Underground punk rock to fill Sou’Wester
DJ Calvin Johnson, The Young Pioneers to perform Jan. 9
SEAVIEW, WASH. — Old-
school punk rock will roll
into the Sou’Wester Lodge
on Saturday, Jan. 9. Guitarist
and DJ Calvin Johnson, The
Young Pioneers and Selector
Dub Narcotic will perform at
8 p.m. The lodge is located at
3728 J Place. For more infor-
mation, call 360-642-2542.
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Olympia, Washington, mu-
sic scene, Johnson is known
for his deep, droning singing
voice. A songwriter and mu-
sic producer, he was a found-
ing member of the bands Cool
Rays, Beat Happening, The
Go Team, Dub Narcotic
Sound System, and The Halo
Benders. He is also the found-
er and owner of the indie la-
bel K Records and helped
organize the seminal Interna-
tional Pop Underground Con-
vention.
The Young Pioneers are
a punk rock pop band from
Olympia, formed in 1982
by Chris Pugh, Scott Van-
derpool, Chris Gloekler and
Bradley Sweek. Gloekler was
replaced with Brian Learned
in 1983.
Selector Dub Narcotic
is the pseudonym of choice
for Calvin Johnson when he
is re-mixing records for the
Dub Narcotic Disco Plate se-
ries, or engaged in spinning
records at a party or other
literary functions. Drawing
largely from a stack of 45 rpm
phonograph records, Selector
Dub Narcotic is known to mix
the genres dancehall, soul,
punk, garage, R&B, rock
steady, bubblegum and rocka-
billy with assorted curiosities
of the current underground
music scene.
The Easy Leaves play both sides of the river
Hear acoustic Americana music at Fort George, Pickled Fish
ASTORIA and LONG BEACH,
Wash. — Modern acoustic
roots band The Easy Leaves
will perform several times
in the coming week. First,
the duo will play at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 10 at the Fort
George Brewery in Astoria.
All ages are welcome, there
is no cover, and the brewery
is located at 1483 Duane St.
Then, the band will bring
its Americana music to the
Pickled Fish restaurant atop
the Adrift Hotel in Long
Beach at 7 p.m. Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday,
Jan.12, 13 and 14. All ages
are welcome, there is no
cover, and the hotel is locat-
ed at 409 Sid Snyder Drive.
San Francisco songwrit-
ers Kevin Carducci and Sage
Fifield formed The Easy
Leaves in 2008 immersed
in a diverse set of flailing
rockers, gospel skeptics and
country outlaws. Their ini-
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tial intent was to establish an
old-time string band. How-
ever, this didn’t happen —
at all. In love with too many
different musics, artists as
disparate as Bob Wills and
Smokey Robinson slinking
into their songwriting, Car-
ducci and Fifield gave up
their banjo habits cold-tur-
key.
The Easy Leaves’ sound
was born — a modern acous-
tic sound, its roots kept close
to the chest while tirelessly
sprawling out in new direc-
tions that stretch the borders
of the Americana genre in
exciting ways.
These Sonoma County
farm boys write, record and
perform meticulously craft-
ed songs. Under the guid-
ance of Merle Haggard’s
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The Easy Leaves will perform Jan. 10 at Fort George Brewery in Astoria and Jan. 12, 13 and 14 at Pickled Fish in Long Beach, Washington.
music, and countless other
important poets, The Easy
Leaves have written their
own great collection of po-
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“The 78 Project”, a doc-
umentary by Spike Lee’s
music supervisor currently
on the festival circuit, rec-
reating Alan Lomax’s jour-
ney to capture important
American folk music on its
home porches, found and re-
corded The Easy Leaves for
its film (alongside Rosanne
Cash, Mary Chapin Carpen-
ter, Loudon Wainwright III,
Justin Townes Earl, Richard
Thompson, John Doe of X,
and other great talents.
The Easy Leaves have
been hired as sole sup-
port on shows and runs by
Dwight Yoakam, Ry Cood-
er & Ricky Skaggs, Junior
Brown, Robert Earl Keen,
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band,
Asleep At The Wheel, Kasey
Chambers, Blind Boys of
Alabama, Jim Lauderdale,
Los Lobos, Langhorne Slim
and Lake Street Dive. The
duo has headlined and filled
The Easy Leaves
8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10
Fort George Brewery
1483 Duane St., Astoria
7 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Jan. 12, 13 and 14
Pickled Fish
409 Sid Snyder Drive,
Long Beach, Wash.
All ages
No cover
big rooms in San Francisco,
including Great American
Music Hall, The Indepen-
dent and Mystic Theatre,
and played a main stage set
at last year’s Outside Lands
Festival.