Yes, goth karaoke. At Siren’s Song, with a selection that includes Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Christian Death, Nina Hagen, Bauhaus, Sex Gang Children, the Cure, Virgin Prunes, Xmal Deutschland, Specimen, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 45 Grave and what more do you need? Event organizers note that the Siren’s Song bar […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: When Descriptions Win
An unusual show at Richards’ Goat features Shelter Death, best known for an ability to “utilize alien programming, heavy electronics and pained instrumentation that makes for a tragic and austere peal.” Do with that what you will. Also performing: Pod Blotz and Glochids, plus Humboldt’s DL Mathias doing “synthesizers for shut-ins” and DJ interludes provided […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Wrap Your Weekend With Some Reggae Chill
The Green‘s latest album, Hawai’i ’13, opens with a chant because, according to guitarist, vocalist and one of the band’s five songwriters JP Kennedy, “From the times of ancient Hawaii and even up to present day, chanting has been a part of our culture. It’s a way to start something important. When we chant, we […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Demons and Monsters
Locals night in A-town The Mother Vines bring the surf-psych punk rock and Super Demon delivers the Macktown math metal at the Alibi. Music at 11 p.m., $3 cover, 21-and-over. Here’s The Mother Vines auditioning for NPR’s Tiny Desk concerts: Eureka delights Austin’s magnificently eerie-folky-rocky Technicolor Hearts play with local favorites The Monster Women and […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Altered States, ’80s Greaties
Mild High at Blondie’s The weekend proper starts off with a full evening of psychedelic alt rock as L.A.’s Mild High Club and Hemingway play Blondie’s, along with Humboldt’s Something Simple. First, let’s take a moment to appreciate the fine play on words: “Mild High” Club — ha! Okay. The Club is the musical output […]
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Requiem for a Dream
Hello. Happy summer. Please go outside, report back, then attend some of these fine shows. Friday A gentle hit The weekend proper starts off with a full evening of psychedelic alt rock as L.A.’s Mild High Club and Hemingway play Blondie’s, along with Humboldt’s Something Simple. First, let’s take a moment to appreciate the fine […]
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Emotional Rollercoaster
Reviews INSIDE OUT. It all makes so much sense now, how at times we’re steamrolled by anger, buoyed by joy, puddled by sadness, paralyzed by fear and/or caught up in disgust. Never has a movie described the inner workings of our emotional lives with as much clarity, charm and poignancy as Pixar’s latest, Inside Out. […]
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Summertime
Saturday is Oyster Fest — yum — see elsewhere in the Journal for full details on that fun time. I will note that The Official Afterparty takes place at Jambalaya with Roister and Free Rain, and is sure to be a super funky show given that Roister boasts Zappa alum Tom Fowler and Ray White, […]
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Tonight’s Setlist #2: In Which We Honor the Freeing of Arcata Feet
Gather ’round, children and transplants, and let us tell you of the dark days of yesteryear, 2001 to 2003 to be precise, when the fair city of Arcata was under siege by a police chief who dreamed of creating his very own Bomont — a town where dancing was outlawed and live music was a […]
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Tonight’s Setlist #1: Brisa Roché, Paris Darling, Arcata
Expect emotional and startling jazz standards from the 1930s to 1950s interpreted by singer Brisa Roché with Steve Smith on piano and Baron Wolfe on bass. Roché was born in Arcata and raised by an artist mother and adventurer father. She left home with her guitar at 16 to bask in the glory days of […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Rose Armin-Hoiland, Coming Home to Fly Away
Rose Armin-Hoiland presents “Gotta Have a Song” — her first show in Arcata since relocating to Oakland in 2012 — at the Arcata Playhouse. Born and raised in Arcata, Armin-Hoiland sang before she talked and began performing in choirs and musical theatre shortly thereafter. As a teenager, she formed a jazz trio with high school […]
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In the Beginning
This week brings us the goodness of two women who launched from Arcata to find smashing success elsewhere, and are returning to play hometown shows; plus, an anniversary of A-town’s delivery from a Footloose-like existence. Read on… Friday Local girl returns #1 Rose Armin-Hoiland presents “Gotta Have a Song” — her first show in Arcata […]