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MUSICLISTINGS THURSDAY 10/11 AXE & FIDDLE Kasey Anderson, FRIDAY 10/12 AMICI RESTAURANT Timothy Star Anna—8:30pm; Folk, acous- tic, $5 BLACK FOREST Rin Tin Tiger— 10pm; Rock BEALL HALL Katherine Lucktenberg w/Carl Lewis & Svetlana Kotova—7:30pm; Violin & piano; $10, $8 stu. & sr. THE COOLER Karaoke—10pm COWFISH 100% pop—9pm; House COZMIC Science Pub The Origins of Life on Earth w/Dr. Niles Lehman—7pm; $5 don. FROHNMAYER MUSIC BUILDING 178 The King’s Singer & Beyond w/Simon Carrington—1pm; Lecture; n/c DOC’S PAD Drag Queen Bingo— 8pm; n/c DOWNTOWN LOUNGE Funk Jam—10pm; n/c ELDORADO Guitaraoke w/Neriah Hart—8pm; Karaoke, n/c GOODFELLAS Terry Lee—9pm; Country, western, rock HAPPY HOURS Karaoke—8:30pm JAMESON’S Golden—10; Funk, hip hop, disco, dancehall JAZZ STATION Steve Owen— 7:30pm; Jazz, $5/$4 JOHN HENRY’S ‘80s Night w/ Chris, Dr. Ake & John—10pm; $3 LAVELLES Skip Jones—6pm; New Orleans Piano, n/c MAC’S Fiddlin’ Sue—6pm; Swing, jazz, country, n/c OAK ST. SPEAKEASY Karaoke— 9pm; n/c THE OLD PAD Karaoke—9pm OVERTIME TAVERN West Side Blues Jam—8:30pm; Open jam, n/c THE ROK College Night w/DJ Scoot & Simon Says—10pm; DJ dance RYE Ben Rice—8:30pm; Blues, soul, n/c SAM BOND’S Two Siberians— 9pm; $1-$5 THE SHEDD Emerald City Jazz Kings: The Very Thought Of You, The music of Ray Noble—7:30pm; Jazz; $18-$30 SIXTH STREET GRILL Mark Alan— 8:30pm; Acoustic, n/c SPIRITS Karaoke—9pm THE TANKARD Karaoke—7pm TERRITORIAL VINEYARDS The Porch Band—7pm; n/c TSUNAMI BOOKS Chris Chandler w/Paul Benoit, My Father’s Ghost—8pm; $11.50 adv., $13 door UO BEAN WEST CONFERENCE CENTER Two Siberians—4pm; n/c VILLAGE GREEN Karaoke—9pm WANDERING GOAT Will Brown— 8pm; finger picking, n/c WHISKEY RIVER RANCH Hank Shreve’s Blues Showcase—8pm; n/c WOW HALL Dinosaur Jr. w/ Shearwater—9pm; Rock, $18 adv., $20 door Patrick—5pm; Acoustic humorist, n/c AXE & FIDDLE Concrete Loveseat—8:30pm; Jazz, soul, $5 BLACK FOREST Open Defiance, Happy Camp, & Fontain Classic— 10pm; Rock & metal COWFISH Audio Schizophrenic— 9pm; Electro, n/c COZMIC KLCC Rock-A-Thon After Party—5:30pm; Variety, n/c CRESWELL COFFEE & WINE Bigfoot Lane—7pm; Americana, bluegrass, $3 DEXTER LAKE CLUB DLC Roadhouse Band—9pm; Blues, rock, n/c ELDORADO Karaoke—9pm FLORENCE EVENTS CENTER Emerald City Jazz Kings: The Very Thought Of You, The music of Ray Noble—7:30pm; Jazz, $26 GOODFELLAS Justin Rayfield, The Movie—10pm; Acoustic, n/c JAZZ STATION Calango—8pm; Brazilian septet, n/c HARLEYS & HORSES Karaoke— 9pm HILTON HOTEL Aftermath—7pm; Jazz, n/c THE KEG Karaoke—9pm LEVEL UP DJ Food Stamp—9; n/c LUCKEY’S Basin & Range, Otis Heat—10pm; Funk, rock, $5 MAC’S The Ben Rice Band w/Paul Biondi & Lloyd Tolbert—9pm; Blues, $5 MCDONALD THEATRE Big Gigantic— 