Saturday, August 23rd, 2025
$15 Advance // $15 Day Of Show
6pm Doors / 7pm Show
All Ages
SMALL MILLION
You have said too much to a stranger in a bar bathroom; your back is killing you because of everything you haven’t said; you’ve overwatered your houseplants again. Small Million is here for you.
Flowing from the collaboration of longtime creative partners Ryan Linder and Malachi Graham, the Portland-based indie pop outfit welds deeply affecting sonic production to sharp lyrics about intuition and inhibition, losing control and ending up in unexpected places, being willing to fuck up, bodies hurt and bodies joyful. The effect is both intimate and epic, delicate and fierce.
In the time since Small Million's last release, years of chronic pain have led lead vocalist and lyricist Malachi Graham to deep explorations of embodiment that have changed everything from her singing voice to her dance moves to her observation of human frailty. “There’s one side of chronic pain that leads you towards intuition, self-discovery, and listening closely to yourself. But it also means you end up sitting on the side of the room a lot, watching people and paying attention. Also you’re pissed,” notes Graham. Producer and instrumentalist Ryan Linder’s background as a filmmaker informs the textured richness and intelligent restraint of his song building. He approaches production with obsessive technical rigor that’s always in service of centering intense emotion. Graham’s clear, unadulterated vocals breathe at the heart of Linder’s rich sonic terrain, drawing comparisons to The Cranberries and Florence + the Machine.
After years as a duo, the band expanded into a dynamic four-piece with Ben Tyler (Small Skies) on drums and Kale Chesney (Lo Pony) on bass and harmonies, infusing their sound with more organic, raw indie rock energy while retaining their electronic roots. Small Million’s latest album Passenger (Tender Loving Empire, 2023) reflects that evolution— a moody, expansive collection of songs about release, intuition, and embodiment. The album landed them on Spotify’s Fresh Finds Indie playlist, earned a main stage slot at Cascade Equinox Festival alongside Pretty Lights and Phantogram, a spot on Willamette Week’s Best New Bands list for 2023, and the featured band spot at TEDxPortland 2025. Listen to it to ache, dance to it to heal.
LES AILES
Les Ailes is the indie dream-folk project of pnw-based rylie degarmo, synthesizing her early jazz melodic influences with a folk honesty derived from formative years spent in the american south. there she developed her own writing style characterized by textural rhythm guitar in unique tunings and a clear, distinctive voice that pulls at the heart strings, waxing nostalgic. her steady releases tease out a reconciliation of internal and external authority, both lyrically and often through the immediacy with which they’re shared—at times favoring transmission over production, and each time inviting a dream-like presence and imagination. Les Ailes' sophomore album, "Lou Heron,” is out august 8th.
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