Humbrews is hosting a 50th birthday bash for musician Rob Amerman at 9 p.m. tonight. The lineup features local heavies Former Chimps, War Möth and The Big Mahoff. Rob himself will be playing fuzzed-out instrumentals on guitar in a dynamic duo featuring the drummer Crash Landing. If this is of interest to you, consider stopping […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Sept. 3
Well, it seems the Miniplex is slapping it out of the park this weekend with shows featuring great talents from the beautiful frontiers of contemporary musical potential. Tonight’s 9 p.m. gig spotlights the incredible acoustic guitar playing of Sir Richard Bishop, a guitarist/composer of unusual talent, who first cut his teeth in the national eye […]
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Solidarity Forever
I’m not going to waste too much of your time here, as we all have a long weekend ahead, one we can enjoy collectively only because of the efforts of the greatest collective struggle of all time, and the one least reported on in our country because the struggle isn’t over yet. I am talking […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 17
The Logger Bar has a free show at 8 p.m. for anyone who enjoys garage and surf rock and wants to see local talent do it right. Guitar and drum duo Big Mahoff will be joined by Former Chimps and The Flying Hellfish. Come break off a piece.
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The Slough Man’s Song
This time of year, I like to savor the sun as much as possible, even if it’s perpetually hanging too low in the sky and blinding me as I zip around the landscape in its brief presence. I have a spot I go to, a favorite slough, where I watch the birds in the slow, […]
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Subdivisions
The new year claimed its first rock star death last week and it was a doozy. Neil Peart was probably the most uniquely influential drummer for the last four decades and his work in the band Rush is timeless and inspirational. The extremely private star’s death from a brain tumor was jarring to his legion […]
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Blackened Brightness
This week is a bit of a somber one for me, as Nov. 25/26 marks the 20th anniversary of my mother’s death from cancer at the far too young age of 52. I give those dates because she passed away late at night after Thanksgiving of 1999, likely with the cold front that curls over […]
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Lend A Hand If You Can
It’s been an active week for a news junkie like myself. Johnathan Franzen took a backheel approach to climate change in the pages of the New Yorker and, in doing so, cemented for all time the terminal uselessness of the establishment liberal position on nearly any topic. A brave banjo-wielding man busted the crap out […]