the hum / By Bob Doran

Collective Consciousness

Humboldt honkytonk heroes Rooster McClintock play the Alibi Saturday night with TheBoredAgain opening the show. Great band name, and thanks to the wonders of the Internets and MySpace, I was able to learn more about them, or rather him, since TBA is actually a one-man band consisting of someone aka Dave-o. He’s funny, clever to a fault, and I’m guessing he’ll be happy if you hand him a PBR before, during and/or after his set. Just don’t try prying the can from his “Cold Dumb Hands.”

A couple of notable concerts on the classical front: Friday brings a quintet called Spanish Brass or Luur Metalls to the Arkley Center. These guys have been together for 20 years and are something like the Knonos Quartet of brass music, playing a hip, varied repertoire, commissioning new works, and so on. The program planned for Eureka, presented by the Humboldt Community Concert Association, ranges from Bach and Falla to pieces by Ellington, Jobim and Cuban jazzman Paquito d’Rivera.

The following night, Sunday Jan. 25, brings what’s being hailed as the “birth of a wind ensemble” to Fulkerson Recital Hall. “It’s something that wind players in Humboldt County have been talking about for 10 years,” says Ken Ayoob, director of the nascent North Coast Wind Ensemble, a collection of 33 local instrumentalists. Their debut program includes Percy Grainger’s “Lincolnshire Posy,” contemporary composer Frank Ticheli’s “Blue Shades,” a suite drawn from George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” and other windy pieces.

Looking for “freaky bass exposure and dubstep beats”? Transparents Productions and Limitless Unlimited present Pressure Drop Saturday night at Empire Squared featuring Roommate and The Antiserum up from San Fran,plus DJ Jrunq, Psy Fi, Cadence, Subaddiction and Mike D. — no, not Dronkers —with visuals by Rhett Brice and live art in action bythe E-2 folks. Note:The party starts early and presumably ends early, which means you could bounce from there to the Jambalaya where Dub Cowboy and co. will be laying down more dubstep for the weekly mission:CRITICAL.

Speaking of critical missions, isn’t that what Obama was talking about in the big i-speech? Are you ready to choose “hope over fear” and pull together to set things back on track? I’m there, down with O. How about you?

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