HOT FACE, LIGHT HOUSE
(Valentine's, 232 SW Ankeny) It seems like only yesterday that Hot Face played their first show—a generator-powered, nails-on-a-chalkboard eight minutes of happily anachronistic, experimental punk that further gunked up an unsuspecting patch of beach on Swan Island. The whole punk-as-fuck experience was refreshing for a number of reasons—seeing ASSS's Alex Smith and Sean Sumler pick up guitars for the first time since their disbanded weirdo-punk outfit Syrup, for one—but now, just six months and a handful of confrontational, blink-and-you-miss-it sets later, Hot Face is calling it a day. Though all four members will surely have other creative projects in the works before I finish typing this sentence, their short time together was a necessary, noisy jolt to any Portlander who imagines themselves as thinking outside the punk box. ETHAN JAYNE
Complete show listings can be viewed here.