Critics warm to Iceage Cobra.Byline: Serena Markstrom The Register-Guard POP NOTES Iceage Cobra is so sure of itself that it posted a negative review of its debut album, "Brilliant Ideas From Amazing People," on its MySpace blog. Within a few days, fans had sprung to the Seattle band's defense, giving the reviewer a bad review. The negative critique was, after all, the exception. Many critics and radio DJs Notable radio disc jockeys include: Jack Armstrong (born 1946) worked at many radio stations over the US, including 50,00 watters like WKYC, Cleveland; WMEX, Boston; CHUM, Toronto; WKBW, Buffalo, and KFI, Los Angeles. who have checked out the disc have enjoyed it. The band's press bio says its members are known in and around Seattle for being rock purists. "These guys are sure to inspire fist-pumpin' and drink-spillin' all over the place," the release says. Diablo's booking person, Ethan Pierce, tends to agree. "I call this new genre party rock," Pierce says in an e-mail. "It's fun, and the kids can dance and rock out at the same time!" The Wednesday show starts off with Gloria at 10 p.m., and Iceage Cobra will be followed by Big Meat. All bands fall under Pierce's "party rock" tag. The cover charge is $3. Diablo's is at 959 Pearl St. Tracy Grammer Saturday, Luna Tracy Grammer is a folk singer who used to live in Portland. She's best known for her work as a duo with her husband Dave Carter, who died of a heart attack in 2002 at age 50. The pair recorded three albums, with Grammer starting as a backup vocalist. She ending up singing lead on half of the tracks by the third album. When Carter died, Grammer went on solo, playing several already scheduled dates. She also continued to perform his songs, because she knew it was Carter's wish. Grammer has released two solo albums, the first of which, "The Verdant ver·dant adj. 1. Green with vegetation; covered with green growth. 2. Green. 3. Lacking experience or sophistication; naive. Mile," has her first original composition. The title track is a eulogy for Carter. Her second CD, "Flower of Avalon," consists of 10 tracks. Nine of them were written by Carter, and one is a traditional folk song folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in recent studies. arranged by William Jolliff. Grammer is touring with songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jim Henry Jim Henry is a name shared by several people:
The Saturday show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $17.50 in advance or $20 at the door. Luna is at 30 E. Broadway. Zero Saturday, WOW Hall Zero - a band with a long, rich history at the WOW Hall - returns to Eugene for a Saturday show featuring an all-star lineup. Martin Fierro, Liam Hanrahan, Donna Jean, Melvin Seals, Jerry Joseph and John Morgan John Morgan is a common name, especially in Wales, UK. Well-known people with this name include: Per profession
Kimock's music is widely known for being influenced heavily by the psychedelic rock styles of the Grateful Dead. and Greg Anton in the group's most recent cast of characters. The San Francisco Bay area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay jam band has been around since 1984. The collective of musicians is riding high off its recent successful run of summer festivals, including a gig on the Main Stage at this year's Oregon Country Fair The Oregon Country Fair (OCF) is a three-day fair that takes place yearly beginning on the Friday of the second weekend in July in Veneta, Oregon, approximately 15 miles west of Eugene, with an attendance of approximately 45,000 over the three day period, with attendance peaking . Founding members Steve Kimock (guitar) and Anton (drums) played together in the Heart of Gold Band with former members of the Grateful Dead. That band eventually morphed into Zero, an all-instrumental group. Zero's fourth release, 1991's "Go Hear Nothin', ' was partly recorded at the WOW Hall, the release says. In 1994, Zero came out with "Chance in a Million," its first album with vocals. The show starts at 9 p.m., and tickets are $25. The WOW Hall is at 291 W. Eighth Ave. Pernice Brothers Saturday, Sam Bond's The Pernice Brothers' track "Zero Refills," from the recent release "Live a Little," was the National Public Radio song of the day for Oct. 11. `(T)he call-and-response chorus - 'I've never given up on you' - stays etched in the memory within two bars," states the NPR NPR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Nepal Rupee. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. review, which calls the band's style baroque pop Baroque pop as a style originated in the mid 1960s as the flipside of sunshine pop. It used similar orchestrations but was infused with a melodramatic edge which differed. Archetypal and seminal Baroque pop performers Much of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds . "It's a wistful, melancholic mel·an·chol·ic adj. 1. Affected with or being subject to melancholy. 