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Ed Mudshi is here from Marseille (a city on the south coast of France) to play some “punk ultra-balizé” Saturday night at the Li’l Red Lion. Not sure what ultra-balizé is, but it sounds cool. I’m guessing there’s at least one other band, sorry, I don’t know who.

Formerly local slam poet John Dooley, now a Portlander, returns to his old haunts with his friend Gary Glover. Together they are Hydropods, a spoken word/music collaboration that recently took home an award for “Best Poetry” in the 2009 American Marijuana Music Awards. The duo performs music/poems from their new album, Gorilla and Poems of Pretense, at Muddy’s Hot Cup Saturday, promising “to take your mind to places you normally wouldn’t let it go without an armed escort.”

Kansas City songwriter Dana Cooper‘s new album, Made of Mud, comes out officially on Sunday, but I’m guessing he’ll have a few copies along when he plays a house concert locally on Saturday night. Call 839-7063 if you want to go.

Last but not least, some blatant nepotism: My favorite band on Earth, Cloaks, a pair of Arcata expats now living in Portland (that would be my son Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile) are on a West Coast tour with like-minded PDXers The Slaves. They’re playing an Arcata house show with the Starving Weirdos Wednesday, Sept. 16, at an undisclosed location. E-mail starvingweirdos@yahoo.com and they might disclose where. (You know I’ll be there.)

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