Eugene Weekly : Music : 04.14.05

No Studio Trickery

Crooked Fingers' Eric Bachmann lightens up.

BY MOLLY TEMPLETON

When the Archers of Loaf called it quits, no one would have predicted that Eric Bachmann would take quite the direction he did with his follow-up, Crooked Fingers. In 2000, the first Crooked Fingers album arrived beautiful and whole, heartbroken and tired.

Crooked Fingers, Delorean WOW Hall, 9 pm Monday, 4/18, $10

Bachmann's songs were like old-fashioned ballads, full of characters rusty but true, the kind of late-night visitors who keep you up at the kitchen table all night as the wine-bottle rings multiply. Meandering melodies and guitars with a strange momentum turned buoyant when the strings came in. And none of it was the least bit like the Archers' twitchy, sometimes indecipherable college rock.

Dignity and Shame, the fourth Crooked Fingers full-length release, marks a turning point, a shift from the melancholy of previous albums. Bachmann's voice remains endearingly gruff, earning him numerous inexplicable comparisons to Neil Diamond. "I get compared to Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Cohen too," Bachmann says, on his cell phone in Chicago. "So which is it?" He's quick to add, "But I'm a huge fan, so it's an honor." But with the album's first lines, "Come on now and wrap your weary arms around the ones you love/ Hold tightly and don't ever let them go," Bachmann sets a new and cheerier tone. Simple, clear arrangements carry surprisingly wistful lyrics; Lara Meyerratken's sweet voice threaded throughout adds to the hopeful feel. A Latin influence lights up certain songs, in part the result of adolescent years in which Bachmann visited his mother in Puerto Rico and Guatemala.

Even the production on Dignity sounds shinier than other albums, but Bachmann's amazed by those who find it "too slick." "We recorded it in a shorter amount of time than I've ever recorded anything, and it's live. We all played at once, no studio trickery. We went with this guy [Martin Feveyear] who has a really nice studio, but we were only in for like six days," he explains. "I agree, it does sound more professional, but that's 'cause he knows what he's doing."

It's not just the production, though — Bachmann also knows what he's doing. His songs have a different confidence this time around, a feeling that's echoed as he says, "It's a weird thing to talk about a record because when you've made it, you've said everything you want to say."   

From Russia with Music

Classics from Eastern Europe highlight week.

BY BRETT CAMPBELL

The Eugene Symphony, on Thursday, April 21, traverses musical Romanticism's beginnings, in Beethoven's symphonic third piano concerto, to its end: Igor Stravinsky's landmark 1921 Symphonies of Wind Instruments, whose abandonment of Romantic gestures (not to mention string instruments), use of silence, and striking textures make this short, apparently simple work a truly radical signal of Romanticism's demise. The program concludes with another Russian classic by Dmitri Shostakovich, probably the last century's greatest symphonist. Although the nationalistic themes befit his Symphony No. 12's subtitle, "The Year 1917," the fact that his tormentor, Stalin, had died when he wrote it enabled the composer to avoid jingoism for something darker and more ambiguous.

You don't have to be a fan of Romantic music to cherish another Russian classic, Sergei Rachmaninoff's gorgeous All Night Vigil aka Vespers. The Eugene Concert Choir, accompanied by the Ukrainian choir Cantus, will perform this lush, dramatic vocal masterpiece at Central Lutheran Church (18th & Potter) on Saturday, April 16, along with a smattering of folk songs from the two choirs' homelands. Still more Russian music — played by an actual Rooskie — is on tap that same Saturday when Eugene favorite Yuri Rozum returns to what's becoming his second home for a recital of Romantic piano music by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Liszt. After years of denying him opportunities for religious and political reasons, the Russian government finally gave Rozum its highest arts award in recognition of his popular and critical acclaim. The Shedd also hosts a couple of popular local acts: the High Street Singers folk quintet — "the Weavers meet Dan Hicks, with Bill Monroe overtones" — in 20th century folk classics on April 20, and the acoustic string band Swang, playing swing and jazz from the 1920s through the '50s, on April 28.

