Let’s hear it once more for Metal Mondays at Savage Henry Comedy Club. Tonight’s performers are a sludge band from Salem, Oregon, called Hell, as well as local bangers Death Doula and Echo Death. Music starts around 7 p.m., $5-$10 sliding scale cover, all-ages and an I.D. needed for adult beverages. To quote David Byrne, […]
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Black Hole Sun
Here’s an interesting notion: This Thursday’s summer solstice will be accompanied by a waxing full moon that will reach its peak two days later. This probably has a variety of implications; for my (mostly) nightlife beat, it means your weekend will start out with more skylight than we have had all year. To put it […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, April 18
What’s that you say? You’d like a little more metal in your ears? Well, here ya go. The Siren’s Song Tavern is hosting Canada’s death metal act Atrae Bilis (“black bile”) at 7 p.m., for a show that will include support acts Echo Death and Sacrophilus Satanicus. As I do with as many of the […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 30
It’s the penultimate night of March and, given the wet and windy spectacle of this month, a good night for dark music. If you share that sentiment, head over to North of Fourth at 8 p.m., where for $10 you can enjoy a show curated by DJs DastBunny and Zero One, and starring Sacramento’s darkwave […]
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The Many Rites of Spring
The birth of the modern world, the fresh and terrible 20th century, is a tough date to pin down, but an argument can be made, culturally at least, that the natal fluids ran red and voluminous in Paris on May 29, 1913, when Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring debuted to an audience that was so […]