It’s a punk rock showcase at The Little Red Lion as Long Beach’s Melted headlines the night (price TBA). The show is filled out by local heavies Dead Drift and the delightfully named Clam Hammer at 7 p.m. If your tastes are more in tune with the softer side of the rainbow, Americana folk trio […]
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Great Artists, Appreciative Crowds, Beautiful Place
We have a busy week this week. The Redwood Coast Music Festival will be in full swing from Thursday through Sunday with live American roots music invading Eureka venues with a passionate intensity matched only perhaps by the tidal drift of neighboring Humboldt Bay. The bands and details are too many to mention in this […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, April 4
The Jam’s electronic dance showcase Whomp Whomp Wednesday keeps on rolling with this week curated by Psy Fi, Brittany From Earlier and GIR. The show starts at 10 p.m. and it is $5 until 11 p.m., $10 after.
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, April 3
Vancouver’s 5 Alarm Funk is one of those groups whose members likely sat down one day and just landed on the most obvious name to describe their sound and never looked back. If you fancy that name, come see if my theory is correct at 9:30 p.m. at Humbrews ($15, $12 advance).
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Music Tonight: Monday, April 2
Long Beach rockers Freemans Dead play Blondies tonight at 7 p.m. with Arcata’s certified awesome quartet Ms. God. (price TBA). One of the many offshoot spores of Japan’s venerable psych-meets-space-meets Kraut rock super-mushroom Acid Mothers Temple — in this case Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Parasio UFO — has predictably sold out the Miniplex […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, April 1
OK, so not only is it Easter Sunday but it’s also April Fool’s Day. If this somehow dovetails with Ash Wednesday happening on Valentine’s Day this year to form some larger significance, it will take a finer mind than mine to discover that meaning. Suffice it to say, religious holiday + prank holiday + Sunday […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 31
Can you split yourself into three independent sub-beings who report back to your master consciousness without overheating its mainframe system? If so, one neat trick you could try tonight is attending three different shows that all begin at 8 p.m. Bonus points awarded if you write the Journal a coherent letter about the experience afterward. […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 30
The Arcata Playhouse hosts bluegrass trio The Bee Eaters tonight at 7:30 p.m. Comprised of hammer dulcimer player Simon Chrisman and award-winning fiddle playing siblings Tashina and Tristan Claridge, this group is well-known beyond the bluegrass world for its playful and genre-bending virtuosity. This show is suited for the younger student budget crowd with tickets […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 29
It’s a real wild brain-flash rock show tonight at 9 p.m. when Denver’s psych-pop warriors Eldrin meet the ocean-end of the western wagon trail at the Siren’s Song. Local sky-tripping noise barons Strix Vega share the support duties with the aptly named Leone ($5).
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Passions and April Fools
I want to have fun and just play this week, but I have massive contrasts on my mind. Blame the first night of Passover, a venerable celebration of the safety for the first-born sons guaranteed during widespread destruction by painting the blood of the Paschal lamb on the doorframe in a ritual which likely has […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, March 28
Haiti-by-way-of-New Jersey’s own one third of ’90s supergroup The Fugees, Wyclef Jean visits our little county for an evening of fun at the Mateel tonight at 9 p.m. I can’t imagine that I need to introduce him further, so I will only add that good vibes So-Cal duo Culture Crew will open the evening ($40). […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 27
As far as I can tell, Ghost Light is some breed of jam band from the same sort of pedigree that East Coast genius Marco Benevento has, albeit with more of a Grateful Dead nod. I say “as far as I can tell” because after checking out the website — which was full of many […]