THURSDAY 1/28
AXE & FIDDLE The Fret Boys,
Pluto the Planet—8:30pm; n/c
B&B LOUNGE Karaoke—
9:30pm
BARN LIGHT Karaoke w/Bre—
9pm; n/c
BEALL HALL University
Symphony Orchestra—7:30pm;
$5-$7
BIG CITY GAMING Trivia—7pm;
n/c
BREWSTATION Sophia James—
6pm; n/c
THE COOLER Luke Kaufman &
Matt Borden—9pm; $10
[Karaoke w/Cammi—10pm]
COWFISH Purrsday w/Kitty
Trap—9pm; Bass, trap, n/c
CUSH Guitar Club Open Mic—
8pm; Originals only, n/c
DRIFTWOOD Karaoke w/Slick
Nick—9pm; n/c
EL TAPATIO CANTINA Karaoke—
8pm; n/c
EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Singing Shakespeare w/Laura
Wayte—6pm; n/c
GREEN ROOM Open Mic
Comedy—9pm; n/c
GROWLER UNDERGROUND
Open Mic—6:30pm; n/c
ISLAND HUT Karaoke—6pm;
n/c
JAZZ STATION Tim McLaughlin
Revolving Trio—7:30pm; $7-$10
LEVEL UP Quizzo Pub Trivia w/
Dr. Seven Phoenix—9pm; n/c
LUCKEY’S Grateful Family
Jam—10pm; $2
MAC’S Soul Restoration
Project—7pm; n/c
MAX’S DJ Victor—10pm; n/c
OAKSHIRE Hipbilly—5pm; n/c
OLD NICK’S The Beat
Crunchers—9pm; $5
THE OLD PAD Karaoke—9pm;
n/c
OREGON WINE LAB
“Categorically Correct” w/host
Elliot Martinez—6:30pm; Trivia,
n/c
THEIR
MAJESTY
Yes, technically speaking, Shabazz Palaces
is a rap group. But that sort of classification is
about as accurate as calling Bitches Brew a jazz
record or Captain Beefheart a rock star. Sure, it
gets you in the right galaxy, but it does nothing
to describe the bizarre constellation of fractured
beats, warped vocals and occult imagery the
group has formed during their six years together.
The Seattle-based duo’s lead voice — Ishmael
Butler (formerly of Digable Planets) — has often
used “abstract” to describe the Shabazz Palaces
OVERTIME TAVERN West Side
Blues Jam—8:30pm; Open jam,
n/c
REALITY KITCHEN Acoustic
Reality—5pm; Open mic, n/c
RESTOBAR Steven McVay—5pm
SIDE BAR WDYK Trivia—9pm;
n/c
TERRITORIAL VINEYARDS Holler
& The Hive—7pm; n/c
WANDERING GOAT Dobis, /root_
DIR, Zane Jankins—6:30pm;
Punk, grind, $3-$5
WAYWARD LAMB “I’m Too Sexy”
w/Angelica D’Vil & DJ John the
Revelator—10pm; n/c
WOW HALL International Guitar
Night—8pm; Acoustic guitar
masters, $25-$30
FRIDAY 1/29
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Jazz Flute
Project—9:30pm; n/c
BLACK FOREST Wade Graham,
Bullets or Balloons, Hyper
Sloth—10pm; n/c
BLAIRALLY ARCADE ‘80’s Night
w/Chris, Jen & John—9pm; $3
THE BLIND PIG Karaoke w/Jim
Jim—9pm, n/c
BOHEMIA PANACEA Open Mic—
6pm, n/c
BREWSTATION 3 Man Slam—
7:30pm; Rock, n/c
COWFISH Freek-Nite w/SPOC-
3PO the Audio Schizo—9pm; $3
D’S DINER Karaoke—9pm; n/c
DOC’S PAD Karaoke w/KJ
Mike—9pm; n/c
DOMAINE MERIWETHER
LeMaster & Abrams—6pm;
Americana, n/c
DRIFTWOOD Karaoke w/Slick
Nick—9pm; n/c
EL TAPATIO CANTINA Karaoke w/
KJ Rick—9pm; n/c
EMBERS Coupe De Ville—
8:30pm; n/c
EUGENE WINE CELLARS Gus
Russell & Lauri Hammond—
5:30pm; n/c
HAPPY HOURS Downside
Up—8pm; n/c
HILTON HOTEL Aftermath—
7pm; Jazz, n/c
JAZZ STATION UO Jazz
Combos—5pm; n/c [Alvin & the
Chipfunks—7:30pm; $7-$10]
JERSEY’S Karaoke Contest—
9pm; n/c
JIMMY’S ON 11TH Karaoke w/
Zach—9pm; n/c
THE KEG Karaoke w/Cammi—
9pm; n/c
sound, which might be best interpreted to mean
that nothing he and producer Tendai Maraire
craft is concrete.
