The virtuosic sisters Natalie and Brittany (on cello and fiddle, respectively) form the duo HAAS, which is appropriately titled after their shared surname. They also share a love of all things string, weaving through the contemporary landscape of folk-to-classical genres with a supernatural grace. The ladies have been here before with different acts, but this […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 6
Guitarist Cole Berliner used to live in San Francisco and now hails from Los Angeles, just as he used to be in a band called Kamikaze Palm Tree, which became the duo Sharpie Smile and has downsized to just himself and his guitar for the purpose of his current tour. That guitar and its sounds […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 5
How about another free rock show at the Shanty tonight? This one is full of local critters, all from the neighborhood of punk and metal, but represent some of the coolest cats on that block. So come through at 9 p.m. and check out the bangin’ and clangin’ of Berk and the Jerx, Ultramafic and […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 4
Philadelphia’s Cigarettes for Breakfast is currently on its first West Coast tour and making a stop at Outer Space tonight at 7 p.m. to share some loud and lovely shoegaze music. The genre, which, at nearly 40 must be older than any of the band’s members, is originally a mostly British phenomenon known for lush […]
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Sideways
This one goes to a hard deadline and print on the first Election Day of 2026 for us Californicators, so bear that in mind while reading whatever comes next. Regarding the gubernatorial race, I am tempted to write “whoever wins, we lose,” but that’s not my exact sentiment. I’ll be cautiously optimistic if Tom Steyer […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, June 2
The Neighborhood Kids are bringing the Voice of the Revolution Tour to the ArcataPlayhouse tonight at 7 p.m. Well-lauded in their native San Diego — the group wonBest New Artist and Best Hip Hop Artist in last year’s San Diego Music Awards — theKids are on the road to spread their music and message of […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, May31
Vegan Slaughterhouse and Maya Songbird headline a good vibrations undergroundshow at the Outer Space tonight at 7 p.m. Come celebrate a rare May Blue Moon along with Thee Olde Druids, who may or may not know a thing or two about lunar events. The suggested donation is $5-$20.
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 30
Because I’ve got nothing going on for the first of the month, let’s load up tonight withthree diverse 7 p.m. gigs to cast a wide net to snag as many of you as possible. Firstup, the good people at the Creative Sanctuary are continuing their excellent Homage to the Message series of shows highlighting various […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, May 29
The Eureka Symphony ends its season tonight and tomorrow night at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts with a program called A Requiem for Humanity, which is hopefully a more wistful than prophetic title. Either way, it’s a performance of Brahms’ A German Requiem, which is lovely and chock full of choral beauty. The […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, May 28
Art-rock prog weirdos Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are back in town at Humbrewstonight at 8:30 p.m. This time around they have brought with them fellow Oaklandhomelanders Gumby’s Junk, a group of sonic surrealists who palette-match theheadliners in a very complementary fashion. Advance tickets are on sale now for $20and it will cost an extra $5 at […]
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A Slow Slide Whistle Before the Bomb
Judge Doom, the villain of 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit, was the despotic lawman of the film’s fictitious Toontown, a zany Hollywood for animated characters that existed alongside its real-world cultural mecca in the film’s 1947 storyline. Himself a cartoon in human disguise, this demonic executioner of toons sold out his own kind to pulverize […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, May 26
Charlotte, North Carolina-based singer/songwriter Bryan Bielanski is a high energy,fun and happy guy who writes high energy, fun and happy songs which he tours theworld playing. He clearly loves what he does and does everything he can to make hisaudience love it, too. Which is refreshing to me at this stage of the current world,because […]