Show Goose Photography

TURNSTILE () | Kilby Block Party Day 1 | 5/15/26

When I was young, I got really into the hardcore variants of emo. I felt pretty alone listening to a lot of it, knowing the mass appeal just wasn’t there. Turnstile aren’t REALLY a hardcore band anymore, but their wild and reckless roots remain, and watching a 20,000+ crowd go bananas for the songs of NEVER ENOUGH and GLOW ON felt like the fulfillment of some kind of 6th grade prophecy.

This band is the real fu***ng deal, and they deserve the splendor of headlining a mini-major festival’s opening day. God bless Turnstile, and god bless their dynamite fu**in pits!!!

Hayley Williams () | Kilby Block Party Day 3 | 5/17/26

The other woman I couldn’t shoot from the pit, but I’m kinda thrilled by what I forgot that I got from her set. This set was pretty healing, actually - singing along to Kill Me, True Believer, and Mirtazapine with a big ol’ crowd was a wonderful penultimate experience for the year. Here’s hoping I can do this again in September!

Lorde () | Kilby Block Party Day 3 | 5/17/26

Nothing this year is ever going to come close to the magic of watching Lorde, at the end of a long festival weekend, in a light spring rain. Seven months ago I saw Lorde for the first time and it totally rocked my world. Seeing her again felt so cathartic, and even a couple of s**tty crowd interactions couldn’t stifle this experience.

I didn’t get to shoot from the barricade, but I kinda love how all of these turned out so I don’t care. Even if I did, dancing by B-stage and scream-singing Ribs made it so I can’t care.

GWAR () at | 4/14/26

I’ve never felt more unsafe in a photo pit than at a Gwar show - not because of the other photographers, but because my camera isn’t blood-proof. Luckily, I kept my distance from the blood cannons wielded by these scumdogs and got a few cool shots to prove it.

Not pictured: the beheading of Kristi Noem, the ICE agent being chopped in half, or the disemboweling of the current sh****ad President. Gwar has it all, AND a cover of Pink Pony Club. There’s no other experience like it.

The Format () at Moore Theatre | 4/13/26

When your favorite emo band plays every state on the west coast except for your own, you have to chase them down whether you like it or not. I took a 9am bus up to Seattle just to see these boys again, and then immediately hopped on a bus home. I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

I hope this band plays together for a million more shows. I just hope one of them is in Portland!

I love taking pictures of taking pictures of movie stuff

Matt Berninger () at | 3/9/2026

I've been really bad at posting photos I've been to over the last few months but here’s Matt Berninger at the Crystal Ballroom!

If you know the fan I posted a barricade shot of please tag them in the comments!!

the Mountain Goats () | | 12/9/25

What can I say about the Goats that I haven’t said a million times? My 29th show, tied together with a string section and backup singers. The only thing missing was a solo set!

A killer band always getting better and better. The Goats forever.

David Byrne () | Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA | 10/12/25

When we talk about seeing “rock gods,” it can often feel like the godliness is over-exaggerated. Watching a guy play guitar really well doesn’t look that different than watching a regular guitarist. If you don’t get what’s so special, you can easily not notice.

That’s not David Byrne, though - watching him and his band/dancers on The Who Is The Sky? tour is what it feels like to see a god doing real, true god s**t. He’s surrounded by musicians inexplicably able to do choreography while playing very well AND singing, all for two hours, on a stage surrounded by screens and a light-up floor. This entire performance felt unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my life.

It’s easy to describe a show as life-affirming. Sometimes it’s hyperbole. This, though, was something else entirely. It made me feel like live music can, and should, be bigger, more beautiful, more obviously teeming with life and joy than what every other band is doing. Yes, Byrne has always been That Bitch, doing high-concept s**t. Yes, he has the budget to afford a choreographer and insane technology for wireless performance. But good lord, why aren’t other bands at least TRYING?

Please don’t make me say this was a “once-in-a-lifetime” performance. It was, but don’t make me say it.

Algernon Cadwallader | Hawthorne Theatre | 10/6/25

Did you know Algernon Cadwallader are (kinda) a Portland band now? It’s true! The emo revival’s yowliest bassist, Peter Helmis, has been here in PDX for half a decade now. As such, it’s fitting that they kicked off the tour for their exceptional comeback record, Trying Not to Have a Thought, at Hawthorne Theatre on a s**tty, rainy Thursday night in early October. We got almost all of the new record (they left out Revelation 420 - damnit!!) plus a bunch a other hits from Some Kind of Cadwallader and Parrot Flies. In return, the emos of Portland treated them to a hero’s welcome, complete with a sick mosh pit.

The light and haze kinda sucked, but here’s some shots of the boys at work!