TENDER LOVING EMPIRE WINTER FORMAL: PANCAKE BREAKFAST, LOCH LOMOND, AAN , DJ DREW GROOVE
(The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie) Local label/boutique Tender Loving Empire throws their first-ever Winter Formal—and dressing up is recommended. Playing the festivities are goodtime party-folkers Pancake Breakfast, plus new TLE signees Loch Lomond, backed by a chamber orchestra. Tickets are on sale, but if you bought a gift at the TLE store in the past two weeks, you've already scored a free ticket. NED LANNAMANN
ARCHERS, BLOOD BEACH, SONS OF HUNS, NUCULAR AMINALS
(Berbati's Pan, 10 SW 3rd) Read our article on Archers.
JAM FOR A.M.: OLD GROWTH, THE MEAN JEANS, SCIENCE OF YABRA, LANA REBEL AND THE LOVE LASERS
(Bossanova, 722 E Burnside) Amaren Colosi once took my photograph. It was at some sweltering house show buried deep in the dregs of industrial NW Portland, and Colosi had a photobooth set up in the living room. I mention this because after all these years I still remember her name and how kind she was to all at the show. Now it's time for us to return the favor. Stricken with ovarian cancer, Colosi is the worthy recipient of this benefit show, compiled of some of the finest and most entertaining bands Portland has to offer. Old Growth and Science of Yabra unleash the rock and roll in ferocious little doses, Lana Rebel and the Love Lasers are vintage rhinestone country, and no one—and I mean no one—parties like the Mean Jeans. Cancer, you don't stand a chance. EZRA ACE CARAEFF
The Chapin Sisters, as well as a link to the complete show listings, after the jump!