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Portraits Of Past
@portraitsofpast.bsky.social
A California hardcore band.
1994 – ♾️ Album reissue out now. Reunion show tickets at the link. Thanks for listening. https://linktr.ee/portraitsofpast
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Last night Portraits Of Past said the last time they played Philly was in a living room. That was in my old house. booked by my housemate Eric with help from Don Devore and Robby Redcheeks Unannounced guest was … Ignite who covered UxCx. In a row home. In Olney. Philly Shreds. Here’s the flyer
August 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Unreal non-screamo…

Thanks Leor!
I wrote about Portraits of Past for the Reader, real screamo is…

chicagoreader.com/music/portra...
August 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The final bill for this short reunion tour involves Spirit Hotel, Kathryn Mohr, and the Portraits Of Past aural-visual-physical experience in the atlantical environs of Boston on Sunday, August 24, 2025!
Ticket link in bio.
August 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Portraits Of Past, Kathryn Mohr, and Memory Entry at (Le) Poisson Rouge in Manhattan, on Friday, August 22, 2025. The Portraits boys are looking forward to being back in a city that a couple of us called home for quite a while!
August 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You are all invited to join Portraits Of Past in Philadelphia with Kathryn Mohr and Deep Essence on Saturday, August 23, 2025. We are looking forward to having a sweaty and pleasurable blast with friends at this legendary venue!

First Unitarian Church
7pm
$25 All Ages

Tickets in bio!
August 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Support!
August 19, 2025 brings Portraits Of Past to Detroit, MI for what will be our fourth most northern latitude show of the year! POP and Kathryn will be joined by loud locals Abuse Repression for this one.
July 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
August 19, 2025 brings Portraits Of Past to Detroit, MI for what will be our fourth most northern latitude show of the year! POP and Kathryn will be joined by loud locals Abuse Repression for this one.
July 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Portraits Of Beverages
June 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Portraits Of Past at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, 5/31/2025.

Thanks to Zachary Seifert for the nice images. 🖤
June 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Flying across the country to catch @portraitsofpast.bsky.social just about 30 years after I first saw them, and they play in front of a video montage of California coast stuff, redwoods and tidepools and shorebirds, helluva way to make the place still feel like home.
June 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Thanks to Josh Rotter and @48hills.bsky.social for this in-depth piece on Portraits Of Past’s background in the Bay, with hints at what’s next!

Give it a read & catch us at Great American Music Hall on May 31st.

48hills.org/2025/05/port...
Portraits of Past has risen—or perhaps the Bay Area hardcore act never truly died? - 48 hills
An unlikely tale that rages from Half Moon Bay and Gilman Street to the Lower East Side's grimy dance floors.
48hills.org
May 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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How will Spotify pay musicians now?
May 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A few tickets are left for this Saturday. Come see Portraits Of Past, southern California fam!
May 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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screamo saturday bitches.

@portraitsofpast.bsky.social just dropped a sick rites of spring cover yall need to hear.

rites was absolutely essential for me as a teenage punk. feels i’ve long said everything i can about them.

love seeing respects paid to them, especially from another band i adore!
For Want Of, by Portraits Of Past
track by Portraits Of Past
portraitsofpast.bandcamp.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Portraits Of Cats

Freya posting on main.
May 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
RESTOCKS
Thanks to all who picked up the first pressing of our 1996 LP reissue on Ebullition Records. The repress arrived a couple weeks back. The typo on the sleeve spine was corrected. If you order directly from us, you could get ether version of the cover.
May 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Sunday, June 8 in Seattle should be an evening that will stay imprinted on your neocortex. Portraits Of Past shares a bill with the distinctive and consciousness-expanding sounds of locals Power Strip and Miscomings at The Black Lodge!
I expect to finally meet up with Dale & Laura later that night.
April 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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i’m fairly sure i’ve posted this band before but fuck it. screamo saturday.

saw a flyer for an upcoming show with @portraitsofpast.bsky.social and gosh, how i wish i lived on the west coast right about now.

that shit’s gonna be wild, if you’re out there please go for me. incredible bands.
rainmaking, by rainmaking
6 track album
rainmaking.bandcamp.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The new long form Portraits Of Past interview is up now on YouTube! 👂

youtu.be/YnQG3STzgys?...
April 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Our freshly-recorded cover song track is a radio exclusive for the rest of April. 🥀

Tell your favorite independent radio show to DM us. And tune in.
April 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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In a weird twist I will be debuting a brand new rites of spring cover by proto-screamos portraits of past on transistor sister tonight! 10-11 on WPRB 103.3fm or wprb.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
April 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Portraits Of Past will be joined by Agriculture and Cheree for our San Francisco show on May 31, 2025, at the Great American Music Hall. Returning home to play in front of family and longtime friends at one of the best-sounding and coolest historic live rooms in California is a bit of a dream.
April 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We met Rebekka on tour back east in 1995. She lives in California near us nowadays, is a ripping surfer and designer, and a dear friend all these years later. I’m looking forward to connecting with new and old accomplices this summer and creating new tour memories together!
Tee & tour links in bio.
March 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Portraits Of Past is pleased to announce that we will be touring select cities of the US over what may be a turbulent Summer of 2025.
Tickets on sale 10am Friday. Link in bio.
March 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM