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Mark you calendars for what appears to be a great [and free] show..
Sunday 4/5/09 @ Rontoms (600 E Burnside)
GROUPER / TINY VIPERS
FREE! / 9PM / 21+

Grouper.
“[H]ere I was driving in the morning past farmland north of Eugene, Ore… I kept seeing these small dirt storms form out in the unplowed fields to the left while the lovely “Fishing Bird (Empty Gutted In The Evening Breeze)” played on repeat. I’m not sure [Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, Grouper's third album] is the perfect road trip music for everyone– I’d certainly caution against playing it late at night when you’re already sleepy, or operating other heavy machinery as it plays– but since these songs seem to appear and then vanish into the air, the mini-tornadoes gathering themselves together lazily out of the wind and the dirt seemed the ideal, hypnotizing accompaniment.” - Mike McGonigal, PITCHFORK

“A psych-folk bent for harmonic discord and atmospheric dread finds something forever sinister lodged at the album’s heart: the kind of beauty that makes sailors run aground.” - MOJO

Tiny Vipers
“Being a solo acoustic female singer songwriter comes with its share of conspicuous baggage. And, Seattle’s Jesy Fortino, who records and performs as Tiny Vipers, has been spared little of it: she’s played coffee shops, on mismatched bills with by-the-book folkies, and fielded far too many questions that address her gender rather than her music. Fortunately for us (and, we can only imagine, even more so for her) these things all fall away when she plays. Inhabiting the space carved out by minimal guitar, gentle textures and stark, immediate vocals, Tiny Vipers’ music evokes the contrast and quiet, empty beauty of a grey northwest landscape.” - SUB POP

Sunday night Luminous Things will be playing at Rontom’s here in Portland. Luminous Things is the newest project from Durango Park founders John Kwon and Katie Griesar and journeyman drummer Ned Folkerth. If you like NW indy rock with a strong Velvet Underground influence, you will like these guys. Don’t take our word for it, download the tracks.

Luminous Things - A Stranger

Trivia Note: Drummer Ned Folkerth was in Dave Allen’s first Portland based band Squall.