COWFISH Sup! w/Michael
Human—9pm; Hip hop, pop-40,
$3
DOC’S PAD Evolve Saturdays—
9pm; EDM, hip hop, n/c
DRIFTWOOD Karaoke w/Slick
Nick—9pm; n/c
DUCK BAR Karaoke w/Bre—
9pm; n/c
DUCK INN Karaoke—10pm
EL TAPATIO CANTINA DJ &
Dance Music—9pm; n/c
EMBERS Coupe De Ville—
8:30pm; n/c
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Perceptions of Sound—7:30pm;
Multi-sensory concert experi-
ence, $5-$20
HAPPY HOURS Christie &
McCallum—8:30pm; n/c
HULT CENTER Rodney
Carrington—7pm; Comedy, $46
JAZZ STATION Tom Bergeron
Brasil Band & Art Lillard—
7:30pm; $9-$12
THE KEG Karaoke w/Cammi—
9pm; n/c
LUCKEY’S Jake McNeillie & Co.,
BeatRootBand, Sons of Guns—
10pm; $3-$5
MAC’S Blue Evolution Band—
8pm; Blues, funk, $5
MOHAWK Done Deal—9pm; n/c
NOBLE ESTATE LeMaster
Abrams—4pm; n/c
OLD NICK’S Bluegrass for
Bernie—5pm; Fundraiser, $12
POUR HOUSE Karaoke w/KJ
Mike—9pm
QUACKER’S Ladies Night &
DeeJay—9pm; n/c
RASTA PLUS Open Mic—7pm;
n/c
RAVEN A Karaoke w/Zach—
8pm; n/c
SAM BOND’S GARAGE Brother’s
Gow—8pm; Rock, funk, $7
TRACKSTIRS Karaoke—9pm;
n/c
TRAVELER’S COVE Peter Giri
Trio—6pm; n/c
WANDERING GOAT Comedy at
the Goat w/Seth Milstein, Dillon
Flynn, Michael Sevigny & Tanya
Kornilovich—8pm; $5 [Vox
Vocis, And Then Suddenly,
Purple Frankie—9:30pm;
Mathrock, hardcore, $5]
WESTEND TAVERN Karaoke—
9pm; n/c
WHITE HORSE SALOON Karaoke
w/Ted—9pm; n/c
WOW HALL Shabazz Palaces,
Sassy Black, Porter Ray—
8:30pm; $12-$15
SUNDAY 1/31
AASEN-HULL HALL Roomful of
Teeth—7:30pm; $8-$10
AGATE ALLEY BISTRO Karaoke
w/Bre—9pm; n/c
BEALL HALL Oregon Wind
Ensemble—3pm; $5-$7
BLAIRALLY Game Show! w/Elliot
Martinez & Chad Kashuba—
10pm; n/c
COWFISH Los Domingos
Caliente—9pm; Latin, $3
COZMIC Steel Wool—5pm; $5
CUSH Open Mic—7pm; n/c
EMBERS Karaoke—7pm
HOP VALLEY Hipbillies, Holler &
The Hive—2:30pm; n/c
JAZZ STATION Sunday Jam w/
Torrey Newhart—2pm; $5
LUCKEY’S Broadway Revue
Burlesque—10pm; $5
MOHAWK Karaoke Jenga w/
Jillian—8pm; n/c
MULLIGAN’S Open Mic—
7:30pm; n/c
OAKSHIRE Chad Kashuba—
4pm; n/c
OLD NICK’S /root_DIR, The Get,
Jargon—9pm; n/c
QUACKERS Karaoke—9pm; n/c
RAGOZZINO HALL UO Opera
Ensemble “Orfeo ed Euridice”—
3pm; $5-$10
RIVER STOP Open Rock Jam w/
Brian Chevalier—5pm; n/c
TRAVELER’S COVE Paul Biondi
Quartet—6pm; Variety, n/c
VILLAGE GREEN Dave Bach—
7pm; Guitar, n/c
MONDAY 2/1
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Quizzo
Pub Trivia w/Dr. Seven
Phoenix—9pm; n/c
BLACK FOREST Karaoke w/
Cammi—9pm
BUGSY’S MondayBug—7pm;
Acoustic, n/c
COWFISH Qamron Parq—9pm;
Moombah, glitch, n/c
DUCK BAR & GRILL OFY Bingo—
8pm; n/c
ELK HORN Trivia Night w/Elliot
Martinez—7pm; n/c
EMBERS Karaoke—8pm
PORKY’S PALACE Karaoke—
8pm
SAM BOND’S GARAGE Bingo—
9pm; n/c
WANDERING GOAT Singer
Songwriter’s Open Mic—7pm;
Originals only, n/c
WEBFOOT Twisted Trivia & Beer
Pong—7pm; n/c
WOW HALL Saintseneca, Des
Ark—8pm; $12-$14