Yet another Russian symphonic masterpiece gets a live performance on April 16 and 17 when the University of Oregon Symphony Orchestra accompanies the Eugene Ballet in one of the most colorfully cinematic scores in all of music, Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov's Scherezade, the glorious orchestral suite based on the Arabian Nights. The orchestra will also accompany dances based on music by Dvorak and Toronto's Srul Irving Glick, one of Canada's most prolific contemporary composers, whose music draws on Hebraic influences. Live music always adds an extra spark to dance.

Over at the university's Beall Concert Hall on April 22-24, the UO Opera Ensemble offers a double bill: Rossini's The Marriage Contract and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, sung in English and moved from Florence, Italy to Florence, Ore., in the 1890s, and featuring the comic consequences that ensue when a timber baron leaves his estate to the church instead of his family. And on April 28 the UO faculty music masters in the Oregon String Quartet play an exceptionally fine program of 20th century music, including Claude Debussy's magnificent string quartet, American composer William Grant Still's lilting "Four Indigenous Portraits," featuring guest flutist Nancy Andrew, and a special treat: Bela Bartok's sparkling "Contrasts," commissioned by Benny Goodman, and featuring faculty

members Fritz Gearhart on violin, clarinetist Wayne Bennett and pianistVictor

Steinhardt.

More music from Eastern lands comes to Cozmic Pizza on April 16 when Trio Slavej — the Nightingale Trio — plays vocal and instrumental Balkan folk music from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Greece and Macedonia on traditional instruments including goat-skin bagpipe, long-neck lute, and flutes, as well as the contemporary jazzy-rock "wedding music" for clarinet accordion and keyboard. The program emphasizes Roma (gypsy) dance music and features the amazing Bulgarian multi-instrumentalist Kalin Kirilov and UO Balkan music experts Carol Silverman and Mark Levy.

Finally, on Sunday, April 17 the group that's done more for contemporary music than any other, the Kronos Quartet, performs music by avant jazz master John Zorn (who's heading back to Eugene next year), the spellbinding, mysterious Icelandic avant rock band Sigur Ros, and Scott Johnson's powerful tribute to the great political iconoclast I.F. Stone, "How it Happens."

BY STEVEN SAWADA

"There's all these mesh caps nowadays, but I've been wearing Noisy, angry, rock cacophony

Unlikely team-up promises raucous night.mesh caps my whole life!" Scott H. Biram said. "That's what my grandpa wore!" The blues-inspired, punk-rock-tainted, death-metal-ruined one-man-band was shuffling around his home in Austin, TX, arranging electronics in his new recording studio.

DMBQ, Scott H. Biram, Dark Skies. John Henry's, 9 pm Monday, 4/18, $3. www.johnhenrysclub.com

It's hard to say if he despises frat boys, or if it's just the neo-outlaw/ neo-country ego, but there's definitely some sense of resentment over their hostile takeover of trucker cap fashion. "It's kind of like frat kids getting tattoos or piercings in their eyebrows," he continues. When Biram was stinting with rock bands in his teens, all of that was still uncool. "They thought we were freaks 10 years ago."

Raised on a steady diet of old country music, Biram's music reflects those old sounds. But beneath his soulful blues twang lurks a grimy, explosive, pulverizing heavy metal attitude. Biram growls like Lemmy, but can just as easily cowboy croon like Gene Autry.

His lyrics borrow from both the rock and country traditions — songs about whiskey, wanton women and truck drivin' meld perfectly with his foot stomps, honky tonk guitar and harmonica. And his gritty voice sounds like it's mic'd through a megaphone then spewed out of a rotten amplifier.

Biram will open for Japanese noise/punk outfit DMBQ. He hadn't heard of the band, but sounded excited after he learned that they like to yell and scream a lot too.

DMBQ mashes grungy riffs together with chaotic drumming and improvised guitar solos that seem to come out of nowhere. Shinji Masuko, DMBQ's founder, reinterprets '70s garage rock based on the various influences he had access to as a teen growing up in Japan.

"When I was a young high school boy, I was really poor," he explains. "I really love music so I had to go to the used record store only. It was the '80s, so the '60s and '70s stuff was real cheap."

