THURSDAY 7/28
5TH ST. PUBLIC MARKET The
Brewketts—6pm; n/c
AXE & FIDDLE Comanche
Joey—8:30pm; n/c
B&B LOUNGE Karaoke—
9:30pm
BARN LIGHT Karaoke w/Bre—
9pm; n/c
BEERGARDEN Shreve, Jones &
Shreve Experiment w/Skip
Jones—7:30pm; n/c
BLACK FOREST Hugh
MacDonald—10pm; n/c
BLAIRALLY DJ Crown—10pm;
Hip hop, $3
THE BOREAL We Arsons,
Vandfald, The Mutineers—7pm;
$5
THE COOLER Karaoke w/
Cammi—10pm
COWFISH Purrsday w/Kitty
Trap—9pm; Hip hop, trap, edm,
n/c
DEXTER LAKE CLUB Karaoke—
7pm; n/c
DRIFTWOOD Karaoke w/Slick
Nick—9pm; n/c
EL TAPATIO CANTINA Karaoke—
8pm; n/c
GREEN ROOM Open Mic
Comedy—9pm; n/c
GROWLER UNDERGROUND
Acoustic Underground Open
Mic—8pm; n/c
HAPPY HOURS Crystal Harmony
Karaoke—8:30pm; n/c
HI-FI Ozomatli—8pm; $22-$25
HI-FI LOUNGE Egotones w/Thee
Commons—10pm; $5
ISLAND HUT Karaoke—6pm;
n/c
JAZZ STATION Brooks Robertson
w/Philipp Weichert—7:30pm;
$9-$12
MAC’S Johnny Smoke—6pm;
n/c
MAX’S DJ Victor—10pm; n/c
THE OLD PAD Karaoke—9pm;
n/c
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
SAM BOND’S GARAGE Joy Mills
Band, Earl Tom Parker—9pm;
$5
TERRITORIAL VINEYARDS Tim
McLaughlin & The HiFi Honky
Tonk Band—7pm; n/c
TRAVELER’S COVE Timothy
Patrick w/Omar Alaniz—5pm;
n/c
VANILLA JILL’S Kora w/Josh
Caraco—7:30pm; West African,
$1-$5
WANDERING GOAT King
Columbia’s Big Damn Folk Show
w/Missing Mass—8pm; $5
FRIDAY 7/29
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Sarah
Burkhart Trio—9:30pm; n/c
THE
JOKE’S ON US
A fun game: Listen to "Weird Al"
Yankovic and take him deadly serious.
Forget that he’s built a career lifting
popular tunes from artists like Michael
Jackson or Pharrell Williams. In 1988,
Weird Al lampooned Jackson’s “Bad”
with “Fat,” and on Yankovic’s 2014
release Mandatory Fun, he borrowed
Pharrell’s “Happy” and made it “Tacky.”
Like any number of classic
humorists, Yankovic uses familiar
material (in this case, pop songs) to not
just satirize the music or songwriter but
to also roast us: our worries, anxieties,
habits and curious peccadilloes, even
the unknowable alchemy that makes a
particularly silly tune more popular with
the masses than any other silly tune.
Yankovic is playing a trick on you. You
laugh and dance and maybe even glance
askance at the person next to you. Surely
this isn’t about me. Surely this is about
you. For example, who thinks Mandatory
Fun’s “First World Problems,” in which
Yankovic recites a list of our
contemporary first-world un-problems, is
about people like them?
But who knows, maybe I’m reading
too much into the work of a frizzy-haired
goofball parodist who plays a mean
accordion. I don’t want to kill all the fun.
Catch Weird Al’s Mandatory World
Tour 7 pm Friday, July 29, at Cuthbert
Amphitheater, or the joke will be on
you; $33 general admission, $55
reserved seating. All ages.
