonight in Music: The Coup, Neil Hamburger, Portland Cello Project and More

Posted by Ethan Jayne on Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:00 AM

THE COUP (Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) PARTY MUSIC—Sure, the Coup aren't quite what they used to be. E-Roc is long gone, and DJ Pam the Funkstress no longer tours, but few emcees can command a crowd like the enigmatic Boots Riley. The past few years Boots has been dedicated to Street Sweeper Social Club (with Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello) but he's currently working on new politically conscious Coup tracks, and perhaps—if you ask nicely enough—he'll play some tonight. EAC

"Hey gang, whaddya get when you place a penny, one copper cent, into each of the five asses of the five members of Smashmouth? ...NICKELBACK!"

NEIL HAMBURGER, GIRL FEELINGS, JEFF BREAKFAST (Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) DISGUSTING MAN—Neil Hamburger tells awful jokes between fits of phlegmy coughs and uncomfortable groans—all while cradling at least five mixed drinks with the length of his arm. But don't worry, it's all part of his masterfully crafted (and hilarious) character: "the world's 'worst' stand-up comedian." Mississippi Studios is so intimate Neil may even spill one of his drinks on you—if you're lucky. AM

PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT, JOHN VECCHIARELLI, SHENANDOAH DAVIS
(The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th) In a few short years Portland Cello Project has generated quite the wake, dragging the once-stodgy cello into a world of pop covers and backing-band collaborations, in addition to introducing classical pieces to rock crowds. After orbiting toward the pull of pop music—most notably on their The Thao and Justin Power Sessions LP—PCP returns to their traditional roots with Thousand Words. The Rachel Blumberg-composed piece "Denmark" opens the album with a gentle ease, a foundation the ensemble builds upon with the gypsy stalk of "Take 5" and three-part song cycle "The Dream." Straddling two distinct worlds is a challenge few bands master, but it's what PCP does best. Look no further than tonight's traditional show among the pews of the Old Church, then tomorrow's dance party throwdown at the Doug Fir. EZRA ACE CARAEFF

A live O Bruxo video coming up after the jump!

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AAN, O BRUXO, YLANG YLANG, SHIPWRECKER SELECTORS (Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) You've probably heard quite a bit about Ylang Ylang, the new project from Panther's Charlie Salas-Humara, but unless you've actually checked out the band live you might not yet be sure what they sound like. They don't sound like Salas-Humara's prior bands, Panther or The Planet The. Nor do they sound like drummer Jake Morris' other band the Joggers, nor Patterns (the province of bassist Ricci Swift), nor Spooky Dance Band, one of violinist Caroline Buchalter's many previous projects. Instead Ylang Ylang sound like this: gently fuzzy, speedily tempoed, guitar-driven pop-rock, not a million miles away from Guided by Voices or Sonic Youth, or the scads of American garage bands from the mid-'60s who were making music when the drug of choice gave way from speed to acid. It's peppy, lightly trippy, vaguely sunshiny, and you'll be able to hear a full album's worth later this year when Jackpot Records releases Ylang Ylang's debut. Meanwhile, O Bruxo are taking the recent revival of African sounds in current white-guy indie rock to the next logical level: out from organized iTunes collections and crisply pressed gatefold vinyl sleeves, and back into the street—where parades can spontaneously start and stop, where garbage piles up in the gutter, where you start out one place and end up, intended or not, somewhere completely different. NED LANNAMANN

 

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