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A Month Ago, Randall Wyatt Launched Taking Ownership, a Nonprofit That Funds Home Repairs for Black Portlanders. It’s Already Doing Big Things.

Barely a month ago, Wyatt founded Taking Ownership PDX, which repairs and renovates Black-owned homes in Portland. It hasn’t even become a registered nonprofit yet, and in the meantime, is reporting donations by fielding them through local music nonprofit Friends of Noise.

A Portland Nonprofit Has Petitioned the City Council to Help Fund a New BIPOC-Owned, All-Ages Music Venue

“In a scene largely driven by art created by BIPOC, there is virtually no representation in ownership by people of color,” reads the petition. “As a result, this proposed payout serves as a bailout for an industry that had historically locked out BIPOC; and at a time when we have committed to centering around their needs.”

The Reunited Explode Into Colors Revisits Its Past

At this point, the band is coy on whether the reformation will continue beyond these upcoming concerts, or if we’ll ever get that long-promised album. But perhaps it’s just as well—really, the best way to experience Explode Into Colors is its wall-rattling live shows.

Explode Into Colors Is Reuniting

The post-punk dub-funk trio—or however you prefer to classify them—will play a pair of benefit shows, both at Mississippi Studios on Oct. 16.

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.

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