Russian Soviet inventor Leon Theremin didn’t just invent the touchless, singing electronic wave machine that bears his last name and which briefly made Clara Rockmore a household name in the mid-20th century while also dominating the sonic landscape of sci-fi and horror films, he is also known for his spycraft. Just look up the Thing […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 20
It’s solstice eve, and due to the coming of another more celebrated eve on Wednesday,I’m loading the underboughs of this evening with shows to balance the silent nightsahead. The big shebang is happening over at the Arcata Playhouse, where the JingleJam Holiday Benefit, packed with so many local shining stars, will be happening in two […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 5
Local cumbia superstars Makenu will be playing their last gig of 2025 tonight atHumbrews at 8:30 p.m. The headliner is, appropriately, Oakland’s ragin’ psychedelicCumbia outfit Bicicletas Por La Paz. Judging by the colossal turnout I witnessed thelast time Makenu played at the Basement, expect the dance floor to be packed thisevening in the spotlight of […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Oct. 1
TopHouse is a hybrid band of folk rock, roots, and bluegrass music that started a decade ago in Missoula, Montana, before setting up its homebase in Nashville in the year before COVID hit. Since then, the group has extended itself into a quartet and toured and recorded in the fashion of an act working to […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 20
It’s a good night to be blue all over. Here are some musical considerations appropriateto that theme. At 8 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse, blues singer and returning champion Earl Thomas will be joined by red hot guitarist Anthony Cullins and assorted musicians to fill the joint with the searing blue flames of classic heart-born […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 8
Humbrews continues its August tradition of celebrating the music of the Grateful Dead with the first night of Daze Between Fest at 8:30 p.m. For a mere $10, you can enjoy a night of mostly acoustic tunes from the previously mentioned group, as well as the Jerry Garcia Band, performed by Jerry’s Kids — not the […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Aug. 6
I don’t know how many fans of early ’90s rap-rock and nu-metal are around, but if you are among them, prick up your ears for this gig at Humbrews at 8 p.m. Hed PE are veterans of the eclectic electric scene that formed in the wake of Faith No More’s late ’80s and early ’90s […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 1
It’s the first day of the mighty month of August, and as good a day as any to celebrate festival culture. If you are headed down to the 36th installment of Reggae on the River, or interested in such, I hope you have a great time. There’s plenty of info about it found elsewhere, so […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, July 30
Cory Hanson of psych-band Wand fame, blew a very big hole into the landscape for himself two years ago with the release of his acclaimed record Western Cum on Drag City Records. Since then, he has been only building on his fascinating take on psychedelia and rock weirdness. This is wall-melting death trip music, with […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, June 24
Humbrews is hosting Live Dead & Brothers, an “All-Star Appreciation of the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers.” This basically boils down to a big band full of musicians from Dead and Allman Bros. satellite bands, gathering to play from the song books of two of the biggest godfather groups of the American jam genre. […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 24
It’s the official beginning to the Kinetic weekend, which of course means that there’s a Rutabaga Ball happening somewhere around these parts. This year’s somewhere is the Eureka Theater, where for $20 at 7 p.m. you can join the happy hordes of racers and partiers. If you’re in the mood for another style of weirdness, […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 17
If you feel like learning something before grooving out, go to keet.org to register for a seat at the Arcata Playhouse for a free screening of the new documentary We Want the Funk! about the history of that groovy, butt-rattling genre of music. Afterward, you can enjoy a set of some of that good stuff […]