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. […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Aug. 11
Moss Oak Commons has another interesting DIY show at 7 p.m. Two groups touring up from Los Angeles, no-wave folk act Muscle Beach and industrial lounge artist Mitchell Brown, are in league with local noise creators Otolith, for what should be a lively night of sounds you will not be hearing anywhere else within a […]
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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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Music Tonight: Friday, July 11
So many options tonight, I have whittled it down to two in Arcata that each kick off around 7 p.m. Over at the Veterans Hall, you will find a free one — with donations welcome — offered by devil-rustling fiddle stompers Bow-Legged Buzzards along with Baby W33k3nd. Meanwhile, Moss Oak Commons has a payment optional/$5-$10 […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 10
Some New Orleans musical royalty comes to the university tonight at 8 p.m. when drummer and vibes player Jason Marsalis performs with the Humboldt Jazz Orchestra in a program directed by CPH music professor Dan Aldag. The gig’s at Fulkerson Hall, which, while spacious, has limited seating for such an occasion, and it might be […]