2. Of or relating to melancholia. moment of sheer pop bliss." The Pernice Brothers, which includes real-life brothers Joe and Bob, return to Sam Bond's for a Saturday show. The band formed after the 1997 breakup of Joe Pernice's alt-country group, the Scud Mountain Boys Scud Mountain Boys was an American alt-country band. Formed in 1991 in Northampton, Massachusetts, it comprised Joe Pernice, Stephen Desaulniers, Bruce Tull and Tom Shea. The band at first was known as the Scuds, and their early work was influenced by electric rock. . But the Pernice Brothers are not alt-country at all, though the press bio describes the sound of both phases of this Pernice bro's career as "lush." He went from "lush 1970s country sound" to "lush orchestrated pop." Elvis Perkins Elvis Perkins (born February 9 1976) is a folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is the son of actor Anthony Perkins (an Academy-award nominated screen actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho) and photographer Berry Berenson. opens the show at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $10. Sam Bond's Garage is at 407 Blair Blvd. Janet Nelson, Rick Ralston and Peter Almeida Saturday, Vida community center The McKenzie Organization of Songsters and Scribes presents a concert this weekend with Janet Nelson, Rick Ralston and Peter Almeida. The show is 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the center, 90377 Thomson Lane. Each musician will perform an individual set, and then Eugene drummer Joel Narva will join all three in band format. Nelson, Ralston and Almeida are McKenzie Valley residents. They will perform a mix of original compositions and cover tunes in various acoustic styles. There is no charge for admission, but donations will go to the Late Bloomers Garden Club to fund holiday lighting on the Goodpasture Covered Bridge. The Album Leaf Sunday, WOW Hall The Album Leaf, classically trained multi-instrumentalist James LaValle's project since 1999, is touring in support of "Into the Blue Again." The success of LaValle's Sub Pop debut in 2004, "In a Safe Place," allowed him to sequester sequester v. to keep separate or apart. In so-called "high-profile" criminal prosecutions (involving major crimes, events, or persons given wide publicity) the jury is sometimes "sequestered" in a hotel without access to news media, the general public or their himself for six months in his San Diego home and write, a news release says. With the help of several collaborators, he put out the new album. LaValle also brings friends on the road for his "gorgeous live show," the release says. "The show includes a large touring entourage involving projection art and live strings." The show starts at 8 p.m. with Lymbyc System. New York's Dirty on Purpose, a four-piece band with male and female vocalists, goes on before the Album Leaf. Tickets are $10. Amy Speace Sunday, Cozmic Pizza Amy Speace returns to Eugene with her new release, "Songs for Bright Street," put out on Judy Collins' label, Wildflower wildflower Any flowering plant that grows without intentional human aid. Wildflowers are the source of all cultivated garden varieties of flowers. A wildflower growing where it is unwanted is considered a weed. Records. "Amy Speace has one of those fetching voices, the kind that taps you on the shoulder and motions seductively for you to follow it around corner after dark corner," a reviewer for No Depression writes. "You don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. where you're going to end up or how you'll ever find your way back, but that doesn't matter right now: You're enjoying the trip." Speace and her band, the Tearjerks, blend rock, country, folk and Americana. "The lyrics mix the blunt and the poetic, and lay on a hooky melodic bed with just enough crunch to keep it away from the usual sensitive 'singer-songwriter' territory," a news release says. The show starts at 7 p.m. for a $5 cover. Cozmic Pizza is at 199 W. Eighth Ave. Heroes and Villains Sunday, Sam Bond's Heroes and Villains "is five diverse, irrational music nerds painstakingly composing strangely epic pop songs," according to a news release the band sent tucked in a green folder. But this wasn't just any green folder. These creative cats had cut it to look like the front of a man's jacket, complete with glued-on black buttons, a cloth tie draped drape v. draped, drap·ing, drapes v.tr. 1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. over the news content of their package and a real "hello my name is" tag with the band's name handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. with thick black ink. The Portland band's musical inventiveness is right there with its novel press materials. The group, which had its first show in January 2005, has since gone on to perform in front of capacity Portland crowds at the Doug Fir Lounge, the Wonder Ballroom and the Aladdin Theater. Heroes and Villains' debut album is called "Turn Your Swords," and it's filled with, as the band describes it, "untraditional Adj. 1. untraditional - not conforming to or in accord with tradition; "nontraditional designs"; "nontraditional practices" nontraditional " jazz harmony, intricate melody and unpredictable tempo changes. The show is at 9 p.m. for a $5 cover. Crimes of Ambition opens. |
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