Collin Yeo

Modern dancehall star Jahdan Blakkamoore is arguably best known for his collaborations with Major Lazer and Snoop Dogg during his short-lived “Snoop Lion” phase, as well as his position in the group Noble Society. However, the Grammy nominee has a solid reputation as a dynamic and exciting solo performer these days, his sound falling somewhere […]

Dent May is the stage name of James Dent May Jr., a native-Mississippian with the delicate features of a young Truman Capote and a sound that gives a smooth synth sheen to decades of cool pop influences from new wave to French lounge music. He is signed to Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks record label, where […]

Crescent City’s Tom Boylan, aka Holus Bolus, has been spending the last decade bringing his one-man band to as many places as he can to play a wild and loopy mix of jammy acoustic groove rock. Armed with a small drum kit, a guitar and a few pedals, Holus Bolus builds songs out of loops […]

Another sort of instrumental experience awaits you tonight at Blondies as Cabbagehead plays a free show at 7 p.m. A collective of jazz punk aficionados from the Bay Area, Cabbagehead bills itself as “spazz jazz,” with a claim of equal inspiration being drawn from the likes of Frank Zappa and Duke Ellington. Having a hard […]

Bill Frisell might be my favorite modern guitar player. His 2000 album Ghost Town is certainly among my favorite albums of all time, with its blend of haunting and heart-worn cinema-scapes drifting through a tracklist full of stringed instruments that ring out more often than just pluck their plaintive and perfect notes. It’s something I […]

For more than a century, Minnesota’s world-renowned St. Olaf Choir has been performing deftly arranged versions of spirituals and songs of worship as well as some of the heavy-hitters from the secular classical canon like “Lacrimosa” from Mozart’s Requiem. Expect a night of exactly that sort of thing when conductor Anton Armstrong and his cohort […]

Young and fresh talent is on display tonight at Fulkerson Hall as the Humboldt State University piano students play a free recital to showcase the pieces they are currently plunking away on. I have been to a couple of these over the years and am never not impressed by what the kids can do with […]

For more than five decades Canadian national treasure Bruce Cockburn has been writing and performing music marked by complex and sometimes percussive acoustic guitar, intricate and tender arrangements, and lyrics that harken to themes of ecological threats, social justice and the good sort of Christian spirituality. A favorite rainy-day song of mine is the instrumental […]

The early days of dancehall were truly sparked by a 1973 record called Screaming Target by a young Jamaican dee jay and “toaster” Big Youth. Well, the man himself might not be so young anymore but that record is no less timeless and incendiary and Big Youth’s career has included many more gems since. Come […]

Fieldbrook Market and Eatery presents a free show tonight at 7:30 p.m. with country artist Bradley Dean. Local reggae artists get together at Humbrews tonight under the moniker of The Marley Project to play the music of — wait for it — Bob Marley and the Wailers. The show gets cracking at 9:30 p.m. and […]

Olympia’s DIY-born and bred K Records is one of those phenomena in the history of American music that make the most sense looking backward through the trajectory of pop culture. The early home of indie groups like Built To Spill and Bikini Kill began at a time when punk rock was undergoing an identity crises […]