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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 17

Here are two great shows on two different sides of Humboldt Bay for those with disparate tastes looking for some powerful fun. If you want something heavy by means of distortion and high amplitude, head over to the Void in Old Town Eureka at 6 p.m., where you will find Nevada’s electro-noise machine Gülb and […]

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Jeepers Creepers

The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valleyThis broken jaw of our lost kingdoms — From T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those peepers? Well, if you are unfortunate enough to share values with the people currently executing the […]

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Music Tonight: Friday, May 30

First, some housekeeping and a mea culpa. I take a lot of notes for this column, but the handwriting from my crippled dominant hand produces a scrawl that looks like it comes from a doctor who’s been abusing his own medicine. It’s honestly a wonder I don’t mess things up more often. No excuses, just […]

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Cut to Rip Torn

I’ve got a lot on my mind but very little room to write about it, which is fine; I’ve been overlong in the intros lately anyway. So I’ll just give a peek instead of an essay about what I’ve been thinking about recently. Two things mainly, both published in this still-young year, the first I […]

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Music Tonight: Friday, May 23

As I mentioned before, I will be loading up the weekend with goodies because the pantry is bare afterward and, for the sake of that project, tonight is the beginning of that process. First up, at the Outer Space at 7 p.m., Brain-Dead Rejects and Kolonizer are playing a horror punk drag show for a […]

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