the hum / By Bob Doran

Summer on the River

Also on the heavy side, the Monday Night Budget Rock show at the Jambalaya July 12, with Black Skies, a sludge metal combo from Chapel Hill, and Sean, a grindcore duo from Seattle with MikePeterson on drums and Luke Laplante on keyboard (with piano preset to run through a noise gate into guitar amplification). Shattered Skull Sound System opens. You can guess what kind of records they’ll play.

The Mateel hosts the 707 Cannabis College Expo Saturday afternoon, a “State of The Herb” forum to discuss pot-related issues and introduce a new SoHum school that’s supposed to prepare you for the promise of legal ganja. DJ Chris Gilles spins appropriate “retro eclectic” tunes between talks by (among others) Dennis Peron, Ken Miller M.D. and Ellen Komp, deputy director of the Cali branch of NORML. And yes, they’ll have munchies.

Word from SoHum’s Eli Fowler, aka Elision, aka Little Kidd Lost, on a show Sunday at the Red Fox: the Fake Four Inc. Records tour featuring Moka Only (aka Ron Contour), Factor, Open Mike Eagle and Fake Four founder Ceschi Ramos with special guest local opener, Little Kidd Lost. “This show is gonna be awesome,” says Eli. “I’ve been a fan of Moka’s for a long time, ever since he was with Swollen Members (who are now signed to Suburban Noize Records, same as Potluck). I met Ceschi a few years ago when he was with a band called Toca, which at the time was one of the greatest shows I’d ever seen — and there were only six people in the crowd. So come out, support and if you get there early, you can catch some of my newest tunes, some not yet recorded. Hope to see you there!” Let’s be sure more than six people show up for this one. You, you, you and you — be there.

In the midst of the Journal‘s rockin’ party on the Boardwalk on Saturday, someone tapped me on the shoulder and pointed to a guy in spandex on a recumbent bike. It was Chris Ursich, who wanted to let me know he’d booked a Humboldt Folklife show on Sunday, July 18, at the Arcata Playhouse with the always amazing Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum. I know that’s still a ways off and in the middle of the Folklife Society’s eight-day-long festival, but I’m thinking tickets in advance (since it may well sell out).

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