While Reggae on the River might be a month away, Humbrews is hostingthe official pre-party tonight at 9 p.m. If you need your fix, come through for the rhythms of Green Lion Crew and Noble Tobal Sound System to holdyou over until August. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.Blessings.
Collin Yeo
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Music Tonight: Friday, July 10
Regular readers of this space should be familiar with The Pine Hill Haints,Alabama’s best group of country hill stompers and cemetery creepers inthis or any other century. Hell, they even have a stick and bucket slap bassand know how to use it. I’m happy to announce they’ll be haunting theSwan Room at the Shanty tonight […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, July 9
Francis Vanek is an exceptional tenor sax player who is likely familiar tomany of you in the jazz community, having played around these parts quitea few times over the years with local jazz studs RLA along with othervarious groups. Whether you are a returning audience member oruninitiated fan-to-be, you should roll through the Basement after […]
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The Pan Piper
A few weeks ago, I wrote an intro here about a dawn chorus of birds I heard while camping. I titled that column “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” after a famous chapter from The Wind in the Willows, in which the pagan god Pan appears as a benevolent shepherd of animals to help the […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, July 6
There’s a pretty fantastic loud and wild show over at Moss Oak Commons tonight at 7 p.m. The headliner is the Tokyo group The Wameki, whose dry explosive sound evokes a kind of radio-wave diarrhea mess in the most fabulous way possible. Sickening sounds with great effectiveness. To sweeten the pot, three of our best […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, July 3
Now that summer is underway, it’s a good time to dance to the music of bright colors and hot nights. Templo is a dance party curated by DJs Blancatron and Zero One full of Afro and Latin beats amid a backdrop of Tropicalia. You can catch the fun starting at the Basement starting at 8 […]
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Music Today: Thursday, July 2
Rob Diggins and Jolianne Einem are stellar figures whose eclectic output, both as performers and promoters, is a load-bearing part of the Humboldt music scene. So much so that I find myself often behind in reporting on the many shows they play and put on. I aim to fix that somewhat today by suggesting that […]
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Born in the U.S.A.
I’m not interested in celebrating another “birthday” for America, particularly at this moment in time, but I think I am in the majority here. Not that a majority matters in a country that pretends to be a democracy while being burdened by wealthy authoritarian minority rule, but that’s not the point. There’s weariness and unease […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, June 29
One more Metal Monday over at Savage Henry Comedy Club tonight at 7 p.m. I’m not working off of an abundance of information here, but I do know that Seattle’s relatively new and fresh — for a death metal band — Invocation Ritual is making a stop on their West Coast tour. Tickets are a […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, June 28
Jam fans rejoice. Humbrews is hosting Dizgo, the hottest quartet from Bloomington, Indiana. Expect lots of dynamic shifts and mind-freeing transitions over the course of the night, along with some opening grooves courtesy of HotFoot. Things get going around 8:30 p.m. and the tickets will run you $25 at the door, $20 for all the […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 27
If you want to spend a little money and enjoy a big to-do for the last Saturday of Pride month, the Clarke Museum is putting on a massive drag show at 6:30 p.m., featuring all of the stars of the local scene. Museum members and anyone who shows up in full drag gets in for […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 26
Contemporary folk and blues singer Sawyer Fredericks is perhaps best known for winning season 8 of The Voice at the age of only 16. And while it’s not a great time for Americans to be reminded of the works of NBC reality show stars from New York, he’s from upstate, and unlike the other guy […]