Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave Portland, OR 97214
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BarFly's Review of Branx

(note: this is a Branx/Rotture 2 for 1 combo review! Don't say we never gave you nothin')

This location has housed such failure and such hopes, from B-Complex (the electro-palace that wasn’t) to the preening preciousness of Meow Meow, but Rotture (Italian for both rain and tears and pronounced with a Canadian “eh?” at the end) is by now a fixture among Portland music venues, its fingers throttling the much-too-frantic pulse of the mod fops and rock fops and post-electro-clash refugees.

It's all fashion-forward booking and fashion-damaged people—the bathroom stalls have been shed of their locks, for presumed legal reasons—and always uncomfortably gills-stuffed on the Beyonda soul DJ nights each second Thursday, so that the smoking porch becomes the de facto social lounge.

Branx remains the downstairs game room, the annex for the sub-popular or claustrophobic, and also the smart guy’s place to get a drink or dance or anything, really, if it involves breathing on a busy night.

Along with Tube, Rotture's one of the only places known by name to those impossibly pretty, nervously overstyled Lewis & Clark or Reed girls—college kids are the new townies, after all—and so they surface on Soul Night like Neriads from the deep, flush with daddy’s money, wondering: is that all there is to the circus?

Branx Calendar

TODAY! @ 10:00 pm ROTTURE + KULTURSZENE PRESENTS: Matias Aguayo, M. Quiet, 31Avas Adv: $10.00 / Door: $8.00
Thu 03/25 @ 10:00 pm PANTS OFF DANCE OFF DJ Ian Hixx, DJ Rap Class, DJ Kool Skull, Bad Dre Dre, Max Miller Door: $5.00
Fri 03/26 @ 10:00 pm FUBAR Recess, Feed Your Head, Lionsden, DJ Hanover Fist Door: $5.00
Thu 04/01 @ 10:00 pm On Fire Presents.... Absence of Light, Future Terror, Pill Crusher, Shepherd Book, Sleep Spindle, Sluagh, Throne of Blood Door: $4.00
Sat 04/03 @ 10:00 pm VARIOUS The Subdivision, Monkeytek, Ryan Organ, Parazzito
Thu 04/15 @ 10:00 pm DANGEROUS BOYS CLUB Pistol Kill, Vibe Cop, DJ Linoleum, The Baron Door: FREE!
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Reader Reviews of Branx
Branx...

Well, it's not much to look at, but sometimes that is a good thing. Branx is a dark place where music can be itself with no fancy uptown light shows to distract from the sounds The complete lack of aesthetic is kind of refreshing. The bartender could be better and the venue could maybe hire a female, but the doorguy is usually a friendly one. I heard they have a new sound system in there but I haven't heard it yet.

Reviewed By BarFly User ras on November 25, 2009, 8:10 am
Once a month

I go there once a month as my friends do the night Various. I like it. I have never had a problem getting a drink. BT are nice and the place is dark and aweseome. Its changed a lot since the B/complex. Those that like Dubstep and jungle shuodl check out Various every first Sat!

Reviewed By BarFly User shiherostar on May 13, 2008, 10:16 pm
cool joint

We're actaully starting a new monthly club night there on the 19th (this Saturday). Its downstairs from Rotture. Cool, dark spot with great sound. Not a well known spot, but very promising. I really like what they're doing with that whole building now.

Reviewed By BarFly User burn on January 14, 2008, 6:37 pm
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