As is often the case during this time of year, I was watching a horror film recently — nothing special, a French rip-off of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Dracula movie — when I found myself so bored by the stupidity of the whole thing that I slipped into a sort of dream state. I think […]
Fek and the Future Friends of Sound
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Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 18
After Hours is a jazz group composed of drummer Ramsey Isaacs, pianist Matt Seno, bassist Lee Phillips and Russ Thallheimer on the tenor sax, all of whom are young and wildly talented local players. The band is starting a residency at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. that will run five times on the […]
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The World is No Better Than its Places
Recently, listening to the soundtrack to the seminal Jamaican gangster film The Harder They Come after a long time away from it, I flashed back to a long-forgotten nihilistic fantasy of dressing like a dandy, wearing some illegal weapons in my belt and dying in some flashy way before I reached an age where the […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 14
Los Angeles noise rock and freak-out folk act The Clog will be playing atMoss Oak Commons this evening at 7 p.m. for a very negotiable $10. Thelocal acts are going to be hot, too, with sun and fun synthetic jazz funkgreats Fek and the Future Friends of Sound joining up with the enigmaticOtolith.
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 24
Double your options tonight, one for Eureka and another for those Arcata-bound. First up at the Wild Hare at 8 p.m. is a variety show, with music by Fek and the Future Friends of Sound, Lady Games and an acid house set by Hudson Glover. There will also be a light show by The Idyllic […]
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The Twilight Zone
“Although it might feel as though you are quite still at the moment, you’re actually moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into … the Twilight Zone.” Those words, grabbed from one of the variations of introductions into the old TV show from which this […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 15
The Miniplex has a good one going on tonight at 8 p.m. for all you lovers of keys and electronic flourishes buttressing tropical beats and kinetic sonic paintings. Headliner Kolumbo is an electro-tropicalia quartet centered around the impressive keyboard mastery of Frank LoCrasto, also known for his work with Cass McCombs and Fruit Bats. On […]
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The Sisters of Mercy
I’ve been working a lot lately, which is good for distracting an unquiet mind and (eventually) doesn’t hurt the wallet too much either, but it hasn’t been enough to hold off some of the feelings I suspect more than a few of you out there are also feeling. I don’t want to get into specifics […]