Starting right now, you’ve got your Boys of Summer Eagles tribute band, part of the Eureka Summer Concert Series happening at the C Street Market Square. It’s free! Then at 7 p.m., this week’s Italian-bands-in-Humboldt experience begins with The Spiritual Bat, a goth-rock band from Frosinone, Italy, at the Ink Annex. Joining them, Portland’s psychedelic […]
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Outside Lands 2014: Sexy, Sweet, Solo
Avocados, yogurt, Cypress Grove Lamb Chopper I’d found, at all places, at Grocery Outlet. Half a tomato. A box of organic dried plums, also from the GO. I’d had this grand plan to pack enough food to last all weekend, even roasted some eggplant slices, but one thing and then another and I was already […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Two Kinds of Love
You need some goddamn good honky-tonk on a Monday night, yes, you do. Which is why you’re going to suck it up and go out and see Flint, Mich. native Whitey Morgan and the 78’s at Humboldt Brews. Tickets are $10, the outlaw twang starts at 9 p.m. and yes, 21-and-over. Check it: Wait. What? […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Saturday: Dance for fun, funk for a cause, ‘snot rock’
I saw a movie once in which dancing was outlawed because it was, essentially, a sin. Inspired lust and stuff. But the killjoy adults were no match for teenage desire, especially once bad boy Ren McCormack came to town. Arcata has a lot of rules, but, thankfully, the powers-that-be will allow you to salsa, cha-cha, […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Your friends and neighbors
Humboldt Brews celebrates Local Band Night with surf rockers The Mother Vines, whose sound, at least on the track “Wild Free Country,” inspired agreeable head-nodding by the people who happened to be sitting around my living room while I wrote this. Also Dead Drift, a band without a Facebook or Google profile — apparently they’re […]
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Five Things To Know Before You Attend Outside Lands With Your Teenager(s)
1. If your little darling still wants to hang out with you, savor it. This year’s event starts Friday, Aug. 8, but the best Outside Lands fest I went to was in 2009, because the two offspring I brought with me were 13 and 15, respectively. It was their first major music festival. They studied […]
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A Beginner’s Guide to Outside Lands
This Friday, Aug. 8 marks the seventh annual Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. For all the fun festivals Humboldt offers, we don’t have anything like this — which means you and your friends are likely headed down to what is the closest major fest offering rock, hip hop and indie acts. […]
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Down by the River
If you listen closely, you can almost hear the drum circles forming down in Piercy. Southern Humboldt will soon be swarming with reggae fans from all over the country. Reggae on the River ($250, $190) has drawn thousands of people to French’s Camp in Piercy for 30 years now (ignoring the years it moved around […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Avant-Garde, Twangy and Influential Options
A-town #1To a certain group of avant-garde rock fans — do you count yourself among them? — Dead Rider and Free Salamander Exhibit are legend. Dead Rider pulls off loopy time signatures, seemingly random distortion and oddball bits of sound here and there, all while maintaining a sound hypnotic enough you can’t turn away. Reminds […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: The Siren Calls
Mmmmmmmonday. It’s not always a bad thing! Tonight for example, the Siren’s Song Tavern is the site once again of a fun, fun show, this time with Ruby Pins, all quiet vocals and louder sounds that wander the pop gamut, Silver Shadows, described as “Veruca Salt meets Lush,” and our very own Monster Women. All […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Remembering Tina, Festive Festivals, Burlesque, Dreamy Pop and Sludge
Tina Fraser Photo by Bob Doran On a serious note — although I sense the event will be as much celebration as memorial — a bunch of former/current denizens of the Humboldt County punk scene are hosting Tina Bina Boob Ops Wake, a gig/remembrance for Tina Fraser, who passed away from cancer earlier this year. […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Dig Deep, Dance Hard, Goth Out (VIDEO)
When’s the last time you went to the Digger? Exactly. What a perfect opportunity to head out to the Clam Beach Inn — with your designated driver, natch — and witness Humboldt skate rockers Imperial Destructo, the punk-blues (emphasis on punk) stylings of Nebraska’s Saint Christopher and the dirty folk of Montana’s Whiskey Hooves (see video above). […]