Iris Dement has been writing songs for more than 30 years but her very first song, “Our Town,” which she wrote at the age of 25, might still be her most enduring. Its plain and plaintive liturgy about home and the people who live there crosses the geography of the earth and sets up street […]
Collin Yeo
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Saturday, Nov. 25
Two vinyl-spun jiggle fests await your pleasure tonight: The remade/remodeled Soul Night at Humbrews at 9 p.m. has mutated into the similar-but-new Soul Party. This is the fifth show of the rechristened Mark 2 version of that old Humboldt classic soul dance vinyl revue. Familiar face DJ Red joins Jaymorg, Tanasa and other friends for […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Friday, Nov. 24
The North Coast Repertory Theater continues its run of the musical Pippin at 8 p.m., a story about a prince journeying through an unusual world and trying to find his own place. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and based on the book by Roger O. Hirson ($16-$18). At 9 p.m. the Griffin hosts […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 23
It’s Thanksgiving. And no matter how you feel about this holiday — whether you have the option to gorge with loved ones or you are one of the unmentioned many, stuck on the outside of this family feast day and looking into brighter windows — things tend to freeze up on this day. I can’t […]
Posted inMusic
A Musical Feast
It’s finally here. That most musical of feast days when we celebrate the gift of harmony with the rapturous delight of food. That most sacred day of eating for the musician and music fan alike. I am, of course, talking about the Wednesday, Nov. 22 feast day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Wednesday, Nov. 22
The Siren’s Song hosts singer songwriter night at 7:30 p.m. with a diverse lineup of some of Humboldt’s brightest young voices: Ghost, Donel, Julio Perdido, Blood Honey, Akaelah Rain and Jamie Coppa ($5 suggested). Aber Miller continues his Wednesday residency at Larrupin at 6 p.m. and, like Humboldt’s finest date-night restaurant and the dreamy environs […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Nov. 21
Siren’s Song hosts a throwback sock-hop night with Los Angeles’ always touring and vintage ’50s street fight sounding trio Three Bad Jacks screaming out their soulful rockabilly moan. Local early rock chuggers Snake Oil Lullaby sit mid-bill while local punk rock line-up Scum Lords make their live debut at 8 p.m. (price TBA).
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Monday, Nov. 20
Does anyone remember the movie Swing Kids? That seminal early ’90s teen flick in which a post Dead Poet’s Society Robert Sean Leonard and future Bateman/Batman Christian Bale process the oppressive grip of the Hitler Youth by surreptitiously swing dancing in Nazi Germany? I haven’t seen that film in years but, much like many trends […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Sunday, Nov. 19
If the Dimond Saints’ show last night didn’t fill your low-gravity-bass dance desires, worry not: The Deep Groove Society has your back with its ongoing Sundaze residency at The Jam at 9:30 p.m. Five dollars will get you 20hz or lower subwoofer drops to make you shake and dance with loose subliminal passions not seen […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Saturday, Nov. 18
Mr. Moonbeam continues his ongoing one-man band whistle-stop tour of the twilit heavens of yesteryear when playing The Siren’s Song tonight at 9 p.m. (price TBA). Expect mini-flute melodies, pitch-pipe cowboy vocals and well-plucked space oddities tuned to the vibe of Santo & Johnny’s “Sleep Walk.” The soundtrack-rock trio The Mojave Green brings its Old […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Friday, Nov. 17
The Outer Space has a fun early Friday show for you at 7 p.m. with the heart-tugging rock chug of Philly’s Radiator Hospital, local folk act Julio Perdido and the synth-pop sounds of Eureka City Councilmember and multitalented polymath Natalie Arroyo’s act, Smilebright ($7). Five years seems like a long time until you open your […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 16
I sometimes talk about my personal “three decade” bands, meaning bands I saw live as a surly teenager in the ’90s, an unmoored and rudderless 20-something jellyfish in the ’00s, and a sane and professional adult “hanging on in quiet desperation” in this decade. That list is fairly brief, with heavy metal luminaries like The […]