The Shanty needs to get mentioned more often in this column, and I am happy to oblige tonight. Three rock bands are jamming a free one at 9 p.m. for all comers over 21. We’re talking Sun War Ship, Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes and The Breakfast Collection. And just to show I’m serious […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Feb. 26
Reverso is a transcontinental jazz trio composed of tromboner Ryan Keberle, pianist Frank Woeste and cellist Vincent Courtois. Their latest album, “Between Two Silences,” is a chamber music celebration of the music of Erik Satie, with that chamber sitting like a spinning plate in a hall of mirrors. That’s a high compliment; I loved what […]
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The Clever Hounds
This week’s offering is named after a rugged translation of an old Cajun tune whose name percolates back to a galvanic collision between French and colloquial English from the days before electricity allowed such modern alchemy. I guess I’m inspired by the inscrutable story titles of my late hero Edward Gorey, whose 101st birthday clicked […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Feb. 25
As hinted at in the beginning of the weekend, Brian Weitz, better known as Geologist to fans of his much-loved main band Animal Collective, is bringing his solo act to towntonight at the Miniplex at 8:30 p.m. Expect a lot of loops and sounds undergirding ashocking amount of hurdy gurdy playing from the man himself. […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 21
There are two rock shows happening on either side of the bay tonight, so I’ll spit it outquickly. Jacki & the Jollies are playing a free, all-ages gig with Dragged by Horses atthe Historic Eagle House at 7:30 p.m. An hour and a half later at The Wild Hare, you will find local shoegaze acts […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Feb. 20
Cooper Crain is busy, both as a member of noted Chicago drone band Cave and asone third of Bitchin Bajas, with a more explosive and fancy-free approach to theirexperimental jaunts through the airwaves. I think of track ‘Skylarking’ as a goodexample of the group’s sound, which unfolds like a synthetic barn swallow migratingthrough the transcontinental […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Feb. 19
The Neville Brothers are about as close as it comes to true royalty in New Orleans,containing in their ranks a founding member of funk masters The Meters and, of course, the eponymous band featuring soul superstar Aaron Neville. The youngest member of that family and a noted percussionist for The Meters is landing at Humbrews […]
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Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
I had plans to write about some other things in the intro this week but have instead found myself washed up on another surprise holiday, this one being inconsequential and pretty annoying, President’s Day. I’ll call it Lundi Gras instead out of deference to my former New Orleans home, and like that in-between holiday, I […]
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Comedy Tonight: Sunday, Feb. 15
In the mood for some clean comedy from a nice Midwestern fella? Come by the Arcata Theatre Lounge tonight at 6 p.m. for the microphone stylings of Michael Palascak. A familiar face on the night show circuit, Palascak is a sort of friendly, sitcom-warm Jerry Seinfeld character, if you disregard everything about Jerry Seinfeld outside […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 14
How about an all-ages Queer Prom Party at Siren’s Song Tavern tonight to celebrateCupid’s stupid little annual mess? Join Heaven’s Taint and Clean Girl and the DirtyDishes — with an added theremin player — for an evening of rockin’ costumed fun?No pussyfootin’ around about the costumes, too. There will be a photo booth and acostume […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Feb. 13
It’s the first of a trio of Fridays the 13th in 2026, and what better way to celebrate theeerie auspices on this eve of Valentine’s Day than a night of punk rock at everyone’sfavorite indoor skatepark? Come join locals Brain Dead Rejects, Guffer andSomething Wicked for a team up with East Bay’s East Boys and […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Feb. 12
The Sadies are a second-generation Canadian band who have been playing their coolmix of country and weird rock for three decades from their native Toronto to around the globe. Formerly fronted by the Good brothers, the group has continued on after the tragic death of founding sibling Dallas in 2022, keeping the flame lit for […]