the hum / By Bob Doran

Musical Locavore

Across town that same Thursday, it’s the monthly night of music for tango dancers with Yo Tango! playing early (7 p.m.). Later on saxman Chris Noonan‘s Liquid Lounge kicks in with yet-to-be-announced local musicians playing jazz etc.

Peace of Mind Orchestra is what you might call a neo-local band. The duo, Ari Leopold and Matt Engel, came here from New Orleans, and now calls Arcata home, at least when they’re not on the road. Just returned from a jaunt up to Oregon, PoMO is getting ready to head east for a January run to Colorado, on to the Midwest, then down to the (warmer) South. But first the little orchestra plays a free local show: Catch them Friday at the Jambalaya.

Also on Friday, the longtime locals in the relatively new country rock band Cadillac Ranch play a show at Six Rivers up in McKinleyville.

The David Nelson Band is not from here — the veteran psychedelic country rockers are out of Marin — but they play here so often it almost feels like a local band. DNB returns for a show on Friday at Humboldt Brews.

Looking for thumping electro-dance music? Take your pick: At Arcata Theatre Lounge, Bay Area-based “dirty electro house” duo Helicopter Showdown plays Friday night with DJ Bitcrusher from Napa and AudioBomb “from LA to Sac-town, the Bay Area and back down!” Meanwhile at the Red Fox, SF dubstep DJ Antiserum is joined by Arcata’s Miles Ross, aka Psy-Fi, Andrew Juarez, aka Dojo, and another SF beatmaker, Mykies McFilthy.

Earlier Friday at the Accident Gallery (7:30-10 p.m.) local faves Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes play music for a food pairing event where chef Mary Tyson creates dishes to go with a couple of (not-at-all-local) Rogue Brewery ales (from Oregon). The press release notes that, “Local crafts will be available for great gifts.”

Just about all bands have a tendency to reconfigure over time as members shift gears and move on for one reason or another. Such is the case with Eureka alt. roots band Scotch Wiggly and the related High Idols. They were planning on bidding a fond farewell to their drummer TylerSmith with a final Wiggly/Idols show Saturday at Mosgo’s before his departure for SoCal, but plans have changed. S.W.‘s Frank Mancinelli tells me Tyler has to leave earlier than planned, so the band will play sans drummer “and we’ll probably switch around,” and, since Tyler was integral to High Idols, that band is done. The search is on for a new S.W. drummer.

Red Fox hosts a local/import Deadhead confab Saturday with a band calling itself Play Live Dead that brings together members of Humboldt Dead tribute band Play Dead with guys from like-minded Bay Area bands Jerry’s Kids, Workingman’s Ed and Live Dead.

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