Get your sexy on At this point in the week, you need to move your body, shake off the work week and get ready to embrace the forthcoming holiday experience. Two shows are primed to help you do just that. First up, the ever-charismatic Rooster McClintock bring the best honky-tonk in Humboldt to the Central […]
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From the Hum: Fulks is a gas, girls are badass, a little sweet bluegrass
Singer-songwriter delight Chicago singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks makes a rare West Coast appearance at the Arcata Playhouse. Intimate, yet roomy; sophisticated, yet never uptight; with great sound and wonderful people, the Playhouse is one of Humboldt’s top venues. And Fulks is a fascinating performer, with live performances that feature improvised rearrangements of his original songs, off-the-cuff […]
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Don’t Let Your Tuesday Be Snoozeday! El Vez, Rosie Flores and the Lost Luvs tonight
Not everyone has a rip-away gold lamé suit on display at the Smithsonian. But when you’re legendary Chicano Elvis impersonator El Vez, it just stands to reason. For 25 years, the Elvis translator has elucidated Chicano history by highlighting the musical connections between classic pop, rock and punk songs as filtered through Mexican and Afro-Caribbean […]
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From the Hum: Tonight! Steve Poltz, legendary music, all-round cool guy
And here’s yet another excellent show brought to us by the indefatigable Chris Parreira. This time it’s Southern California’s Steve Poltz, long beloved as both a solo artist and with cult legends the Rugburns, playing with the one, the only, John Ludington, perhaps Humboldt County’s most unique songwriter and always endearing performer. (Also in Absynth […]
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From the Hum: Your Sunday, Monday fun days guide
Tonight, Portland’s “little orchestra” Pink Martini returns with what bandleader Thomas Lauderdale calls another “rollicking around-the-world musical adventure.” The multilingual über-hip ensemble is part romantic Hollywood film, part musical archeologist and part red-hot samba parade, wildly diverse yet magically exhilarating. Tickets are $55 general and $25 HSU students. The whole shebang gets going at the […]
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From the Hum: Blackberry Birthday Jam
Tofu! If you’re looking for something free and fun tonight, you’re in luck, because The Hip Joint and The Blackberry Bushes are celebrating Humboldt County soundman extraordinaire and erstwhile Absynth Quintet drummer Tofu Mike’s birthday at the Logger Bar. The Blackberry Bushes are an alt-folk string band out of the Pacific Northwest and bring forth […]
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From the Hum: Tonight’s Tall Cool Drink of Loopy Juice
As mentioned last week — did you get your tickets yet? — Keller Williams returns to Humboldt with a show tonight at the Arcata Theatre Lounge. Musically, Williams is best known for what he calls “the looping thing.” Machines that are essentially delay units enable Williams to step on a button and sing or play […]
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From the Hum: Saturween!
Who cares about Halloween proper when a whole weekend awaits? Consider costumes strongly encouraged. All following shows happen on Saturday and are 21-and-over unless noted. Brooklyn band The Shondes are “too wild to ignore,” according to Rolling Stone’s review of the band’s latest effort, The Garden. Oft-described as a mix of riot grrrl, orchestral indie, […]
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Another Friday Night in Arcata
Another Friday, another rockin’ night on the town, beginning with horn player Karl Denson and his Tiny Universe throwing a Ray Charles Boogaloo Dance Party. The dancing at the Arcata Theatre Lounge started with Zach Deputy, one-man-band getting the crowd going with looped guitar, keyboards and bass. The Tiny Universe and the Cosmic Horns funked […]
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Psyche-out at the Shanty
Visionary psyche music pioneer Nik Turner, from the British bands Hawkwind and Space Gypsy, played for a tightly packed house Wednesday at the Shanty. His psychedelic krautrock backup band Hedersleben added layers of sonic madness. The crowd responded. Opening the show: the wild new noise band CV, and local neo-psyche masters White Manna, just returned from […]
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Claudia Swings
The complex music of the Claudia Quintet relies on somewhat unusual instrumentation – including accordion and vibes, at times bowed – providing a dense, beautiful setting for drummer/bandleader John Hollenbeck’s pieces. Innovative, improvised, at times carefully composed, sometimes not even written down, it’s what we call jazz these days, for lack of a better word. And […]
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Redwood Jazz Alliance Gigs
The Redwood Jazz Alliance kicked off their season with Phronesis this week, and more is on the way. The lineup for the year features the Claudia Quintet, Fred Hersch Trio, Omer Atival Quintet, Linda Oh Sun Pictures, Michael Moore Quartet and Regina Carter’s Southern Comfort. Check out their website for dates and venues.