It’s another night of reggae and toasty tunes, this time at Humbrews at 8:30 p.m., when Jamaican-American singer and deejay Chuck Fenda and the Purity Attack Band roll through the northern 707 all the way from Brooklyn, NYC. Along for the ride is Jamaican artist Lawgiver the Kingson born in (where else?) Kingston and now […]
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Dance to the Bayou Swamis this Friday
Let the good times roll with the Bayou Swamis on Friday, April 18, at 7 p.m. at Trinidad Town Hall ($5–$20 sliding). This lively Louisiana-inspired band serves up swampy originals and Cajun-spiced tunes with Jeff Landen on guitar, Randle Lundberg on button accordion and fiddle, Kate Koemel on rubboard and T-fer, Marla Joy on bass […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, April 17
It’s the beginning of a two-night duet of reggae pleasure for all of you high-steppers out there looking for some top-class grooves to get down and scoot around to. The Bermudian by way of New Orleans singer and dancehall darling Collie Buddz is back in town, returning to the Arcata Theatre Lounge tonight at 7 […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, April 15
Many ages ago, I was introduced to the music of the late griot desert-rock and groove master Ali Farka Touré. His hypnotic tunes always put me in a state of contradiction: traveling sounds becoming a static liminal space where storytelling transcends the Babel Tower restrictions of language to tap into a communication deeper than meaning. […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, April 14
Savage Henry Comedy Club is once again hosting Metal Monday, an early (7 p.m.) all-ages throwdown that starts the week out right. Tonight’s link-up is particularly fine, with post-post grunge band Gnawed On coming down the mountain with Mystery Meat, Abandons and Only Echoes.
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Music Tonight: Sunday, April 13
I mentioned earlier about the Logger Bar often having bands that blend into the environment of the venue but tonight’s gig is going to be a little different. Not that there’s a clash happening here, it’s more like a rare bird will be nesting in the joint. Santa Cruz’s Supernaut plays a type of epic, […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 12
I am happy to report that the Siren’s Song Tavern is still up and running, and hosting a wicked and heavy show tonight at 6:30 p.m. Two of my favorite local amp slappers Ultramafic and Psyop Victim will be testing the earthquake retrofitting of the building, while another act I have yet to experience live […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 11
There’s a slap-dance night of tightwire funk and bounceable jams happening at Humbrews at 8:30 p.m. for those of you itching to boogie. Seattle’s instrumental funk ‘n soul band True Loves joins forces with local mothership Object Heavy to make the floor rippled and body strengthen with the healing frequencies of the Groove. Early tickets […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, April 10
The Logger Bar is once again hosting a show perfect for its coral-like layers of a century of (occasionally) polished rustic ambience. Tyler John Kraehling is a traveling troubadour whose singer-songwriter repertoire takes the audience down the backroads of folk, country and blues, with both wilderness and signposts running through the mud and gravel. He’ll […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, April 1
Due to the increasingly absurd seriousness of the world married to an also increasingly evil and clownish state of domestic affairs, plus my previous underestimation of how painfully literal some people take in information in this column and beyond, I have learned not to engage in April Fool’s gags in print anymore. So I am […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, March 31
In the interest of covering all the spots where the endangered musician’s open mic still exists, despite the cruelly relentless forces of American decline, I would like to note that the Crisp Lounge is hosting a free one tonight. The music starts at 7 p.m., sign-up begins 15 minutes earlier, which is the same amount […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, March 30
More roots-rock Americana on tap tonight at the Old Steeple, where Alabama’s relatively young native son Early James will be performing a set of custom tunes which seem older than the maker. In short, James has tapped into the older goods of the deep, resonant human sounds of our cultural traditions and he has the […]