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About Eugene weekly. (Eugene, Oregon) 1993-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 2017)
THE EMBERS DJ Victor—8pm; current hits, standards, requests, n/c LEVEL UP Karaoke w/Kade— 9pm; n/c LUCKEY'S Amusedays w/Chaz Logan Hyde!—10pm; comedy, open mic, n/c MAC'S Roosters Blues Jam w/ Skip Jones & Byron Case—7pm; blues jam, n/c MULLIGAN'S PUB Steve Ibach— 8pm; acoustic, n/c O BAR Karaoke w/Jared—9pm; n/c OLD NICK'S Weirdo's Experimental Open Mic w/ Jevon—9pm; n/c SAM BOND'S GARAGE Bluegrass Jam—9pm; n/c VANILLA JILL'S Open Mic—7pm; variety, n/c WHITE HORSE SALOON Karaoke w/Slick Nick—9pm; n/c WOW HALL Kyle Bent, Johnny Oz, Black Dave, The HittList—9pm; $15-$18 WEDNESDAY 9/6 5TH ST CORNUCOPIA Karaoke w/ Slick Nick—9pm; n/c AXE & FIDDLE Parsonsfield— 8:30pm; eclectic, bluegrass, $10 BLACK FOREST Karaoke w/KJ Powers—9pm; n/c THE COOLER Karaoke w/Caught in the Act—9pm; n/c COWFISH Submerged w/Rico & Olivier—9pm; deep-house, tech- no, disco, n/c HAPPY HOURS Mama Jan’s Blues Jam w/Brian Chevalier—8pm; n/c HI-FI LOUNGE Funk Night— 10pm; funk jam, n/c ISLAND HUT Karaoke w/Jared— 5pm; n/c JERSEY'S Karaoke w/Sassy Patty—8pm; n/c LUCKEY'S Wednesday Night Groove Sessions w/The Sunday Bump!—10pm; funk, jazz, $3 MAC'S Gus Russell & Paul Biondi—6pm; n/c MOHAWK TAVERN Karaoke w/ Caught in the Act—9pm; n/c MULLIGAN'S Open Mic—8:30pm; variety, n/c OLD NICK'S Salo Panto, Beepsters—9pm; indie rock, $5 PARK BLOCKS The Illaquips— noon; n/c SAM BOND'S GARAGE Shane Smith & The Saints—9pm; $7 SIDELINES SPORTS BAR Karaoke w/Mike—9pm; n/c VANILLA JILL'S Open mic—8pm; poetry, music, n/c WAYWARD LAMB Lipsync Battle—9:30pm; n/c WEST END TAVERN BTM Karaoke—9pm; n/c WHIRLED PIES DOWNTOWN Whirled Music Series ft. The Winterlings—6pm; indie-folk, n/c WOW HALL Days N Daze w/ GroundScore, Juicy Karkass & Not A Part of It—9pm; folk-punk, $10-$12 PUNK HATES HATE In the early 1980s, classic New York hardcore band Reagan Youth sang “We are Reagan Youth!” dropping a “sieg heil” for satirical effect. This was in keeping with punk’s rejection of flower-power’s pacifist tendencies in favor of more confrontational approaches. Reagan Youth made their name co-opting these kinds of controversial KKK and Nazi images, making political, anti-racist and anarcho-punk statements that sadly — nearly 40 years later, with neo-Nazis marching in American streets — feel more relevant than ever. In the classic song “New Aryans,” Reagan Youth sings: “No master race will ever rule this land.” And from “I Hate Hate”: “Why waste the life you live/ Hate makes waste — I’m positive/ Why hate the life you live/ Life’s to love — I’m positive.” So it’s clear Reagan Youth is staunchly anti-fascist. But this is all within punk’s childish, absurd and almost Dadaist approach to reducing and reassigning the power behind what ultimately are empty symbols. When is a swastika simply a swastika and when, and how, does it become loaded? Can this iconography ever be subverted? We’re in a postmodern time when words are weaponized, and even gender pronouns can be dangerous. There’s a lot disagreement these days about the power of symbols — when and how words and imagery cross the line from abstraction to aggression. This might be risky territory for a reunited Reagan Youth. But to help understand a president in the White House who’s openly sympathetic to white supremacists, tacitly implying they “have a point,” we may more than ever need punk bands like Reagan Youth to take those kinds of risks. Reagan Youth plays with 13 Scars as well as Eugene bands Not a Part of It and Critical Shakes 9 pm Thursday, Aug. 31, at Old Nick’s; $10, 21-plus. — Will Kennedy CORVALLIS & THE REGION INTERZONE — Corvallis SA Lawn Chairs, Dr. NEON— 7:30pm; pop-punk, $5 don. BRITT PAVILION — Jacksonville SA Daughtry—7:30pm; $34- $69 WE Michael Franti & Spearhead—7pm; $31-$52 eugeneweekly.com • A ugust 31, 2017 23
