Jen Savage
Monday-Friday from 10am-2pm
Jennifer Savage came into the world as a country girl, but was transplanted to Southern California while still impressionable. Elvis Costello's ImPeRiAl BeDrOoM album changed her life early on, and she still remembers being run out of her town's record store after asking for music by The Cure. Jennifer spent the early nineties having babies and slinging cocktails in a punk-grunge-rockabilly-shoegazer-blues club. The math claims she saw over 1200 bands during that time -- unfortunately, she is estimated to also have imbibed about 1200 cocktails simultaneously, so it's all a bit hazy. Currently, in addition to raising her brood and arguing with her husband about the historical value of new wave, she works as Scene Editor for Arcata's independent weekly newspaper the Arcata Eye, occasionally reviews music and books for HipMama magazine and quite often blows off all of the above when the south winds are on.
Jen Savage can be heard on the Slug Scene every Thursday at 3:00pm on KSLG.

SOME LINKS (besides the above):
  • www.jennifersavage.net Does this really need explanation?
  • Walking Bicycles have a classy site. www.walkingbicycles.com
  • Eye staff meeting room aka The Alibi- (Where bands can bribe me with vodka gimlets and French fries).
  • Your kids won't appreciate how cool you are, but HipMama will.
  • The Placebo- The most undervalued venue in Humboldt. Support the kids! Support the music!
  • Greenhouse Surf, because Monty and Jess are such nice guys -- and ask Jess about Humboldt Surfriders!


Here are some CDs Jen thinks you should go out and buy:
Local rock starter kit:

 • The Rubberneckers This is the Whiskey Rebellion
• Walking Bicycles Walking Bicycles
• Trash and Roll Call it What You Want
• The Hitch The Hitch
• Los Bandidos Muertos Who knows what it's called? Their slacker bass player Craig keeps saying, "I'll get it to you," but do I have it yet? Noooooooooooooooo. Lucky for them, the other two guys in the band are nice enough fellows.

Historical context:
• Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime
• PJ Harvey Rid of Me
• X Under the Big Black Sun
• Tom Petty Greatest Hits
• Pixies Surfer Rosa
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Bands and other music fanatics can contact Jennifer at jen@kslg.com -- or just send swag (child's large or women's medium) to Arcata Eye, 791 Eighth St., Arcata CA, 95521.