Porterfield

Porterfield is an indie-jazz-rock group led by Jacob Aviner. Blooping on the synth bass is JP Goldm

Porterfield is a new indie-jazz-rock group led by Jacob Aviner (vox, guitar), with JP Goldman (bass) and Raphael Lehnen (drums)

11/01/2025

Today marks one year of Kitsch Machine being out in the world!! Thank you for listening, we’ve been playing it out a lot these last 12 months and are very proud. We are working on new things so in the mean time here is us in the Chicago bean.

09/22/2025

For those who don’t know us or haven’t seen us, one ritual we enjoy is taking the day of a show to write a haiku and sharing it with one another before going on.

So going forward, we wanted all of you involved too! We have created a free haiku library at our merch boothcalled “Take-A-Haiku, Leave-A-Haiku”.

The process is simple: Take a haiku from the cup, write one of your own, and put it in the cup. Feel free to read it to us too if you feel so inclined!

So far, it’s been an absolute joy meeting new people gathered around the haiku library, even making happy memories like the one in the second photo.
Thanks so much to for the inspiration for this idea. Come to one of our shows and enjoy this fun ritual!

09/18/2025

We charted!!!

Thanks so much to all the radio stations who’ve put “Antigone & Me” into their rotations and a HUGE thank you to and everyone who tuned into WGBK to get us charted at #8 on the NACC TOP 30.

09/06/2025

NYC people we got an update for you! Our show with on 9/17 is now at instead of Nublu 151. The place has changed but the tunes stay the same!

Come celebrate Aberdeen’s single release with us and help send us off on our tour!

09/03/2025

What city are you catching us in?

08/19/2025

Vinyl/record store appreciation post incoming!! 🎶🎶

Thanks to everyone who’s bought a Kitsch Machine Vinyl at one of our shows so far! Be sure to keep an eye out at one of our shows this September and get yours!

We also wanted to shout out in St Johnsbury, Vermont and in Columbus, Ohio for buying a couple from us. Keep record stores alive for all of us, but especially everyone in Porterfield. Nothing we like more in our downtime than rifling through crates…

08/18/2025

Behold!
The many moods of our supreme drummer, Steve Bartashev aka

1. Boisterous Boi
2. Moody Man
3. Moodier Man

08/14/2025

We just got word and we’re so excited that our track, “Antigone & Me” will be played on in Valhalla, NY soon! Thanks to the scene for their support and we look forward to tuning in!

08/09/2025

Tour announcement! We are hitting the road once more this September, we’ve got some beautiful bills lined up in some beautiful places. Lots of beauty. Also maybe we’ll go to again and won’t lose his s**t this time .

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08/08/2025

Caption contest! What’s doing?

07/28/2025

We are SO excited to announce our next show in NYC. We’ll be opening up for the incredible over at . Get your tix now!

07/25/2025

Up in beantown this week working on some new music together with .smoke . Here’s a from when we both had longer hair 😭😭
Captured by the immeasurable

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201 E Randolph St
Chicago, IL

Website

http://porterfieldmusic.com/

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