The Miniplex is putting on a punk and pop-punk mash-up gig tonight at 9 p.m., starring Portland’s queer solo-to-collective act New Here, and featuring local support from a well-picked set of comrades in the form of the bands Blub and Vegan Slaughterhouse. The show is $5-$10 sliding scale and NOTAFLOF, so share what you have […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 2
It’s Taco Tuesday again at Richards’ Goat and the connected Miniplex venue is putting on a NOTAFLOF show headlined by Eugene-to-San Francisco queer honky tonk band Country Risqué, whose tunes sound like the late Gram Parsons MC-ing a drag show set in the world of Robert Altman’s Nashville. Also on board with these Grievous Angels […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 29
Summer means festival season and although I’ve been a little lax about reporting on all of the grouped-up goings on around here, I can’t miss reporting on this metalworks happening at the Mateel today. The Nor-Cal Headbanger’s Ball will feature 13 bands from the Bay Area and above. Rather than list the entire lineup, I’ll […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 27
Longtime Logger Bar regular Kaptain Kirk is providing the musical entertainment at that fine establishment tonight at 8 p.m. I think I’ve walked in on a past performance or two, but my mind isn’t what it used to be, so the only notes I have are free-associative: “cosmic,” “trippy fun” and, most importantly, “free,” in […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, June 26
The Outer Space has a trio of unique talents tonight at 7:30 p.m. whose blending might have what it takes to make for an interesting midweek show. Oakland’s Weird Mood just tossed out the single “Jinx” last week and, after giving it a spin on Bandcamp, my response is a hearty thumbs up, if only […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, June 25
It’s Taco Tuesday at Richards’ Goat, and if that gets you in the door, the attached cinema venue the Miniplex has an interesting couple of touring bands rolling through at 8:30 p.m. Clementine Was Right is a twangy indie outfit from Denver, Colorado, who share a diary-entry, poetic approach with punkier tourmates Farseek from the […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, June 24
Let’s hear it once more for Metal Mondays at Savage Henry Comedy Club. Tonight’s performers are a sludge band from Salem, Oregon, called Hell, as well as local bangers Death Doula and Echo Death. Music starts around 7 p.m., $5-$10 sliding scale cover, all-ages and an I.D. needed for adult beverages. To quote David Byrne, […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 22
The Miniplex is hosting Goth Night XIII, and this installment is a celebration of the quaint mall goth aesthetic that has largely died out with big structure American retail spaces. I am old enough to prefer the earlier thrift store/Salvation Army version of the style but to each their own, and I certainly won’t pretend […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 21
More than 60 years since its creation, Memphis, Tennessee’s Stax Records is still churning out records by acts that mix gospel, R&B, soul and the blues like nobody’s business. One such hometown hero group is Southern Avenue, a large ensemble that lays it down heavy and danceable. They’ll be at Humbrews tonight at 8 p.m., […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 20
The Alley Cats, sometimes known as the Opera Alley Cats when playing in their home turf in Old Town Eureka, are playing a free one tonight at the Basement after 7 p.m. Be on the lookout for my buddy Brian’s new trombone, which came in the post from Japan, looks like a beaut and I […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, June 19
RampArt Skatepark is holding a hip hop show tonight at 8 p.m. hosted by local artist Attribute and the lineup looks like it’s well worth a midweek getdown. Top of the roster is Krayzie Bone, a key player and founding member of seminal ’90s hip hop mavericks Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, as well as affiliated rapper “Big” […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, June 18
At 8 p.m. this evening at the Miniplex, a very interesting and talented experimental instrumental trio will be playing on the screen-backed stage. Guitarist Bill Orcutt, saxophonist and composer Zoh Amba and drummer Chris Corsano are the members. They each contain enough brilliance to be memorialized forever on one of those music recordings we throw […]