Music fans will not be disappointed
Concert fans will get a great
variety of music this sum
mer, as venues fill their cal
endars with shows.
Quirky rock band They Might
Be Giants will
be making an
- all-ages ap
pearance at the
Crystal Ball
room on July 9,
covering old
tunes and pro
moting their
■ newest album.
According
to the official
TMBG Web
site, the band
will be playing
tracks from
their release
No! which hit stores June 11, as
well as a variety of older songs.
They Might Be Giants, founded
by John Flansburgh and John Lin
nell, has been making music for
twenty years. During their career,
they’ve had numerous accom
plishments, including creating 10
albums, 13 music videos, 6 TV
theme songs and winning a Gram
my for “Boss of Me,” the theme
song for Fox’s show “Malcolm in
the Middle.”
Tickets are $19 in advance and
$20 the day of the performance.
Anyone who purchased a ticket to
see the band’s canceled Sept. 16,
2001, performance at the Crystal
Ballroom can redeem admission at
this concert instead.
If music lovers don’t like the en
tertaining lyrics and wholly origi
nal sound of TMBG, they may en
joy the hip-hop and hard-rock
package that Eminem’s “Anger
Management” tour will provide
Aug. 7. Hosted by the Rose Garden
in Portland, the show will feature
Eminem, Papa Roach, Ludacris,
Xzibit and X-ecutioners. After
monumental sales of his third al
bum, “The Eminem Show,” Em
inem is sure to entertain and shock
hip-hop fans with his risque lyrics
and wild antics. Tickets for the
show are $35 and $40, available
through Ticketmaster.
Blues fans will get a double shot
of tunes this summer, with two
major appearances around Oregon.
New York’s own Jon Spencer
Blues Explosion will play the Crys
tal Ballroom on Sept. 23, with spe
cial guests Yeah Yeah Yeahs and
Liars. Formed in 1991, Jon Spencer
Blues Explosion has created a
unique blues sound that integrates
•many genres, including rock, punk,
R&B and hip-hop. Spencer’s latest
album, Plastic Fang, will give audi
ences a fresh look at the band’s mu
sical originality. Tickets are $13 in
advance and can be purchased
through Ticketmaster.
Another great place to find blues
this summer will be the Secret
House Vineyard in Veneta, hosting
the 12th annual Secret House
Wine & Blues Festival. This year,
the festival will offer a variety of
artists including Linda Hornbuck
le, Lloyd Jones Struggle, The Paul
deLay Band, Chris Arnold & the
Morning After and Nicole Barrett.
Kids can also be entertained at Pat
ti’s Play Zone. Tickets are $12 for
general admission and $15 the day
of the event.
Butt-rock fans may be saddened
with the lack of Dio or Whitesnake
concerts, but they can rest assured
that Geoff Tate will rock their worlds
this summer. Tate, who is the lead
singer of Queensryche by day and
solo artist by night, will rock the Al
addin Theatre on Aug. 17. Tate is
currently undertaking a U.S. tour to
Courtesy Photo
John Flansburgh (left) and John Linnell are
the founders of They Might Be Giants.
promote his debut solo album, “Ge
off Tate.” Tickets are $25 and can be
purchased through Ticketmaster.
Contact the reporter at
janmontry@dailyemerald.com.
His opinions do not necessarily
represent the views of the Emerald.
Jan
Montry
Reporter
Summer concerts feature divas of all music genres
Pop diva Sheryl Crow, with
special guests including
Lenny Kravitz and Don Hen
ley, will be playing the Rose Gar
den in Portland 7 p.m. Aug. 4. The
show will feature “Soak Up the
Sun” from her latest album,
“C’mon, C’mon.”
Crow, who grew up in Kennett,
Mo., debuted at the Tuesday Night
Music Club, and climbed the top
40 with hits like “All I Wanna Do”
and “If It Makes You Happy” from
her 1996 self-titled album.
Tickets are available at Ticket
master outlets, online at www.tick
etmaster.com or by calling (503)
224-0444. Prices run from $29.50
to $39.50 plus service charges.
Or, to ease
into something
a little more
laid back,
make a road
trip to the city
of the Space
Needle.
Blues artist
and R&B
queen Etta
James, who
snagged No. 1
on the charts
in 1955 with
“The Wall
flower, will be singing 7 p.m.
Sept. 26 at the Paramount Theatre
in Seattle.
Get advance tickets from Ticket
master.
Those who think De La Soul is
“De La Cool” can get their tickets,
because the Long Island group is
coming to town.
Catch De La Soul’s “ Artofficial
Intelligence” tour when the hip
hop band blasts in for a concert at
8 p.m. Aug. 5 at Eugene’s McDon
ald Theatre at 1010 Willamette.
Albums include their first,
“Three Feet High & Rising,” which
hit in 1989, and “De La Soul Is
Dead,” which appeared in 1991.
The trio mixes it up with dance
music and headbanging pump.
Call Fastixx at (800) 992-8499 or
House of Records at 342-7975 for
advance tickets. Prices are $20 at
the door and $17 in advance.
Catch another star this August.
Jonatha Brooke is coming to the
WOW Hall 7 p.m. Aug. 31.
Some of her albums include
“Linger,” “How Deep is Your
Love” and “Steady Pull.”
The bass work in “How Deep is
Your Love” is her own playing
and was created as she and a
friend were jamming and work
ing with ideas.
Brooke’s tender tunes also have
anger, melancholy and groove.
In “Steady Pull,” Brooke sings,
“There's danger in complacency
and comfort in the fight / For the
way that, you whisper in the sweet
ness of the night.”
She reaches the audience
through the sensible-contradictory
nature of her songwriting, and her
strumming fingers provide a
“steady pull” into her rollicking,
innovative music.
Recent successes for Brooke in
clude having two of her songs,
“The Second Star to the Right” and
“I’ll Try,” hit the big screen in “Pe
ter Pan 2: Return to Neverland.”
Call the WOW Hall box office at
687-1664 or the UO Ticket Office
at 346-4363 to buy tickets.
Contact the reporter
atjilliandaley@claityemeralcl.com.
Her opinions do not necessarily
represent those ot the Emerald.
Jillian
Daley
Reporter
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