Let’s head back to the Arcata Playhouse tonight to eyeball an interesting gig at 7:30 p.m. The Black Feathers are a married duo from the southwest of England who play folk music with an emphasis on Americana sounds with the kind of skilled obsessiveness that only outsiders can cultivate. There’s a particular set of tunes […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 18
After Hours is a jazz group composed of drummer Ramsey Isaacs, pianist Matt Seno, bassist Lee Phillips and Russ Thallheimer on the tenor sax, all of whom are young and wildly talented local players. The band is starting a residency at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. that will run five times on the […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 17
There’s a fine double header at the Logger Bar today, with some acoustic blues courtesy of The Backseat Drivers happening from 4 to 6 p.m., and a nighttime set by Portland indie singer, songwriter and bandleader Tyler Berd at 9 p.m. Come as you like, when you feel like it. It’s always a casual atmosphere […]
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The World is No Better Than its Places
Recently, listening to the soundtrack to the seminal Jamaican gangster film The Harder They Come after a long time away from it, I flashed back to a long-forgotten nihilistic fantasy of dressing like a dandy, wearing some illegal weapons in my belt and dying in some flashy way before I reached an age where the […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Sept. 13
I recently had a blast and reconnected with a childhood mate when I went to a movie night at the Shanty to watch part of an early Abel Ferrara flick presented by Wild Billy Burgess, the silver screen slasher. Tonight at 8 p.m. he and his cohorts in Movie Party Tonight are showing the 1974 […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 11
I have been told by my friends who tend to know about such things that there is asinger/songwriter in the modern Americana style who is bringing his sound back to our county for anyone with the vision and funds to catch a $25 ticket to his 7 p.m. gig at the Arcata Playhouse. The Marty […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 10
Francis Vanek is a Pennsylvania-born but West Coast rambling ace saxophonist of the latter-day jazz genre. He is bringing his Quartet back to the Basement tonight at 7:30 p.m. for an evening of the good stuff that will heal what ails you for a mere $5.
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Land Speed Record
The title of this week’s edition comes from Minnesota punk pioneers Hüsker Dü’s intense 1981 concert album, after the group had — allegedly — discovered a performance-enhancing drug that sometimes goes by the second word in the said title, but before they essentially invented pop punk. It is a rough and wonderful crash course of […]
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The Summer Wind
We have certainly entered the part of the summer where our nostalgia for the bright and lazy days of late June is colored by the scent of wood smoke and over-ripened fruit. The kind of sensation that curls over our nostrils and into our brains like the tendrils of cigarette vapors from Rick Blaine’s ashtray […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Sept. 1
Taco Tuesday at Richards’ Goat is always a safe bet for a good time, but there’s really nothing finer than when the attached Miniplex has an early show to enjoy for after. Tonight has Norwegian-born, Berlin-based duo Soft as Snow, who take the format of DJ and MC and turn it into something else entirely […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Aug. 31
It’s not every day around here you get the chance to check out a retro punk and garage band from Paris, and almost never on a Monday. But this is the last Monday of August, and things get a little weird in these parts when the locals brace themselves into a phalanx to handle the […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Aug. 30
MaMuse is a folk and soul revival act that began as a collaboration between musicians Sarah Nutting and Karisha Longaker in the deep end of 20 years ago in the rambling corridors of our home state that are leafier than they are paved. The two have since grown to a quartet, and are currently touring […]