Collin Yeo

The Old Steeple continues what has quickly become a stellar tradition of booking talented singer/songwriters to play its beautiful refurbished Methodist church hall. Portland’s John Craigie is one such talented performer. Like earlier heavies like John Prine or Guy Clark, Craigie deftly offsets his deeply evocative and touching lyrics with a simple delivery and quippy […]

The popular Santa Cruz-by-way-of-Vermont bluegrass trio The Devil Makes Three plays the West Gym at HSU at 7:30 p.m. DMT are well-loved and respected in these parts but I am honestly excited about the entire show, as Texas native, one-man band, country-blues and punk-fried metal-playing badass and road-dog lifer Scott H. Biram inaugurates the evening. […]

Phoenix, Arizona’s own power-violence monstrosity Burnout plays the Outer Space at 6 p.m. with local handsome duo of noisy weirdos Rush Hour IV starting the show ($5). Bring earplugs or start buying real estate in the muted nightmare that is my aural world. If you forget them though, this show is definitely worth the hearing […]

Uh-oh. What’s that low rattle coming from G Street between 10th and 11th? Did a little Godzilla crawl out of the bay to seek the bright lights of our cozy college town? Did those awful yak guys return from a pilgrimage to India with elephants to better harass the dog walking population? Nope! It’s another […]

A couple of years and a lifetime of little social interactions ago, I met a nice man named Bear Dyken and helped him load his truck up with old solar panels donated by local solar genius and all-around nice guy David Katz. Bear told me about his long running activist folk group, Clan Dyken, and […]

EPIC puts on its annual fundraiser at 9 p.m. at the Mateel Center in Redway to celebrate four decades of fighting the good fight against the planet-polluting plutocrats who seem to increasingly make up the top tier of the political class in this country. The folk music-heavy event features performances by Joanne Rand, Casey Neill […]

The Outer Space hosts an international indie and garage rock show at 7 p.m. with locals The Monster Women, Australia’s The Fix Ups and Los Angeles’ The Blank Tapes ($8). Because of the refreshingly early 10 p.m. curfew at the Outer Space, you can double your pleasure most nights and catch another show in Arcata, […]

It’s All Saint’s Day, and you want some contrition to temper the evil of last week. You want your “Ave Maria” after “A Night On Bald Mountain” from Fantasia. I have three free shows for you to fix your soul with and put a lid back on your demons. The Speakeasy has alternative house/jazz band […]

This is Halloween! Technically Halloween! Here are two Halloween costume party shows you can attend back to back. At 7 p.m. the Outer Space hosts Misfits cover band BRAINxEATERS, Julio Perdido (Spanish and punk covers), Daniel (pop-punk covers) and Muy Perraz’s “sex techno.” Various DJs spin ghoulish tunes and $5 will get you in with […]

Get an early start on celebrating Dia de Los Muertos at the Van Duzer at 7 p.m. with L.A.’s Grammy-winning Latin rock group La Santa Cecilia, Mexrrissey (a delightful Mexican Morrissey cover band with Spanish-language vocals) and one of the world’s preeminent all female mariachi bands, Mariachi Flor de Toloache ($39).

Acclaimed songwriter and musician’s musician Chris Smither brings his low-tenor rasp to The Old Steeple in Ferndale, where the doors will open at 6:30 p.m. ($25 advance, $30 door). His songs have been covered by everyone from Emmylou Harris to Bonnie Raitt and his tune “Leave The Light On” gives me goosebumps every time and […]