music
THURSDAY
JUNE 13
AXE & FIDDLE Nathan
Kalish & the Last Callers—
8:30pm; $5
BEERGARDEN Meadow
Rue—5pm; n/c
JIMMY MAC'S OVERTIME
BAR AND GRILL Open
Blues Jam w/ Dave
Roberts—7pm; n/c
LUCKEY'S Grateful Dead
Family Jam—10pm; $5
MAC'S NIGHTCLUB &
RESTAURANT Dueling
Pianos—7pm; n/c
MCKENZIE GENERAL
STORE & OBSIDIAN GRILL
Three Finger Jack—6:45pm;
n/c
MCSHANE'S Acoustic
Underground Open Mic—
7:30pm; n/c
OLD NICK'S PUB
Plaguebringer—9pm; $7
SAM BONDS BREWING
FNTN—8pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE Tom
West, Ryan David Orr—
9pm; $6
SILVAN RIDGE WINERY
Halie Loren Jazz Trio & Paul
Biondi Trio at Beyond
Toxics’ 6th annual Bee
Jazzy—5:30pm; $25-30
LISTINGS
TERRITORIAL VINEYARDS
Jerry Zyback & Stan
Welsh—7pm; n/c
THE JAZZ STATION
Andrew Mell’s New
Standards Quartet—
7:30pm; $12
WOW HALL John Kadlecik's
Fellowship of the Wing—
8pm; $22
FRIDAY
JUNE 14
AXE & FIDDLE FNTN—
9pm; n/c
5TH STREET PUBLIC
MARKET Henry Cooper &
the Town and County
Band—6pm; n/c
FRIENDLY ST MARKET
Mike Davis—6pm; n/c
LUCKEY'S Synaptic, Bliss
Foxx, Novacane—10pm; $5
MAC'S NIGHTCLUB &
RESTAURANT The Steve
Arriola Band—8pm; $5
MOE'S Friday Jazz w/ vocal-
ist Julia Timphony—6pm;
n/c
OREGON WINE LAB
Barbara Healy Trio —7pm;
n/c
PFEIFFER WINERY Riffle—
6pm; n/c
SAGINAW VINEYARD Inner
Limits—6pm;
SAM BOND'S BREWING
Stereo Minds—6pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE
Jonathon Warren & the
Billygoats—9:30pom; $7
SESSIONS MUSIC HALL
Minus 5—7pm; $15-18
TERRITORIAL VINEYARDS
Spencer Doidge Trio—7pm;
n/c
THE JAZZ STATION
Explorations in Four—
7:30pm; $12
THE PUBLIC HOUSE Holus
Bolus—7:30pm; n/c
WILDCRAFT CIDER
WORKS DASH w/ Spiller,
Astro Gala—7pm;
WOW HALL Cherry Poppin’
Daddies Release Party—
8pm; $25
WHIRLED PIES Edward
Mainwaring—6pm; n/c
WOW HALL Cherry Poppin'
Daddies CD Release Party—
8pm; $25
SATURDAY
JUNE 15
AXE & FIDDLE The
Firestarters—8:30pm; n/c
BEERGARDEN Dubious
Rubes—7:30pm; n/c
BENNETT VINEYARDS &
WINE COMPANY Riffle—
6pm; n/c
EPIC ELIXIRZ Listening
Room Open Mic—6:30pm;
n/c
HAPPY HOURS Justin Case
—8:30pm; n/c
LUCKEY'S Jake McNeillie &
Co.—10pm; n/c
MAC'S NIGHTCLUB &
RESTAURANT Darline
Jackson's My Band—8pm;
$6
MCKENZIE GENERAL
STORE & OBSIDIAN GRILL
Colin Trio—6:45pm; n/c
OLD NICK'S PUB Password:
Firebird!, Young Hunter, Red
Cloud—9pm;
REALITY KITCHEN Dylan
Meets Johnny Cash—1pm;
SARVER WINERY Scott
Austin—5pm; n/c
SATURDAY MARKET
STAGE 10 am-Rob Tobias;
11am-Gabe Schliffer; noon-
Dave Norman; 1pm-Buffalo
Romeo; 2pm-Inner Limits;
4pm-Still Thinking—n/c
SESSIONS MUSIC LOUNGE
Sons of Oregon, Daddy
Rabbit—9pm; $7
THE JAZZ STATION John
Nastos —7:30pm; $15
TSUNAMI BOOKS Roy Book
Binder—8pm; $22.50
SUNDAY
JUNE 16
AXE AND FIDDLE
Varelse—8pm; n/c
BROADWAY HOUSE The
Ben Rosenblum Trio—
7:30pm; n/c
CIVIC WINERY Side of
Beets—4pm; n/c
LUCKEY'S FNTN, Beast of
Eden—10pm;$5
Can’t Tell Her No
SUMMER CANNIBALS
RETURN TO EUGENE
By Will Kennedy
Summer Cannibals
with LA’s Blushh
Sunday, June 16 • 7 pm
Sessions Music Lounge
$10 advance, $12 door
21-plus
“C
an’t Tell Me No” is the
rowdy
leadoff
single
from Portland garage-
punk quartet Summer
Cannibals’ fourth album,
which has the same name
as the song. In it, Cannibals
bandleader, singer and guitarist Jessica Boudreaux
tells a story about reclaiming her voice and establishing
boundaries after ending an unhealthy personal and
E U G E N E W E E K LY . C O M
creative relationship.