DMBQ's latest release, The Essential Sounds From the Far East, released on Estrus records exemplifies the band's love for brooding, thrashing noise. Fans of the Melvins will adore our cousins from the East. Last time DMBQ performed at John Henry's, Masuko stabbed a hole in the wall with his guitar, so rest assured this show will be a wild one.

Raining Down

Blues society breathes life back into Eugene's blues scene.

BY MELISSA BEARNS

Johnny Dyer, Mark Hummel, Jerry & the Stagehogs w/ special guest Paul Biondi Cozmic Pizza, 7 pm Thursday, 4/21. $8 adv/$10 dos/$5 under 21 and Blues Society Members. www.rainydayblues.org

When he was 7, Johnny Dyer found a harmonica in the fields of the Stovall Plantation in Rolling Fork, Miss., where he lived. He'd hide under his bed and play it, thinking his mom

couldn't hear him. And when he got older, he'd stand out amidst the crops breathing life into that old harp, the music floating across the same fields where Muddy Waters once worked.

Thursday, April 21 the Rainy Day Blues Society of Oregon brings Dyer, along with fellow harmonica player Mark Hummel, to Eugene. Jerry and the StageHogs will open, with special guest, saxophone player Paul Biondi.

The show is just one of the many events the blues society has organized since they got together about a year ago with the mission of bringing blues back to life in Eugene.

Back in the '70s, this town had a hot little blues scene. John Belushi was here shooting Animal House and met blues musician Curtis Salgado, who, as legend would have it, inspired the characters of The Blues Brothers. Robert Cray was here getting his start and gigging regularly along with Bill Rhodes (now of the Party Kings) and Paul DeLay, all of whom moved out of Eugene and went on to bigger things.

"It was this cool little phenomenon," said Jerry Zybach, guitarist for Jerry and the StageHogs. "Blues never goes away. There's always an audience for it."

And that's what the blues society is all about — reviving the blues scene in Eugene and putting on shows for the people who love the music. The society's first major event was the blues stage at Cozmic Pizza during the 2004 Eugene Celebration. Hosting one of the few free stages at the Eugene Celebration, the Rainy Day Blues Society packed more than a dozen area blues bands into those two days and drew larger crowds than many of the bigger names on the official stages.

Since then the society's 30-plus members have continued to promote the blues in town. "Blues is the foundation of all American music," Zybach said. "And in Eugene, people still want to hear the blues.

Music Shorts

EW writers take a look at the local music scene.

Local VJs Reanimate Dead Media

Prepare for extreme visual hysteria and cultural reprogramming on Friday, April 15 as Eugene's The JIRCS, a group of digital arts graduate students from UO, host "Night of the Living Dead Media," an evening of "vidsonic fiction" and "phono-phantasmagoria." In the spirit of video collage artists such as NamJune Paik and Craig Baldwin, The JIRCS recontextualize video clips, creating new cohesive visual and audio messages.

The JIRCS

With dual screens, four video mixers and several laptops, the group splices together images from popular television, movies and obsolete video game technology to form illogical encounters, as one might experience in a dream, says JIRCS video jockey Carl Diehl. "Mr. T and Nosferatu suddenly are glancing at each other, start dancing together, then it all dissolved into the Beastmaster awkwardly twitching," Diehl says.

Diehl says the term "qwerty-core" better describes The JIRCS' final product. Using the computer (qwerty) keyboard, The JIRCS have developed techniques for creating precise, frenetic video movement that runs in sync with the selected audio material.

The JIRCS, along with visiting artist The EarthwUrms, from Ann Arbor, Mich., will carry out a live autopsy on various audio-visual artifacts from popular media culture. The resulting piece is meant to explore the possibilities that can be created when history clashes with media. Springfield's Warning Broken Machine and Eugene's Pipedream will lend an aural scalpel to the night's audio-video dissection. For more info, log on to www.electronicelsewhere.com/DEADMEDIA.html.The JIRCS, The EarthwUrms, Warning Broken Machine and Pipedream perform 7 pm, Friday, 4/15 at Wilkinson House, Millrace Studios, UO. — Steven Sawada

Eugene Trio The Visible Men Releases 2nd CD

Three years after their debut, the four-drummer spectacular In Socks Mode, The Visible Men have finished Love:30, another set of chatty, meticulous songs.

