THURSDAY 6/21
AXE & FIDDLE Ronhaar—
8:30pm; n/c
B&B LOUNGE Karaoke—9:30pm;
n/c
THE BARNLIGHT Karaoke w/
Breezy Bee—9pm; n/c
BEERGARDEN. Grand Ronde String
Band & Friends—7pm; n/c
COWFISH '90s Night!—9pm; n/c
CUSH CAFE San Francisco Sound
Test Psychedelic Improvisation
Music Jam—7pm; $2-$3 don.
DEXTER LAKE CLUB Karaoke w/
Jared—9pm; n/c
EMBERS Eazy Money—8pm; n/c
HAPPY HOURS Crystal Harmony
Karaoke—8pm; n/c
JAZZ STATION Geisa Fernandes—
7:30pm; $15
LUCKEY'S Grateful Dead Family
Jam—9pm; Dead covers, $3
MAC'S Skip Jones & Peter Giri—
7pm; n/c
MCSHANE'S BAR & GRILL
Acoustic Underground Open
Mic—7:30pm; n/c
MULLIGAN'S PUB Karaoke—
9pm; n/c
OVERTIME BAR & GRILL Westside
Blues Jam w/Dave Roberts—7pm;
n/c
SAM BOND'S BREWING Jen
Sennett & Cooper Morris—7pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE Deltaphonic
& Whopner County—9pm; $5
SEASONS BAR & GRILL Karaoke
w/ Sassy Patty—8pm; n/c
TERRITORIAL VINEYARDS Barbara
Healy Trio—7pm; n/c
FRIDAY 6/22
BLAIRALLY Church of the '80s
Night—9:30pm; DJ, $3
BRONCO SALOON Karaoke w/
Lindsey—9pm; n/c
COWFISH Freek-Nite w/SPOC-
3PO—9pm; $3
COOLER BAR Justin Case—9pm;
n/c
CUTHBERT AMPHITHEATER
Michael Franti w/ Victoria Canal &
Dustin Thomas—7:30pm; $48.50-
$55
DOC'S PAD Karaoke w/KJ
Power—9pm; n/c
THE DRAKE Dancing—10pm; n/c
DRIFTWOOD BAR Karaoke w/
Slick Nick—9pm; n/c
EL TAPATIO CANTINA Karaoke w/
KJ Rick—9pm; n/c
EMBERS The Survivors—9pm;
n/c
CHILD’S PLAY
A creative mind must openly experience the world
and its muses like a child does his surroundings —
artists must play. Avant-garde pop band Bent Knee
is a sextet that has built a playground when it comes
to music and critical thinking, which they concentrate
into lush soundscapes that question society’s harsh
realities.
Boston-based Bent Knee cemented its six-person
music collective after attending Berklee College of
Music. They pulled together their self-titled album and
dove into a string of tours around the country by 2011.
By 2014, their second album, Shiny Eyed Babies,
caught the attention of Maryland label Cuneiform.
Say So (2016) feels like a concise and mastered
piece in contrast to the band’s earlier sound, as if
they finally stumbled upon a clear translation of
the elements they had been playing with. This more
matured chaos caught the attention of Inside Out
Music (Sony), which Bent Knee signed with last year.
The melodic outcome is akin to a Chuck Palahniuk
story put to a sound frequency: mildly uncomfortable
yet constructed in a way that’s irresistible. Their songs
are elongated into chapters, as if each topic they
FRIENDLY ST. MARKET Dubious
Rubes—6pm; n/c
JAZZ STATION The Octet—
7:30pm; $15
JERSEY'S Karaoke w/Sassy
Patty—8:30pm; n/c
LUCKEY'S CLUB Jesse Meade &
Girin Guha—9pm; $5
NOBLE URBAN Peter Giri & Lloyd
Tolbert—5pm; n/c
O BAR Karaoke w/Jared—9pm;
n/c
PUBLIC HOUSE Butterchuck—
7:30pm; n/c
SAGINAW VINEYARD Cowboy
Cadillac—6pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S BREWING Ariel
Deem—7pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE Tripolee &
Kimset Way—9:30pm; $5
WHIRLED PIES Complicated—
8pm; $10
WILDCRAFT CIDER WORKS Cedar
Teeth & The Slocan Rambers—
7pm; $10
SATURDAY 6/23
AXE & FIDDLE DJ Mixie & DJ
B-Side Strangler Dance
Extravaganza—8pm; n/c
BEERGARDEN. Rob Tobias—
7:30pm; n/c
BLAIRALLY Sara B3 & 45 RPM
Live Soul Revue—9pm; $7
BREW & CUE Sassy Patty, BTM
Karaoke—9pm; n/c
DOC'S PAD Karaoke w/KJ Power—
9pm; n/c
DRIFTWOOD BAR Karaoke w/
Slick Nick—9pm; n/c
EMBERS The Survivors—9pm;
n/c
HAPPY HOURS Mitch & The
Mechanicks—8:30pm; n/c
HI-FI LOUNGE Into The Flood w/
The Dead Horizon—10pm; $5-$8
JAZZ STATION Amy Jones—7:30;
$12
LUCKEY'S CLUB Stovokor—
11pm; $5-$8
MAC'S Skip Jones & The Spirit of
New Orleans—8pm; n/c
MOE'S Barbara Dzuro Jazz Duo
piano & bass—6pm; n/c
MOHAWK TAVERN Thunder
Road—9pm; n/c
NOBLE ESTATE URBAN Darline
Jackson & My Band—5pm; n/c
OLD NICK'S Miss Minksky's
Burlesque—9pm; $8
SATURDAY MARKET North
Eugene Ukulele—10am; n/c.
