The Devil Makes Three packed HSU’s West Gym on Wednesday night, stirring an antsy crowd of 1,600 into a leaping, dancing frenzy. The band’s doom-metal aesthetic, combined with its dark and sing-along-worthy Americana stomp music, was far more polished than any of the band’s previous Humboldt County shows, but not overly slick. If you missed […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Two Reasons to Leave the House
The sun’s going down soon and you’re wondering how to make the most of your Sunday night? You’ve two options. A listen to Austin psych-pop quartet Tele Novella inspired us to highlight the band’s Sunday gig at the Palm Lounge as Your Show of the Week. “Don’t Be A Stranger,” from new EP Cosmic Dial […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Get Ripped
There’s this, the slightly mysterious Watercolor Paintings and Void Boys at the Birdhouse show… …and for the less subtle, local blues favorites Buddy Reed & the Rip It Ups transform The Westhaven Center for the Arts from an art gallery to a lowdown, dirty, gut bucket blues dance hall as part of the center’s monthly jazz […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Friday: Jams, Punks, Finncore
If you want to get out of town — end-of-summer fling? — the Trinity River Jamboree offers three days of music with more than 35 bands, plus a Silent Disco Dance DJ Party and tons of other festival fun. See www.trinityjam.com for the full line-up and all the info you could want. Speaking of not-Humboldt, […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Eagles, Bats, Italian Goth
Starting right now, you’ve got your Boys of Summer Eagles tribute band, part of the Eureka Summer Concert Series happening at the C Street Market Square. It’s free! Then at 7 p.m., this week’s Italian-bands-in-Humboldt experience begins with The Spiritual Bat, a goth-rock band from Frosinone, Italy, at the Ink Annex. Joining them, Portland’s psychedelic […]
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Outside Lands 2014: Sexy, Sweet, Solo
Avocados, yogurt, Cypress Grove Lamb Chopper I’d found, at all places, at Grocery Outlet. Half a tomato. A box of organic dried plums, also from the GO. I’d had this grand plan to pack enough food to last all weekend, even roasted some eggplant slices, but one thing and then another and I was already […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Two Kinds of Love
You need some goddamn good honky-tonk on a Monday night, yes, you do. Which is why you’re going to suck it up and go out and see Flint, Mich. native Whitey Morgan and the 78’s at Humboldt Brews. Tickets are $10, the outlaw twang starts at 9 p.m. and yes, 21-and-over. Check it: Wait. What? […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Saturday: Dance for fun, funk for a cause, ‘snot rock’
I saw a movie once in which dancing was outlawed because it was, essentially, a sin. Inspired lust and stuff. But the killjoy adults were no match for teenage desire, especially once bad boy Ren McCormack came to town. Arcata has a lot of rules, but, thankfully, the powers-that-be will allow you to salsa, cha-cha, […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Your friends and neighbors
Humboldt Brews celebrates Local Band Night with surf rockers The Mother Vines, whose sound, at least on the track “Wild Free Country,” inspired agreeable head-nodding by the people who happened to be sitting around my living room while I wrote this. Also Dead Drift, a band without a Facebook or Google profile — apparently they’re […]
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Reggae Daze (Photos Part 3)
Saturday evening at Reggae on the River continued with one of reggae’s oldest performing groups, Third World. After its one-of-a-kind performance, sunshine-reggae group Iration further livened up the crowd and got guests ready for the living legend and reggae icon Jimmy Cliff. Cliff’s performance was elaborate, beautiful and electrifying to say the least. After returning […]
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Reggae Photos Round 2!
With the fires in Southern Humboldt the festival buzz, attendees partied on well into Saturday morning. The first evening of the 30th Annual Reggae On The River featured performances by internationally renowned artists from around the globe. Highlights from the evening included outstanding performances from Sly & Robbie and The Taxi Gang and Michael Rose. […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Avant-Garde, Twangy and Influential Options
A-town #1To a certain group of avant-garde rock fans — do you count yourself among them? — Dead Rider and Free Salamander Exhibit are legend. Dead Rider pulls off loopy time signatures, seemingly random distortion and oddball bits of sound here and there, all while maintaining a sound hypnotic enough you can’t turn away. Reminds […]