The Shanty knows about putting on great shows largely because the good people there don’t have to, it is secondary to the function of the place as one of the best bars in California (I’m dead serious). So when there is a show happening, it’s done for all the right reasons, without the desperation of […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 15
Every so often I get to hop up on the table and cause a little ruckus by kicking off the cutlery and breaking some dinnerware in the service of crowing about a can’t-miss, great show put on by artists from the misty lost days in my old home of New Orleans. Tonight is just such […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 13
The Basement is once again the place to be when it comes to pre-gaming for the coming end of the work week. Tonight, the doors open at 7 p.m., and sometime after that you will find a performance by one of our county’s more unique and industrious gigging acts, the Blueberry Hill Boogie Band. If […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, June 12
Iowa is one of our more overlooked states and as someone who has been in nearly all 50, I have a soft spot for this land of corn and Slipknot near the disputed zone of the Midwest. I have seen things there and the place has its own taste, one I prefer over say, Oklahoma, […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, June 9
I always forget about Fairy Festival in Arcata, largely because I don’t have any children of my own and I was kicked out of Neverland 35 years ago for making fun of Peter Pan (“Baby Robin Hood” seems tame, but causes no joy in the land found after the second star to the right and […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 8
Here’s something a little different for your Saturday, by which I mean during the sunshine hours. The Eureka Theater is the spot for the Climax Music Fest. This new eclectic phenomenon features music by Irie Mae, Icarus and Suns, Samba de Alegria and Mighty Violet, as well as danceable beats on tap poured out by […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 7
There was a little bit of a mix-up last month regarding Wild Abandon playing a gig at the Logger Bar, so let’s just do a quick window-edit in space-time and insert that show into tonight’s slot at 9 p.m. The forecast now looks like you can enjoy a lovely summer’s evening in one of our […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 6
Roselit Bone is back in town. This Portland band is one of the few acts I have had the pleasure of seeing live from the early days of covering this beat and that just gets better every time. For those unfamiliar, imagine an ensemble act with a heavy Western vibe, like a less jittery Wall […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, June 5
Ana Egge is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, and guitar builder based out of Brooklyn, New York. Her tunes are well-written, and walk on those lovely, gilded splinters set between the converging pathways of modern folk, country and bluesy jazz. I dig it. Check her out at the Old Steeple tonight at 7:30 p.m., a place that […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, June 4
The Arcata Veterans Hall is always a fun venue for catching shows and the only one in the county (I’m aware of) that has a nice big cannon parked out front. Tonight’s headliners are a rockabilly band from SoCal called the Crown City Bombers, a name I am certain looks really great embossed on the […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, June 3
It sure ain’t Valentine’s Day, but that’s not stopping the good folks at Savage Henry Comedy Club from putting on a Broken Heart Care-Eoke — that last word sounds better in the head than it looks on paper — at 9 p.m. For $1, you can step up to the mic and croon a heartbroken […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, May 31
Local roots rock, boogie and blues-infused, country-side, all-star act The New Pelicans is joining up with another, albeit more established, act of stellar local players when they share the Humbrews stage with Rooster McClintock at 8 p.m. ($10). This is a great pairing, as the rambling string band picking fun of the renewed iteration of […]