Two shows in Arcata tonight, both featuring veteran acts from either here or abroad, both going down at 8 p.m. Let’s dig further. At the Wild Hare, you will find the local flavors of Barking Dogma, Generational Trauma and Good Time Charlies. Peggy Martinez of Barking Dogma wanted to remind me to tell you that […]
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Overture
I am running down a deadline and the music I’m listening to while writing has just shifted to Rachmaninoff, so time is ticking away along with the score. For those of you wondering if there is a contradiction when I mention a different act I’m listening to while writing in the text below, there is […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 19
Here are some local treats to stuff your stockings with. First up, Moss Oak Commons,where it’s Freq Night again, with music from the crossroads of experimental electronicsounds, tap loops, treated guitar amp worship, holy synths and modulators, and lo-figrooves. Check out Hudson Glover, Luker, Samantha and Aermac 8 at 7 p.m. for asuggested $5-$10. When […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 12
Speaking of local treasures from a certain era, the ever-fine Barking Dogma are playing at the Wild Hare Tavern tonight at 8 p.m., where for a mere $5 you can see a Humboldt institution play some gems by Kevyn Dymond in the new skin of the old Jambalaya. Things change and the spirit endures. If […]
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Home at Last
The central illusion of human existence is the idea of the individual. A singular will operating at odds, instead of at one with, collective humanity and the living world at large. One place this grand fraudulence is most obvious is in traffic jams, where huge numbers of “autonomous” persons, each operating an automobile, finds themselves […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 26
If you haven’t exhausted yourself from the action at the third annual May Day Block Party at 2 p.m. in Blue Lake near the Logger Bar, here’s some more locally crafted entertainment for your enjoyment. The Wild Hare Tavern is hosting veteran eclectic rock act Barking Dogma, with singer Peggy Martinez and company keeping alive […]
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Gloria
I went out past the back pasture in the body of this column, so no opening essay this week. In deference to Easter Sunday, when I am writing this, I humbly submit for your consideration the final words of Dante’s Divine Comedy, when the poet has looked upon God in Paradise, but finds himself unable […]
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Music Today: Sunday, July 7
Humboldt Hot Air, our region’s free internet radio station and a beacon of the off-beat and pulse for the proper goods since KHSU was assassinated, is holding a fundraising fest today at the Arcata Playhouse and adjacent areas. This free, all-ages “fun-raising” event will feature two stages for live music, vendors, food trucks, a vinyl […]