Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the Febu-weary B9:
➤ I remember in the ’90s falling hard for a weird pop song about freakish adolescent self-consciousness sung in a kind of turgid baritone called “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” (certainly the bane of back-announcing radio DJs everywhere). That elliptically titled song was an enormous hit in 1993 and it came to us via the Canadian band Crash Test Dummies. I bought the Winnipeg band’s breakout album, “God Shuffled His Feet,” and was delighted to find more material just as peculiar and richly tantalizing as the big hit. The Dummies faded with the passing years, but now they’re back, with original singer Brad Roberts, he of the bottom-heavy baritone. The good news is that the band’s most recent tour brings them to Felton Music Hall next Wednesday. Maybe it’s time for a little nostalgia for an era when sweetly oddball bands could make a dent in the mainstream. I sure miss those days.
➤ Hard to comprehend a world without the distinctively unsettling vision of filmmaker David Lynch, who died a couple of weeks ago. But the folks at Santa Cruz’s Indexical are there for you Lynch fans looking for a way to publicly mourn. Indexical is hosting a screening Friday of Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” followed by an onstage interview with the film’s sound editor, with donations all going to fire relief in Lynch’s beloved L.A.
➤ Opening next week at the Cabrillo Gallery on the campus of Cabrillo College is an appropriately wintry art show titled “Light Gets In,” showcasing the work of conceptual artist Ann Resnick and photographer/printmaker Sarah Sanford. As the title suggests, this show is all about the quicksilver qualities of light, a nice avenue into some serene February contemplation.
➤ Yes, her name is a challenge to spell, but singer-songwriter Haley Heynderickx is turning heads with a seductive style of woodsy, rural folk sound that recalls everything from Fairport Convention to Leo Kottke, particularly resonant if you’re familiar with the Pacific Northwest. She comes to the Rio on Friday.
➤ There’s a suddenly out-of-style (but stubbornly appealing, to some of us) idea about American culture, as a kind of crossroads of world cultural influences. That idea is personified in the American Patchwork Quartet, which celebrates American music and infuses it with Asian, African and other world influences. The beautifully united diversity of APQ revisits the Kuumbwa Jazz Center on Friday.
➤ Sure, you probably checked out the “8 Tens @ 8” mini-play festival at Actors’ Theatre last week, and caught eight fun 10-minute plays. But here’s a secret: There’s actually 16 of them. The festival comes in two separate programs, so if you saw one, there’s another waiting for you.
➤ Veteran singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler has an amazing gift that expresses itself in two distinct ways. She is capable of stunningly rich and textured songs of introspection and self-revelation (check out the autumnal and gorgeous “Driving Home”). Yet, on stage, she is not shy in showing her ironic, even salty sense of humor, evident in perhaps her most popular song. (Hint: It’s about potatoes.) Check her out Friday at Felton Music Hall.
➤ To be hip to Santa Cruz skate/surf culture is to be aware of the magnificent and deeply influential graphic art and illustration of Jim Phillips, the mind behind both the Santa Cruz Skateboards “Red Dot” logo and the Screaming Hand. Phillips is the subject of a great new documentary that is illuminating both of Santa Cruz and the glory days of skateboarding’s youth. See it next week at the Rio.
➤ Steve Wilson is a veteran jazz composer, trombonist and instructor at Cabrillo College, and one of the longtime linchpins of the local jazz community. He’ll jam with many of his jazz friends, as part of Santa Cruz’s rich jazz subculture, as part of the Kuumbwa Jazz Center’s yearlong 50th-anniversary series, “Spirit of ’75.”
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