Upcoming
Ghostly Pleasures
Little Hexes open the show with a sexy, spooky set! Come out for a fright-filled night of ghoulish humor, chilling vibes, and a creepy auction to help usher in the Halloween Spirit. All while raising much-needed funds for Ukraine!
7 pm
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023
Hexes play 7 pm @ Mississippi Pizza
3552 N MISSISSIPPI AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97227
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?
Releases to Streaming Platforms Sept 2022
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.
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 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.”
:: little hexes :: art pop & hexology from Portland, Oregon ::
:: a rock band of mischievous odes & mash ups ::