MUSIC
IS GOOD
Eccentric Nashville musician R. Stevie Moore has been writing music for more than
45 years, releasing 400-plus albums in media as varied as CD-R, cassette and digital
download. And it’s all been done in essential obscurity. It makes one wonder: What
keeps R. Stevie Moore going?
“Music is good,” Moore answers via email. “I don’t understand the question.”
Since the ’60s Moore has blazed his own path, producing a titanic, genre-defying body of
work from the highly experimental to straight-ahead pop to what Moore refers to as “anti-pop.”
He’s never found anything approaching mainstream success, instead becoming a treasured
best-kept secret among esoteric pop connoisseurs. His first tour didn’t come until 2011.
In 2012, Moore released Lo Fi High Fives … A Kind of Best Of …, a boggling coterie of
(un)hit songs and anti-anthems. In it, you can hear the width and breadth of Moore’s
accessible side. The Beatles-esque “Pop Music” would fit nicely on classic rock radio, and
“Show Biz is Dead” is a brainy, herky-jerky, new wave song indicting vapid celebrity worship.
Now, with the help of the internet and the R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club, Moore, at
age 62, is more successful than ever. “A rock ‘n’ roll success story at my age is
dumbfounding, surreal and exhausting,” Moore says. But the musician is planning for
the future. “More of the same,” he says, which includes “recording, official records, gigs
and tours, stardom, uncertainty yet pushing outward and upward.”
Behavior Castle presents R. Stevie Moore and Portland’s The Memories 8 pm
Thursday, Feb. 20, at Wandering Goat; $5. — William Kennedy
SAM BOND’S Kingdom County,
Tara Stonecipher, The Tall
Grass—9:30pm; $5
SIDE BAR Karaoke—9pm
SONNY’S TAVERN Karaoke—
9pm
SPRINGFIELD VFW Mckenzie
Express—7pm; n/c
TAYLOR’S BAR & GRILLE DJ
Crown—10:30pm; Hip hop,
dance, n/c
TRACKSTIRS Karaoke—9pm;
n/c
TSUNAMI BOOKS Baby
Gramps—2pm; don.; Brian
Cutean—8pm; $10
VILLAGE GREEN Mr. Wizard
Unplugged—9pm; n/c
WANDERING GOAT Singapore,
Ryan Reyna—7pm; Indie, n/c
WESTEND TAVERN Karaoke—
9pm; n/c
WHISKEY RIVER RANCH REHAB,
Angel’s Cut, Sol Seed—7pm;
WHITE HORSE SALOON
Karaoke—9pm; n/c
WILD DUCK CAFE Duck-O-
aroke—10pm; Karaoke, n/c
WOW HALL Thriftworks, JOBOT,
SugarBeats—8:30pm;
Electronica, $15 adv., $20 door
SUNDAY
2/16
AGATE ALLEY BISTRO Karaoke—
9pm; n/c
BEALL HALL Imani Winds—
3pm; Classical, $17-$39
COWFISH Sara B—9pm;
Motown, soul, ’50s & ’60s
COZMIC Great Hiatum, Autumn
Electric, Family Dynamic—8pm;
Indie, $6
CUSH The Tim & Todd Show—
7pm; Variety, open mic, n/c
DEXTER LAKE CLUB Jam
Night—6pm; Open mic, 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.
LUCKEY’S Broadway Revue
Burlesque Night—10pm; $5, $3
NEW HOPE CHURCH Multi-Choir
Concert: Imagine Peace—
2:30pm; $3-$5 sug. don.
THE SHEDD Emerald City Jazz
Kings: Give Me a Song—
1:30pm; $18-$30
SPRINGFIELD VFW Mckenzie
Express—7pm; n/c
ST. HELEN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Matthew Pavilanis—3pm;
Piano, n/c
TRAVELER’S COVE Paul Biondi
Quartet w/Mike Anderson—
6pm; Variety, n/c
VILLAGE GREEN Paul &
Nancy—7pm; Piano, voice, n/c
THE WEBFOOT Karaoke—9pm
MONDAY
2/17
AXE & FIDDLE Hanz Araki—
8pm; Irish flute, $7
BEALL HALL Poetry in Song—
7pm; Vocal, n/c
BLACK FOREST Karaoke—9pm
BUGSY’S MondayBug—7pm;
Acoustic, n/c
CAMPBELL CLUB Greg
Hartunian, Greg Jamie, Colby
Nathan, Shoot Dang, Living
Rheum—6pm; Folk, $5
COWFISH Monday Night Mics—
9pm; Hip hop, n/c
COZMIC Mike Surber & The Long
Con, Daniel Kirkpatrick & The
Bayonets, Tyler Fortier—8pm;
$6
EUGENE SUZUKI MUSIC
ACADEMY Irish Jam Session—
7pm; All ages, n/c
GRANARY Poetry Open Mic &
Jazz w/Kenny Reed—7pm; n/c
MAC’S Henry Cooper—6pm;
Blues, n/c
MCDONALD THEATRE Hot Tuna,
David Lindley—7pm; $45
MCSHANE’S Blues/Rock/Funk
Jam—9pm; n/c
PORKY’S PALACE Karaoke—
8pm
REALITY KITCHEN Acoustic
Reality—7:30pm; Open mic, n/c
SKIPS RECORDS Sean Curley,
Graph Rabbit—5pm; Don.
