Neilson Family with Grant & The Summerlands

9pm doors 9:30 start $10

Neilson Family

via Week in Pop: "Neilson Family is a jangle pop band that prizes subtle guitar work, close harmonies and wry lyrics. They blend a balladry sensibility hybrid that crosses strains off melancholia with a heart full of hope of what was (and what can be) that is a nod to Portland's own transformations over the years of industry shifts, redevelopment, sky-rocketing rents that pays homage to the days of banter with idling video store clerks to the present of frequenting bourgeois craft coffee houses and upscale pubs."

Grant & The Summerlands

Grant Summerland's Bigfoot Museum, the 2020 debut release from the California musician, expands the cross section between indie rock music and hip hop. Detailing a coming-of-age nighttime drive, the album mutates the Santa Cruz Mountains from a relatively placid and overlooked area, into sinister woods complete with bigfoot, aliens, and more.

In 2021, Grant prepped for life after the pandemic by taking the songs from 'Bigfoot Museum' and reworking them for a live setting. The result of these is 'PATTERSON-GIMLIN: 2021 DEMOS'. Recorded in a series of one takes with Grant on every instrument, the demos show the songs in a completely different light - looser and leaning into rock and punk influences heavily. This developed into the act GRANT & THE SUMMERLANDS - a four piece band designed to play these songs in an entirely new context.