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, Aug. 29
Here’s a good one for all you headbangers and boppers out there. Tonight’s 7 p.m. show at Moss Oak Commons features Portland’s bubbly doom and pop act Fox Medicine, along with local heroes Image Pit (hiya Dylan, it was nice meeting you the other week), Brain Dead Rejects, and the ever-heavy Psyop Victim. Roll through after 7 p.m. […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, July 23
At 7 p.m., Northtown Coffee is hosting an all- ages punk show with area maniacs Image Pit joining up with Cheshire High to represent the local scene and welcome L.A. pop punk touring act Pelo Grande to the 95521. $5-$20 sliding scale covers a lot of financial wiggle room.
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The Rubáiyát of Ishmael Reed
I have a cut-up style I use when I want to get into a certain way of thinking. I’ve arranged my room around this practice: Pacing between my bookshelves and wardrobe, music blasting out of a speaker somewhere in a low corner behind me, cats lounging in various windows. I use the clutter of books […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, July 14
Moss Oak Commons is hosting a lineup of some bands on the louder and heavier end of the live music spectrum tonight at 7 p.m. Sacramento digital hardcore band An Apparition joins Reno, Nevada’s electro-rock band Lav Andula and local heavies Image Pit and Spayr for a stomp and grinding good time. As ever, the […]
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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 […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, May 4
Speaking of Reno, Nevada, experimental emo act Antiprono enjoys its second night in the area, having played Redwood Retro is Arcata at 7 p.m. last night. Tonight the band will be at Savage Henry Comedy Club at the same time, and for the same price, $5-$20 sliding scale. However, the line-up will be slightly different, […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, April 23
It’s a hump day metal night over at Savage Henry Comedy Club, where the evening has a definite blackened and death-ridden sonic theme. Seattle’s Veriteras sets the dungeon scene and will be walled into the crypt with the likes of fellow travelers Rohirrim and Lazarus. Local hardened, thrashed-out punk act Image Pit will be on […]
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Green Destroyed
This column’s song title comes from the highly influential — in my formative years, at least — album Human=Garbage by the anarcho crust punk band Dystopia. Lines like these were once attractive to an angry and borderline nihilistic young man: “Humanity is diggin’ its own grave From the master in the high rise To his […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 28
Here are two very different shows happening at roughly the same time, 9 p.m.-ish, and for more or less the same price. The Basement is featuring guitarist Greg Douglass, possibly most famous for his time with the Steve Miller Band, during which he co-wrote the hit Jungle Love. He’ll be sitting in with Grateful Dead-ites […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Dec. 12
It might not be Monday, but it’s still a metal night over at Savage Henry Comedy Club, where at 9 p.m., you can enjoy a line-up of bands from both here and abroad. The road dogs are represented by blackened thrash band Oxygen Destroyer from a scattering of cities further north in the Pacific Northwest, […]
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Dead Flag Blues
For obvious reasons, I’ve been thinking lately about the more headline-grabbing political violence expressed by solo actors, rather than the steady, deadly wall of daily violence enacted by our domestic and foreign policy. As I write this, it looks like the cops have someone in custody for allegedly killing a health insurance CEO in the […]