Moss Oak Commons is the place to be yet again if you are looking for some good rockof many flavors and colors. Sacramento’s shoegaze and noise merchants Quinine areheadlining a show at 7 p.m. tonight featuring the amazing Presence from Open HeadRecords. Also on tap for this all-ages wingding is Litter, featuring Brent from VelvetWorms. […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 6
Guitarist Cole Berliner used to live in San Francisco and now hails from Los Angeles, just as he used to be in a band called Kamikaze Palm Tree, which became the duo Sharpie Smile and has downsized to just himself and his guitar for the purpose of his current tour. That guitar and its sounds […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 30
Because I’ve got nothing going on for the first of the month, let’s load up tonight withthree diverse 7 p.m. gigs to cast a wide net to snag as many of you as possible. Firstup, the good people at the Creative Sanctuary are continuing their excellent Homage to the Message series of shows highlighting various […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, April 26
Speaking of Moss Oak Commons, there’s another great bill for the books happening at the all-ages spot around 7:30 p.m. this evening. Vibey rock warblers Dining Dead are floating down from Seattle to share some bright vocal sunbursts from the atmospheric plane where synths meet guitar pedals, while Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes does […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 25
Yes, there are two big dance funk and electro gigs going down for those inclined that way — Fantastic Negrito at Humbrews at 8:30, and Mark Farina at Arcata Theatre Lounge around the same time (both $30) — but I tend to be inclined towards the underground, and the real heads around here dig Open […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, March 29
If you have found your allotment of strange beauty still lacking despite the fine offerings in the entire before this one, fear not: You have two fine options to tickle the pineal gland and pluck the fine cords of motion in the medulla that create the chords of subconscious harmony in the seat of the […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 7
Three options tonight, so I’ll get with the facts. Two 7 p.m. gigs in Arcata. Over at the Arcata Playhouse, Harmonic Howl presents Women of Country, a group featuring singers Ruby Ruth George, Elle Penner and Briana Penner for $20. There’s a “Classic Cuntry” (costume contest, so dress accordingly.Meanwhile over at the Moss Oak Commons, […]
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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. 19
Here are some local treats to stuff your stockings with. First up, Moss Oak Commons,where it’s Freq Night again, with music from the crossroads of experimental electronicsounds, tap loops, treated guitar amp worship, holy synths and modulators, and lo-figrooves. Check out Hudson Glover, Luker, Samantha and Aermac 8 at 7 p.m. for asuggested $5-$10. When […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Nov. 15
Moss Oak Commons is the place to be for another installment of Freq Night by Open Head Records. Tonight’s offering features the avant folk tunes of Olympia, Washington’s Wicking Game, along with local electroclash act Parking Structure, the lovely storytelling digital torch songs of God Z Dog and the drone folks of Mountain Mahogany. This […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday. Oct. 14
Moss Oak Commons at 1905 Alliance Road in Arcata is putting on a rock show tonight starring Los Angeles shoegaze band Valley Porno People. Also on the bill tonight are Breakfast Collection and Vivianne Dawn. It all starts at 7 p.m., and I am once again calling the $10 door price negotiable because I get […]
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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. […]