Post-pandemic, Portland, Oregon is suddenly filled with ambitious young bands barely of drinking age who have emerged fully-formed.
If you’re a musician turning 21 this year, there’s a good chance your formative years of being a punk were rudely interrupted. Maybe you caught a few shows during the tail-end of rock’s long season of pre-COVID innocence, but the sad fact is that subsequent generations of DIY kids will have never known a live music scene untainted by the specter of the pandemic.
One key precedent to the current spate of noisy Portland bands is Alien Boy, whose lustrous wall of shoegaze guitars and explicitly queer lyrics have made them one of the city’s most distinctive bands. “When Alien Boy first started playing, people were like, what the fuck is going on with you guys? You guys are so loud,” says Alien Boy singer and guitarist Sonia Weber. “And we were like, that’s the point.
Holtz cites one early generator show where their slot was given to another band called Chainsaw Girl. “Me and Damian were so pissed a different C-Girl name was on there, but then they became like close friends of ours after that.” Generator shows all but disappeared once congregating indoors became less dicey, and it was only during the explosion of house shows later in 2021 that many of these new bands began to notice—and benefit from—the ravenous post-lockdown demand for live entertainment.
“It’s really easy to post a little clip or a reel and then you can scroll past something like that and be like, oh wow, that looks like a ton of fun—I want to be there,” says Taylor All-ages spaces are few and far between. Honey Latte Café, one of the main gathering places for under-21 members of the scene after lockdown, recently stopped hosting shows. At the time of this writing, one of the main haunts for young Portland bands is the Mission Theater, owned by the local entertainment mini-empire McMenamins. “There’s a sound engineer and staff and security and everything that comes with a normal show,” says Taylor.
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