MUSICLISTINGS
C O N T I N U E D
WOW HALL Halo Refuser feat.
Lights Up Loud, GUDA,
Bridgetown Revue Bellydance
Performance—9:30pm;
Electronica, $10 adv., $12 door
SUNDAY
10/6
AGATE ALLEY BISTRO Karaoke—
MONDAY
10/7
ASTORIA BAR Karaoke—9pm;
n/c
AXE & FIDDLE Sturgill
Simpson—8:30pm; Singer-
songwriter, country, $10
BEALL HALL Oregon Brass
Quintet—7:30pm, $10, $8 stu.
& sr.
BLACK FOREST Karaoke—9pm
BREW & CUE DJ Brady—9pm;
n/c
BUGSY’S MondayBug—7pm;
Acoustic, n/c
COWFISH Game-Nite w/DJ Colin
Houck—8:30pm; Hip hop, trap;
Benny America—9pm; Deep
house
COZMIC Jared & The Mill w/The
Whiskey Chasers—8pm; Folk,
bluegrass, $6 adv., $8 door
EUGENE SUZUKI MUSIC
ACADEMY Irish Jam Session—
7pm; All ages, n/c
GRANARY Poetry Open Mic &
Jazz w/Kenny Reed—7pm; n/c
PORKY’S PALACE Karaoke—
8pm
REALITY KITCHEN Acoustic
Reality—7:30pm; Open mic, n/c
VILLAGE GREEN Dylan James—
7pm; Contemporary guitar, n/c
WANDERING GOAT Calvin
Johnson, K-recs—8pm; Indie,
don.
TUESDAY
10/8
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Jesse
Meade w/Sarah B—9:30pm; n/c
ASTORIA BAR Grateful
Tuesdaze—9pm; Grateful Dead
videos, n/c
AXE & FIDDLE Open Mic—
6:30pm; Benefit, don.
BEALL HALL Ken Vandermark &
Nate Wooley—8pm; Saxophone
& trumpet, $10, $8 stu. & sr.
BUGSY’S Karaoke—8pm
THE CITY iPod Night—6pm; n/c
COWFISH School Night Dance
Party w/Michael Human—9pm;
Electro, blog-house, n/c
DOC’S PAD—Karaoke—9pm
GOODFELLA’S Karaoke—9pm;
n/c
HOT MAMA’S WINGS Open Mic—
8pm; n/c
IZAKAYA MEIJI CO. Cowboy
Karaoke—10pm; n/c
LEVEL UP Ninkasi Karaoke
Night w/KJ B-Ross—9pm; n/c
LUCKEY’S The Get Together w/
Scotty Styles—10pm; $2
MAC’S Roosters Blues Jam—
7pm; n/c
MCDONALD THEATRE Michael
Franti w/Spearhead—8pm; $40
adv., $45 door
MULLIGAN’S Vince Loving—
9pm; Variety, n/c
THE O BAR Karaoke—9:30pm
OAK ST. SPEAKEASY Karaoke—
9pm; n/c
QUACKERS Karaoke—9pm; n/c
RED LION HOTEL Trivia Night—
7pm; n/c
SAM BOND’S Bluegrass Jam—
9pm; n/c
TINY TAVERN Open Mic Poetry
Night—8pm; n/c
VILLAGE GREEN Dylan James—
7pm; Contemporary guitar, n/c
WHITE HORSE SALOON
Karaoke—9pm; n/c
WEDNESDAY
10/9
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA
Karaoke—9pm
ASTORIA BAR Open Jam Night—
9pm; n/c
AXE & FIDDLE Paul Basile,
Dodgy Mountain Men—8:30pm;
Indie, folk, $5
BLACK FOREST Karaoke—9pm
THE BLIND PIG Karaoke w/Jim
Jim—9pm
THE CANNERY Jeremy Clark
Pruitt—8pm; Acoustic, n/c
THE COOLER Hump Night Trivia
w/DR Dumass—7pm; n/c
COWFISH “Hump Night” w/
Connor J, Club Bangers—9pm;
n/c
COZMIC Open Mic Night—7pm;
n/c
DEXTER LAKE CLUB Acoustic
Sessions w/Morin, Sorseth &
Corwin Bolt—7pm; Acoustic,
n/c
DOWNTOWN LOUNGE Bikes,
BBQ & Blues Jam—8pm; n/c
GOODFELLA’S Karaoke—9pm;
n/c
GRANARY Jazz Jam w/Gerry
Rempel, Bruce Cole & Hamilton
Mays—8pm; n/c
THE GREEN ROOM Karaoke—
9pm; n/c
JERSEY’S Karaoke—8pm
LUCKEY’S Hugh Cornwell,
Brother of Brazil—10pm; Rock,
acoustic punk, $10
MAC’S Wine, Jazz & Variety
Show w/Gus Russell & Paul
Biondi—6pm; Jazz, blues, n/c
MAX’S Lonesome Randall—
7pm; Rock & roll historian, n/c
MOE’S TAVERN Jazz Jam w/
Stone Cold Jazz—7pm; n/c
MULLIGAN’S Open Mic—
8:30pm
OAK ST. SPEAKEASY All That—
9pm; ’90s music, n/c
OLD PAD Trivia Night—9pm; n/c
POUR HOUSE Karaoke—9pm
SAM BOND’S Texas Toasters—
9pm; Western swing, n/c
SPIRITS Karaoke—9pm
TAYLOR’S BAR & GRILLE DJ
Crown—10:30pm; Hip hop, top
40, dance, n/c
TINY TAVERN Comedy Night w/
Mac Chase—9pm; n/c
WESTEND TAVERN Patrick &
Giri—8pm; Rock, acoustic, n/c
WOW HALL The Digital Age,
Bellarive—7:30pm; Christian,
$12 adv., $15 door.
