Portland Mercury
Up & Coming
SATURDAY 5/5
CACOPHONY: SMEGMA, THE BETTER TO SEE YOU WITH, BEHALF, ARGUMENTIX, DISJUNCT, SOUP PURSE, REDGLAER, REDBIRD, JAY BLOHM, DUDE WAR, SHITTY VIBE SMASHER, A MINORITY OF ONE, SCARD
(Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th) For two years, Cacophony's curator, Ogo Eion, has set an admirable precedent, rounding up the harshest and headiest of our local fringe music netherworlds under one house rule: "Put your soul into your arrangement." In an age where the noise scene is often the last refuge for those rich in pretense but poor in talent, one couldn't ask for a better sentiment. Tonight's 13-act menagerie ranges from the creepy (Argumentix) to the downright terrifying (Behalf), but most importantly, it features the presence of Northwest experimental patriarchs, Smegma, the ultimate stamp of approval for any Portland noise event. If you don't walk away from this one with at least a hint of psychic damage, then you are surely not a creature of flesh and blood. JOSH BLANCHARD

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