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all ages music

Portland's Most Missed All-Ages Venues

While underage music fans have long been beleaguered in this city, Portland music history is littered with the ghosts of some amazing venues serving the under-21 demographic. Here are the ones we remember most fondly.

The Youth Are Getting Restless

For the members of Friends of Noise, a newly launched “all-ages advocacy group,” it’s time to try something else. The solution, they say, is going nonprofit.

Friends of Noise Wants to Bring a New All-Ages Music Venue to Portland

A joint project involving My Voice Music, PDX Pop Now, KBOO and Willamette Week’s Give!Guide has launched an “all-ages advocacy group” called Friends of Noise, with the goal of eventually opening a multipurpose concert and arts space, modeled after Seattle’s volunteer-run Vera Project and Youngstown Cultural Arts Center.

Introducing: Saola

In an age bracket that considers the compact disc a medieval format, these four young men have forsaken metalcore and thrash to focus on de rigueur leaden riffage with a level of musicianship far beyond most shredders 20 years their senior.

In The City

In its heyday, the City Nightclub functioned somewhere between Studio 54 and Outside In, a space in which kids who had no place else to go could explore and exert their identities.

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