VILLAGE GREEN Neil Johnson—
7pm; Solo guitar, n/c
WANDERING GOAT Song Writer’s
Night—7pm; n/c
TUESDAY
2/18
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Jesse
Meade w/Joe Mitchell—9:30pm;
n/c
BEALL HALL Eliot Grasso, Glen
Waddell & Brandon Vance—
8pm; Uilleann pipes, fiddle, gui-
tar, $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
COZMIC Mike Surber & The Long
Con, Daniel Kirkpatrick & The
Bayonets, Tyler Fortier—8pm;
Alt rock, $6
THE GREEN ROOM Karaoke—
9pm
GOODFELLA’S Karaoke—9pm;
n/c
HOP VALLEY TASTING ROOM
Blue Grass Jam—7:30pm; n/c
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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, The
Experimentals—10pm; Funk,
$2
MAC’S Roosters Blues Jam—
7pm; n/c
THE O BAR Karaoke—9:30pm
OAK ST. SPEAKEASY Karaoke—
9pm; n/c
SAM BOND’S Bluegrass Jam—
9pm; n/c
VILLAGE GREEN Neil Johnson—
7pm; Solo guitar; n/c
WHISKEY RIVER RANCH
Karaoke w/KJ Jazzy Jenny—
9pm; n/c
WOW HALL Escape the Fate, Eve
to Adam, New Years Day—8pm;
Hard rock, $15 adv., $17 door
WEDNESDAY
2/19
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA
Karaoke—9pm
AXE & FIDDLE The Modern
Grass—8:30pm, Bluegrass, $3
BEALL HALL Student
Composition Recital—7pm; n/c
BLACK FOREST Karaoke—9pm
THE BLIND PIG Karaoke w/Jim
Jim—9pm
THE BOREAL Life Leone,
Stanley & The Search, Tiger Lily,
Keeper Sabertooth, Southtowne
Lanes—7pm; n/c
THE CANNERY Jeremy Clark
Pruitt—7:30pm; 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 &
Vigil Robinson—7pm; Acoustic,
n/c
DOC’S PAD Tru-School Open
Turntables w/DJ Smuve—10pm;
Hip hop, reggae, n/c
GOODFELLA’S Karaoke—9pm;
n/c
GRANARY Mama Jan’s Blues
Jam w/Brian Chevalier—8pm;
n/c
THE GREEN ROOM Karaoke—
9pm; n/c
JERSEY’S Karaoke—8pm
LUCKEY’S KI & The Architex—
10pm; Hip hop, $2
MAC’S Jazz & Variety w/Gus
Russell & Hanke Shreve—6pm;
Blues, n/c
MARU The Celtic Lovers—7pm;
n/c
MAX’S Lonesome Randall—
7pm; Rock & roll historian, n/c
MULLIGAN’S Open Mic—9pm;
Variety, n/c
OAK ST. SPEAKEASY Rivet
House—9pm; Industrial, n/c
OLD PAD Trivia Night—9pm; n/c
POUR HOUSE Karaoke—9pm
THE SHEDD Brian Blade, The
Fellowship Band—7:30pm;
$28-$36
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
VILLAGE GREEN Chris Klein &
Friends—7pm; n/c
CORVALLIS
(AND SURROUNDING AREAS)
BOMBS AWAY CAFÉ
TH One From Many—9pm; n/c
FR Summer Soundtrack &
Brothers Bror—9pm; n/c
SA Fruition—10pm; $8
WE Autumn Electric & Faith Like
Oxygen—8:30pm; Folk, n/c
CLOUD & KELLY’S
TH The Crooked River Band &
Red Diesel—9pm; Bluegrass,
n/c
SA Riot in the Clouds—10pm;
EDM, n/c
WE Exit Electric—7pm; n/c
DOCK 22
FR The Wood Rats—9pm;
Acoustic rock, n/c
FIREWORKS RESTAURANT
MO Southtown Open Mic—9pm;
n/c
LASELLS STEWART CENTER
FR Emerald City Jazz Kings:
Give Me a Song—7:30pm; $22
MAJESTIC THEATRE
FR Deborah Allen—7:30pm; $20
adv., $25 door
TROUBADOUR MUSIC CENTER
SA Kathy Boyd & Phoenix
Rising—8pm; Bluegrass, $10
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