The Visible Men

This time around, the Visible Men have reduced their main drummer count to one: the remarkable Jordan Glenn, who, if you ever go out in Eugene, you've already seen with Deke Falcon, Scrambled Ape, or, on occasion, Testface.

Glenn isn't the only familiar face in this band: bassist/guitarist Dan Schmid has long been a fixture around town, playing with the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and Mood Area 52 and doling out pints and tots with a cheery wink at High Street Café. Singer/pianist Dustin Lanker was also a member of the Daddies, though these days he does double duty with The Visible Men and Dan Jones and the Squids.

Lanker's voice, sometimes a croon, sometimes a talky, melodic monologue, slinks over Glenn's precise percussion and Schmid's head-nodding bass. Tinkling keys alternate with woozy synths, simple melodies make way for jazzy piano ballads, and Mood Area 52 bandleader Michael Roderick turns up with his accordion for the standout track "Like a Loony Bird," a kicky but sulking kiss-off song that finds Lanker growling, "I hate you/I really don't but it sounds funny/ Could that be/ Because you said it to me, honey?"

Live, The Visible Men have a They Might Be Giants-esque quirk that'll sit exceptionally well with the opening acts for their CD release this Saturday: the steadfast, Replacements-era rock of Yeltsin and the ever-entertaining Tom Heinl. If this lineup isn't enough to get you out of the house, consider this: if you miss this one, you might have to wait another three years for The Visible Men's next release party.

The Visible Men play Saturday, 4/16 at Sam Bonds Garage: all-ages show with Tom Heinl 6 pm, $3; 21+ show with Yeltsin, 9:30 pm, $4. — Molly Templeton

High Voltage Fun

"We want to be fun, rather than important," said Dick Valentine, lead singer of Electric Six, over the phone. Band members Valentine, Tait Nucleus, The Colonel, John R. Dequindre and Johnny Na$hinal fuse rock, disco, and hip hop with zany, funny lyrics to create a unique, eclectic sound that is half disco dance party, half '80s rock concert. Using the guise of their pseudonyms to break from the mundane, the band avoids the rocker trap: "four or five white guys from the suburbs," Valentine said.

According to Valentine, the band's hip hop influences are a by-product of listening to radio in Detroit, where they're from. "In Detroit, the rock stations are so bad and the urban stations are so good," Valentine said. "I think that song 'I'm the Bomb' was me attempting to be Prince." It fits that Valentine's early influences include David Byrne, Beethoven, and Devo.

So far, Electric Six has enjoyed greater success in the United Kingdom than in the United States. Their second CD, Señor Smoke, was released overseas almost two months ago, but has yet to be released here. Even in the UK, Valentine said the band is often only known for their hit single, "Danger! High Voltage."

The band members still have a sizable cult following, but Valentine takes the roller-coaster ride of their modest fame in stride. "It's not necessarily about being on the radio," Valentine said. "For me, it's always been about the shows."

Electric Six plays with DJ Never Forget at 8:30 pm, Sunday, April 17 at the WOW Hall. $13 adv/$15 dos. — Sara Brickner

ART OF EVERYTHING All Ages

513 E. MAIN ST., COTTAGE GROVE 942-6174

SA: Two Easy—8

AX BILLY GRILL & SPORTS BAR

999 WILLAMETTE ST. 484-4011

SA: Olem Alves Trio—8; Jazz

BLACK FOREST

50 E. 11TH ST. 686-6619

TH: Boyjazz—9:30

FR: Domeshots, Falling Closer, Grynch—9:30

SU: Caught in the Act Karaoke—9

MO: Caught in the Act Karaoke—9

TU: Sunshine & Razor Blades—9:30

WE: Uncle Stumbles' 4:20 Celebration—9:30

KELLY JOE PHELPS IS AT CAFÉ PARADISO THURSDAY NIGHT.

