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Music Tonight: Sunday, May 20

Metal is on the menu tonight at the Siren’s Song at 6:30 p.m. for those suffering from twee-fatigue or iron deficiencies (price TBA). Join Yreka’s thrash masters Chains of Belmont — that has to be a Castlevania reference, right? — with Shasta Lake City’s Bullet Lobotomy and local metal mavens Muppet Hunter and Unholy Orifice […]

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Call Me By Your Band Name

The more creatively named bands featured this week got my wheels spinning down memory lane. Despite a preternatural and seething distrust of all things over and done with, I couldn’t help thinking about some of the uniquely named groups I’ve encountered over the decades. I myself used to front a New Orleans-based punk/psych outfit called […]

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