Edward Mainwaring—11am; n/c.
Anthony McCarthy—noon; n/c.
Humble George—1pm; n/c.
Dennis Smith Project—2pm; n/c.
Uncle Stumbles—3:30; n/c
SARVER WINERY Buffalo
Romeo—6pm; n/c
WHITE HORSE SALOON Karaoke
w/Sarah—9pm; n/c
address has facets that require a separate emotive
ode. Add a theme of soft yet dystopian lyrics, and
you’ve got a story worth listening to.
The plot is set by bassist Jessica Kion and
drummer Gavin Wallace-Ailsworth. Chris Baum (violin)
and Vince Welch (synth, sound producer) embellish
the story with sometimes playful, sometimes chaotic
melodies, which Ben Levin strings together with
adaptive and dynamic guitar work. Courtney Swain
(vocals, keys) narrates tales that question society’s
darker sides with a voice that coos and quivers, wails
and whispers.
Together, the sextet paints scenes of sex and love,
economic and political despair, human nature and its
relationship with technology. According to Swain, the
song “Land Animal” on Say So is a critical examination
of how humanity’s God complex can either flourish or
be destroyed by our capability to create technology.
Although her intent is dense, her lyrics are bare-boned
poetry, adding a digestible quality to the song.
This is perhaps Bent Knee’s greatest strength as
artists: They play with their materials to get listeners
to question, to think critically. That, undoubtedly, is a
work of art. — Kelsey Anne Rankin
Bent Knee plays 8:30 pm Thursday, June 28, at Hi-Fi Music
Hall; $10 adv., $13 door.
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WHIRLED PIES Sprout City Studios
Presents: Battle of the Bands, Night
3—6:30-9:30pm; $5 sug. don.
SUNDAY 6/24
AGATE ALLEY BISTRO Karaoke w/
Breezy Bee—9pm; n/c
AXE & FIDDLE Strange Brau—
2pm; n/c
COWFISH Sun Daze w/Aaron
Jackson—9pm; bass, house,
club, n/c
CUSH CAFE Open Mic—2pm; n/c
THE DRAKE Karaoke—9pm; n/c
THE EMBERS Karaoke w/Sassy
Patty—7pm; n/c
EUGENE MASONIC CEMETERY &
HOPE ABBEY Music To Die For:
Mike & Carleen McCornack—
2pm; 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 Late Show! Aurora
Bridge & Athiarchists—10pm;
$3-$5
PUBLIC HOUSE Breakers Yard
Duo—4pm; n/c
RIVER STOP RESTAURANT Open
Sunday Jam—6pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE Catlow, The
Service Call—9pm; $5
WEBFOOT Karaoke w/KJ Power—
9pm; n/c
WHIRLED PIES Sprout City Studios
Presents: Battle of the Bands, Night
4—6:30-9:30pm; $5 sug. don.
WILDCRAFT CIDER WORKS Jeremy
Pruitt—4pm; n/c
MONDAY 6/25
CENTENNIAL STEAK HOUSE
Karaoke w/Crystal Harmony &
Makada—9pm; n/c
COWFISH Motown Monday w/DJ
Kingsley Strangelove—9pm;
soul, n/c
THE EMBERS Sassy Patty
Karaoke w/Marcus—7pm; n/c
FIRST NATIONAL TAPHOUSE Open
Mic—8pm; n/c
OLD NICK'S The Great Smoking
Mirror, Rock Forming Minerals &
Cigs n' Milk—9pm; $5
SAM BOND'S GARAGE Richard
Crandall & Friends—8pm
TUESDAY 6/26
5TH STREET CORNUCOPIA Jesse
Meade w/ Eric Rowen—9:30-
11:30pm; n/c
CUSH Poetry Open Mic—7:30pm;
n/c
DEXTER LAKE CLUB Acoustic
Night on Taco Tuesdays—6pm; n/c
THE EMBERS DJ Victor—8pm; cur-
rent hits, standards, requests, n/c
LEVEL UP Karaoke w/Kade—
9pm; n/c
LUCKEY'S Amusedays w/ Chaz
Logan Hyde—10pm; $1
MAX'S Classic Crooner
Productions—10pm; karaoke, n/c
O BAR Karaoke w/Jared—9pm; n/c