Here’s a rap and hip hop throwdown for your midweek’s delight. A touring ensemble of DJ True Justice, Vocab Slick and Z-Man, traveling under the moniker The Ninth annual Slap Frost Tour hits the Basement tonight at 8 p.m., where the roadsters will mix and mingle with some of our local heroes. Representing the 707 […]
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Box of Rain
It’s fitting that the man who co-wrote the most famous song about dying, by a group called The Grateful Dead, would see fit to pass away during this period of days that finds the living in communion with the departed, surrounded — around here at least — by a fat backdrop of rain. More on […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 20
It’s the closing performance for the 25th season of the Eureka Chamber Music Series tonight at 7 p.m. at Calvary Lutheran Church ($30/$15 for Calvary Lutheran Church members/$10 seniors/$5 children). The Ariana Quartet will work through a program with Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 1 in C major as well as Ravel’s Quartet in F Major, then […]
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Vinyl for the Soul
This week includes an important day for your local music scene, sandwiched right between 4/20 and Earth Day. It’s Record Store Day, a barely decade-old bridge between the music collecting public, independent record stores (what’s left of them) and the recording industry (what’s left of it). Why would I mention an ostensibly commercial holiday in […]