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About Eugene weekly. (Eugene, Oregon) 1993-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 2017)
WANDERING GOAT Songwriters Night (originals only)—7pm; n/c TUESDAY 11/7 5TH ST CORNUCOPIA Jesse Meade w/Jana Meszaros— 9:30pm; n/c COWFISH Trap-House Tuesday w/ Wes Light—9pm; n/c CUSH Poetry Open Mic—7:30pm; n/c DEXTER LAKE CLUB Acoustic Night w/Brian Chevalier—6pm; n/c THE EMBERS DJ Victor—8pm; current hits, standards, requests, n/c HI-FI LOUNGE David Ryan Harris—6pm; soul, indie, rock, $12-$15. Reggae Night—9pm; reggae jam, n/c LEVEL UP Karaoke w/Kade— 9pm; n/c LUCKEY'S Amusedays w/Chaz Logan Hyde!—10pm; open mic, comedy, n/c MAC'S Roosters Blues Jam w/ Skip Jones & Byron Case—7pm; blues jam, n/c MAX'S Classic Crooner Productions—10pm; karaoke, n/c MOE'S Stone Cold Jazz w/Kenny Reed—6pm; n/c MULLIGAN'S PUB Steve Ibach— 8pm; acoustic, n/c O BAR Karaoke w/Jared—9pm; n/c SAM BOND'S GARAGE Bluegrass Jam—9pm; n/c UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH Delgani String Quartet—7:30pm; classical, $10-$25 WHITE HORSE SALOON Karaoke w/Slick Nick—9pm; n/c WEDNESDAY 11/8 5TH ST CORNUCOPIA Karaoke w/ Slick Nick—9pm; n/c BLACK FOREST Karaoke w/KJ Powers—9pm; n/c THE COOLER Karaoke w/Caught in the Act—9pm; n/c COWFISH Local DJ Review— 9pm; n/c FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ClimateKeyes w/ Alexander Schwarzkopf & Greg Retallack—7pm; Sug. Don. $10 HAPPY HOURS Mama Jan’s Blues Jam w/Brian Chevalier—8pm; n/c HI-FI LOUNGE Funk Night— 10pm; funk jam, n/c HI-FI MAIN HALL Kung Fu & New Mastersounds—9pm; funk, jazz fusion, $18-$22 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, open jam, $3 MAC'S Gus Russell & Paul Biondi—6pm; jazz, variety, n/c MOHAWK TAVERN Karaoke w/ Caught in the Act—9pm; n/c MULLIGAN'S PUB Open Mic— 8:30pm; variety, n/c OLD NICK'S Eugene Order of Steel Happy Hour Bout—9pm; n/c. Sasquatch, House of Broken Promises, Mos Generator, Mountain Tamer—9pm; metal, hard rock, $10-$12 SAM BOND'S GARAGE Novel Ideas, Cave Clove, Jason Hawk Harris— 9pm; folk, indie, country, $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 CORVALLIS & THE REGION FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Albany SA Beethoven, Prokofiev & Lydia Van Dreel—7pm; $15- $18 ASHBROOK INDEPENDENT SCHOOL — Corvallis SU Beethoven, Prokofiev & Lydia Van Dreel—4pm; $15- $18 LASELLS STEWART CENTER — Corvallis SU Natasha Peremski—4pm; Steinway Piano Series, $25- $28 LIZARD PEOPLE Portland indie act Reptaliens contains a lot of contradictions. The band’s central songwriting team, husband and wife Cole and Bambi Browning, share a love story. They came together because of music, and Bambi says she finds marriage not unlike being in a band. “You have to be really emotionally honest, open and vulnerable,” she says. “It’s really similar to being in any relationship, especially a romantic one.” And, Cole adds: “It’s nice ’cause we’re always together. It’s kind of fluid — band life and outside life.” Reptaliens come to Eugene behind their latest release, FM-2030, out now on Captured Tracks. And it’s here that more contradictions spring up. The music on FM-2030 is light and airy, recalling romantically aloof French pop and gentle indie rock from bands like Belle and Sebastian: cloudy but also dreamy, cottony but also angular. Listen closely, Bambi Browning says, and you’ll hear a dark undertone to the music. When writing lyrics, Browning says, “I like to get in the mind frame of someone who has a deep, life- altering discussion.” She finds inspiration in sci-fi, stalking, cult leadership, anything bizarre and different. “I want to crawl out of my skin!” she sings on “Simulation.” Even the band’s name is a reference to the internet-fueled conspiracy theory that we’re all ruled by a secret race of lizard people. Sometimes, Browning says, listeners are fooled by the band’s innocent exterior. “People will interpret the lyrics like, ‘This is a really cute love song!’” But she enjoys slipping a little vinegar into Reptaliens’ sweet cocktail. Reptaliens play with Eugene’s Surfsdrugs and well-known Washington-state indie rocker Karl Blau 10 pm Saturday, Nov. 4, at Hi-Fi Music Hall Lounge; $5, 21-plus. — Will Kennedy CLUB 100 YEARS 10PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD: READY STEADY SOUL & GARAGE! ($3) (SOUL, GARAGE DJS) 10PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH: BAD GIRLS COMEDY HOSTED BY MIKE MCGOWAN ($5) (COMEDY, BURLESQUE) MIDNITE OPEN MIC 12AM 933 Olive St | 541-687-4643 830 Olive St | 541-343-3204 luckeysclub.com • In the heart of the Barmuda Triangle LIVE Jazz eugeneweekly.com • November 2, 2017 53