Butler and Maraire cryptically released two
EPs before emerging from hiding in 2011 with
their shadowy full-length Black Out. Their latest,
2014’s Lese Majesty, has seen the group plunge
deeper into abstraction: Maraire’s mutated
psychedelia moves between bangers like
“#CAKE” and woozier, atmospheric interludes
while Butler delivers lines like “blackness is
protracted and abstracted by the purest.”
LAVELLE WINE BAR Gumbo
Groove—6:30pm; n/c
LEVEL UP DJ food stamp—9pm;
Rap, breaks, soul, n/c
LUCKEY’S Ready Steady Soul
Club—10pm; $3
MAC’S Bottlneck Blues Band—
8pm; $5
MCDONALD THEATRE The Wood
Brothers—8pm; $25-$27
MCSHANE’S Dark Buffalo—9pm;
Rock, n/c
MOHAWK Country Wide—9pm;
Country, n/c
NEW HOPE AUDITORIUM
Dréos—7pm; Celtic, $15
O BAR Karaoke w/Jared—9pm;
n/c
OAKSHIRE Fiddlin’ Sue Band—
4:30pm; n/c
O’DONNELL’S Karaoke—9pm
OLD NICK’S Pickaxe Preacher,
Snow Dragon, Broken Dead—
9pm; $5
PIZZA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Olem Alves Duo—6:30pm; n/c
PORKY’S PALACE Karaoke—
8pm
RAGOZZINO HALL UO Opera
Ensemble “Orfeo ed Euridice”—
7:30pm; $5-$10
SAGINAW VINEYARD Jackie Jae
& Jason Cowsill—6pm; n/c
TAYLOR’S DJ Victor—10pm; Hip
hop, dance, n/c
TERRITORIAL VINEYARDS
ButterChuck, Town & Country
Blues Band—7pm; Healthy
Moves fundraiser, don.
TRACKSTIRS Karaoke w/
James—9pm; n/c
WANDERING GOAT King
Columbia, Zach Bryson—9pm;
Bluegrass, folk, $5
WHITE HORSE SALOON Karaoke
w/Ted—9pm; n/c
WOW HALL Chicano Batman,
Haunted Summer, Snow
White—9pm; $10-$12
SATURDAY 1/30
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Inner
Limits—9:30pm; n/c
911 W. BROADWAY George
Colligan, Jon Lakey, Micah
Hummel—7:30pm; $7-$10
ATRIUM BUILDING Eugene
Peace Choir—2pm; n/c
AX BILLY GRILL Tonewood Trio—
7pm; Jazz, n/c
AXE & FIDDLE Kim Archer—
8:30pm; $5
B&B LOUNGE Karaoke—
9:30pm
BEALL HALL Michael
Partington—8pm; Classical gui-
tar, $8-$10
BLACK FOREST Tripolee—10pm;
n/c
BREWSTATION Cowboy
Cadillac—7:30pm; n/c
On stage, the group has been known to bring
in live percussion and other instrumentation
from Maraire’s native Zimbabwe to further evoke
the otherworldly feel of their records.
Better still, the group chose a worthy opener
to guide us into the Shabazz Palaces world in
THEESatisfaction singer SassyBlack, whose
eastern-inflected vocals and space-funk sound
orbits in the same sonic constellation.
Sassy Black and Porter Ray join Shabazz
Palaces 8:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 30, at WOW Hall;
$12 adv., $15 door. — J.D. Swerzenski
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