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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Tonight! Tonight In Music: Panda Bear, STLS, Mark Kozelek and More

Posted by Ethan Jayne on Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM

PANDA BEAR, DEVONWHO

(Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside) Kicking off a forthcoming crazy week of music, Animal Collective's Noah Lennox—you probably know him as Panda Bear—graces PDX tonight with his looping, effervescent tracks and hopefully some songs from his new record. NOAH DUNHAM

STLS, PALO VERDE, HOT VICTORY, ASSS, DJ JEN OLESEN, DJ NEW MOON PONCHO

(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Kill Rock Stars is set to release Drumcore, the debut 7-inch from STLS, the all-drums duo of sts and former Explode into Colors drummer Lisa Schonberg. The pair plays standing, facing off on the venue floor, clattering their rolling drum patterns in perfect sync. But that's not the only 7-inch that's being released tonight, nor is it the only one with a surfeit of drums. The dueling drumkits of Hot Victory—Ben Stoller and Caitlin Love on the skins, plus Erik Hanson on the decks—is releasing a split single with Palo Verde, the sludge metal duo of Terrica Kleinknecht and Lauren K. Newman, both of whom are excellent drummers in their own right (although Kleinknecht tends to stick to equally thunderous guitar for the Palo Verde repertoire). Expect to get bashed and clobbered by all the drum action at tonight's show, and to come home with two new 7-inches (from three bands) under your battered arms. NED LANNAMANN


MARK KOZELEK, TINY VIPERS

(Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie) Mark Kozelek is a prick. But he's a loveable prick. While other soft-voiced troubadours flinch from the pain of it all, the motherfucking Koz just lives it, leaving countless torched bridges and fine recordings (under either his name, Red House Painters, or Sun Kil Moon) in his trembling wake. The template rarely changes—his records share a uniform look and rest on the same sedate level of volume—but on Sun Kil Moon's just-released Admiral Fell Promise Kozelek's love affair with classical guitar shows itself, along with his longstanding ability to floor you with just a single line from a song. But fair warning: You talk during his show, the man will fucking bury you. EZRA ACE CARAEFF

Malaikat Dan Singa and Coliseum after the jump!

For more shows, check our complete live show listings.

ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO'S MALAIKAT DAN SINGA, OHIOAN, DEATH SONGS, ZOE BOEKBINDER

(Backspace, 115 NW 5th) Your house burning to the ground is bad enough, especially when you're young, underpaid renters. When your house burns down containing most of the musical equipment that you use to perform and operate your indie record label, well, that's enough to crush anyone's spirit. Sadly this is what happened to Ohioan, a collective of Portland musicians headed by Ryne Warner, earlier this month. Tonight's show is a benefit for these individuals, and although drumming up funds to help out is important, a bit of rallying from the community will also be appreciated. Town crier of sorts Arrington de Dionyso—from Old Time Relijun and his Indonesian-speaking alter ego Malaikat dan Singa—will be playing as well as a very talented guest from California named Zoe Boekbinder, one-half of the incredible vaudeville show Vermillion Lies. MARANDA BISH

COLISEUM, BURNING LOVE, WARCRY, LEBANON, TEROKAL

(Satyricon, 125 NW 6th) Chris Colohan is the living embodiment of punk rock persistence. On a 2008 European tour with Cursed, what should have been one of the high points of his seven-year career with the Toronto hardcore band, Colohan announced that the band had been robbed and left stranded without passports or money. It was over. But Colohan got right back at it, with a lo-fi five-song demo with Burning Love. Though not quite as gloomy and dark as his previous efforts, the band gives all kinds of rock 'n' roll nods to MotÖrhead and early Black Flag. Kentucky-based headliners Coliseum are also no strangers to change; their newest LP, House with a Curse, steers away from the sometimes-draconian rule book of crust punk to embrace a little thing called melody. KEVIN DIERS

 

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