Rogue Sounds

What connotations does the month of November bring to mind? Thanksgiving, sure... and the change back to standard time. Anything else? Maybe a good month to go catch live music before the heart of the holiday season sets in?

Josh Gross makes the case for taking in some concerts, in another installment of Rogue Sounds. He checks out the scheduled music events up and down the region, and settles on five bands to highlight for the coming weeks.

The November list:

• The Color 8 at The Dip in Redding on Sat., Nov. 4
  
• Fantastic Flying Foelsche at Johnny B’s on Nov. 10
  
• Viv & Riley at Cederwood Barn in Talent on Sat., Nov. 11
  
• Bella White at Armory on Nov. 13
  
• Young Dubliners at The Dip on Tue., Nov. 14

The days are shorter, the nights are cooler (mostly), but music knows no season. Josh Gross, our resident music hunter, scans the horizon for news of exciting bands playing gigs in the region. He assembles a list of five for our monthly Rogue Sounds segment.

Tune in for news of gigs from Mount Shasta to Cave Junction, including a music/cinema event in Medford and Ashland on successive nights in the middle of the month.

The full list for October:

• Box Elder at Johnny B’s (Medford) on 10/7
  
• Bart Budwig at Jefferson Center for the Arts (Mt. Shasta) on 10/17
  
• Sleepbomb at Johnny B’s on 10/18 and Local 31 (Ashland) on 10/19
  
• Balkan Bump at Ashland Armory on 10/27
  
• Gorilla Toss at Bruno’s Cavern (Cave Junction) on 11/1

Summer was chock-full of musical events until the smoke season arrived and forced the cancellation of some outdoor concerts. Here's hoping the next few weeks will feature less smoke and more music. Josh Gross, a music maker, player, and critic, compiles a monthly list of gigs for us in a regular feature we call Rogue Sounds.

Five musical acts playing the region get headlined. Listen for the tunes and the places to hear more of them, when Josh Gross checks in.

The list for September:

• Modern Natives at Johnny B's in Medford on 9/8 and at The Haul in Grants Pass on 9/9

• King Dream at The Dip in Redding on 9/8

• Marty O'Reilly at the Fry Family Farm in Medford on 9/9

• Stetson Heat Seeker at Local 31 in Ashland on 9/25

• Sam Chase and the Untraditional at The Dip in Redding on 10/4

In a month, we'll be talking a lot less about the summer music scene, and probably a bit more about back-to-school issues. So get out and enjoy some music from a band you like or want to know, because summer won't last.

Josh Gross, a music maker, player, and critic, compiles a monthly list for us in a regular feature we call Rogue Sounds. Five musical acts playing the region get headlined. Listen for the tunes and the places to hear more of them, when Josh Gross checks in.

The list for August:

• The Toasters at Johnny B's - Medford on 8/23
• Velvet Starling at The Dip - Redding on 8/5
• Cake at Britt - Jacksonville on 8/5
• Michaela Davis at The Dip - Redding on 8/8
• Tash Sultana at Britt - Jacksonville on 8/26

Our monthly roundup of musical acts playing in the region includes modern versions of surf music. That would be the band Franks and Deans, playing Johnny B's in Medford in the middle of the month.

Music maker and writer Josh Gross rounded up the news of their gig for the latest edition of Rogue Sounds. And it's quite a summer grab-bag, including a couple of kinds of country (or western) music, plus a very hard-to-describe rap act. Listen in for a sampling of music for what certainly feels like the peak of the music performance season.

You know that thing where you hear a song for the first time, and it gets stuck in your head--an "earworm?" We get those in batches of five every month, when Josh Gross stops by with a new edition of Rogue Sounds.

Josh scans the schedules of musical acts playing in the region in the weeks ahead, and delivers a variety pack of places and performers. This month's Rogue Sounds ranges from Central Point to Redding, from country to... not-country, is the best description. It's quite a tuneful bunch, as always.

Here's the list:

• Shakey Graves at Britt in Jacksonville on 6/11 https://www.shakeygraves.com/
• Frank Ray at Rogue Music Fest in Central Point on 6/17 https://lnk.bio/frankraymusic
• Starover Blue at The Dip in Redding on 6/16 http://www.staroverblue.com/
• Blurry Stars at Johnny B’s in Medford on 6/14 https://www.seanalanmusic.com/blurrystarsepk
• Twisted Pine at Jefferson Center for the Arts in Mount Shasta on 6/18 https://www.twistedpineband.com

The warming of the season corresponds with a warming up of activity on the music scene. Music venues across the region are getting busy preparing for coming acts.

Josh Gross, music maker and music critic, puts together a collection of acts for the weeks ahead, in our monthly Rogue Sounds segment.

Josh visits once again to let you hear the music in advance, as we explore the Rogue Sounds master list for May.

And here it is:

• Haley Heynderickx at Fry Family Farm, Medford, May 12
• Escape from the Zoo at Johnny B's in Medford, May 22
• The Suitcase Junket at Jefferson Center for the Arts in Mount Shasta, May 24
• Nekromantix at The Dip in Redding, May 24
• Ashland World Music Festival (Jake Blount featured), May 26-29
  

There's exactly ONE voiced vowel in pronouncing "Oregon." And it's that first O... the last syllable is supposed to sound like "ghin." So it turned us upside down when the leadoff band for this month's edition of Rogue Sounds with Josh Gross turned out to be "Orgone." You can guess how to pronounce THAT name.

The band lights up the stage at Bruno's Cavern in Cave Junction this weekend, just one of several musical events we'll highlight in our monthly visit with Josh. Hear the music in advance, as we explore the Rogue Sounds master list for April.

Here's the list for April:

• 4/9 - Orgone at Bruno’s Cavern in Cave Junction
  
• 4/12 - Vertycan Arc Materializer at JB’s in Medford
  
• 4/14 - Hutchie at Local 31 in Ashland
  
• 4/16 - California Honeydrops at Ashland Armory
  
• 4/27 - No Lights at The Dip in Redding

We get a quick lesson in "psychobilly" on this month's edition of Rogue Sounds, with music maker and critic Josh Gross.

If you've heard of rockabilly (think Stray Cats), just turn the volume up to 11. It's a genre played by the band Koffin Kats, playing a gig in Medford on the first full day of Spring (March 21st).

We hear music from this band and others when Josh Gross visits to pick the highlights of music gigs for the month.

The full roster:

• Robert Wynia Trio, Saturday March 25 at Sunnyside in Roseburg
• Koffin Kats, Tuesday March 21 at Johnny B's in Medford
• Hooveriii, Wednesday March 29 at The Dip in Redding
• Hippie Death Cult, Friday March 24 at The Dip in Redding

You might remember the light pop or swingy versions of "I've got you under my skin." by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and Frank Sinatra. Now you get to hear it--done big--in the vocal chords of Oregon's own Storm Large. She's just one musical act touring the region in the month of February.

Josh Gross, a music creator, writer, and critic, follows the music scene in the region and chooses five musical acts to feature in our monthly visit.

This month's list: Storm Large, Feb. 25 at the Craterian, Medford.
Sunwell, Feb. 24 at Sunnyside Theater in Roseburg.
Beats Antique, Feb. 8 at Historic Ashland Armory.
Black Joe Lewis, Feb. 14 at The Dip in Redding.
Tall Heights, Feb. 10 at Rogue Theatre, Grants Pass.