Willamette Week
Drop Dead Legs
In college, David Lee Roth performed a gymnastics routine to the epic ’84 rocker “Panama.” Well, not the real DLR, but a blond Hillsboro woman who lives, in a sense, in his image. Kim Smoltz, a really good sport and the lead singer of Van Halen tribute band Drop Dead Legs—and the sexy stems behind the name—also happens to be
Mena & Aizlynn
A two-by-four set is pretty much what it sounds like: two DJs playing records at the same time, two mixers, four turntables. DJ Heather Walters knows all about it: “[Mena and I] played this one party two-by-four, and everybody was like, ‘That’s the bomb,’ so we started doing it more. Then people just started booking us together—always.” Walters—who goes by
Mercedes
Local house DJ, steeped in the power of music, finds her own path. By day, Mercedes Modesta Herrada is a surgical pathology assistant. Working methodically in the lab, she cuts up body parts harvested from patients during surgery. By night, known simply as Mercedes, she works methodically behind two turntables to make dance-ready masses move. She enjoys the lab, she
Grandma’s
Over the river… A blond woman and a young man in a hat are singing a duet: “I put your picture away/ Sat down and cried today/ I can’t look at you/ When I’m lyin’ next to her,” while the backup band jams on an inflatable blue guitar and a few middle-aged couples slow-dance. Thursday through Saturday, it’s karaoke night