Bay Area R&B and retro-soul singer Quinn DeVeaux brings his tenor voice and fantastic band to the Sanctuary tonight at 7 p.m. for an evening of hip-shaking dance music. It took me a while to warm up to the Sanctuary as it reminds me of a cult house from a mid-’70s David Cronenberg flick where […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 15
I forgot what a thrill the first heady hits are and how much of an upper this plant is for me. I am firing on all cylinders and ready to report in the midst of this fantastic time-dilation. Over at the Siren’s Song tonight it’s 33 and a Third Thursday, an old skool (that’s how […]
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DJs, St. Paddy’s and a Gut-string Quartet
John Steinbeck set his 14th novel Cannery Row in the height of the Great Depression, in a town dominated by one industry: fish canning. We live in such a place now — wait. I was going to write an introduction about a changing mono-economy, its effect on the local culture and how the citizens view […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, March 14
One of Japan’s most popular modern taiko drumming groups Yamato stops off in Arcata for a performance of its newest production The Challengers at HSU’s Van Duzer Theater tonight at 7 p.m. ($39). Expect an evening of complex dances, masterful multi-instrumentation and elaborate costumes all to the beat of the broad family of percussion instruments […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 13
Who Is She Productions presents Dancehall at The Jam at 10 p.m., a bi-monthly Jamaican dance party that happens on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month and which will likely burn the midnight oil. Price TBA.
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Music Tonight: Monday, March 12
I really dug deep for this one but I have to be honest, apart from a regular restaurant gig — Tony Roach at The Victorian Inn at 6 p.m. and Rude Lion Sound‘s regular dancehall Monday deal at The Ocean Grove at 9:30 p.m., both of which I have mentioned in this column before, I […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, March 11
Oglala Sioux and Navajo activist and hip-hop artist Nataanii Means performs at The Outer Space tonight at 7 p.m. ($8). Joining him will be Native rapper Antoine Edwards from Omaha, GRIZZ and Arcata hip-hop act Mash Yellow Bird. For the past 30 years, through line-up changes and the death of a founding member, Altan has […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 10
The Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir and the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Youth Choir presents Love Thy Neighbor tonight at 7 p.m. at the Arcata Presbyterian Church ($18, $15 advance). It’s a fundraiser for the church to help repair damage caused by the horrific arson attack last September that also seriously injured a 28-year-old man who was […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 9
There’s a disparate deal going down at The Little Red Lion tonight at 8 p.m. with an experimental metal band from the East Bay called Gurschach and a swingin’ and punkish ragtime act from Ellensburg, Washington, named Robbers Roost. Elsewhere in the roster you will find local heavy groovers Ultramafic, glammy punk gutter act The […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 8
It’s an all ages low-fi rock night at Siren’s Song tonight at 8:30 p.m. when Sacramento’s grungy emo kids Meet Cute play with local garage-y headliners Super Senior, formerly Kids Eat Free (it’s a move up the menu, name-wise I suppose). Local openers Five Minutes Alone starts the night. Do they sound anything like the […]
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Musical Transmitters
I’ve been bloviating a lot here lately, so I’ll make this short and sweet. I heard a sound last week, a most unique and wonderful sound, and I would like to share it with you, inasmuch as I can transmit that information via the printed word. I went back-country snowboarding on Horse Mountain last Monday […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, March 7
New Orleans is known for its musical innovation, as well as the grinding hustle of its musicians’ lives. It’s the yin and the yang to the reality of the lifers: No matter how talented or visionary you are, you gotta hustle and play night after night. One band that epitomizes that ethos is The Nth […]