To that end, on Saturday, July 26th at 2pm, we are kicking off the first installment of what will be an ongoing audio/video series that we’ve dubbed, Intimate Exposures, featuring interviews and live performances by Portland’s best bands in varying intimate settings, and we invite you all to come be a part of it! Saturday’s inaugural event will be a pot-luck style brunch house show at the Aquarium Garden House, awesomely located on the corner of Alberta and NE 6th, featuring one of our absolute favorite bands, Grandparents: a psych-pop band full of amazing musicians who, in collaboration, are known to invoke mindgasms over and over again. S.S. Curmudgeon will open the afternoon at 2pm with Grandparents to follow at 3pm.

Audio from Grandparents set will be recorded by Adam Harney, one of the sound engineer geniuses behind Banana Stand Media. Additionally, the party will be filmed by a team of five talented cameramen and women, with direction and editing by local videographers gurus Alexei Shishkin and Nick Gattman.

We invite you to bring some variation of food or drink to share with the party. Beer will be aplenty and FREE thanks to Salem sudster sweethearts, Gilgamesh Brewing, and local snow cone experts, Fancy Ice, will be there to help you cool down with handcrafted flavors and booze infused cones! Corn-hole will be setup in the yard, but please feel free to bring any other yard games you’ll want to get down on.

We are excited to present this series as a snapshot of the best local music, fans and culture in Portland’s ever evolving music scene, during a time when change appears more evident than ever in this Rose City we love.