Bandemonium!

Olympian neo-psyche rockers Nudity share a bill with Dragged by Horses Saturday night at the Alibi. Our headbanger critic Mike Mannix offers his take on the new Nudity album, The Nightfeeders, in the review section elsewhere in this issue. Check out Mike’s new blog (behindtheredwoodcurtain.blogspot.com) and you can listen to a track from the album.

Saturday at Humboldt Brews, you can hear a world-beat band from Reno called Sol’Jibe. Now “world-beat” is a loose term that can mean all sorts of things. In this case it means violinist Tim Snider and guitarist Milton Merlos, friends since high school, spent time in southern Spain listening to music of the Gypsies, which lends a certain Gipsy Kings feel to their sound. When they returned to Reno to study jazz at U. of Nevada, they hooked up with a soprano saxophonist and a percussionist, then with a jazz pianist and a drums/bass rhythm section. Since then they’ve traveled around the Caribbean — including a few weeks in residency at the National School of Music in Havana — picking up new rhythms and melodies. Add all that together and you get world-beat tending toward the smooth Latin jazz side.

For your weekly dose of reggae head down to the Mateel Sunday, where Bonus Entertainment presents conscious reggae star Luciano in a solo show to celebrate the release of his new VP album, Jah Is My Navigator. Doors at 8. Stevie Cultureopens. As usual the bar upstairs benefits the Mateel Community Center.

After a long hiatus, Muddy’s Hot Cup eases back into music Monday, Feb. 18, with the return of the Ladylike Open Mic aka Menstrual Mondays. As noted in a press release, “Women and girls of all ages and orientations are welcome to come express themselves.” Considering the complaints that led to the hiatus, one might add that they can express themselves freely — just not too loudly.

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