Local DJ consortium Fraktal Productions continues its Thursday night curation at Phatsy Kline’s Parlor Lounge in the Historic Eagle House tonight at 6 p.m. The Parlor Lounge becomes the Laidback Lounge as DJ Gabe Pressure takes his turn on the tables to spin down-tempo grooves from the Latin, jazz, funk and house canon. (Price TBA.)
Collin Yeo
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The Gilded Cage
As I write this on Monday, the first day of a brand new year I can report to you, dear readers, that I am sharp of eye and frosty of mind, having bucked my regular New Year’s Eve trend of getting wasted drunk. So rather than sitting in the soggy detritus of another tanked evening […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Jan. 3
The Speak Easy has its Ultra Secret Wednesday Queer Night tonight at 8, same as last year. And like last year, the bar is invited to get down to the hybrid house-beat neo jazz sounds of LD51. Free.
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Jan. 2
The Logger Bar has its Irish Music Session tonight at 8. Listen and tap your toes, bring your bodhrán and keep time, or just remove yourself from the participatory aspect of the event and drop some change on a few drinks. Have fun your own way, or as Buck Mulligan put it, “Póg mo thóin.” […]
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Follow the Beat
On any given night, you can follow the sound of music and find yourself a good time in Arcata’s bars, restaurants, clubs and on sidewalks. Here are five rock-solid places to let the sound of local and visiting acts move you. The John Van Duzer Theatre on the Humboldt State University campus is the closest […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Jan 1
It’s Jan. 1, 2018. The first day of a brand new year. Odds are most people are either hungover, still asleep, or getting an early start on their resolutions and going jogging for the first time in a decade or squashing an ancient family feud or finally getting around to reading an unreadably long masterpiece […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday (New Year’s Eve), Dec. 31
Well, it’s here. The terminal point of a long and needlessly exhausting year of trials, travails and — hopefully — a few triumphs. Here’s hoping that 2017 will be remembered as America’s Empire Strikes Back year and that 2018 will bring a much-needed balance to the tailspin we are in now. I have tried to […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 30
New Year’s Eve shows tend to have a fairly above nominal entrance fee which can get a little pricey so for New Year’s Eve’s eve, allow me to suggest three free shows that will allow you to save your ducats and doubloons (I just listened to a podcast about pirates, sorry) for the main attraction […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 29
The Jam hosts a New Year’s Eve warm-up local metal show at 9 p.m. Instrumental down-tuners Ultramafic open and hard rock while metal maestros War Möth headline the night. And DJ Red of Soul Party née Soul Night fame will spin heavy tracks from his vinyl collection before and between the bands. $5.
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Dec. 28
There’s a storm brewing at the Alibi at 11 p.m. in the form of San Francisco’s sludge and stoner flavored metal trio Hornss. Blue Lake’s loud and crunchy honky tonkin’ group Barnfire opens this rare Thursday night Alibi show with a set of, well, barn burners. $5.
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Rockin’ in the New Year
Have you ever skipped a rock across a frozen pond? It sounds like tension cables snapping or an industrial spring being tuned. It sounds like Star Wars blasters, particularly if the ice is thin or there are holes in it. It’s a perfectly natural sound but it doesn’t seem like one at all. It seems […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Dec. 27
It’s Salsa Wednesdays at the Griffin. Dance off those gingerbread men and sugarplum fairies (I am actually never too sure where to land when it comes to sugarplum fairies. Are they an edible sweet treat or a mystical being sacred to the general Christmas Canon of Enchanted Beings? Either way, I’d likely eat one). Staring […]