Collin Yeo

The Old Steeple has a night of classical, folk and string band fusion courtesy of the group HawkTail. This surreally talented instrumental trio hides complex and beautiful arrangements in effortless and near-virtuosic playing with the upright bass, guitar and fiddle. It’s about as good as it gets with those instruments. Show’s at 7:30 p.m. ($30, […]

Drink a beer (if you like that sort of thing) and relax at the Redwood Curtain Brewery to the jazz tunes of local piano, bass, guitar and drum quartet The Low Notes at 7 p.m. (free). Drink one for me, too, for alas, I lost the taste for that malted beverage some time ago and […]

Humbrews hosts Fruition at 9 p.m. ($15). This pickin’ and strummin’ quintet from Portland infuses its songs with country-blues acoustic guitar lines backed by crunchy Kinks-like power chords and soulful three-part harmonies. To my ear, they sound like a modern and more technically adept version of the greatest band Rod Stewart ever fronted, the Faces. […]

The HSU Guitar Ensemble will be plucking and strumming at Fulkerson Hall at 5 p.m. and its repertoire in the past has included challenging pieces by baroque-sters like Vivaldi and modern master Terry Riley ($8, $5 seniors and children, free for students). The Outer Space hosts the pedal-treated guitar and melodica poetry of Los Angeles’ […]

METAL, METAL, METAL.</p> The Seattle Metal Invasion mini-fest kicks off at The Siren’s Song at 6 p.m. and $10 gets you five bands from two states away (plus local opener shredders Frequency Shift). What a deal! Witch Ripper is the first in the out of town lineup — a stoner metal band featuring members of […]

It’s Arts! Arcata tonight and, depending on the rain, the plaza and surrounding environs will likely be packed with wine-sipping locals and a plethora of musicians, some sanctioned by local shops, some just ad hoc street howlers. I don’t need to tell you that the choices will be many and one good loop around McKinley’s […]

The Arcata Playhouse has the Fula Brothers tonight at 7:30 p.m. ($25, $20 advance). Fronted by Malian hunter’s harp player Mamadou Sidibe, this trio plays danceable tunes on acoustic instruments with a sensibility that spans the old and the new worlds of West African music. Sarah Nutting and Kariska Longaker make up the opening duo […]

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 […]