TUESDAY 2/2
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Jesse
Meade w/Daniel Cioper—
9:30pm; n/c
AXE & FIDDLE TNT Trivia—
8:30pm; n/c
BEERGARDEN Trivia w/Ty
Conner—7pm; n/c
THE CITY iPod Night—6pm; n/c
COWFISH DJ Smuve—9pm; Hip
hop, dancehall, n/c
CUSH Poetry Open Mic—7pm;
n/c
DUCK BAR Trivia—7pm; n/c
EMBERS DJ Victor Plays
Requests—8pm; n/c
FIRST NATIONAL TAPHOUSE
WDYK Trivia—7pm; n/c
GRANARY Christ Stubbs—6pm;
Piano, n/c
THE GREEN ROOM Karaoke—
9pm
GROWLER UNDERGROUND
Trivia w/Mr. Bill—6pm; n/c
HI-FI ENCORE LOUNGE S.H.I.P.
Jam—8pm; n/c
HOT MAMA’S WINGS Open Mic—
8pm; n/c
LEVEL UP Ninkasi Karaoke
Night w/KJ B-Ross—9pm; n/c
LUCKEY’S Amusedays! w/Seth
Millstein—10pm; Comedy, n/c
MAC’S Roosters Blues Jam—
7pm; n/c
O BAR Karaoke w/Jared—9pm;
n/c
OLD NICK’S Cards Against
Humanity Tournament—9pm;
n/c
SAM BOND’S GARAGE Bluegrass
Jam—9pm; n/c
THE SHEDD Blues Harp Blowout
featuring Curtis Salgado—
7:30pm; $36
SIDE BAR Game Night—7pm;
n/c
WHITE HORSE SALOON Karaoke
w/Slick Nick—9pm; n/c
WEDNESDAY 2/3
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Karaoke
w/Slick Nick—9pm
AGATE ALLEY BISTRO Lounge
Jams w/Bue Brown & Chilly
Soup—9pm; Jazz, funk, n/c
BLACK FOREST Karaoke w/
Cammi—9pm
THE BLIND PIG Comedy Open
Mic w/Cienna Jade—9pm
THE COOLER Hump Night Trivia
w/DR Dumass—7pm; n/c
COWFISH West Coast
Wednesday w/Ultramafic—
9pm; Hip hop, trap, n/c
HAPPY HOURS Mama Jan’s
Blues Jam w/Brian Chevalier—
8pm; n/c
HI-FI ENCORE LOUNGE Funk
Night—8pm; n/c
JERSEY’S Karaoke—8pm;
Ladies night, n/c
KOWLOON Karaoke—9pm; n/c
LUCKEY’S Alvin & the
Chipfunks—10pm; $3
MAC’S Gus Russell & Paul
Biondi—6pm; n/c
MAX’S TAVERN Lonesome
Randall—7pm; Rock & roll his-
torian, n/c
MOHAWK Karaoke w/Jillian—
9pm; n/c
MULLIGAN’S Open Mic—
8:30pm; Variety, n/c
OLD NICK’S Act of Defiance,
Sanctifyre, Athiarchists—9pm;
$10-$12
OLD PAD Trivia Night—9pm; n/c
POUR HOUSE Karaoke w/KJ
Mike—9pm
STARLIGHT LOUNGE Quizzo Pub
Trivia w/Dr. Seven Phoenix—
9pm; n/c
TAYLOR’S BAR & GRILLE DJ
Crown—10:30pm; Hip hop, top
40, dance, n/c
WANDERING GOAT Joe Kaplow
& Rachel Hoffman—8pm; $5
WETLANDS BREW PUB OFY
Bingo w/Troy & Rude Ruth—
8pm; n/c
WILDCRAFT Llorona—6pm;
Mexamericana, n/c
WILD DUCK WDYK Trivia—7pm;
n/c
WOW HALL Super Duper Kyle—
8pm; Hip hop, $15-$20
CORVALLIS
(AND SURROUNDING AREAS)
NEWPORT PERFORMING ARTS
CENTER
SA Newport Symphony
Orchestra—7:30pm; $20
BOMBS AWAY CAFE
TH The Red Oak Rounders—
9pm; n/c
FR Fever Flash & Zebra,
Scratchdog Stringband—9pm;
n/c
SA Crooked—9pm; n/c
CALAPOOIA BREWING
TH Wild Hog in the Woods—
7:30pm; n/c
SA Oregon Valley Boys—8pm;
n/c
CLOUD & KELLY’S
SA Tim Karplus Band—10pm;
n/c
TU Drink & Draw—7pm; n/c
FLORENCE EVENTS CENTER
FR Jesse Cook—7pm; $10-$30
SA Emerald City Jazz Kings—
2pm; $36
LA SELLS STEWART CENTER
FR Emerald City Jazz Kings—
7:30pm; $36
OSU MEMORIAL UNION
FR Dave & Sharon
