Moss Oak Commons is the place to be for another installment of Freq Night by Open Head Records. Tonight’s offering features the avant folk tunes of Olympia, Washington’s Wicking Game, along with local electroclash act Parking Structure, the lovely storytelling digital torch songs of God Z Dog and the drone folks of Mountain Mahogany. This […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Nov. 14
The Arcata Playhouse is hosting the Writer’s Roundup Songwriter Showcase with Ruby Ruth George, Polimana, James Zeller and Fo Fera. The setup is fashioned after the popular Nashville — and elsewhere — style of rotating performances and storytelling, featuring a whole slew of genres from progfolk to jazz and country. These are some of the […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 13
The possibility of a Beatles reunion was permanently revoked before I was born, and now, people like myself who are fans of those world-changing Liverpudlians yet never shared the planet with them are close to outnumbering those who did. Regardless of your age, it’s a done deal, so we are left with tributes and satellite […]
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Songs of Love and Hate
I was texting with my sister last week after her birthday and she was in the process of making a playlist of the worst songs ever written. This was unsurprising, as we are like-minded shitheads, despite her being a formidable and dangerous Scorpio lady. We agreed on a few additions from each camp: her suggestion […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Nov. 12
Sometimes I have nothing to accompany me as I type up this column other than the howling ghosts of regret and loneliness that course through the space between my ears like a cruel, spectral turbine. And sometimes I have some swanky new tunes to accompany the ceaseless screams from the abyss torn into existence by […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Nov. 8
Speaking of Cadillac Ranch, that big-sound country swing act will be overseeing a fundraiser for Playhouse Arts at the Arcata Playhouse at 7 p.m. Come mingle and spend some dough for a good cause, namely keeping the lights on for our local art and music scene. This country cabaret will be packed with guest stars […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Nov. 7
The Logger Bar presents a one-off kick-off to the dirty weekend with One Night Stand Country Band, featuring members of Rooster McClintock, the Lost Dogs, Big 8 and Cadillac Ranch. There’s no cover for this 8 p.m. show, so bring some extra scratch to tip the bartenders and musicians.
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 6
The Outer Space is hosting an indie rock showcase tonight at 7 p.m. Portland’s Tradie will share the stage with local acts The Cowtown Sound, Mold and Fig, for those of you out there inclined toward gentle jams and bedroom poetry. Considering we are hitting the three-decade mark of indie rock as a genre name, […]
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Hog of the Forsaken
Now that we have burst through the membrane of the macabre month of sweet decay and symbolic death, it’s time to settle into the darker reality of standard-time long nights and the spectacle of a (sort of) election in a country that is fairly anti-democratic. It’s all well and good in my household — I […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Nov. 1
Celebrate the beginning of the Weekend of the Dead with a fantastic psychedelic show at the Miniplex at 8:30 p.m. Magic Castles from Minneapolis brings to mind the post-British Invasion, West Coast sound of the late-’60s with some analog excellence that is perfectly matched with local night trippers Western Extra. This is a must-hear for […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 31
As usual, there are many, many, many events going on all over the county. In years past I detailed quite a few of them, but lately I’ve remembered that this column isn’t called the calendar for a reason, so I’m only going to detail two shows, all live music with great bands, in an area […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 30
Starting at 7 p.m., it’s the beginning of the end for this year’s iteration of the Haunted Kinetic Lab of Horrors, the annual guided haunted house run-through at the Kinetic Sculpture Lab at Eighth and N streets in Arcata. I heard a rumor that DJ Red will be spinning his stuff for those of you […]