Party: "Sabertooth Micro Fest" - Day 3 with Stardeath and White Dwarfs

Party: "Sabertooth Micro Fest" - Day 3 with Stardeath and White Dwarfs

Sunday, February 8

"Sabertooth Micro Fest" - Day 3

Lolas Room: Stardeath and White Dwarfs
Wampire

Al's Den: Mimi Naja (of Fruition)
A musical celebration of the Crystal Ballroom's psychedelic history
sponsored by Musicfest NW, KPSU and VooDoo Doughnuts

7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show
All ages welcome
$20 advance, $20 day of show | 3-day festival pass $75

"Sabertooth Micro Fest" - Day 3
McMenamins is excited to announce the full lineup for the Crystal Ballroom's inaugural Sabertooth psychedelicstonerrockmicrofest, a property-wide musical celebration of the Crystal Ballroom's psychedelic history.

Click here for the listing for all three days!

Facebook Event, Day 1:
https://www.facebook.com/events/490977401044365/

Facebook Event, Day 2:
https://www.facebook.com/events/590715551040016/
Stardeath and White Dwarfs

Stardeath and White Dwarfs are an Oklahoma band. Raised on the freaked out, psychedelic, sense assaulting music of Uncle Wayne's band, The Flaming Lips, Stardeath has found its own path. Equally as influenced by The Dungeon Family as Crazyhorse, the band's long anticipated new album "Wastoid" takes things to a new level. Tediously constructed over the past three years on the desolate plains of Oklahoma, the album follows the ups and downs of a life as raw as a place like this. Lyrically and musically deeper and darker than Stardeath's debut, "The Birth," Wastoid hits you right in the chest.

Although it has been a few years since the last Stardeath record, the band has been very busy writing songs with The Flaming Lips, not to mention Miley and Kesha, and recording on multiple Lip's family recordings of Dark Side Of The Moon, Court Of The Crimson King, The Stone Roses first record, and SGT. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band. The band has also been busy honing its reputation as one of the best live bands around, touring with the likes of Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips, and Devo. You just gotta see them when they come to a city near you.



Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/StardeathAndWhiteDwarfs

Website:
http://www.stardeathandwhitedwarfs.com/

Wampire

After forming Wampire, Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps steadily began to make a name for themselves in the same Portland, OR, scene that has produced labelmates STRFKR as well as Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

Now having toured the world and expanded to a five-piece live band, Wampire's disarmingly off-kilter pop is imbued with tinges of paranoia and surrealism (both lyrically and musically) and continually offers listeners a variety of unexpected and alluring sonic flavors.



Website:
http://wampiremusic.com/
Al's Den: Mimi Naja (of Fruition)

Mimi Naja has been a resident of the Portland live music scene since 2007. She mostly stays busy as a lead singer and mandolinist for local freak-folk-rockers, Fruition, but also plays solo and in small combos that can lean more on the pop/soul side. She swears by genre-bending and will feature guests during her Al's Den residency that do the same.
A musical celebration of the Crystal Ballroom's psychedelic history

The Saber-toothed Cat thrived from the Eocene Epoch to the Pleistocene Epoch (a 42 million year stretch), and it's our hope that our Sabertooth Festival, with its roots in Portland's own "psycheluvic epoch"* will survive as long.

While psychedelic music covers a range of styles and genres, it is inspired by psychedelic culture and the attempt to replicate the mind altering experiences that started in mid-'60s folk rock and blues. As such, Sabertooth celebrates the historical role the Crystal Ballroom played through previous half-century of psychedelic music.

In the late 1960s the Crystal Ballroom celebrated an era referred to as "18 months of Psychedelia," and hosted mind expanding artists of the day from Frank Zappa to the Grateful Dead. While the modern Sabertooth Festival celebrates this history and shares the same common thread of experimentation and the ability to transport the listener to an altered reality, it is not a rehash of artists from a bygone era; the psychedelic music of the 21st century is in fact very different than what it was in the 1960s.

The Crystal's psychedelic cred includes notable nuggets from rock and roll history:

the famous Peace Rites event at the Crystal in the '60s, where Allen Ginsberg disputably first read 'Howl' (we celebrate his fellow beats in the Joe Cotter mural in the room itself).
the Dead recorded much of their exploratory Anthem of the Sun at the Crystal
the forefather of the distorted and processed guitar, Jimi Hendrix, played there as well
The Crystal has always been the nexus of this scene and McMenamins has continued to program and promote music of this nature since its opening.

Those looking at psychedelia's earliest roots will also see the Crystal playing a role. The first use of the word "psychedelic" in reference to music was in reference to our friends and extended family, the Holy Modal Rounders (members of whom will be performing at the Sabertooth event) of the East Village Freak Folk scene. Other key players of this scene were John Fahey, who's last Portland show was with us at our St Johns Pub; Bert Jansch (Pentangle) who we have hosted on two occasions in Lola's Room and the Rounders themselves who have performed multiple reunion concerts at the Crystal Ballroom.

In the late 70s the new psychedelic revival featuring bands like Echo and the Bunnymen, George Clinton and Fishbone... all acts who have played the Ballroom. And as time moved on, the early 90s brought a "neo-psychedelic " movement with the Elephant 6 collective, and the Crystal continues to host their music (Jeff Mangum, Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal - and supporting the Saturday night show The Minders).

The 21st Century lineage continues with such bands as Tame Impala, Animal Collective and The War on Drugs, who in fact just performed at the Crystal and whose early member/collaborator Kurt Vile headlines the February 7 event.

When psychedelic music melded with doom metal and evolved into Stoner Rock, Sleep was the first band of that kind and headlinine the first night of the festival.

Psychedelic music in its varying forms and styles is part of the lifeblood of the Crystal Ballroom: we wouldn't be open today without it, and we have continued to program it. Sabertooth is a natural extension of this, a full blown celebration of the music where the Company and the Crystal , as our predecessors , eternally presses Furthur ...

*from the Oregonian, March 3, 1967

Wiki-Delia:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_music

Interesting Related Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Remember-the-Crystal-Ballroom-of-the-60s/1429127164040565

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