I’d like to think that I have my cats fairly well trained. They are scared of birds and the road, two fears I have worked hard to instill in them since they were little kittens because a) I won’t be allowing bird murder in my home and b) they are asphalt-colored and if one of […]
Oryan Peterson-Jones
Posted inMusic
Spookyville
Halloween tends to promote itself, even when it lands on a Monday, like in this wretched year. That’s just an invitation for a long weekend. I’ll probably go out, even though it’s the first day of the working week. I’m not too stressed about missing out on distributing candy, as I doubt that the forces […]
Posted inMusic
Party Safe
Last week I made a sly appeal to the Fates, suggesting we could all use a little break from the chaos of the front page and the never-ending news cycle of battery and degradation. It’s tricky putting out overtures like that because the sincerity of desire and the hope of fulfillment is usually tempered with […]
Posted inMusic
Hot, Hot, Heat
I’m firing this one off straight from the hip, so no frills, $20 words or political invective. It’s a dang scorcher today, even on the coast, and I don’t intend on spending the daylight looking at a screen, tapping away at a slowly heating keyboard, while the busy sounds of the landscaping industry hums and […]
Posted inMusic
Boom Times
This week’s headline might be a little sarcastic and only half-referencing what will undoubtedly be a spectacular fireworks display on Monday evening. Many people are really hurting and upset right now. It’s hard to look at the disorder in our world and find much hope. As someone who could be referred to as a “geriatric […]
Posted inMusic
Better Git it in Your Soul
Having grown up in love with the work of Charles Mingus, I am excited for Thursday’s show. Which is good news because there hasn’t been much else in the world inspiring joy for me lately. I can’t imagine that I’m the only one, either. The lack of pretense surrounding our society’s slip into open authoritarianism […]
Posted inMusic
Don’t Make Me Tap the Sign
I’ll cop to it: I view the world materially and holistically. Things are connected. And I don’t just write about music for a living, I also build things. I come from carpenters and I can recognize designs and patterns. So when live music goes away for more than a year because of a disastrously unprepared […]
Posted inNews
The Lost Year
Sometime in the first three months of 2020, nearly every musician in Humboldt County played their last live gig. It’s difficult to pin down the exact date of the general venue closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic but St. Patrick’s Day is a good hinge, a pivot point where venue owners and employees had to […]
Posted inMusic
Tell Me a Story
This week’s live treats mostly belong to the spectre of folk music. And that’s OK, because folk music is a large umbrella whose shade covers quite a lot of ground. We also have storytelling covered and likewise dance music, fiddles, carnival sounds, metal and lo-fi tunes. Homegrown music rules this week’s entertainment and all you […]
Posted inMusic
Macktown Smackdown
By Collin Yeo Having gotten slightly verbose and heavy in last week’s introduction, I am going to leave this one a tad lighter. This week I’ll be looking for themes to some evenings while making occasional rude personal connections to our local geography and generally stinking things up with what I’d like to think passes […]