The Outer Space is hosting an indie rock show in its all-ages, sober space at 7 p.m. tonight. Traveling bands Simple Shapes from Portland and Poppyfield from Santa Cruz will converge from their respective cities to form a musical quorum with local bands Pennies for Pluto and Lxs Perdidxs for some bopping and strumming ol’ […]
Lxs Perdidxs
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Overture
I am running down a deadline and the music I’m listening to while writing has just shifted to Rachmaninoff, so time is ticking away along with the score. For those of you wondering if there is a contradiction when I mention a different act I’m listening to while writing in the text below, there is […]
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The Clever Hounds
This week’s offering is named after a rugged translation of an old Cajun tune whose name percolates back to a galvanic collision between French and colloquial English from the days before electricity allowed such modern alchemy. I guess I’m inspired by the inscrutable story titles of my late hero Edward Gorey, whose 101st birthday clicked […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Dec. 8
Speaking of all-ages fun, the new Siren’s Song Tavern is hosting a trio of rockingdelights tonight at 8 p.m., where $5 gets you in the door and on the floor in front ofSuper Apes, Clean Girl & the Dirty Dishes and Lxs Perdidxs.
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Oct. 25
Folk, country and bluegrass singer-songwriter Michael Hagen has been performing solo in our county under the name Oak Top for quite some time now, but all that is coming to an end, as Hagen is set to begin the next phase of his life in Tennessee. Come celebrate his swan song Cali show at the […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Jan. 8
Ellensburg is one of those towns in Eastern Washington on the road from Tacoma to Spokane, where, to the casual traveler, a whole lot of nothing goes on in the far slope of the Cascade Mountains. However, there are gems from nearly every outpost in this vast land we call home, and one such act […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 2
It’s Taco Tuesday again at Richards’ Goat and the connected Miniplex venue is putting on a NOTAFLOF show headlined by Eugene-to-San Francisco queer honky tonk band Country Risqué, whose tunes sound like the late Gram Parsons MC-ing a drag show set in the world of Robert Altman’s Nashville. Also on board with these Grievous Angels […]
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Zero the Hero
As far as humiliation rituals go, another debate between two of the oldest and worst men to ever run for president (with four more years of decrepitude stacked on since their previous showdown) seems like something beneath the dignity of most people I know. When Alexis de Tocqueville gave his speech on socialism — he […]
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All The Old Familiar Places
I’d like to share with you, dear reader, an experience I had recently. For the purposes of this story, I’m going to say that it’s true but you can treat it like the dreamy introduction to Dante’s Inferno or the beginning of a Twilight Zone episode, if that works better for you. I found myself, […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Aug. 31
Blondie’s is the place to be tonight, as traveling glam rock troubadour Scott Yoder returns to Humco for a set that is guaranteed to be redolent of the golden space age of the 1970’s, the gender bending ground zero of one of the greatest movements in musical history. Local support comes from some of our […]
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Solidarity Forever
I’m not going to waste too much of your time here, as we all have a long weekend ahead, one we can enjoy collectively only because of the efforts of the greatest collective struggle of all time, and the one least reported on in our country because the struggle isn’t over yet. I am talking […]