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Tuesday. June 7
“BITTER TUESDAYS" (Tasty World)
A Bitter Fight Against Nothing
challenges other bands to perform
against them for cash prizes. Upstairs
DJ TR1Z (Tasty World) Playing dance,
classic hip hop funk and soul
Upstairs.
-KARAOKE" (Ktassics) Follow the
words along.
“KARAOKE" (Wild Wing Cafe) An
evening of vocal acrobatics
LAST PICTURE SHOW (Tasty World)
Dusty. West Texan desert rock, fusing
country, roots-rock and Americana.
“LIVE IN THE LOBBY" (WUOG. 905
FM) Every Tuesday at 8 p m. Tonights
performance: Psychic Hearts.
CHIP McKENZIE (Caledonia) The
Joyful Noise frontman performs a solo
set of his exuberant, tuneful pop
NORTH ELEMEM1ARY (Caledonia)
Recalls psych-rock outfits like Flaming
Lips and arty Mercury Rev but incor
porates instruments along banjo and
violin lines as well.
“OPEN MIC NIGHT- (DTS) This is
your chance to shine.
ORDINARY GERMANS LIKE YOUR
SELVES (Caledonia) Trey McManus
and Brian Smith play improvised,
experimental electronic music on two
modified Atari 2600s.
SOTERICN (Tasty World) No informa-
TERRIFIC KID (Tasty World) Check
out the sinQe^ pipes in this FL
screamo five-piece. All angsty and
loud.
"TUESDAY NIGHT JAZZ" (Hoyt
House Pavilion) Carl Lindberg
Quartet 7-1 Opm
XTRA MEDIUM (Georgia Theatre)
Mid-90s rock covers: 311. Rage
Against The Machine. Sublime, etc.
Wednesday. June 8
"BATTLE OF THE BANDS" (Last
Call) Tonight Fault, Hot Box Kings
and Cameo Nova face off in this
summer-long competition.
BIG BANG CIRCUS (Tasty World)
This Porttand. OR group thrusts political
with its underground punk, presenting
music alongside a Jim Rose-styled
sideshow of currert-day camies.
BIG METAL ROOSTER (Georgia
Theatre) Formed in the (all of 2000, Big
Metal Rooster has been a part of the
Midwest jam scene, combining trance
rhythms. Latin-inspired grooves,
melodic expressions, layered harmonies
into psychedelic electric rock, recalling
Zappa and Billy GoaL
BIG GRAY (Caledonia) Lucas Jensen
(Transmatique. Urbosleeks) is behind
(he keys singing his pop songs about
love and macroeconomics while current
and former members of Venice is
Sinking. Bella Coota, Murder Beach and
Reading provide trie backing fuzz-pop
that recalls Call And Response and
Apples In Stereo.
THE BRUNETTES (40 Watt)
Delightfully catchy pop rock from New
Zealand. See p 25
"DISCO NIGHT (Boneshakers)
Playing dance music from the TBs and
90s. Every Wednesday.
HAM 1 (Flicker) Gurtarisi Jim
Willingham (The Gerbils, Harry Carey,
Crown Vic) performs a set of songs off
his self-titled debut album. Tonight Eric
Harris (drums). Chris Sugiuchi (trom
bone), Pete Erchfck (piano) and others
join in. Exuberant quirky and jolly,
Wiilingham is a veil of creativity and his
folk-pop eccentricities always surprise.
8:30 pm
HUNT & THE REVELLimON (DTs)
Hunt Revell and The Revolution is a trio
that shares members with the band
Waicul, Revelft on bass and vocals,
Mike Stokes is on guitar and Phillip -
Tapley handles percussion as the bard
swings through originals, jazz standards
and Radiobead. Beaties and Jack
Johnson covers.
"KARAOKE" (Foxz) A dance party fol
lows the singing 9:30 p.m.
-KARAOKE" (Stan's Bar & Grill) Hey«
Ifs karaoke!
RILO KiLEY (40 Watl) Fronted by
Jenny Lewis, this band has on its new
album More Adventurous turned less
experimental and more sunny, catchy,
poppy and handciappy while still main-
' taining that Saddle Creek jenesais
QUOiS.
LADIES DRINK FREE (DTS) This new
local band blends influences, mixing
rock. jazz, blues, funk and rap.
MARVELOUS REJECTION (DTS)
This new band, fronted by local emcee
Lil Gene, performs tonight. Wending
rock. funk. sod. hip hop and ‘lots of
other stuff.* 8 o ni
OKKERVtL RIVER (40 Watt) Drawing
on a banjo-fueled sound, this band's
dark folk-infused rock tunes have much
in common with the hootstomp of Tom
Waits—if it were tempered with some
Hammond organs and swirly atmos-
* phenes. Good stufl See Box.
THE ONES (Caledonia) Save lor a
handful of solo performances by front-
woman Sara-J Ursrey. this is the second
show folk-influenced dream-rockers
The Ones have put on in three years
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Thursday, June 9
Joseph Chalmers
Wild Wing Cate
As soon as my tent went up and the
cooler and camping chairs had been sit
uated, a torrential rain that was easily
the harshest of the year blessed us. The
annual Casa del Rio event hosted by
Little Green Chairs on May 14, was V
becoming a casualty to the elements.
That didn't prevent me from catching
the dusky (and dry) performance by Joe
Chalmers and his rendition of "Midnight
Moonlight' a song written by Peter
Rowan and made somewhat famous by
the Jerry Garda Band.
Some will remember Chalmers from
his (even) younger days fronting the
very-local band Rubix. A few years ago,
the (mostly) teen-age guys took their
jam-friendly sounds to town and man
aged to gamer a pretty good number of
fans, and even get paid a time or two at the defunct One Love Music & Dance HalL Nowadays,
Chalmers' music is stripped to the core and he is armed with just a six-string and his words, and
maybe the occasional mandolin or a few friends with guitars and harmonies. Tve always felt the
music I write is best presented whh me out in front by myself,' says Chalmers. Tm a big fan of
that natural sound—acoustic music" His shows are a nice mix of originals and obscure covers.
He plays Phish's "Sleep" augmented by a little original instrumental and inevitably the question
rolls in from the crowd, "Is it yours?" To which he admits, "I only wrote half." ^
•, Js there's Rubix reunion in the future? "We had one a few weeks ago," he says and almost
immediately regrets doing so after telling how the impromptu event took a strange turn for the
worse when bassist and bom ag<*in-er Zack Smith took the opportunity during a 15-minute noodle
to espouse his love of God in some less-than-secular, free-styie vocals. Amen. [David Eduardo) v .
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