Fresh of the success of last week’s 24-hour telethon, Savage Henry Comedy Club still has the lights on and is putting on the good stuff for the all-ages crowds who just want something fucking loud and heavy in their lives. I’m talking about another installment of Metal Monday. This week’s lineup is an international affair, […]
Brain-Dead Rejects
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Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 29
Here’s a good one for all you headbangers and boppers out there. Tonight’s 7 p.m. show at Moss Oak Commons features Portland’s bubbly doom and pop act Fox Medicine, along with local heroes Image Pit (hiya Dylan, it was nice meeting you the other week), Brain Dead Rejects, and the ever-heavy Psyop Victim. Roll through after 7 p.m. […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 22
It’s Metal Friday over at Savage Henry Comedy Club, and tonight’s show is a special one, as it is kicking off a 24-hour telethon to raise donations for the struggling club. We don’t have very many all-ages spaces for comedy and loud, heavy music, and losing this one would be a grave blow to our […]
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker
I’ve got rambling on the mind, and not the verbal or written sort in which I usually engage. I’m thinking about traveling because I’m going to be doing some of that in a short while. I won’t say where and I won’t say when, but I will be doing the rare move of breaking containment […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Aug. 14
Savage Henry Comedy Club rolls on with another heavy show tonight at 7 p.m. On the bill this evening is Fatale and Las Ratas from the East Bay, both with a crustier edge to their distorted sound, supported by the excellent local frenetic monsters Brain Dead Rejects as well as Radical Apes. Admission is $5-$15 […]
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The Pavilion of Dreams
Thousands of nights have elapsed since I was a little boy, but I still have traces of that era, the intensity of my brain experiencing the sensations of the world for the first time, and meanwhile learning to communicate with itself, my body and spirit in the process. Much of what unfolds in our early […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 10
How about a Metal Thursday? If that sounds interesting, Savage Henry Comedy Club has you covered, although this one is going to be a little more punk than metal, to be honest. Bay Area band Skin and Bonez joins locals Kolonizer, Brain Dead Rejects and Spayr for a night of punk and heavy alt rock. […]
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The Sisters of Mercy
I’ve been working a lot lately, which is good for distracting an unquiet mind and (eventually) doesn’t hurt the wallet too much either, but it hasn’t been enough to hold off some of the feelings I suspect more than a few of you out there are also feeling. I don’t want to get into specifics […]
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Talkin’ Baseball
Summer comes in pieces, with many unofficial starting points before the solstice. Around here, one of those points is the beginning of the Crabs’ baseball season, which started Friday. Opening night is always a big deal in Arcata, with people of all ages filling the metal bleachers and picnic tables to root for the home […]
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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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Speedway at Nazareth
A little preface is needed before this week’s column gets rolling. It’s Memorial Day weekend in our stretch of the entertainment beat, coming a week after graduation at Cal Poly Humboldt. Which means that the front end of this piece will be heavy with a variety of live offerings, while the caboose is scant to […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 4
Two shows on tonight’s docket, both happening at roughly the same hour of 7 p.m. They are celebrating Arts Alive at Siren’s Song in Eureka with Oakland’s clean and bluesy garage band The Hell Tones, along with local guitar slingers Red Hot Shame. No word on the cover charge as of press time, so bring […]