No Joy with Shaki Tavi + Guests

Sun Nov 09 2025 at 07:30 pm to 11:59 pm UTC-08:00

Lollipop Shoppe | Portland

Lollipop Shoppe
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No Joy with Shaki Tavi + Guests
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Join us for a night of genre-bending: shoegaze with inflections of pop, EDM and even nu metal
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$17 ADV + $20 DAY OF // 21+ // ALL SALES FINAL, NO REFUNDS

Clearly sympatico at the time of collaborating, No Joy (Jasamine White-Gluz) and Fire-Toolz had both resituated to secluded woodsy milieus prior to the “Bugland seshies”, as I now name the historic pairing. Together, they created an aural equivalent of a late 1980 I-d magazine front and back cover, with a non-problematic National Geographic hiding within. Fire-Toolz sums it up: “The collaboration really felt limitless. I didn't have to adhere to a certain vision in a way that made me feel like I couldn't be Fire-Toolz. I could easily relate to this album because Jasamine and I liked a lot of the same music, and I was able to be creative in ways that were freeing as if I was making my own album. “

Both spent days driving through on empty rural highways listening to the mixes, and it reflects in the final product. With an open ear, many “influence eggs” can be detected by the listener. Garbage Dream House is Zooropian without any of U2’s ego baggage. Seven-minute closing track Jelly Meadow Bright even manages to meld Stooges’ Fun House out of control saxophone with the chill buoyancy of a high-end spa. Touching on respected, familiar genres and sounds while attempting to advance one’s own isn’t easy but Bugland manages to. What genre is it anyway?  Is it even shoegaze when it could live happily on a shelf next to Boards of Canada and Autechre? The right answer is ‘yes’. What a lovely shelf ‘twould be as well.  A marble shelf, with cyberpunk elements. Bugland‘s a testament to White-Gluz’s evolution and her ability to channel a wide variety of tastes into something cohesive that can descend into fine-tuned chaos, then out of that chaos with ease.

She is joined by Shaki Tavi and guests.


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Lollipop Shoppe, 736 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, United States

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USD 19.98 to USD 23.18

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