Portland scene guide
Portland scene guide — find your venue by sound. House lands at Dunes. The venues, promoters and artists shaping Portland’s electronic scene.
Find your venue
- House — if you like Tornado Wallace: Dunes, TBA - Bat Country, TBA - Nova Pdx
- Techno — if you like Wata Igarashi: TBA - Out ‘n’ About Treesort, TBA - Ming Lounge, TBA - Cape Lookout
- Club — if you like ALoSo: White Owl Social Club, Holocene, Process PDX
- Tech House — if you like ALoSo: Dunes, Statera Cellars, White Owl Social Club
- Bass — if you like Wata Igarashi: TBA - Out ‘n’ About Treesort, TBA - Ming Lounge, Process PDX
- Deep House — if you like Feu du Camp: Statera Cellars, Secret Grove
- Drum & Bass — if you like Degs: Holocene, 45 East
Busiest venues
How big is Portland’s electronic scene?
Over the last 12 months soundcheck tracked 623 club nights across 79 venues in Portland, featuring 526 artists. Every listing carries the line-up, times and venue — see what’s on in Portland tonight.
Which Portland venues have the most club nights?
Counted over the trailing 12 months of listings:
What time do Portland club nights actually start and end?
From the 623 listings publishing door times: the median Portland night opens at 21:00 — 74% open before 22:00, 25% between 22:00 and midnight, and 0% after midnight. Of the 40 listings publishing a close time, the median close is 02:00, 8% run past 04:00 and 0% go to 06:00 or later.
How much does a club night in Portland cost?
Across the 97 listings publishing prices (16% of all nights): the median advance ticket is 5, with half of all nights between
0 and $20. 21% of listed nights are free.When does Portland go out?
Saturday is the biggest night (38% of all listings); Friday and Saturday together carry 73% of the week. The busiest month of the year is July.
What does Portland sound like?
By share of genre tags across the year’s line-ups: House 30% · Techno 27% · Club 14% · Bass 9% · Deep House 7% · Tech House 5%. Genre-by-genre venue picks are in the routes above.
All figures derived from soundcheck’s listings database over the trailing 365 days; updated with each rebuild.
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