Note: Teenage sister-brother freelancers Kaylee Savage-Wright and Nick Savage-Wright submitted the following review of the Outside Lands festival. Being situated between San Francisco and Portland makes Humboldt County a convenient stop for touring bands. Unfortunately, those bands tend to be big either on the folk scene or classic rock has-beens — and even when the performer is […]
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Music! at Arts! Arcata
The streets were alive with music last night as Arcata celebrated its monthly arts night.
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The Coolness/Haircut Connection
Have you ever dreamt that gorgeous local folk chanteuse Lila Nelson would write a song just for you? Uh, der. Of course you have, just as you’ve no doubt fantasized about being pals with the cool kids in electro-Martian pop trio The Monster Women — y’know, eating dinner out with ’em, showing up in the background of a music […]
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NC Journal Turns 20!!! Film at 11…
A litle home video glimpse of the Journal’s party on the Eureka Boardwalk Saturday night…
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Fargas Family Bust
Above: Humboldt County’s beloved Fargas Family Band, doing one of their signature sets. Everyone — everyone — loves a Fargas Family show. Below: The Anderson Valley Advertiser reports that bandleader Angel Fargas was recently on trial in Mendocino County, after having been busted with 70 pounds of weed. FREE ANGEL FARGAS!
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Reggae Rising Decision Postponed (update)
Dimmick given two more weeks to raise a bundle The folks behind Reggae Rising, the annual music festival on the Eel River, came before the Humboldt County Planning Commission June 3, seeking permit approval and asked for a little more time to get their money straight. They got the time — a decision was postponed […]
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SF Outside Lands 2010 Line-up Revealed
Humboldt County offers a fair number of festivals, from oyster- to reggae-flavored. We get plenty of big name folk singers and often some notable hip-hop shows. What we rarely see beyond the struggling/touring bands appearing weekly at the Alibi, the Jambalaya and Lil’Red is serious rock shows – especially of the more modern kind. Which […]
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Arcata Company Lands Pearl Jam Gig
StreamGuys, an Arcata-based company that provides streaming media services (like allowing you to listen to KHUM online, for example), is now fulfilling the flannel-clad dreams of diehard grungers everywhere: Earlier this week, Pearl Jam, the seminal (as in semen, to which the band’s name refers) Seattle angst-rockers, launched Pearl Jam Radio, an online, ’round-the-clock feed […]
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Lost Coast Sessions on Current.org
City!”Lost Coast Sessions on Current.org: Current.org, the online mag about public television and radio, features KEET-TV’s low-budget music series, Lost Coast Sessions in a piece on making the pilot with Ukesperience. (They call KEET
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AQ kickstarted toward success
A while back, we suggested you try a bit of Absynth. Apparently some of you liked it: The Absynth Quintet reached their Feb. 1 goal of $2,000 ($2,056 to be precise), which means album#3 is officially fully funded! What did the talented fivesome have to say about this monumental outpour of love and support? “Thank […]
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Two Crows Electrocuted
The power outage in part of Arcata this morning (including the Journal office) was caused by a pair of crows shorting out a transformer according to PG&E spokesperson Jana Morris, who called KHUM in response to an inquiry from DJ Mike Dronkers. Since there were two crows, Dronkers surmised that the electrocution was perhaps related […]
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Mr. Bohner in the WSJ
Beautifully bearded rock god /green handiman/all-around nice guy Steve Bohner makes a surprise appearance in today’s Wall Street Journal , giving expert testimony on the solar hot-water systems industry. Bohner, who owns Arcata’s Alchemy Construction Inc., even throws down some righteous rock ‘n’ roll attitude on those Wall Street fat cats: He bristles a bit […]