CAFÉ PARADISO

115 W. BROADWAY 484-9933

TH: Kelly Joe Phelps, Paul Curreri—8

FR: Acoustic Minds, Cindy Alexander—8

SA: The Believers—8; Country, gospel, bluegrass

MO: Band open mic night—7:30

TU: Acoustic open mic night—7:30

WE: Mem Shannon & the Membership—8; Blues

CARROWS LOUNGE

1807 OLYMPIC, SPFD. 746-9081

SA: Karaoke w/ Natalie—9

CLUB TSUNAMI

2222 CENTENIAL BLVD.

SA: DJ Tekneek—10:30; Hip hop, R & B

COFFEE GROVE COOPERATIVE

510 E. MAIN ST., COTTAGE GROVE 942-8847

FR: Mike & Doug—8; Jazz & blues

SA: Christopher James & Friends—7; Alternative folk

COUNTRY SIDE RESTAURANT

4740 MAIN ST. 744-1594

TH: Line dance lessons—7

FR & SA: Fenceline

SU-TU: Karaoke—8

WE: Wild Rose

COUNTRYSIDE

645 RIVER ROAD 463-7632

FR: Music Alliance Show Jam—8:30

COZMIC PIZZA@THE STRAND All Ages

8TH AVE. & CHARNELTON ST. 338-9333

TH: Nucleus—9

FR: Middle Eastern Dance Guild of Eugene—9

SA: Trio Slavej—8; Balkan folk

SU: Planned Parenthood benefit: Iron Jawed Angels & Access Denied—7; Films

MO: "Global Trends, Local Choices" with guest host Ravi Logan—7; Talk show

TU: Open mic night—7

WE: Songwriters' Showcase w/ Jon Itken—8

DA HOUZE

915 OAK ST., DOWNSTAIRS 345-7878

TH: Old School Karaoke, Kamikaze Hip Hop—8

FR: Rob and Carlos present Hip Hop Live—9

SA: DJ Mead—9

MO: Metal Trilogy Mondays—9

WE: Free Sushi Wednesdays—10

DOWNTOWN LOUNGE

959 PEARL ST. 343-2346

TH: Open turntables—10; Funk, R&B, hip hop

FR: Oslo, Android Ethic—10; Rock

SA: Savitri, The Taxman—10; Rock

SU: Texas hold 'em—3

Kung Fu Karaoke—10

MO: DJ Diablo & DJ Turbo—10; Funk, rock, requests

TU: The Pervs—10; Punk rock

WE: Texas hold 'em—7

The Hounds—10

DUCK INN

1795 W. 6TH. 302-9206

TH & SA: Ben Coleman's Karaoke—9

EMBERS SUPPER CLUB

1811 HWY. 99 N. 688-6564

TH: Billy McCoy—9; Country

FR & SA: Michael Anderson Trio—9; Variety, country

WE: Billy McCoy—9; Country

EUGENE WINE CELLARS

255 MADISON ST. 342-2600

WE: Liesel Kelly—6; Acoustic soul

GOOD TIMES

375 E. 7TH AVE. 484-7181

TU: Rooster's Blues Jam—8

JO FEDERIGO'S

259 E. 5TH AVE. 343-8488

TH: Jo Fed's All Star Jazz Jam Session—9

FR: The Nicolette Helm Blues Band w/ Paul Biondi—9

SA: Vega Quartet—9

SU: Mark Alan—8; Jazz

MO: Skip Jones Hammond Organ Trio—8

TU: Barbara Dzuro—8; Jazz piano

WE: Olem Alves & Mike Hanns—8

JOE'S BAR & GRILLE

25 W. 6TH 221-3360

TU: DJ Tekneek—10; Hip hop, R & B

JOGGER'S BAR & GRILL

710 WILLAMETTE ST. 343-0224

FR & SA: Motion Nightclub—9; Hip hop, house, 80s disco

MO: Working Man's Blues Jam—9

WE: Motion Nightclub—9; 80s, house, hip hop

JOHN HENRY'S

77 W. BROADWAY 342-3358

TH: '80s Night w/Chris, Jenn and John—10

FR: The Independents, Satin Fury, The Anxieties, 800 Octane—10

SA: Freaks in the House w/ DJ Steve Sawada & The Audio Schizophrenic—10

SU: John Henry's Broadway Revue—10; Burlesque, variety

MO: DMBQ, Scott H. Biram, Dark Skies, Non Dairy Larry—10

TU: Sungodsuns (aka 2Mex of the Visionaries), Circus and Life Rexall of the Shapeshifters, Debaser, Moneyshot—10

