The Master Musicians of Jajouka and Bachir Attar have to cancel their show at Neumo’s on Tuesday because Homeland Security has to make sure they’re not terrorists. Because they have Arabic names, and people with those same names are on their government blacklist. Typical. I know this is a music blog and all, but I’m so fucking sick of Uncle (cough Big Brother cough) Sam denying musicians visas because they have a name that, in Arabic, is basically the equivalent of “Jones” or “Smith” here. Plus…if you wanted to get into this country, all you’d have to do is come in to a fairly rural place on the Oregon coast. Alas, apparently they played some great shows in Canada, and they’re planning to come back whenever it is that Homeland Security pulls its collective head out its ass and gives them all some damn visas….so it might be a while. Sigh.