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About Eugene weekly. (Eugene, Oregon) 1993-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 2012)
MUSICLISTINGS C O N T I N U E D HOT MAMA’S WINGS Stagger & Sway—8:30pm; n/c JOHN HENRY’S G.L.A.M—9:30pm; Drag show, dance, $5 LEVEL UP DJ Rock ‘n’ Roll Damnation—9pm; ‘70s & ‘80s rock, heavy metal; n/c LUCKEY’S Mood Area 52, Jack O’ The Clock, Grex—10pm; Americana, experimental, 21+, $5 MAC’S The Hank Shreve Band— 9pm; Blues, $6 MOHAWK TAVERN Michael Anderson Trio w/Stan Becraft & Pete Berger—9pm; Rock, blues OAK ST. SPEAKEASY Tara Stonecipher & The Tall Grass, Scott Austin, The Great Bee Yawned— 9pm; Rock, country, n/c 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 SAM BONDS Wayward Vessel, Wainright Brothers—9:30pm; Bluegrass, folk, $5 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 TSUNAMI BOOKS Caldera Songwriters Group Concert— 7pm; $5 VILLAGE GREEN Blues Daddies—9pm; Blues, n/c WANDERING GOAT Pretty Bathtub/Sad Bathtub, The Black Hand—9pm; 21+, n/c WHISKEY RIVER RANCH The LACS w/Bump in the Road— 8pm; Hick-hop, $15 WOW HALL Membership Party: Inner Limits, Concrete Loveseat, Samuel Ferris Harmon—7pm; $10 guests of mem., mem. n/c EXPERIMENTING WITH GREX Guaranteed, there will be no show in Eugene that sounds like the one Luckey’s is hosting Dec. 15. Opening SUNDAY 12/16 5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Karaoke—9pm COWFISH Industry Night w/DJ Smuve—8pm; Hip-hop, Dutch house DEXTER LAKE CLUB Jam Night—6pm; Open mic, n/c DOWNTOWN LOUNGE Karaoke— 9pm FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH A German Renaissance Christmas Concert—4pm; $10 don. GRANARY Green Mt. Bluegrass Band—6pm; Bluegrass, n/c HAPPY HOURS Karaoke— 8:30pm JOHN HENRY’S Broadway Revue—10pm; Burlesque, $5 MULLIGAN’S Open Mic— 8:30pm; n/c O’DONNELL’S IRISH PUB Guitaraoke w/Neriah Hart— 7pm; Acoustic karaoke, n/c PIZZA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Robert Meade—7pm; R&B, Americana, n/c SAM BONDS Troupe Carnivale, Whiskey Chasers—8:30pm; Alternative Cabaret, $1-$5 SPRINGFIELD VFW Mckenzie Express—7pm; n/c THE WEBFOOT Karaoke—9pm WHISKEY RIVER RANCH Karaoke—8pm with the tango tales of Mood Area 52, followed by the sweet instrumentation and vocals of the Bay Area’s Jack ‘O The Clock (whose drummer Jordan Glenn is an Eugene native), San Francisco band Grex will tie a bow on the night with their experimental jazz-rock fusion. Grex, featuring newlyweds Margaret Rei Scampavia (vocals, piano, tenor saxophone, percussion) and Karl Alfonso Evangelista (vocals, guitar, percussion), came together “in and around the Mills College music axis, late-night inside jokes and intense dissections of South African music, emphasizing genre-bending, cross- idiomatic conceits and melding elements of mostly everything.” “I’ve traditionally been a jazz musician,” Evangelista tells EW, while his wife: “Her background is traditionally in rock.” This makes for an otherworldly experience that, while drawing on the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and classic jazz, creates something completely original, especially on tracks like “Stump F***ers” and “Bistellar” from their 2011 album Second Marriage: A Very Long Engagement. The duo’s sparse vocals can come off as delightfully haunting, a grittier version of She and Him. Evangelista says that many listeners assume their songs are about love and relationships, but Grex typically draws inspiration from history and science — Scampavia is also an entomologist who studies bees. (Grex, afterall, is defined as a multicellular aggregate of the groups of Acrasiomycota or Dictyosteliida for the purposes of travel and food collection — whatever the hell that means.) Evangelista also pulls from his roots in a jazz-inflected series of tunes, incorporating his family’s immigrant journey from the Philippines to the U.S. Grex, Jack ‘O The Clock and Mood Area 52 play 10 pm Saturday, Dec. 15, at Luckey’s, $5. — Alex Notman MONDAY 12/17 BLACK FOREST Karaoke—9pm BREW & CUE DJ Brady—9pm; n/c 0 WKHDWUH & '21$/' DEC C N Music is BETTER LIVE :LOODPHWWH6WUHHWf'RZQWRZQ(XJHQHfPFGRQDOGWKHDWUHFRP 31 .......... JAN 12 32 N 8PM DRS 9PM SHW SATURDAY 7PM DRS 8PM SHW TIX on sale NOW TIX on sale NOW TIX AVAIL. BY CALLING 1-800-992-TIXX. also avail. at the EMU or online at December 13, 2012 • eugeneweekly.com mcdonaldtheatre.com music is better live 8 TH & LINCOLN + 687-2746 +WOWHALL.ORG + ALL AGES TICKETS: CD WORLD, CD GAME EXCHANGE, DUCK STORE, HOUSE OF RECORDS, UO TICKET OFFICE, TICKETWEB.COM, WOW HALL BOX OFFICE
