People Power for Palestine is throwing a mutual aid benefit for the people of Gaza at Arcata Playhouse featuring live music and an auction. Regular readers of this space know my feeling on the matter, so I’ll just suggest you dig deep for the $10-$20 sliding scale donation and come enjoy the music of Makenu, […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 21
Tuva is a small Russian republic which sits astride southern Siberia and northern Mongolia and has gained some notoriety for the multi-tonal throat singing practices of its semi-nomadic population. Every time the subject comes up in this column, I use the opportunity to plug the fantastic 1999 documentary Genghis Blues, which covers the journey of […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 20
The Logger Bar is hosting a night of the music of Loretta Lynn, featuring the One Night Stand Country Band backing up vocalist Siena Nelson. Also on the bill is The Brothers Demarkov, featuring the two talented Jeffs, DeMark and Landen. The fun starts around 8:30 p.m. and there’s no cover charge at the door, […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 19
Northcoast Preparatory Academy is throwing a fundraiser for its music program at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 6 p.m. Come through and check out some fantastic local talent — many of whom are educators themselves who have broken HumCo containment — including Jenny Scheinmann, James Zeller, Matt Rollings and John C. Wood. Tickets are $20 […]
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Fast Cars and Night Gardening
Spring hits the streets this week and the build-up in the air has been absolutely blooming with sensual ions and ozone for anyone with the right peepers. The forces of the Earth churn on through the wasteland detritus of human ambition and we can still feel and be animated by those primeval forces despite our […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 17
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. St. Patrick’s Day is back again, arare cross-cultural experience that Americans have chosen to celebrate in our trulystupid custom of polluting all meaning into an inebriated all-day war of attrition and orgy of crude stereotypes the scope of which won’t be seen again until Cinco de […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, March 16
Humbrews is back at it again with a Grateful Dead-adjacent act. Tonight’s stars are The Garcia Project, a national touring act that painstakingly recreates exact setlists from the live history of the Jerry Garcia Band, which, you can imagine, hasn’t been doing much on stage since Jerry Garcia’s death 30 years ago. If you want […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, March 15
Savage Henry Comedy Club has a dark post-disco, post-punk DJ spun dance showpresented by Dastbunny tonight at 7 p.m. For $10 you can duck and groove to tunescurated by Tiffadelic, Yama Uba, DJ Datura Prime and Trakmar.
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 14
I went to see some friends jam at the Kaptain’s Quarters play a fun set recently, and in the true half-assed friend energy for which I am known, I forgot the band’s name. Todd’s something or other. Sorry, Corbin and Logan — you’ve known me long enough to understand the deal by now. Regardless, I […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 13
It’s the second of three Fridays the 13th for this year, and with the last one coming up in November, it’s going to be an extended spooky season past Halloween if we are allalive to experience it. If not, extra spooky, I guess. Anywho, there’s 13th bash over atthe Eagle House tonight at 8 p.m. […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 12
If you are hankering for some excellent contemporary jazz fusion, tonight’s the night.Over at the Basement at 7:30 p.m., HDMB will be joined by Sheldon Brown, a BayArea composer and woodwind multi-instrumentalist whose career has straddled theworld of live avant jazz and jam rock with energy and innovation. And it’s only $5, which is a […]
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Blanking Down the House
My country is raining death upon one of the largest and oldest cities in the world, and as one of the apparently few genetically abnormal American mutants who experiences grief and empathy, even for total strangers, this has gotten to me. Heavily. Let me distract myself with a little housecleaning. When I wrote years ago […]