“Drag me down/ You’re a weight on my back/
There’s no saving/ Just had to get the fuck out,” she
sings over musical territory first mapped out by bands
like Sleater-Kinney.
“It’s about doing the right thing,” Boudreaux says in
a press release, “even when it’s terrifying.”
In fact, after ending her relationship, Boudreaux
scrapped an entire Summer Cannibals album, starting
from scratch. Can’t Tell Me No, out June 28, is the result.
RIVER STOP RESTAURANT
Open Jam Session w/ Brian
Chevalier & Tim Donahue—
6pm; n/c
SAM BONDS BREWING CO.
Songsmith Sunday—6pm;
n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE Irish
Jam—4pm; n/c; Jake
Martini, Tara Velarde—
8:30pm; $5
SESSIONS MUSIC HALL
Summer Cannibals w/
Blushh opening—6:30pm;
$10-12
SPECTRUM Soul Night w/
Adebisi—8pm; $7
WILDCRAFT CIDER
WORKS Robert Meade—
4pm; n/c
MONDAY
JUNE 17
FIRST NATIONAL
TAPHOUSE Open Mic—
7:30pm; n/c
LUCKEY'S Jesse Meade—
9pm; $2
MAC'S NIGHTCLUB &
RESTAURANT Open Mic
Night—7pm; n/c
OLD NICK'S PUB Three
Sixes & Cosmic Waste—
9pm; $5
SAM BOND'S GARAGE
Richard Crandall & friends—
8pm; n/c
TUESDAY
JUNE 18
MAURIE JACOBS PARK
Party at Maurie Jacobs Park
w/ DeSolution—5:30pm; n/c
MULLIGAN'S PUB Ibach's
One Man Jam Band—
8:30pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S BREWING
Spinz—5pm; n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE Surf
Drugs, Byrson Cone—9pm;
$5
THE SHEDD The Shedd
Choral Society: Johannes
Brahms—7:30pm; n/c
VIKING BRAGGOT CO.
SOUTHTOWNE The
Onlies—7pm; n/c
WHIRLED PIES Acoustic
Jam—7pm; n/c
WEDNESDAY
JUNE 19
LUCKEY'S Groove Sessions
w/ Groove Crew—10pm; $3
MAC'S NIGHTCLUB &
RESTAURANT Inner
Limits—5pm; n/c
MULLIGAN'S PUB Open
Mic—8:30pm; n/c
THE JAZZ STATION
Jammin' with the Pros—
7:30pm; $3-5
THE SHEDD John Mayall—
7:30pm; $29-39
THE PUBLIC HOUSE
Acoustic Jam—7pm; n/c
WHIRLED PIES The Jazz
Cafe—4pm; n/c
The music is slightly grungey Pacific Northwest
guitar rock that feels familiar but also new, centered
mainly on Boudreaux’s electric personality and
especially in her high-energy performance. Little kiss-
off notes are scattered throughout the record.
“I don’t wanna be one of many/ I know it’s selfish
but I like to be it,” Boudreaux sings over crunchy power
chords on the song “One of Many.”
“I don’t wanna be one of many/ I feel the words
leave and then I panic” — words that are personal yet
universal enough to scaffold the decision-making
process of anyone who knows what they must do, yet
struggles with taking the difficult first step.
Boudreaux invites you in but also keeps her distance,
and this spirit of independence runs throughout the
record.
It’s even reflected in the album art: a picture of
Boudreaux when she was a young girl with sunglasses
on, punk rock attitude in full effect. “My attitude has
leaned that way since I was tiny,” she tells me via email,
admitting she came to rock ‘n’ roll relatively late.
Boudreaux grew up in Louisiana, listening to pop
and country music. “I’ve always connected to and loved
music,” she says. She was also a competitive dancer.
“My first memories of music clicking were probably
through that.”
Summer Cannibals’ last record, Full of It, came
out in 2016. Boudreaux writes music all the time, just
not always for Summer Cannibals. “That’s definitely
streaky for me,” she says, partially explaining the
three-year gap between albums.
Sometimes the songs evolve to the point they’re
unrecognizable, though “sometimes the song that
ends up on the album is almost identical to the initial
demo,” she says.
Boudreaux says the way she is on stage isn’t anything
like the way she is in her day-to-day life, but it’s still
very much a part of who she is. “It’s just a part of my
personality that I reserve for stage,” she says, calling
her band’s pre-show rituals pretty “un-rock ‘n’ roll.”
“We stretch a lot!” she says. “I like to make sure I eat
a good meal so I keep my blood sugar up. That’s about
it.” ■
Summer Cannibals preview Can’t Tell Me No with LA’s Blushh 7 pm
Sunday, June 16, at Sessions Music Lounge; $10 advance, $12 door,
21-plus.
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