Jackie-O Motherfucker

(MUSIC) A freewheeling Portland collective, Jackie-O Motherfucker are linchpins in the chimerical "New Weird America" scene (pace UK mag the Wire). Pundits also call them catalysts of the burgeoning freak-folk movement. All of that critical jargon dissipates once you experience JOMF's whole-grained amalgam of slow-fused improv sorcery and blissed-out balladry. Supporting the best album of their long career, Flags of the Sacred Harp, JOMF excavate and update the holy drone of trad-folk songcraft and beautify free-rock maneuvers. (Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, 324-8000. 8 pm, $7, 21+.)

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Dave Segal

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when it was in decline), Alternative Press (when it was ascendant), XLR8R, Jazz Times, and a slew of alternative weekly newspapers scattered across America. He also DJs weird, obscure records under the name Veins. He probably won’t honor your requests.

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