Crawling

Around the time that (5 p.m.) show ends, Les Conversations Galantes plays more classical music at Westhaven Center for the Arts. “The Light Within the Pines” has violin duo Rob Diggins and Jolianne Einem playing tunes by Mozart, Johann Christian Bach and Jean Marie LeClaire among others.

Did the Zano/Moo show whet your appetite for electro? Still dusty from Burning Man? World Famous Productions has more for you Saturday at the Arcata Theatre Lounge: a bass-heavy blast with Lazer Sword, R/D, Machinedrum and Cacoa.

That’s enough for Friday and Saturday. What about Thursday? Hip hop heads will be at Nocturnum for Dead Prez with Woes, Hip Hop Lounge and Boss Levelz. Reggae people must choose between locals Woven Roots at the Jambalaya and a show at the Red Fox with JahDan Blakka backed by Million 7 Crew with Binghi Ghost and Luv Fyah.

And, this just in from the fine folks at Northtown Books: “‘Here I was, doing 90 on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles.‘ Thus begins Joseph Mattson‘s post-apocalyptic whiskey-drenched novel, which culminates in a shotgun battle with God. Thursday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m. Northtown Books welcomes Joseph Mattson to read from the novel with soundtrack, Empty the Sun.” Why are you reading this here? The book’s “soundtrack” is by Ben Chasny, a former local (aka Six Organs of Admittance). Unfortunately Ben won’t be here in person.

And what’s the haps at your favorite store (according to our poll anyway), Missing Link? Brothers Jake and JaminOrrall, aka JEFF The Brotherhood, stop by on Monday around 4, fresh from Bumbershoot for an instore showing off of what their agent, Peter “Thanksgiving Brown” Agoston, describes as “explosive 1970s-inspired heavy post-punk-riff-rock.” Will some neighbor call the cops? No way. Not on the “Best Store” in Humboldt.

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