8:30pm; Electronic, dance, & hip- hop, $17 adv., $20 door THE O BAR Karaoke—9:30pm OAK ST. SPEAKEASY The Essentials, Eleven Eyes, & Soul/ Neo—9pm; Jazz, R&B; n/c O’DONNELL’S Karaoke—9pm PLC 180 UO Ed’s Coed w/Beta Collide—7pm; n/c PORKY’S PALACE Karaoke—8pm RAVEN A PUB Karaoke—9pm RED LION INN Karaoke—9pm ROGUE PUBLIC HOUSE Trivia Night—8pm; n/c THE ROK Dance Party hits w/DJ Scoot & DJ Pheonix—10pm; DJ dance SAM BOND’S Hillstomp! Whistle Punk—9pm; Country blues, rock, $10 SAGINAW VINEYARD The Annie Rhodes Band—6pm; n/c SIDE BAR Karaoke—9pm STRIKE CITY Karaoke—8pm SWEET CHEEKS Tyler Morin— 6pm; n/c SPRINGFIELD VFW Mckenzie Express—7pm; n/c TAPATIO Karaoke—9pm TERRITORIAL VINEYARDS The Red Pajamas—7pm; n/c THE EMBERS Heavy Chevy—9pm; Blues, soul, & rock ‘n’ roll, n/c TINY TAVERN Christie & McCallum—9:30pm; Americana, n/c THELMA SCHNITZER HALL Choral Teachers Workshop w/Simon Carrington—noon; n/c VILLAGE GREEN Let It Roll—9pm; n/c WANDERING GOAT Loubot Phillups—9pm; Comedy, 21+; n/c WASHBURNE CAFÉ Party of Five—6pm;Jazz, n/c WHISKEY RIVER RANCH Jackson Michelson—9pm; $5 WOW HALL Maiden NW, Sickman, Terry Geil—8:15pm; $7 adv., $10 door YUKON JACK’S Monolith—9pm; Old School Rock, n/c SHADOWBOXING FROM THE BAY Oakland is a hard place — always has been and ever will stay such, because the Bay, as they say, is the quintessence of the modern concrete jungle, churning up a bone meal Darwinism of jacked-up nasty that suffers no goons. Oakland is where John Lee Hooker got the blues, where Huey Newton pistol-whipped the Communist Manifesto and where Bruce Lee first entered the dragon. The Bay is also the place where hip-hop duo Zion I has plied its hyphy hip hop for the past 15 years or so, pushing out progressive and positive records that strive to keep pace with the flux and flow of this particular time-space continuum. Zion I — whose latest album, Shadowboxing, just touched down Tuesday, Oct. 2 — is the cohesion of producer DJ AmpLive and MC Zumbi. Since the 1997 Oakland-local drop of their Enter the Woods cassette, and then the 2000 label release of Mind Over Matter, the duo has been garnering critical acclaim for Amp’s inventive, space-agey sounds and Zumbi’s hard-edged lyrical uplift, nicely exemplified in the ’05 single “The Bay,” a rebel’s yell of Cali pride that is equal parts social jeremiad and true-grit anthem. Shadowboxing opens beautifully on a bit of pure corn, with Amp channeling a slice of Jetsons-era futurism (a Vincent Price voice commands, “Summon up your energy!”) that beams up into the heroic title track. From there, the album weaves up and over mountains of agitpop (the fantastic “Joe Frazzzier”) and through valleys of woo and confession (“Life’s Work [ft. Goapele]” and “Anymore”). Zumbi’s honeycombed voice has never sounded