— William Kennedy
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July 28, 2016 • eugeneweekly.com
AXE & FIDDLE Hobo Nephews of
Uncle Frank—8:30pm; Roots,
n/c
BLACK FOREST Bodhis Zafa,
Peter Jong of Emerge—10pm;
n/c
BLAIRALLY ARCADE ‘80’s Night
w/Chris, Jen & John—9pm; $3
THE BLIND PIG Karaoke w/Jim
Jim—9pm, n/c
THE BOREAL KVN H$L—7pm;
Hip hop, soul, $5
BREWERS UNION Craig Sorseth
& Tom West—7pm; n/c
BREWSTATION Flies w/Honey—
7:30pm; n/c
COWFISH Freek-Nite w/SPOC-
3PO—9pm; Hip hop, juke house,
$3
CUTHBERT AMPHITHEATER
Weird Al Yankovic—7pm; $33-
$55
D’S DINER Karaoke—9pm; n/c
DOC’S PAD Karaoke w/KJ
Mike—9pm; n/c
DOMAINE MERIWETHER Shelley
James & Callan Coleman—
6:30pm; n/c
DRIFTWOOD Karaoke w/Slick
Nick—9pm; n/c
EL TAPATIO CANTINA Karaoke w/
KJ Rick—9pm; n/c
THE EMBERS The Survivors—
9pm; n/c
GROWLER UNDERGROUND
Foggy Ruin—8:30pm; n/c
HAPPY HOURS Hard Drive—
8:30pm; n/c
HILTON HOTEL Aftermath—
7pm; Jazz, n/c
INJOY WELLNESS Rachel
Hoffman, Dan Cioper & Amy
Jones—7pm; n/c
JAZZ STATION Goebel, Abbott &
Palmer Trio w/Hashem
Assadullahi—7:30pm; $9-$12
JERSEY’S Karaoke—9pm; n/c
THE KEG Karaoke w/Cammi—
9pm; n/c
LAVELLE VINEYARDS Two-
Headed Boogie Monster—6pm;
n/c
LEVEL UP DJ food stamp—9pm;
Rap, breaks, soul, n/c
MAC’S Heavy Chevy & Brian
Chevalier—8pm; $5
MOHAWK Bulls on Parade—
9pm; n/c
NOBLE ESTATE John
Baumann—6pm; Americana,
n/c
O BAR Karaoke w/Jared—9pm;
n/c
OAKSHIRE Fiddlin’ Big Sue—
5pm; n/c
O’DONNELL’S Karaoke—9pm
PORKY’S PALACE Karaoke—
8pm
SAGINAW VINEYARDS The Fret
Boys—6pm; n/c
SAM BOND’S BREWING Chico
Schwall & Friends—6pm; n/c
SAM BOND’S GARAGE Bad
Mitten Orchestre, Hazel
Ra—9:30pm; $7
SCOBERT PARK Etouffee—7pm;
n/c
SWEET CHEEKS WINERY Eddie
Butler—6:30pm; n/c
TAYLOR’S DJ Victor—10pm; Hip
hop, dance, n/c
TERRITORIAL VINEYARDS
Patrick & Giri—7pm; n/c
TRACKSTIRS Karaoke w/
James—9pm; n/c
VANILLA JILL’S Crystal Bop,
Third Seven—7pm; Electronic,
Cello-loop, $2-$5
WHITE HORSE SALOON Karaoke
w/Ted—9pm; n/c
WILDCRAFT CIDER WORKS
Austin Farrell—6pm; Surf rock,
n/c
WOW HALL Music’s Edge Rock
Camp Show—7:30pm; $5
SATURDAY 7/30
5TH ST. CORNUCOPIA Jesse
Meade w/Girin Guha—9:30pm;
n/c
ATRIUM BUILDING Alder Street
Winds—2pm; n/c
AXE & FIDDLE Yours Truly,
Michelle, The Secret Emchy
Society—8:30pm; n/c
B&B LOUNGE Karaoke—
9:30pm
BEERGARDEN LeMaster
Abrams—7:30pm; n/c
BARN LIGHT DOWNTOWN KVN
H$L—9pm; Hip hop, soul, $2
BLACK FOREST Fabled
Automatic, Internal State,
Splunk—9:30pm; Punk, n/c
THE BOREAL Sojourner, Eternal
Covenant—7pm; $5
BREWERS UNION Satori Bob—
7pm; Americana, n/c
BREWSTATION Joy Miller
Band—7:30pm; Americana, n/c
BROADWAY HOUSE No Chairs
Ensemble—7:30pm; $5-$10
CITY NIGHTCLUB Crystal
Harmony Karaoke—9pm; n/c
COWFISH Sup! w/Michael
Human—9pm; Hip hop, edm,
$3
CUSH CAFE Open Mic—2pm;
n/c
DEADWOOD TAVERN Heavy
Chevy—5pm; n/c
DOC’S PAD Evolve Saturdays—
9pm; EDM, hip hop, n/c
DRIFTWOOD Karaoke—9pm;
n/c
DUCK BAR Karaoke w/Bre—
9pm; n/c
DUCK INN Karaoke—10pm
EL TAPATIO CANTINA DJ &
Dance Music—9pm; n/c
THE EMBERS The Survivors—
9pm; n/c
HAPPY HOURS Peter Giri, Easy
Money—8pm; Rock, n/c
HI-FI LOUNGE Vandfald—10pm;
$5
JAZZ STATION Zvonimir Tot—
7:30pm; $9-$12
JEFFERSON PARK No Folds
Factory Music Festival—3pm;
Rock, rap, techno, n/c
MAC’S Bottleneck Blues Band—
8pm; $5
MOE’S Stone Cold Jazz w/Kenny
Reed—7pm; n/c
MOHAWK Haywire—9pm;
Country, n/c
NOBLE ESTATE Henry Cooper—
6pm; Blues, rock, n/c
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 BREWING Nathan
Miller—6pm; n/c
SARVER WINERY RJ Herb’s
Blues Club Project—5pm; n/c
TRACKSTIRS Karaoke—9pm;
n/c