It’s another edition of Disco Night at the Miniplex tonight at 9 p.m. In deference to the high summer spirits, there will be a weenie roast outside of the bar, with a cooler of beer to sell as well. As with previous iterations of this event, there will be grooves spun by DJ Pandemonium Jones […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, June 27
Cory Hanson is best known as the frontman of Los Angeles psyche band Wand, which has been making a name for itself over the past decade with a few acclaimed records on the Drag City label, as well as extensive touring to support those albums. Tonight at 8 p.m., he performs his solo material at […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 23
There’s a free local band showcase over at the Miniplex tonight at 8 p.m. Come and check out what the scene is up to, as curated by Nailgun (formerly Boat Cop), Manic Moth, Horse and J.D. Garza. If you aren’t in the mood for that scene, today is the beginning of the Exploring our Roots […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, June 4
Two shows of note today, neither overlapping, which ain’t bad for an offseason Sunday. First up at 3 p.m. at Humbrews, there’s an all-ages matinee show by Naive Melodies, Humco’s premier Talking Heads tribute act. Kids under 13 are free and it’s a mere $10 for everyone else. Four hours later at the Miniplex, you […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, May 19
With the Huckleberry Flint show at the Old Steeple sold out (according to the venue’s website, anyway), I’m going to recommend two shows in Arcata, both at 9 p.m. Once again, Humbrews is hosting the Stink Foot Orchestra, a group dedicated to playing the rock works of the late Frank Zappa, fronted by Napoleon Murphy […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, May 14
Tokyo’s prog/punk mutant Green Milk from Planet Orange returns to the Miniplex tonight at 9 p.m. to entertain all you mothers and mother funkers out there. The group got a pretty good reception last time it rolled through town, if memory serves, so if you want to get in on it, consider nabbing an early […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 13
Well, it’s graduation day at Cal Poly Humboldt and while a lot of people are unhappy with the school’s administrators these days (what else is new?), we can still support the students. Here are three DJ-curated events to choose from to celebrate the milestone. First up at 6 p.m., the Blue Lake Roller Rink is […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, May 12
Sonora, Mexico’s Sub Pop Records-signed act Margaritas Podridas is a young group of mostly female musicians who have dipped deep into the well of a genre of early-’90s music called shoegaze. With a heavily treated and distorted guitar tone and introspective, sighing vocals, this group has mastered all the finer points of the form. Tonight […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, May 8
There are certain musical ley lines that curl around the world and contain within their mysterious pathways certain regions that are of great importance in the Promethean creation of music. Prime among those areas is West Africa, where the DNA of much of our best contemporary music can first be found. Burkina Faso is a […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, May 2
Well, it’s rather quiet today, but with Cinco de Mayo just around the corner, you could do a lot worse celebrating the Mexican Army’s unlikely defeat of the invading French at the Battle of Puebla than by going to the Miniplex, where DJ Pachanguero is holding his regular Latin Music night at 9 p.m. Admission […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 8
Two very different gigs in Arcata tonight, both of which will be total burners for the fans of their respective genres. Cal Poly Humboldt’s Fulkerson Hall is the setting for a classical guitar duet of technical ecstasy, with local professor Jennifer Trowbridge teaming up with world-renowned six-string samurai David Tanenbaum for a recital of good […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 25
Here are three gigs all happening at 9 p.m., any of which you can use to celebrate your first weekend of this new spring season. Over at the Logger Bar, Wild Abandon plays its first gig since its fine sold-out album release show at the Arcata Playhouse in the beginning of this year. Expect the […]