WE: DJ Kal El vs. DJ Tekneek—10; Reggae vs. hip hop

THE KEG

4711 W. 11TH AVE. 345-5563

SA: Dancing—9

LATITUDE 10 CAFE All Ages

2757 FRIENDLY ST. 343-3460

SA: Edson Oliviera—6; Brazilian guitar

LAVELLE'S WINE BAR & BISTRO

5TH ST. PUBLIC MARKET 338-9875

TH: Skip Jones—5; New Orleans piano

FR: Gus Russell—5; Jazz piano

SA & WE: John Crider—5; Jazz piano

LONE STAR BAR & GRILL

33301 VAN DUYNN, COBURG 686-8686

TH: Karaoke/dancing—9

FR: Coyote Ugly night—9; Dancing, karaoke

SA & MO: Karaoke/dancing—9

WE: Coyote Ugly night—9; Dancing

LUCKEY'S CLUB CIGAR

933 OLIVE ST. 687-4643

TH: Beliss, Lisa Vazquez—10; Folk, acoustic

FR: Celebrate tax day with The Quick & Easy Boys, Powers of Country—10; Cowboy, alt country

SA: The Ovulators, The Decliners, Bitch Machine—10

TU: The Cubist Quartet—10; Jazz funk

WE: Constant Bob, Sweet Island Thyme, J Matter—10; Jam bands galore

DAN NEAL PERFORMS SATURDAY AT LUNA.

LUNA

30 E. BROADWAY 434-5862

FR: Erik Muiderman—6; Singer-songwriter

Deb Cleveland Band—8:30; Soulful blues

SA: Erik Muiderman—6:30; Singer-songwriter

Dan Neal—9; Singer-songwriter

MAC'S AT THE VET'S

1626 WILLAMETTE ST. 344-8600

TH: Mac's & Mo's Jamm

FR: The StageHogs

SA: The Vipers w/ Deb Cleveland—9:30

WE: Christie & McCallum

MCDONALD THEATRE

1010 WILLAMETTE ST.

TU: Toots & the Maytals, Animal Liberation Orchestra—8

MCSHANE'S BAR & GRILLE

86495 COLLEGE VIEW ROAD 747-4031

MO: Micro Movie Night—8 & 11

MONROE STREET CAFE All Ages

1193 MONROE ST. 343-0863

SU: Poetry open mic—7

WE: Open mic—7

THE O BAR & GRILL

115 COMMONS 349-0707

TU: Karaoke w/ Jared—9

OVERTIME GRILL

770 S. BERTELSEN 342-5028

TH: Blues Jam—8

PEABODY'S

444 E. 3RD AVE. 484-2927

TH: Nancy Ream & Mercury's Refrain—9; Jazz

FR:  Tim & Tonic—8; Rock, variety

SA:  Music Alliance Show Jam—8:30

TU: Patrick & Giri—8; Hot & tasty acoustic

PERUGINO

767 WILLAMETTE ST. 687-9102

TH: Old-time jam—7:30; Appalachian

TU: Tango night w/ Andrew McCullough—7:30

WE: Irish jam—7:30; Celtic

QUACKER'S

2105 W. 7TH 485-5925

FR: Henry Cooper—9; Blues

SA:  Blind Rhinos—9; Blues

TU: Karaoke w/ Jon-Michael—9

WE: Blues Jam—8:30

RAMADA INN

225 COBURG 342-5181

FR & SA: RockIt—9:15; Classic rock

RED LION INN

205 COBURG RD. 342-5201

SU: Blues jam w/ Jerry Zybach—7

BUT THEY LOOK SO HARMLESS! GUTBUCKET PLAY "JAZZ-ROCK-THRASH-LATIN-NOISE" SUNDAY AT SAM BOND'S.

