The summer always seems kind of dangerous to me. I could be lazy and credit my years in New Orleans for this feeling but that wouldn’t cover the issue. I can’t seem to enjoy the summer the way other people do, when they share pictures of themselves looking warm, loving, clean and happy like the […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Jan. 2
There’s another birthday celebration at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. This time it’s honoring the 70th run around the sun of Latin musician David Peñalosa with music from Palante, Tropiqueño and Timbata. Latin dance and food in the cold of winter sounds just about right. Go to the Playhouse’s website for more information […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Dec. 9
He may have hung up his Cumbia hat for the year, but professional gigger and Makenuhired side iron Daniel Nickerson is still active on the scene, tonight with a set of solomusic over at the Redwood Curtain in Myrtletown. This is a free show with musicstarting at the dark hour of 6 p.m.
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 9
If you are in the mood for some weird folk and off-beat rock with a mostly local flavor, Northtown Coffee is the place to be. Roll through at 6:30 p.m. for the musical stylings of Ethan Rubin’s Wounded Animal, Portland one-man band It & I, area acoustic doomsters Bleater and front-to-side man of many Humboldt […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Aug. 3
New venue alert. This time we travel to Phillipsville, where the Riverwood Inn is now under new ownership as the Olde Riverwood, where food and drink are back on the menu, along with live music, which means all-ages fun. This evening’s music starts at 6 p.m. and will be a solo show by Blueberry Hill […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 14
Sonoma-based power trio The Beer Scouts returns to its former headwaters of Humboldt County to play a couple of shows at — appropriately — two of our local breweries. If you missed yesterday’s 6 p.m. gig at the Paskenta Mad River Brewing tasting room, you can still catch the bluesy rock setlist of covers and […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 13
Lucky, ominous or otherwise, the only agreed-upon spooky day before Halloween this year is here. Superstitions aside, I am going to act as though this is any other Friday as far as my beat is concerned. Here are two gigs to kickstart your weekend. The Outer Space opens its doors at 5:30 p.m. for snacks […]
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The Battle for Los Angeles
I don’t watch much TV, certainly not the news. This isn’t a pretentious flex, but more of a generational effect: The TV I grew up with either doesn’t exist anymore or I have grown out of it, as on-the-ground social media reporting and alternative news sources are far more reliable than what the cable companies […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, May 29
Some evenings around here certainly seem to rhyme. Tonight is one such example, as there are a couple of free beer garden/tasting room shows starting at 6 p.m., featuring two of our finest local talents. At Six Rivers Brewery, you will find Dale Cash & Friends. I grew up down the street from Mr. Cash […]
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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: Saturday, Nov. 4
I love a good album release show and tonight’s offering at the Sanctuary looks very promising. Cyrus Smith might be a familiar name to those of you who have followed the market, dance and special event scene, as he has played bass for two of the more interesting and industrious groups from that circuit, namely […]
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Old Songs, Young Blood
The other day I was thinking about the Pied Piper of Hamelin, that odd musical character from fairy tales who agreed to remove all the rats from a besieged village for a fee. Upon completion of his task, the village leaders decided to renege on payment, so the piper returned and merrily led their children […]