Pabst Announces New Portland Music Festival

Project Pabst brings Modest Mouse, Tears for Fears, GZA, Constantines on Sept. 26-28.

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No doubt you were sitting around, in between recovering from PDX Pop Now and preparing for Pickathon this weekend (and MusicfestNW two weeks after that), and thinking, "Geez, I wish Portland had another music festival I could attend." 

Well, you're in luck: Pabst Brewing has announced the lineup for Project Pabst, a three-night, multi-venue event, featuring two big outdoor concerts and several more shows spread out at venues across the city. 

The headliners for those outdoor shows, taking place at Zidell Yards near the Ross Island Bridge, are Modest Mouse and Tears for Fears. Other acts include Wu-Tang's GZA performing his classic album Liquid Swords, Violent Femmes, Rocket from the Crypt, Phosphorescent, Shabazz Palaces and Portland's own Red Fang, Thermals, Guantanamo Baywatch and Grandparents. The club shows, which feature Guided By Voices, Menomena, Surfer Blood, High on Fire and reunited Canadian indie rockers Constantines, are scheduled for Wonder and Crystal ballrooms, Mississippi Studios, Dante's and Ash Street Saloon. If it seems like the festival is targeting a bit of an older audience with those artists, well, it is being put on by a beer company. Along those lines, the whole shebang is 21-plus.

Tickets are on sale today. You can get 'em here.

Full list of performers here:

OUTDOOR SHOWS

  1. Modest Mouse
  2. Tears for Fears 
  3. The Violent Femmes 
  4. GZA performing Liquid Swords 
  5. Lord Huron 
  6. Rocket From the Crypt 
  7. Phosphorescent 
  8. Red Fang 
  9. Shabazz Palaces 
  10. The Thermals 
  11. Deap Vally 
  12. X Ambassadors 
  13. Speedy Ortiz 
  14. K. Flay 
  15. Guantanamo Baywatch 
  16. Grandparents

CLUB SHOWS

  1. Guided By Voices 
  2. Constantines 
  3. High On Fire 
  4. Menomena 
  5. Surfer Blood 
  6. Pure Country Gold 
  7. Small Black 
  8. Craft Spells 
  9. Woolen Men 
  10. Summer Cannibals 
  11. Jacaszek 
  12. Christopher Willits 
  13. Greg Gives Peter Space 
  14. Rival Consoles 
  15. Stoneburner 
  16. Vektor 
  17. Lord Dying 
  18. Dead Conspiracy 
  19. Burials

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