Upcoming
Optodemics Record Release Show Sat., May 10
A Braxeling Records Celebration of “The Atom Complex” by Optodemics
Little Hexes is feeling a huge +positive+ charge and getting amped up for our next show ! We’re super excited to open for the Optdemics’ release of their album The Atom Complex ~ an array of psychedelic, surf, soul and Elephant 6 and British Invasion-fueled rock and pop.
Also in orbit is great new band These Foolish Things, featuring members of The Cool Whips, Panther Vision, and The Pynaccles.
đđ¸ Psyche Out!!! đđ¸
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Alberta Street Pub
9 pm
1036 NE Alberta St, Portland


Little hexes have taken a high dive into the deep end for this album, bringing you sonic stories gravel-studded with karmic near-misses, but also grace. Cry out as the Space Shuttle Challenger falls to earth. Sweat the crosshairs of a suitor at his limit, or the curse of a Puritan facing the gallows. Dream of the Swiss Miss’s Jagermeister kiss, or pandemic love on the beaches of Easter Island. Find strength to fight for death-row redemption, or to bear egos enough to break your back. Nothingâs for sure. Why not suck the bottle dry?

Little hexesâ debut EP is a picnic at Chernobyl. {Complete with its ghost of an amusement park.} Itâs an art-pop party of hexy characters :: Mister Madame Bovary, Phineas Gage, The Beatles, King Marke, hierophants, Bill Withers, cactus men⌠So grab a bottle of wine and a Geiger counter, because here comes the sun.

Hexology :: a songbook of spells

























Little Hexes
Portland, Oregon

Anmarie Trimble
voice, keyboards, guitar, goth banjo, master of toys

Amy Spreadborough
voice, never-too-many guitars, bass

Karamy Muessig
voice, bass, guitar, egyptalacian percussion

Jennifer Topping
drums, percussion, rhythmic kismet
:: hexy music = ear + brain love ::
Little hexes’ lyrical repertoire includes odes to a pissed-off Cleopatra, Marie Curieâs unfortunate love affair with Radium, Phineas Gageâs 1848 metamorphosis from all-around nice guy to womanizing lout via a metal spike through the head, and an every-boyâs-(or-girlâs)-fantasy tribute to the Swiss Miss Girl. The band also delivers idiosyncratic mash ups, a Schoolhouse Rock map of the heart.
:: âhexâ origins ::
The bandâs name comes from Frank Stanfordâs poem âDeath and the Arkansas River,â and also hearkens to the fancy folk art symbols Pennsylvania Dutch adorn their barns withâcalled âHex Signs.â These are large, colorful circles of geometric patterns, often featuring mystical birds, sun wheels, or floral patterns. Hex signs are thought to have originated from German folk magic.
Walking in the mud,
The bootsoles leave little hexes in the kitchen.
~ from Frank Stanfordâs âDeath and the Arkansas River.”

:: little hexes :: art pop & hexology from Portland, Oregon ::
:: a rock band of mischievous odes & mash ups ::