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
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