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Psychedelic and swirly colors of a show poster for Optdemics, Little Hexes and These Foolish Things

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.

🌀🎸 Psyche Out!!! 🌀🎸

Saturday, May 10, 2025
Alberta Street Pub
9 pm
1036 NE Alberta St, Portland

Outer space scene with brightly-colored hex symbols

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. Nothing’s for sure. Why not suck the bottle dry?

Little hexes’ debut EP is a picnic at Chernobyl. {Complete with its ghost of an amusement park.} It’s 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.

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 Curie’s unfortunate love affair with Radium, Phineas Gage’s 1848 metamorphosis from all-around nice guy to womanizing lout via a metal spike through the head, and an every-boy’s-(or-girl’s)-fantasy tribute to the Swiss Miss Girl. The band also delivers idiosyncratic mash ups, a Schoolhouse Rock map of the heart.

:: “hex” origins ::
The band’s name comes from Frank Stanford’s poem “Death and the Arkansas River,” and also hearkens to the fancy folk art symbols Pennsylvania Dutch adorn their barns with—called “Hex Signs.” 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 Stanford’s “Death and the Arkansas River.”

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:: little hexes :: art pop & hexology from Portland, Oregon ::

:: a rock band of mischievous odes & mash ups ::