At 6 p.m. at Phatsy Kline’s Lounge in The Historic Eagle House, DJ Marjo Lak is spinning an all vinyl set of vintage Brazilian music spanning the 1950s to the ’90s from her private collection. Come on down and shake your Bossa Nova. (Free.) Seabury Gould and Evan Morden continue their 6:30 p.m. Thursday night […]
Collin Yeo
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Enter the Yuletide Slumber
I have to admit it: I am a bit of a Grinch. It isn’t because I dislike Christmas as a holiday, mind you; I enjoy the lights and the bonhomie and the carols (the minor-key ones anyway). I even like fruitcake and being cold, though both in very small doses. As I write this I […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Dec. 20 (Last Evening of Hannukah)
Krampus is the dark abusive Old World twin of Santa Claus who delivers corporal punishment to wicked children during the yuletide. “Krampmus” is a portmanteau word of Krampus and Christmas, presumably invented by the good people at the Miniplex who are staging a Krampmus Holiday Revue tonight there at 7 p.m. The show features the […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Dec. 19
If you missed the last three shows come to the Arkley Center tonight at 7 p.m. for this year’s last performance of North Coast Dance‘s rendition of Tchaicovsky’s The Nutcracker ($25 adults, $15 children). Pictures can be taken tonight with Clara and the Nutcracker himself. Personally, having broken my aunt’s decorative nutcracker trying to get […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Dec. 18
Sushi Spot, McKinleyville’s busiest restaurant (every time I have ever gone, anyway), has the musical stylings of jazz duo Anemones of the State tonight at 5 p.m. The music is free for those who can catch a table. Elementary school concerts are fun, as far as memory serves. I might be childless but, as the […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Dec. 17
Friends and family have given me grief for not including enough (or any) McKinleyville venues in this column. As a native son of Dow’s Prairie, I feel compelled to remind them that I still have the homegrown attitude and nascent fuck-you-a-tiveness of that place trapped in my character (Mack Town, I owe you NOTHING). But […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 16
This week, Saturday night’s alright for psychedelic shows. At 9 p.m. the Jam has the poppy sunset sheen of Paradise Inc. (featuring local gun-for-hire guitar hero Leo Plummer of Object Heavy fame), the cactus, mezcal and clapboard liturgy of Opossum Sun Trail and the jazzy weirdness of Foxtrot ($5). Roger Ebert had a rule which […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 15
As Robert Smith of The Cure sobbed into my Walkman-covered ears repeatedly circa 1996, “Friday I’m in Love.” Nowadays, when it comes to music I might perhaps know disco from Crisco but I am still pretty unsure about love. However, these two dance parties seem like a good place to start looking for some kind […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Dec. 14
Let’s start the week out right with an often underappreciated medium for discovering the beginning ticks of the needle for our local music scene’s seismographic chart: The open mic night. I know, I know, but hear me out. For every hackneyed version of “Wagon Wheel” or mumbled recitation of poetry which should have stayed locked […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Dec. 13
The Mad River Brewery Tasting Room has guitarist and prolific local producer Piet Dalmolen putting on a free solo show. Aside from providing production duties for too many talented local bands to mention here, playing lead guitar in Pink Floyd tribute supergroup Money and sitting in on many live jams and tributes in the area […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Dec. 12 (First night of Hannukah!)
The Arcata Theater Lounge hosts The Chris Robinson Brotherhood at 8 p.m., featuring former Black Crowes front man Chris Robinson in the titular role as the presumed leader of the aforementioned brotherhood ($25). This can get confusing, as the Black Crowes featured Chris’ actual brother Rich on guitar providing a very special texture to its […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Dec. 11
Tony Roach continues his residency at The Victorian Inn at 6 p.m., crooning jazz and pop standards to the dining crowd while retaining aural fidelity to the proper ambience of a nice meal (free).