October genuinely feels timeless, as we transition into the darker part of the year, we are frozen in the amber of the perfect light of early fall. It seems appropriate to celebrate such a cool, smoky era by enjoying something else timeless: electric blues done right. In this county there are few contenders who meet […]
Collin Yeo
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Jeepers Creepers
The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valleyThis broken jaw of our lost kingdoms — From T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those peepers? Well, if you are unfortunate enough to share values with the people currently executing the […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Oct. 15
The all-ages, $20, 7 p.m. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles show at Savage Henry Comedy Club appears to be all sold-out on the internet, so unless you know something I don’t — entirely possible — you might be looking for another adventure tonight. Here’s an idea. Remember Bulgarika from Monday night? Well, today they will be putting […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday. Oct. 14
Moss Oak Commons at 1905 Alliance Road in Arcata is putting on a rock show tonight starring Los Angeles shoegaze band Valley Porno People. Also on the bill tonight are Breakfast Collection and Vivianne Dawn. It all starts at 7 p.m., and I am once again calling the $10 door price negotiable because I get […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Oct. 13
Bulgarian folk band Bulgarika will be performing tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Synapsis. A mixture of rousing music and a dance party for those in the audience wishing to participate — no experience needed — this show looks like the perfect way to start out the working week with good energy. A suggested donation of […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Oct. 12
Two happy returns tonight, in both artist and venue, as we are treated to the return of Hawaiian slack-key guitar master Led Kaapana at the Old Steeple, an excellent venue with a very select program of shows throughout the year. Tonight’s offering begins at 7:30 p.m. sharp, with tickets going for $31.50 in advance and […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 10
Michael Beach is a soundmaker from Melbourne, Australia who has found a home in North American hi-fi sets with his releases on outré rock label Goner Records. Known for his vibrant stage presence, you can see some of that lightning captured in the bottle that is the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m. Also on tap […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 9
If you are in the mood for some weird folk and off-beat rock with a mostly local flavor, Northtown Coffee is the place to be. Roll through at 6:30 p.m. for the musical stylings of Ethan Rubin’s Wounded Animal, Portland one-man band It & I, area acoustic doomsters Bleater and front-to-side man of many Humboldt […]
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
In last week’s intro I wrote about the fear of the zombification of our neighbors, teasing a discussion about a sneaky way of writing about an inversion of that concept. Well, here it is: The central idea shifts from a fear of your social equals to the creeping horror of full institutional political capture from […]
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Movies Tonight: Monday, Oct. 6
Movie night over at Savage Henry Comedy Club begins spooky season with one of the horror genre’s greatest offerings, if not one of the finest innovative works of cinema ever made for on a shoestring and for a dream. It’s none-other than Night of the Living Dead (1968), a masterpiece that lives forever in the […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Oct. 5
Street folk and dive country singer/songwriter John Moreland has been self-producing his own albums of soulful Tulsa heat very prodigiously for most of his breathing life. Heartworn and permanently highway-bound, he makes what my late father used to refer to approvingly as “dirty boots music.” You can hear for yourself what that means in a […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Oct. 4
Brooklyn’s Shilpa Ray is a lady who has been churning out the art-punk jams for quite some time, with her band of merry freaks bringing the guts to undergird her growl. She’ll be stalking the boards of the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m., along with an absolutely perfect support band: local melodic punk rawk chanter […]