I had wanted to write about something else, but once again the gears of my attention span are gummed up quite a bit. I’m all for stopping to smell the flowers, but that behavior can appear frankly insane and willfully ignorant when the endless stench of crimes against humanity has been rising for years against […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Feb. 27
The Shanty needs to get mentioned more often in this column, and I am happy to oblige tonight. Three rock bands are jamming a free one at 9 p.m. for all comers over 21. We’re talking Sun War Ship, Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes and The Breakfast Collection. And just to show I’m serious […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Feb. 26
Reverso is a transcontinental jazz trio composed of tromboner Ryan Keberle, pianist Frank Woeste and cellist Vincent Courtois. Their latest album, “Between Two Silences,” is a chamber music celebration of the music of Erik Satie, with that chamber sitting like a spinning plate in a hall of mirrors. That’s a high compliment; I loved what […]
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The Clever Hounds
This week’s offering is named after a rugged translation of an old Cajun tune whose name percolates back to a galvanic collision between French and colloquial English from the days before electricity allowed such modern alchemy. I guess I’m inspired by the inscrutable story titles of my late hero Edward Gorey, whose 101st birthday clicked […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Feb. 25
As hinted at in the beginning of the weekend, Brian Weitz, better known as Geologist to fans of his much-loved main band Animal Collective, is bringing his solo act to towntonight at the Miniplex at 8:30 p.m. Expect a lot of loops and sounds undergirding ashocking amount of hurdy gurdy playing from the man himself. […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Feb. 24
We all love a bit of controversy from time to time, eh? It adds a little frisson to the week, so long as it’s harmless and done in small doses. This one seems to fit all descriptions above. While researching the Nani Vazana show at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7:30 p.m., I came across […]
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Music Today: Sunday, Feb. 22
It’s the final showtime for this year’s Fiesta Folklórica at the Van Duzer Theatre at 2 p.m. Tickets will run you $10-$15 for a whole lot of music and dancing in celebration ofMexican culture through the ages. This is the fourth iteration of this offering from CalPoly Humboldt’s Dance, Music and Theatre department, and, if […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 21
There are two rock shows happening on either side of the bay tonight, so I’ll spit it outquickly. Jacki & the Jollies are playing a free, all-ages gig with Dragged by Horses atthe Historic Eagle House at 7:30 p.m. An hour and a half later at The Wild Hare, you will find local shoegaze acts […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Feb. 20
Cooper Crain is busy, both as a member of noted Chicago drone band Cave and asone third of Bitchin Bajas, with a more explosive and fancy-free approach to theirexperimental jaunts through the airwaves. I think of track ‘Skylarking’ as a goodexample of the group’s sound, which unfolds like a synthetic barn swallow migratingthrough the transcontinental […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Feb. 19
The Neville Brothers are about as close as it comes to true royalty in New Orleans,containing in their ranks a founding member of funk masters The Meters and, of course, the eponymous band featuring soul superstar Aaron Neville. The youngest member of that family and a noted percussionist for The Meters is landing at Humbrews […]
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Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
I had plans to write about some other things in the intro this week but have instead found myself washed up on another surprise holiday, this one being inconsequential and pretty annoying, President’s Day. I’ll call it Lundi Gras instead out of deference to my former New Orleans home, and like that in-between holiday, I […]
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Comedy Tonight: Sunday, Feb. 15
In the mood for some clean comedy from a nice Midwestern fella? Come by the Arcata Theatre Lounge tonight at 6 p.m. for the microphone stylings of Michael Palascak. A familiar face on the night show circuit, Palascak is a sort of friendly, sitcom-warm Jerry Seinfeld character, if you disregard everything about Jerry Seinfeld outside […]