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 […]
Music
Coverage of the music scene in Humboldt County with upcoming shows from locals and out-of-town acts, reviews, interviews and more.
Posted inMusic
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, […]
Posted inMusic
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 […]
Posted inMusic
Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 25
The Creative Sanctuary presents the latest in an ongoing series honoring the musical alumni of the rotating, midcentury supergroup the Jazz Messengers. Tonight’s star attraction is the recently late Wayne Shorter, whose saxophonic splendor lit up the world in a career that spanned from bebop to hip hop and beyond. Join hosts James Zeller, Ramsey […]
Posted inThe Setlist
Post-Millennium Tension
At a certain point in your life, the corrosion of your memories meets the current of dreams and the two become more or less indistinguishable. Older impressions melt away in the psychic wash, only to reappear as patchwork colors on the uninvited night coat of sleep. After all, the mind has its own efficiencies, too, […]
Posted inMusic
Music Tonight: Wednesday, Sept. 24
The Outer Space is hosting an all-ages evening of dreamy music starting at 7 p.m., with Los Angeles shoegaze heroes Mo Dotti heading the bill. Also on the marquee is the bedroom indie pop of Jess Carey, aka Mold, and a new project by March Adstrum and Gabriel Izak called, appropriately, octobercountry. The door charge […]
Posted inMusic
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Sept. 23
I might as well toss in one of my periodic reminders to go check out the Opera AlleyCats at the SpeakEasy at 7 p.m. They’re good and it’s free, minus the cost of whateveryou feel like pouring down the hatch from behind the bar.
Posted inMusic
Music Tonight: Sunday, Sept. 21
Who doesn’t love peace? Well, it turns out a bunch of people, especially in this countryand its colonial client states. A worrying amount, actually, if you give any time to thinkabout it. Which I would prefer to avoid at the moment, and in the words of JohnnyMercer paraphrasing Father Divine, “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, eliminate thenegative.” […]
Posted inMusic
Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 20
It’s a good night to be blue all over. Here are some musical considerations appropriateto that theme. At 8 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse, blues singer and returning champion Earl Thomas will be joined by red hot guitarist Anthony Cullins and assorted musicians to fill the joint with the searing blue flames of classic heart-born […]
Posted inMusic
Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 19
San Francisco’s Fisherman Tiki Band has roots in Humboldt going back to the ’90sand will be bringing its retro-tinged, tropic ambience to the Logger Bar as part of theRegal Beagle takeover of the venue for the evening, ahead of the North Country Fair inArcata. Starting at 5 p.m., there will be music provided by the […]
Posted inMusic
Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 18
Fairly new Arcata venue Froth is hosting a banger tonight, with Tijuana hardcore bandHong Kong Fuck You returning to the area as headlingers. On the undercard forsupport you will find some of our own local distorted treasures: Brain Dead Rejects,Gourmandizer, Psyop Victim, and Radical Apes. This is an early show, with doors at5 p.m., and, […]
Posted inThe Setlist
Love Will Tear Us Apart
“And when you became Denise, I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die.” — David Lynch, as FBI Chief Gordan Cole, to Denise Bryson, a transwoman and FBI agent played by David Duchovny Some artists seem supernatural in their attenuation because they show empathy during ignorant and careless times, […]