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 […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 3
Another kick-off night of happy returns, this time over at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, where at 7:30 p.m. you can catch the first performance of the Eureka Symphony’s new season. Tonight’s program Contrast and Transformation features pianist John Chernoff for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, along with a piece […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 2
When the doors open today at 4 p.m. and the music kicks off a couple hours later at the Adorni Center and the Eagle House, it will mark the beginning of the four-day Redwood Coast Music Festival. Today’s acts include Clint Baker’s Jazz Band, Noir, Redwood Dixie Gators and more. Early bird passes for the […]
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors
It’s October, which means I’ll be culling my column headlines from various horror artifacts from pop culture. This week’s title comes from the 1993 Super Nintendo video game that I wasted many glorious childhood hours on during the twilight of the last century. A fun romp through dead-brained suburban wastelands full of invading monster movie […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Oct. 1
TopHouse is a hybrid band of folk rock, roots, and bluegrass music that started a decade ago in Missoula, Montana, before setting up its homebase in Nashville in the year before COVID hit. Since then, the group has extended itself into a quartet and toured and recorded in the fashion of an act working to […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 27
Because things get quiet in the early part of next week, I’m double-stacking tonight’s fun as a sayonara to September. First up at the Logger Bar, there’s a Drag Lotería at 8 p.m., featuring hosts Val de Flores and Komboujia and with music by Hispanic! at the Disco. The price for participation is $10. Meanwhile, […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 26
Come out to the last Friday Night Market in Arcata — for now — and swing by the Outer Space at 7:30 p.m. for a very special local showcase in the intimate, all-ages, sober joint. We’re talking boogying with The Cowtown Sound, Jellyworks playing some instrumental space- synth, and the debut full-band show of both […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 25
The Creative Sanctuary presents the latest in an ongoing series honoring the musical alumni of the rotating, midcentury supergroup the Jazz Messengers. Tonight’s star attraction is the recently late Wayne Shorter, whose saxophonic splendor lit up the world in a career that spanned from bebop to hip hop and beyond. Join hosts James Zeller, Ramsey […]
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Post-Millennium Tension
At a certain point in your life, the corrosion of your memories meets the current of dreams and the two become more or less indistinguishable. Older impressions melt away in the psychic wash, only to reappear as patchwork colors on the uninvited night coat of sleep. After all, the mind has its own efficiencies, too, […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Sept. 24
The Outer Space is hosting an all-ages evening of dreamy music starting at 7 p.m., with Los Angeles shoegaze heroes Mo Dotti heading the bill. Also on the marquee is the bedroom indie pop of Jess Carey, aka Mold, and a new project by March Adstrum and Gabriel Izak called, appropriately, octobercountry. The door charge […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Sept. 23
I might as well toss in one of my periodic reminders to go check out the Opera AlleyCats at the SpeakEasy at 7 p.m. They’re good and it’s free, minus the cost of whateveryou feel like pouring down the hatch from behind the bar.
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Sept. 21
Who doesn’t love peace? Well, it turns out a bunch of people, especially in this countryand its colonial client states. A worrying amount, actually, if you give any time to thinkabout it. Which I would prefer to avoid at the moment, and in the words of JohnnyMercer paraphrasing Father Divine, “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, eliminate thenegative.” […]