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Sunday, February 10 This Week's Forecast: Super, Furry
One of the more unjustifiably underrated bands around, the Welsh quintet Super Furry Animals play the Doug Fir in Portland tomorrow night. For over a decade now the band that began, rather inexplicably, as a three-piece techno act have been perfecting their post-punk muscial stew with results that have been consistently oustanding, never staid and almost always adventurous. Their latest, Hey Venus!, continues that trend while also reining in occasional excesses of the past, making for a collection of psyched-out pure pop music for the masses.
Also tonight, a lot of other live action to highlight throughout the week. Tennessee's Everybodyfields begin their run as the February installment of the McMenamin's Great Northwest Music Tour on Wednesday night at the Old St. Francis School in Bend. It's the first of six performances in the area over the next couple of weeks, including McMinnville's Hotel Oregon next Saturday night (see our calendar for full details).
Elsewhere, the Kronos Quartet plays the Kaul Auditorium at Reed College (Monday); Limbeck, John Ralston, and others play at Rock n' Roll Pizza in Portland (Monday); Baby Dee and Holcombe Waller play at the Doug Fir (Tuesday); Loch Lomond plays with Kele Goodwin and Paleo at the Funky Church (Wednesday); Vagabond Opera and the Portland Cello Project team up for a bill at the Wonder Ballroom (Thursday); Basia Bulat and opener Amoree Lovell play the Doug Fir (Thursday); Amelia with Silk & Olive are at Mississippi Studios (Thursday); and the Stolen Sweets play the Kennedy School (Thursday);
Jazz great Ornette Coleman is at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (Friday); The Gourds and Shinyribs are at the Doug Fir (Friday); the Drive-By Truckers and the Felice Brothers play the Roseland Theater (Friday); Pink Martini's China Forbes and The Everybodyfields play as part of the LiveWire! radio taping at the Aladdin Theater (Friday); Pinback is at the Wonder Ballroom (Saturday); Dean & Britta play with Keren Ann at the Aladdin Theater (Saturday); Six Organs of Admittance is at the Doug Fir (Saturday); Rachel Taylor Brown plays Mississippi Studios (Saturday, late); and Kimya Dawson makes up her previously postponed date at Music Millenium (Saturday). You, umm, got all that?
We'll also hear from new releases out this week from British Sea Power, The Heavy Circles, and more, and get to several selections chosen with the upcoming Valentine's Day holiday in mind-- and they ain't all happy, either.
Speaking of the holiday that launched 100,000 mixtapes, we'd love to hear your suggestions for V-Day music gold.....or the opposite thereof. The thread's wide open, what's on your minds?
Comments:
On Sunday, February 10 at 11:23pm, inmemoryofjohnpeel said:
SFA have been stunning for years - seem poppy, but listen and subtleties unfold, The 'hit' track though is a bit lame, as in injured by isolation. Unlike a lot of acts where you are dissappointed by the whole SFA's stuff is better listened to in a whole sweeping CD (ie don't buy the greatest hits)
PS - gotta rush back to the FM to see which Moldy Peaches you play
On Sunday, February 10 at 11:45pm, jpetersen said:
Ha-- it's wholly predictable, I'm afraid, given the V-Day theme......
On Sunday, February 10 at 11:56pm, Nicole said:
I know it's a little late now, but in terms of V-Day suggestions, I would go with something along the lines of the Vagina Monologues, given that it is inspired, somewhat around this date... And is actually called the V-Day campaign. Maybe some hard core "I am woman, hear me roar" kind of stuff. Some pro-feminist stuff would fit well. :)
On Monday, February 11 at 12:14pm, inmemoryofjohnpeel said:
I thought the final song (Waits) of the loosely valentine themed show was an exceptional choice, surely now the first song, next show, has to be Valentine's Day Is Over by Billy Bragg.
On Monday, February 11 at 4:27pm, rainlover said:
J -
So Cal says Hi! Liked the Decemberists, but am requesting some XTC - a little jag I'm finding myself in. Maybe Peter Pumpkinhead? thx. Peace, G