CORVALLIS
(AND SURROUNDING AREAS)
BOMBS AWAY CAFÉ
TH The Vandies, Browntown &
The Want Ads—10pm; $3
FR Pstimulus Package, The Shy
Seasons, The Autonomics—
9pm; $3
SA Alexander Tragedy, The Tim
Karplus Band, Valerie Lopez—
10pm; $3
WE Chuck Holst & Gary
Rowles—7:30pm, n/c
CLOUD & KELLY’S
TH Infinite Improv!—9pm; n/c
SA Blood Cobra & The
Wobblies—10pm; Metal, punk
rock, n/c
WE Celtic Jam—10pm; n/c
BENTON HALL
WE Alexander Ghindin—noon;
Classical piano, n/c
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH OF CHRIST
SU Die Fledermaus—3pm;
Opera, concert, n/c
MAJESTIC THEATRE
SA Dar Williams—7:30pm;
Singer-songwriter, $18-$40
MEMORIAL UNION LOUNGE
FR The Jeffers-Carlson Duo—
noon; Piano, n/c
FIREWORKS RESTAURANT
MO Southtown Open Mic—9pm;
n/c
P H OTO BY T R A S K B E D O R T H A
9pm; n/c
AGRARIAN ALES Upstate Trio—
5pm; Jam, n/c
AXE & FIDDLE Coast Fork Farm
Stand Benefit—5:30pm; don.
BEALL HALL Kenneth Tse &
Mathew Pavilanis—5pm;
Saxophone & piano, $10, $8
stu. & sr.
COWFISH Sara B—9pm;
Motown, soul, ’50s & ’60s
COZMIC Back Porch Soiree &
The Corn Stalkers—7pm;
Bluegrass, $4
DEXTER LAKE CLUB Jam
Night—6pm; Open mic, n/c
DOC’S PAD T-Bone Weldon Trio—
7pm; Blues, n/c
GRANARY Green Mt. Bluegrass
Band—6pm; Bluegrass, n/c
HAPPY HOURS Karaoke—7pm
JAZZ STATION All-Comers Jazz
Jam w/Kenny Reed—4pm;
$3-$5 don.
PIZZA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Robert Meade—7pm; R&B,
Americana, n/c
SAGINAW VINEYARD Fiddlin’ Big
Sue Band—noon; n/c
SAM BOND’S Tara Stonecipher,
Corwin Bolt, Jeff Donovan—
8:30pm, Singer-songwriter, n/c
SPRINGFIELD VFW Mckenzie
Express—7pm; n/c
SPYCE GENTLEMAN’S CLUB
Stripperoke—6pm; Karaoke, n/c
TINY TAVERN Scott Mickelson &
Dan Coyle—8pm; n/c
VILLAGE GREEN John Goforth—
7pm; Pop, rock, piano, n/c
THE WEBFOOT Karaoke—9pm
ROCK
AND ROCKABILITY
“I like to paint a picture of a modern woman who’s
sexual and who can do the same things as a man,” Sallie
Ford tells me over the phone. Sift through her lyrics, her
throaty rock vocals or the imagery in her band’s music
videos, and it becomes clear that Sallie Ford & The
Sound Outside is not just paying lip service. A sampling
of the fuzz-rocker “Bad Boys” from the Portland band’s
2013 release Untamed Beast illustrates it well: “I can
fuck / I can drink / I don’t care what you think / You could
say I’m just a girl / But I’ve had a lady or two / I bet she’d
prefer me to you.”
Amen. Need more proof? Queue up the music video for
“Party Kids,” and see Ford get into a bar brawl with a
bunch of dudes, or “They Told Me,” and experience some
sweaty, sensual play on gender roles. All this plays out
over a rockabilly-meets-garage-rock soundtrack, with
Ford’s voice channeling greats like Peggy Lee through a
fiery filter.
“It makes you squirm,” she says with a laugh. But Ford
isn’t some shock-and-awe performer (a la Miley Cyrus);
she’s here for the rock. “I think in the current music scene
there’s not many girls that are rocking out,” she says,
adding that on Untamed Beast, her goal was “pretty
simple. I just wanted to rock more.”
And Ford, 26, has been rocking out for about 8 years. At
18, she bought a one-way ticket to Portland — where she
didn’t know a soul — from her home state of North
Carolina after a solo two-month trip through Europe.
“Portland and Austin are just cities that young people
talk about moving to. The West Coast seemed the most
interesting,” she says. Up to that point, Ford had studied
classical music, photography and filmmaking but none of
it quite clicked. In Portland she fell into a group of
creatives, rooming with Y La Bamba’s Luz Elena Mendoza
and meeting bandmates Tyler Tornfelt (bass, piano,
organ), Ford Tennis (drums) and Jeff Munger (guitar).
Since then, the band has appeared on the Late Show with
David Letterman and become a darling of The Avett
Brothers.
Eugene is one of many stops on the band’s West Coast
tour before they take it to Europe in November, where they
will play in France, a country Ford loves and that loves her
right back. “In France, it’s pretty cool for musicians
because they put a lot of their tax money towards art and
culture things,” she says. “I wish our money would go
towards art and not war.”
Make rock not war — now that’s a message I can get behind.
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside play with Wooden
Indian Burial Ground 9 pm Thursday, Oct. 3, at Sam Bond’s;
$10. — Alex Notman
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