As more and more OG members of the Grateful Dead slip off into the cosmos and out of this dirtball living on Earth, we are faced with the next generation of noodle-smiths married to the craft of playing the odd notes at the right time in between more conventional song structures and tunes. One of […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 8
It seems as though the struggling Siren’s Song Tavern is keeping the doors open for now, and so I will do my part and spread the word about what’s going down on the glass and sidewalk stage while I still can. Tonight’s offering is a free 8 p.m. show featuring Good Time Charlies, Redwood Revolution […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Feb. 7
Offered various choices in my research for tonight, I ended up landing on a flyer for a free show at the Kaptain’s Quarters at 8 p.m. for a band called Battle Mountain Gold Co. Blame it on the Mardi Gras-adjacent colors, or the grinning skeleton brandishing a trumpet, or the promise of “Let’s get weird,” […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Feb. 6
Under the Canopy is an indie and folk-rock duo of the sensitive and confessional variety who hail from the 503 area code — Yuba City, as far as I can tell. There’s a sweet earnestness to their tunes and nothing lost is the cover charge over at the Logger Bar tonight at 8 p.m., if […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Feb. 5
Steve Poltz is a unique case study of the type of musician who found a way to forge a livelihood with his art right before the industry cratered into the rare mega-wealth and mass poverty model that is currently destroying the soul of American music. Coming up from the SoCal indie music scene of the […]
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Music Today: Sunday, Feb. 2
The Eureka Woman’s Club is hosting a fundraiser for our fabulous Eureka Symphony today at 3 p.m. ($30). The group is made up of local stars, with conductor (and former brilliant and suffering remedial music teacher of the half-cocked punk dipshit writing these words) Carol Jacobson on cello, local piano whizz John Chernoff and Eureka […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 1
Being raised by hippies who met in a cult — not the horrible kind, but still — I have generally avoided getting too invested in pagan holidays and astrology in favor of my own more traditional religious practices that I won’t elaborate on here for a variety of reasons, one of which is a desire […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Jan. 31
Master violinist Andrew Finn Magill has taken the time he lived and played in Brazil and created Canto, Violino!, a trio which slithers and pulses between the funnels of choro music, the early fusion ancestor of samba, jazz, and bossa nova. The rest of the group are world class musicians, with Brazilian percussionist Clarice Cast […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Jan. 30
Let January slip away with some vocal jazz courtesy of the Claire Bent Quintet. I’ve always enjoyed Ms. Bent’s versatile voice and her choice of a top backing band, which, last I checked (forgive me if I’m wrong) includes her dad Jim on drums. He once helped me with some upholstery for my guitar pedal […]
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Movie Tonight: Wednesday, Jan. 29
Forget a bad moon. There is no moon rising tonight, at least not one we can see, which makes it a perfectly safe evening to indulge in one of the greatest werewolf films ever made, An American Werewolf in London. Goofy humor mixes with vicious and shocking flesh-rending violence in this classic from 1981, courtesy […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Jan. 28
Malibu rapper Shwayze has a career going back into the mid-00s, with summer jams, beach anthems, and summer grooves dominating the overall vibe of his career. If you would like a little bit of that sunshine during our fairly bipolar winter, then come by the Arcata Theatre Lounge tonight at 7 p.m. Bikini Trill and […]
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Comedy Tonight: Monday, Jan. 27
Dual headlining comics from Los Angeles will be taking over Savage Henry Comedy Club tonight at 9 p.m. Come join Justin Lentz and Curtis Taylor III as they work the mics and sing for their supper for a mere $5 at the door, quite a deal for a show so far from home.