SAM BOND'S GARAGE

407 BLAIR 431-6603

TH: Red Brown & the Tune Stranglers, Richard March—9; Old school western swing

FR: Terpsichore's Daughters, Scrambled Ape—9:30; Vaudeville

SA: The Visible Men (CD release), Tom Heinl—6 (all ages); with Tom Heinl and Yeltsin—9

SU: Irish Jam—4

Gutbucket—8:30; Jazz-rock-thrash-Latin-noise

MO: Sam Bond's Open Mic—8

TU: Sam Bond's Bluegrass Jam—9

WE: Mary Mulliken & Rob Burger—9; Singer-songwriter

SAM'S PLACE

825 WILSON ST. 484-4455

TH: Bingo—7

FR: Adam Comer—10; Jazz, folk

SA: Drag Show w/ The Playboyz—10

MO: Free pool—8

WE: Trivia Night—8

SAMURAI DUCK

980 OAK ST. 345-6577

TH: Severed, others—9

FR: Out for Blood, Hotback Defiato—9

SA: Mind Staind, Chainsaw Sex Vikings, Product of Society—9

SU: Tales from the Crate—10

MO: Necryptic, Infernal Legion, Unsanctified, Melinticott—9

TU: Paranos, Lying Awake, Twelve Thirty—9

WE: DJ E. Corona—9

STACY'S COVERED BRIDGE

401 E. MAIN ST., COTTAGE GROVE 767-0320

WE: Open Mic Night w/Ron O'Keefe—8:30

SWEETWATER'S

VALLEY RIVER INN 687-0123

FR & SA: Metro—8:30; Rhythm & blues

TAYLOR'S BAR AND GRILL

894 E. 13TH AVE. 344-6174

TH: DJ Smuv & DJ Tekneek—10; Hip hop, R & B

SA: Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

SU: Free pool

MO: Hip Hop vs. Dancehall w/ DJ Tekneek

TU: Karaoke

WE: Lostcreek

TINY TAVERN

394 BLAIR BLVD. 687-8383

MO: 15 Minutes of Fame w/ Ol' What's His Name's Open Mic—9

WE: DJ Secret Hippie's Disco Inferno

TRACKSTIRS

3350 GATEWAY, SPFD. 747-0332

FR: Karaoke & dancing w/ Jared—9

VET'S CLUB BALLROOM

1626 WILLAMETTE ST.

SA: Caliente—9; Salsa, Afro-Cuban

WETLANDS

922 GARFIELD ST. 345-3606

SA: The Wobblies, Axes of Evil, The Perverts, Busholini, Sledgeback—10; Punk rock

 

VHS OR BETA MIGHT MAKE YOU DANCE SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE WOW HALL.

WOW HALL All Ages

291 W. 8TH AVE. 687-2746

TH: The Black Halos, The Bones, Civet, Busholini—8:30; Punk rock

FR: StopSignGo, Jonny Flash & the Exhibitionists, Checkpoint Charlie, the anne y sprinkle, Kimberly Freeman—8:30; Alternative, pop punk

SA: The Everyone Orchestra—8:30; Improvisation

SU: VHS or Beta, Electric Six, DJ Never Forget—8:30; Indie dance, electroclash

MO: Crooked Fingers, Dolorean—9

TU: Split Lip Rayfield, The Koozies—9; Rockabilly

WE: The Country Joe Band 40th Anniversary—7:30; Psychedelic folk/rock

CORVALLIS

AJ'S

137 SW 2ND. 752-7570

TH-SA: Ward 5 Battle of the Band—9

INTABA'S All Ages

1115 S. THIRD ST. 754-6958

TH: Athena Reich—9

IOVINO'S RISTORANTE

126 SW 1ST ST. 738-9015

SA: David Feinberg & Mark Bielman—9; Jazz

WE: Songwriters-in-the-Round w/ Sam Holmes—9

MURPHY'S

2740 SE 3RD ST. 738-7600

SA: The David Samuel Project—8:30

PLATINUM NIGHT CLUB

126 SW 4TH

FR: Salsa/merengue night—10

SA: Party w/ DJ Hes—9

MO: Karaoke night w/ Patches—9

TOMMY'S PEACOCK

125 SW 2ND ST. 754-8522

FR: El Kabong Orchestra—9

SA: The West Coast Rockers—9

WE: Improv blues & jazz jam w/ Neal Grandstaff & Ray Brassfield—8:30