Eraser is a band from Philadelphia whose sound slaps with a live wire urgency that rippled through and animated more than a few fantastic lurching grotesques from the past, such as DNA and Deerhoof. They’re playing at the Miniplex tonight at 9 p.m. Speaking of lurching from the past, local bladerunners Control Voltage, aka CV, […]
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Autumn Falls
Hahaha well, dang. What is there to say, really? Is anyone else getting tired of these high water marks for various once-in-a-lifetime disasters we’ve been enjoying over the last decade? Not that I usually hold back too much, but I have the sense I can really let it fly these days because, well, who knows […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 12
There’s a good one going on at the Miniplex tonight for all you lovers of ’70s groove-rock and root folk ensembles — basically the sounds from Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. Family Worship Center is a Portland collective that sounds as though the vinyl era never ended and The Band didn’t break up after its last […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Aug. 6
Another two-fer recommendation, this time in Eureka. At 2 p.m. at the Shanty, you will find a free matinee gig of two of the rompingest, stompin’-est, mightiest pub rock punk bands in the 707, when The Bow-Legged Buzzards join forces with the boys in The Smashed Glass to blow the lid off the patio. If […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, July 14
The Miniplex is hosting a free psyche and space jam night, as local post-punk and science fiction concept band Control Voltage, aka CV, shares the stage with the experimental collective Datura Blues, helmed by Oryan Peterson-Jones, who has press-ganged the author into making a rare appearance on bass, something I would do for very few […]