Thormahlen—noon; Guitar-harp
duo, n/c
QUEERCOREPOWER
PWR BTTM is a self-identified queer-core duo from upstate New York that
SURREALIST
DOOM POP
Last year, Ohio’s Saintseneca released Such Things, one of the freshest,
and yet familiar, indie-rock records of 2015.
Saintseneca’s guitar-based music is sweetly earnest, exhibiting the
infectious melodies and charmingly snotty lo-fi sensibilities of Pavement. In
other words, Saintseneca are quintessential college rock.
Bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Zac Little calls Saintseneca’s sound
“surrealist doom pop,” adding that when Saintseneca plays live, “we are
surrealist doom pop with mediocre jokes in between.”
Little’s words evoke Dali-esque imagery with lyrics like “hanging like a loose
tooth in the sky” from Such Things’ “The Awefull Yawn” track.
And that sense of humor and edge of the absurd carry over into
Saintseneca’s creation story. “I met a purveyor of dream crystals,” Little tells
EW, describing his band’s beginnings.
“It was said that if you placed the crystal under your pillow at night you
would be granted access to a mystical dreamland,” Little says. “Similarly,
others who possessed the dream crystals could enter the same realm.”
Little continues: “You could interact with these individuals in dreams,
despite what might appear to be an otherwise insurmountable distance in the
waking life. Here I saw all of my bandmate’s bands play and I liked what they
did, and asked if they would be in a band with me.”
North Carolina’s Des Ark and Newberg’s The Hill Dogs join Saintseneca 8
pm Monday, Feb. 1, at WOW Hall; $12 advance, $14 door. All ages. — William
Kennedy
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January 28, 2016 • eugeneweekly.com
now resides in Brooklyn.
Last year the band gained massive critical buzz with the release of its
debut LP Ugly Cherries, a collection of punk and power-pop tunes subverting
heteronormative guitar rock reminiscent of Weezer.
The track “Serving Goffman” draws comparisons among personal identity,
dressing in drag and the costumes worn in corporate America — after all,
aren’t we all just roleplaying?
“I held my breath in a suit and tie,” PWR BTTM sings — members Ben
Hopkins and Liv Bruce share vocal duty. “I want to put the whole world in drag,”
the song continues, “but I’m starting to realize it’s already like that.”
Elsewhere on the record, on the sweet love song “I Wanna Boi,” PWR BTTM
sings: “I wanna boy who’ll keep the bed warm while we’re watching TV … I
wanna boy who isn’t anything like me.”
Ugly Cherries liberates thrashing, messy-yet-tuneful guitar work and the
lovesick indie-rock anthem for the queer community and beyond.
PWR BTTM plays with Eugene’s The Critical Shakes and Vegetarian Cats 7
pm Saturday, Jan. 30, at The Boreal, 450 W. 3rd Ave.; $10. All ages. — William
Kennedy