This week's offerings are voteworthy.Byline: BUZZWORTHY by The Register-Guard The election is over, and with so many things on the ballot, almost everyone has something to celebrate. And this week, there are a ton of ways to do just that. Musically, there are a host of heavy hitters heading to local stages. Today, blues singer Ruth Brown is at the Shedd and Les Claypool's latest project - Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains (C2B3) is a rock supergroup featuring guitarist Buckethead, bassist Les Claypool, keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and drummer Bryan Mantia. - plays the McDonald. Sunday brings George Clinton and P-Funk to the McDonald and ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead to the WOW Hall. Monday means former Wall of Voodoo Wall of Voodoo was a New Wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit "Mexican Radio". The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based New Wave music with the spaghetti western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone. frontman Stan Ridgway visits the WOW Hall, while John Prine hits the trail for the McDonald on Wednesday. On Saturday night, Tegan and Sara Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Kiersten Quin (born September 19 1980, identical twins[1]) are Canadian singer-songwriters, performing as Tegan and Sara. Biography and musical career Tegan and Sara were born in Calgary, Alberta. return to Eugene to open for Melissa Ferrick at John Henry's. The Canadian identical twins last rocked the Emerald City in July 2003, playing a rousing set at - where else? - John Henry's. They have a new album out called `So Jealous,' which is filled with perfectly crafted, sparkling pop songs. As Entertainment Weekly put it in September, `Tegan and Sara are a precocious, punky punk·y n. Variant of punkie. Noun 1. punky - minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punkie pop act with a knack for writing brisk songs and vivisecting ex-lovers with a few tart phrases.' Don't miss the chance to catch Tegan and Sara before they outgrow outgrow verb To change the relationship with a condition or structure by dint of ↑ age or size; while children outgrow clothing, and certain behaviors, they rarely outgrow diseases–eg, asthma clubs such as John Henry's in towns like Eugene. Or you can go from CD tracks to sound tracks and head to the cinema. `Alfie,' the 400th film (seemingly) starring Jude Law released this year, opens today at Cinemark and Cinema World. Meanwhile, the Pixar people hope to prove that `Toy Story' and `Toy Story 2' and `A Bug's Life' and `Monsters, Inc.' and `Finding Nemo' weren't flukes. `The Incredibles' - about a superhero called out of retirement to save the world - also opens at Cinema World and Cinemark. Directed by Brad Bird (`The Iron Giant'), it features the voices of Craig T. Nelson Craig T. Nelson (born Craig Richard Nelson on April 4, 1944 in Spokane, Washington) is an American actor. He has appeared in numerous motion pictures. He starred in three television shows, Coach, Call to Glory and The District. , Holly Hunter and Samuel L. Jackson “Samuel Jackson” redirects here. For the senator from Indiana, see Samuel D. Jackson. Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor. . |
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