The Setlist

Steve Kimock, no stranger to Humboldt County, returns this week to share new songs from his upcoming release, Last Danger of Frost. Frost is not yet firmly behind us here, and the tone of Kimock’s guitar sounds at times crystalline and icy, but never cold. Some of the acoustic tracks off of the instrumental album […]

Humboldt County 3rd District Supervisor Mark Lovelace is serving his final year in office as the chair of the board. But the San Jose native and former punk rock club busboy won’t stop playing music anytime soon. He grew up listening to big band jazz music and the crooning of Bing Crosby with his parents. […]

Humboldt County residents are lucky for countless reasons. One of those is that, due to our rather small population, we have a real opportunity to get to know our elected officials and public servants. As with many in the “public sphere,” it’s easy for us to think we know who a person is by glancing […]

In our hyper-partisan 21st century world, you’d be forgiven for thinking that we, as Americans, don’t like ourselves very much. Although more and more of us profess to drop out of the two party political system, we still tend to be quite tribal and quarantine ourselves into like-minded camps. Drive a Chevy truck? Your friends […]

I’ve been told by more than a few people to check out the 2013 documentary 20 Feet From Stardom. Winner of an Academy Award, the film is about a few singers with tremendous voices who played the role of “backup singer” to many bands over the decades. I’m still unclear what’s taken me so long […]

What is the “Southern California Sound”? I heard the term recently mentioned in regards to a band playing The Depot on Friday (The Donkeys) and although I immediately had an idea of what the sum of that sound is, the individual parts that make it up were a bit more troubling to identify. The artists […]

As many of you parents know, finding the time to make it out to live music shows can be just as difficult as staying awake/sober until the 9 p.m. start time. This isn’t completely exclusive to the breeders in our community, but applicable to all of us at the mercy of aging. Young and underemployed? […]

Congratulations, you’ve survived the “holiday season.” My apologies to those that didn’t survive. For the rest of us, our extended families have left town, our Christmas trees are dying and we’re broke. Sure, the kids liked their presents, but that will fade in a few more days, leaving us to wonder why the hell we […]