The third evening of PDX Pop Now! featured the long-running (though not Portland-exclusive) Get Hustle. Joining the normally three-piece machine was the bass-wielding living-history of thudding-doom, Joe Preston of Salem, OR’s Thrones. With a consistent low-end, Get Hustle’s chaotic psychic energies were well-delivered.
The blistering organ/keyboards of Mac Mann blasted aural epithets against the cymbal-crashing, skin-pounding brutality of Maxamillion Avila. Not a word is lost on Valentine Falcon. The singer exuded a Plant-like sexual presence while controlling the tiny Rotture stage with something all her own.
Some sets you just need to go sans ear plugs, and Get Hustle provided PPN! with such a set. Not bad for a band 13-plus years in the making.
– Nick Walker