Michael Beach is a soundmaker from Melbourne, Australia who has found a home in North American hi-fi sets with his releases on outré rock label Goner Records. Known for his vibrant stage presence, you can see some of that lightning captured in the bottle that is the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m. Also on tap […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 9
If you are in the mood for some weird folk and off-beat rock with a mostly local flavor, Northtown Coffee is the place to be. Roll through at 6:30 p.m. for the musical stylings of Ethan Rubin’s Wounded Animal, Portland one-man band It & I, area acoustic doomsters Bleater and front-to-side man of many Humboldt […]
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
In last week’s intro I wrote about the fear of the zombification of our neighbors, teasing a discussion about a sneaky way of writing about an inversion of that concept. Well, here it is: The central idea shifts from a fear of your social equals to the creeping horror of full institutional political capture from […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Oct. 5
Street folk and dive country singer/songwriter John Moreland has been self-producing his own albums of soulful Tulsa heat very prodigiously for most of his breathing life. Heartworn and permanently highway-bound, he makes what my late father used to refer to approvingly as “dirty boots music.” You can hear for yourself what that means in a […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Oct. 4
Brooklyn’s Shilpa Ray is a lady who has been churning out the art-punk jams for quite some time, with her band of merry freaks bringing the guts to undergird her growl. She’ll be stalking the boards of the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m., along with an absolutely perfect support band: local melodic punk rawk chanter […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 3
Another kick-off night of happy returns, this time over at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, where at 7:30 p.m. you can catch the first performance of the Eureka Symphony’s new season. Tonight’s program Contrast and Transformation features pianist John Chernoff for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, along with a piece […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 2
When the doors open today at 4 p.m. and the music kicks off a couple hours later at the Adorni Center and the Eagle House, it will mark the beginning of the four-day Redwood Coast Music Festival. Today’s acts include Clint Baker’s Jazz Band, Noir, Redwood Dixie Gators and more. Early bird passes for the […]
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors
It’s October, which means I’ll be culling my column headlines from various horror artifacts from pop culture. This week’s title comes from the 1993 Super Nintendo video game that I wasted many glorious childhood hours on during the twilight of the last century. A fun romp through dead-brained suburban wastelands full of invading monster movie […]
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Ready to Rockabilly
Every October, music lovers from across the nation make their way to Eureka for the Redwood Coast Music Festival, one of the premier roots-music gatherings on the West Coast. This year, for four jam-packed days, Thursday, Oct. 2 through Sunday, Oct. 5, Old Town and Downtown Eureka will come alive with blues, swing, zydeco, jazz, […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Oct. 1
TopHouse is a hybrid band of folk rock, roots, and bluegrass music that started a decade ago in Missoula, Montana, before setting up its homebase in Nashville in the year before COVID hit. Since then, the group has extended itself into a quartet and toured and recorded in the fashion of an act working to […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 27
Because things get quiet in the early part of next week, I’m double-stacking tonight’s fun as a sayonara to September. First up at the Logger Bar, there’s a Drag Lotería at 8 p.m., featuring hosts Val de Flores and Komboujia and with music by Hispanic! at the Disco. The price for participation is $10. Meanwhile, […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 26
Come out to the last Friday Night Market in Arcata — for now — and swing by the Outer Space at 7:30 p.m. for a very special local showcase in the intimate, all-ages, sober joint. We’re talking boogying with The Cowtown Sound, Jellyworks playing some instrumental space- synth, and the debut full-band show of both […]