the hum / By Bob Doran

Organic Neo-Tribal Electronica

Boris Garcia, an accomplished jamgrass band with various Dead connections, plays Sunday at Humboldt Brews. One connection is Grateful Dead historian David Gans, who’s been championing B.G. Gans also plays in the opening band, Rubber Souldiers, a Beatles tribute trio where he’s joined by the Rowan Brothers, Lorin and Chris. He describes the concept as, “Beatles vocabulary with a Grateful Dead syntax,” explaining, “The Beatles wrote all these kick-ass songs and these amazing grooves, and then they quit ‘em after three minutes. And so we’re stretching them out and stringing them together.”

The next Monday Budget Rock show at the Jambalaya (Nov. 9) is a Panache thing with four bands: Portland-based alt. garage duo Panther, who record for Kill Rock Stars, and drone-psyche duo Sun Circle from “Vermontana,” plus locals The Zac Institute (a trio, just playing Zac’s songs) and Marty’s musical madness The Mr. Moonbeam Show.

Same night across town at Humboldt Brews, Kyp Malone, the bearded singer/guitarist for Brooklyn megaband TV on the Radio, plays with his solo project, Rain Machine, touring behind an eponymous album just out on Anti-. Malone describes Rain Machine’s psyche-soul-jazz music as “a nearly full spectrum of frequencies audible to the human ear, a reflection of a variety of emotions and situations real and imagined - some rhythm some rhyme.”

Hard rockers The Generatorz serve as hosts for the next Tuesday Blues Jam at the Jambalaya. Singer Madi Simmons notes, “I am going to be coming with that Chicago blues style that I was brought up in.”

The KHSU Classical Celebration Friday evening at the Arkley Center is a continuation of the year-long 50th anniversary bash, in this case with a focus on the station’s morning mainstay, locally-produced classical music programs. To celebrate veteran deejays like Felicia Oldfather, Ed Campbell, Bonnie Burgess, Richard Stanewick, Ben Tankersley and Cynthia Graebner, they’ve assembled a classical concert with music associated with the respective shows played by the Humboldt Symphony and a collection of smaller ensembles with HSU profs/alums John Chernoff, Paul Cummings, Carol Jacobson, Cindy Moyer and Virginia Ryder, plus guitarist Nicholas Lambson doing a solo performance.

In an unfortunate coincidence, the Classical Celebration takes place at exactly the same time the youngish Parker String Quartet plays a concert at Calvary Lutheran Church as part of the Eureka Chamber Music Series. Unfortunate because the loyal audience for Pearl and Bob Micheli’s series is made up of the same folks who listen to KHSU’s late morning lineup.

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