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Do you like crusty old string-band music? Random facts about obscure prewar musicians and vernacular music history?? Singers who sound like they have smoked 100,000,000,000,000,00 cigarettes??? If you answered “yes!” too any of these questions, Dumpster Joe & the Boys might have just the STUFF™️ for you!

Portland, OR based Dumpster Joe & Taylor “the Boys” Thomas play 1920s & 30s jazz, country blues and jugband tunes on res-o-phonic guitar and cello. On occasion they’ll have pals join them on fiddle, clarinet, saw, washboard, tub bass, cheese grater and all other manner of instruments and household appliances. You never quite know what you’ll get ‘til ya get it. One thing is for certain though: no matter what rag-tag group of musical miscreants they manage to round up, a good time is guaranteed to be had by all once they get too serenadin’ and  sycopatin’! 

Do you like crusty old string-band music? Random facts about obscure prewar musicians and vernacular music history?? Singers who sound like they have smoked 100,000,000,000,000,00 cigarettes??? If you answered “yes!” too any of these questions, Dumpster Joe & the Boys might have just the STUFF™️ for you!

Portland, OR based Dumpster Joe & Taylor “the Boys” Thomas play 1920s & 30s jazz, country blues and jugband tunes on res-o-phonic guitar and cello. On occasion they’ll have pals join them on fiddle, clarinet, saw, washboard, tub bass, cheese grater and all other manner of instruments and household appliances. You never quite know what you’ll get ‘til ya get it. One thing is for certain though: no matter what rag-tag group of musical miscreants they manage to round up, a good time is guaranteed to be had by all once they get too serenadin’ and  sycopatin’! 

with Three For Silver, produced by Paper La Shay

Creaturess is a conceptual “cave doom” band originating from Portland Oregon. It is a collaboration between guitarist/composer Jesse Hamlin and singer/guitarist/visionary Joanna Sendejo. Formed in 2023, the project seeks to examine transformation and beauty through the acceptance and internalization of loss, suffering, grief, and the brutality of the natural.

Drawing inspiration from doom metal, black metal, shoegaze, and slowcore, Creaturess fuses traditional heavy sounds with experiential field recording, songwriting, and production processes to capture vulnerability as sound. 

Orkestar Zirkonium is a mobile, fifteen-member brass-and-drum ensemble that borrows from a variety of musical traditions, composes original music, and kicks out celebratory spectacle in a variety of circumstances. Zirkonium members hail from Circus Contraption, the Infernal Noise Brigade, the Anti-Fascist Marching Band, the Empty Cage Quartet, the Fremont Philharmonic, and other groups; our songs draw from Eastern European / Roma brass, klezmer, Bollywood soundtracks, Ethiopian jazz, punk, funk, hiphop, and other musical idioms. 

Honed and expanded through their travels, and quietly drawing from their South American and Texan roots; Ak’chamel, The Giver of Illness forge a singular sound of desert-scorched psychedelia, fictitious post-apocalyptic shamanism, and impish ritual folk — as unique as the physical theater of their otherworldly live performances.

For over fifteen years they have released dozens of cassettes, several vinyl records, and a handful of cryptic VHS tapes. The trio remains veiled in mystery, yet they tour often—bringing their plague into the ravaged heart of the world.

“Performed in full costume, Ak’chamel are about as weird as we all thought the first season of True Detective was supposed to be” -VICE