Something interesting about the springtime is the contradiction embedded between the old sensations that stir with the rising virgin growth of the newborn season. The vitality that comes with the turgid sap-flow and exploding blooms busting out colors and scents everywhere is shaded with a heavy atmosphere of the past, a twilight zone of dead […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, April 19
Six Rivers Brewery is the place to be for a special session of dance, untethered ecstatic worship and an open mixer and celebration of joy for Humboldt’s queer community. Starting today and going forward, DJ Thornestar and The Outlaw Jamie B will be hosting Sanctuary Sundays on the third Sunday of the month. This month’s […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 19
Another big day for fans of loud, amplified electric guitars and battered-attitude drums. The ever-fantastic metal guerrilla cell Psyop Victim sits atop a bill with Hotel Riot, Bipolar Bear — featuring members of the Hitch, the Cookers and Scurvy Dogs — and Dave O’s fantastic bass- driven punk bullhorn TheBoredAgain. More interesting still, it’s all […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 17
The Miniplex is hosting a local alterna-pop tonight at 8 p.m., when the sonic cavern will be taken over by the ever-ebullient Jacki & the Jollies and the interestingly named act Heaven’s Taint, playing power punk covers and others. I’ve seen Jacki & Co. get their jollies at a diverse range of venues, from the […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, April 16
The Siren’s Song is hosting a smokin’ amp rock show tonight. Blackplate needs no introduction in this column, but merely a reminder that they are one of the loudest and best heavy sound dealers around these parts. Lady in Waiting is, according to Sean Casement from the aforementioned band, a local supergroup featuring members of […]
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El Sueño
We’ve all been in a funny spot lately, and we all know why, so I won’t drag the pen across that point any further. One thing about living through such disastrous and deeply stupid times is that we are all aware of the horrors enough that a wave of the hand says more than words […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, April 15
It’s the return of synth pop artist Madeline Goldstein, who has been developing her unique take on darkwave from her hometown days in Portland, Oregon, to her more expansive creative center in Los Angeles. She’s back at the Miniplex for an early show tonight at 7 p.m., along with Red Room DJs KreePeeO, Zero One, […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 11
Veteran Folklife Festival organizer and local musician at-large Patrick Cleary has finally done it. Done what you ask? Why, recorded his first album after a quarter century of notebooking, developing and backlogging both material and multi-instrumental skills. The result, soft-released in January and appropriately titled Finally is a lovely little rustic and bluesy homespun heater, […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 10
The ball keeps rolling around the sun and, despite the best efforts of the lunatics running this side of the hemisphere, spring has sprung. Life is absolutely exploding everywhere. Our beloved Eureka Symphony is back in bloom with “Humor, Passion & Power — the Human Spirit.” The penultimate program for the season, the highlight of […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, April 9
The weather’s going to be a bit corybantic like a good and proper April, so why not celebrate the unpredictable wildness with some dancing on a Thursday? The Latin Peppers are jamming at the Basement tonight at 8 p.m. and it’s only $5 at the door. If you play your cards right, this could kick […]
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Lilac and Star and Bird
I’ve been working on enjoying the rare moments of escape from the horror of the news while still balancing my observations on those horrors so as not to slip into a state of willful ignorance. April 15 — the last day of this column’s cycle — isn’t just Tax Day, it’s the anniversary of the […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, April 7
The Outer Space is hosting an indie rock show in its all-ages, sober space at 7 p.m. tonight. Traveling bands Simple Shapes from Portland and Poppyfield from Santa Cruz will converge from their respective cities to form a musical quorum with local bands Pennies for Pluto and Lxs Perdidxs for some bopping and strumming ol’ […]