Let’s just launch into it, shall we? Thursday three-fer Soulful string band fans have a chance to experience the SF-based Hot Buttered Rum in a free noontime show on Humboldt State University’s Quad. Devotees of electronic music, can find no lack of EDM beats at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, where Eskmo, Lapalux and Zanapod will […]
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Bonus Track: Sub Pop’s Rose Windows at Siren’s Song tonight
It’s a real treat to get bands of this size here, said the host of KHSU’s “How to Breathe Underwater.” (Tuesdays, 2 to 4 p.m., 90.5 FM) He spoke of Sub Pop’s Rose Windows, a seven-piece whose dreamy, lovely melodies will make you swoon. See them at Siren’s Song tonight, hear them here and now: […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Sumner Brothers at the Sanctuary.
You know about the Black Prairie show already, but there’s another notable option happening tonight: Vancouver, B.C.’s The Sumner Brothers is playing a house gig in Arcata, specifically at the Sanctuary. The brothers have been featured on KEXP’s live sessions series (if you don’t know KEXP, it’s a public station out of Seattle that highlights excellent bands […]
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Advance Tickets Recommended: Black Prairie at the Playhouse Sunday night
What started out as an adventure experimenting with a sorta-bluegrass instrumental side project has evolved into a way of life for Black Prairie, a band consisting of four-fifths Decemberists and two-fifths Bearfoot, The Woolwines, Dolorean and Jackstraw. Yes, the math is weird, but we’re talking about a band based in Portland, where apparently no one […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Three Ways to Go
Let’s start with the sunnier side, specifically the bright light that is Westhaven Center for the Arts. Longtime folksinger Jim Page returns to Humboldt for a special evening hosted by the Northcoast Environmental Center and the Humboldt Folklife Society. Counting Bonnie Raitt and Utah Phillips among his admirers, Page needs little introduction — but if […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Sexy-Sweetness and Punk Fury
Venerable singer/songwriter Greg Brown graces the Van Duzer on Friday night. His songs grow like snap peas, stories and music trellising up into sweet, sharp, nourishing delights. When he croons, “Ah, you get the feelin’ things may be alright/On a summer evenin’ before the dark of night,” you believe him. Expect much triggering of nostalgia […]
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Summer Longing
People are itching for summer. The river calls. Trails await. Road trip ideas lace through conversation. Sometimes the music scene slows down a bit, what with the students gone and seemingly half the population on vacation. For now, however, we’re still enjoying the ever-bountiful live music options, some suitable for your summer soundtrack, others a […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Strings sublime
That genre of music popularized by the great Django Reinhart has been the subject of some debate over how it’s commonly referenced. Is “gypsy jazz” a racial pejorative? My brief research yielded neither a clear answer nor cause to stop use of the phrase, so I’ll go with it for now. Self-described “Americana meets gypsy […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Roots & Reality Reggae, R&B
Reggae star Prezident Brown brings his version of the new roots and reality consciousness reggae to Humboldt Brews. While scrolling through his online press kit for a photo, the band’s rider popped up. In case you’re wondering what the man and his band require, their needs are relatively basic: a case of water (Note: Can’t […]
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Go See Sila
Drop everything Usually we like to offer you a buffet of musical options, letting you choose according to your tastes, needs and desires. This week continues that tradition — but if we were to choose One Show You Must Go To, it would be Sila at the Jambalaya Friday night. The Kenyan-born artist shimmers, pulses and […]
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The Redwood Jazz Alliance welcomes the Michael Moore Quartet on Tuesday, April 15 at 8 p.m. at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. Known for his virtuosity, his expressiveness and his beautiful tone on clarinet, the multi-reedist is also a prolific composer with more than two dozen albums to his name. Tickets are $15 general/$10 […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: The Magnificence that is Saturday, April 12.
Skate, chili and a Minor Threat cover band No one will accuse the folks at RampArt of being slackers. Establishing an indoor skate-art park with a focus on providing something cool for kids sounds like the kind of idea some well-intentioned post-college kids brainstorm about one afternoon, only to bail out when the reality of fundraising […]