so bright and sharp; his cadences zip and flow with enviable precision, and his lines are elevated by the juicy buoyancy and fuzzy tectonics of Amp’s production. A deeply layered and well-wrought album by a pair of veteran musicians, Shadowboxing might be Zion I’s most sophisticated work yet. Zion I and Minnesota play 9 pm Tuesday, Oct. 16, at WOW Hall; $15 adv., $18 door. — Rick Levin CLUB SATURDAY 10/13 5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Sonic Bent—9:30pm; n/c ATRIUM BUILDING COURTYARD A Side of Beets—2pm; Acoustic pop; n/c AX BILLY GRILL Kenny Reed— 8pm; Jazz; n/c AXE & FIDDLE Tumbledown House—8:30pm; Saloon jazz, $5 BLACK FOREST EshTree, Red Cloud, Bison, Bison—10pm CORNBREAD CAFÉ Tara Aprin & Kaulean O’Shaughnessy—9pm; Indie folk, n/c COZMIC MEDGE All-Day Fest fea- turing Seba & Wildcard Belly Dance—noon, Middle Eastern Dance; $8 COWFISH “Sup!” w/Sassy Mouff, Michael Human & Guests— 9:30pm; Top 40, electro THE DAVIS DJs Billy & Food Stamp—11pm; $3 DEXTER LAKE CLUB DLC Roadhouse Band—9pm; Blues, rock, n/c DOC’S PAD DJ J-Will—8pm; Dance mix, n/c DUCK INN Karaoke—10pm ELDORADO Karaoke—9pm THE EMBERS Heavy Chevy—9pm; Blues, soul, rock ‘n’ roll, n/c THE EXCELSIOR Jeremy Pruitt— 7pm; Acoustic, n/c GOODFELLAS Audiophobia, Fallen Theory—10pm; Metal, n/c HAPPY HOURS The Earnest Borgnines—8:30pm; n/c HARLEYS & HORSES Karaoke— 9pm JAZZ STATION Olem Alves & Inner Limits—8pm; Dance, $4/$5 LEVEL UP DJ Rock ‘n’ Roll Damnation—9pm; ‘70s & ‘80s rock, heavy metal; n/c LUCKEY’S Mufassa & Loquat— 10pm; Indie, $5 THE CITY Lipz Dances Party for Women w/DJ FastLayne—7pm; 21+, $8, $5 w/stu. ID MAC’S Soulicious—9pm; Funk, R&B, soul, $6 MULLIGAN’S Lea Jones & Steve Goodbar—8pm; Roots, country, folk, bluegrass, n/c OAK ST. SPEAKEASY Cancer Benefit for Emily Nyman: Tormentium, Elohim, Bloodlust, & Septic Burial—9pm; Metal, n/c O’DONNELL’S Karaoke—9pm PORKY’S PALACE Karaoke—8pm POUR HOUSE Karaoke—9pm QUACKERS Karaoke—9pm RAVEN A PUB Karaoke—9pm RED LION INN Karaoke—9pm THE ROK Dance Party hits w/DJ Scoot & DJ Pheonix—10pm; DJ dance RYE Paul Quillen—8:30pm; n/c SAM BOND’S Flapper Dan, Jonathon Warren, The Billy Goats—9:30pm; Jazz, $5 SARVER WINERY Voodo Mountain Zydeco—6pm; Soul, $20 SIDE BAR Karaoke—9pm SONNY’S TAVERN Karaoke—9pm SPRINGFIELD VFW Mckenzie Express—7pm; n/c STRIKE CITY Karaoke—8pm TAPATIO Karaoke—9pm TAYLOR’S BAR & GRILLE DJ Crown—10pm; Hip hop, dance, n/c TERRITORIAL VINEYARDS The Upstate Trio—7pm; n/c UO PRINCE LUCIEN CAMPBELL Ed’s Coed w/musical accompani- ment by Beta Collide—7pm; n/c 100 YEARS Basin & Range [Funk/Trippy] Otis Heat [Soul/Rock/Funk] SA 10/13 Mufassa [Indie] FR 10/12 933 Olive St | 541-687-4643 830 Olive St | 541-343-3204 In the heart of the Barmuda Triangle eugeneweekly.com • October 11, 2012 25
