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
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