Rock ‘n’ roll’s afoot in Eureka and Arcata at 8 p.m. I used to call two simultaneous shows I wanted to see at different venues “slingshot shows,” which made sense to me at the time. Anyway, slingshot your way across the bay and back to catch what you can of these two if you have […]
Kenny Bowling
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Call Me By Your Band Name
The more creatively named bands featured this week got my wheels spinning down memory lane. Despite a preternatural and seething distrust of all things over and done with, I couldn’t help thinking about some of the uniquely named groups I’ve encountered over the decades. I myself used to front a New Orleans-based punk/psych outfit called […]
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DJs, St. Paddy’s and a Gut-string Quartet
John Steinbeck set his 14th novel Cannery Row in the height of the Great Depression, in a town dominated by one industry: fish canning. We live in such a place now — wait. I was going to write an introduction about a changing mono-economy, its effect on the local culture and how the citizens view […]