Family Worship Center (Album Release) w/ Federale & smilepile at Polaris Hall

Name: Family Worship Center (Album Release) w/ Federale & smilepile at Polaris Hall
Start: 2026-05-22T20:30:00-07:00
Location: 635 N Killingsworth Court, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97217

Schedule

Fri, 22 May, 2026 at 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

635 N Killingsworth Court, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97217 | Portland, OR

TICKETS: 🎟 truewest.info/FWC26
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This Event is All Ages
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Family Worship Center:
Family Worship Center is a rock-and-soul commune born in Nashville, Tennessee and reborn in Portland, Oregon. Drawing from strange, cult-leaning texts uncovered during a cross-country field-recording journey, the band has built a groove-driven, secular spiritual world rooted in communal soul and 1970s swagger.
Their newest single, “Malibu by Midnight,” arrives as a recovered artifact rather than a conventional single. The song is a version of a composition the band “found,” preserved alongside fragments of mysterious text with no known origin. Recorded with restraint and warmth, it channels West Coast AM Gold, stacked harmonies, and late-night Laurel Canyon haze.
Since their 2023 full-length Kicked Out of the Garden, which spent months on the NACC 200 and appeared on NPR’s Live Wire Radio, Family Worship Center has toured nationally, continued work on a new record, and performed as the live backing band for cult legend Donnie Emerson. Known for their ecstatic live shows featuring horns, harmonies, and piano-driven gospel soul, the band has been praised by KEXP as “truly the best live band I have seen in years.”

smilepile:
"heartfelt, universal songwriting atop a matching musical journey through a cauldron of genres in which the band find their own precious myths within the alchemy"