The Shanty is putting on a free All-Hallows Eve-eve show tonight at 8 p.m., with local combat thrash band Psyop Victim providing local support for Los Lonely Stars, a Los Saicos cover band from Los Angeles. Meanwhile a half hour later at Humbrews, Poor Man’s Whiskey will be taking over with Dark Side of the […]
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The Candyman Can
As is often the case during this time of year, I was watching a horror film recently — nothing special, a French rip-off of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Dracula movie — when I found myself so bored by the stupidity of the whole thing that I slipped into a sort of dream state. I think […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 19
Another big day for fans of loud, amplified electric guitars and battered-attitude drums. The ever-fantastic metal guerrilla cell Psyop Victim sits atop a bill with Hotel Riot, Bipolar Bear — featuring members of the Hitch, the Cookers and Scurvy Dogs — and Dave O’s fantastic bass- driven punk bullhorn TheBoredAgain. More interesting still, it’s all […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 18
Fairly new Arcata venue Froth is hosting a banger tonight, with Tijuana hardcore bandHong Kong Fuck You returning to the area as headlingers. On the undercard forsupport you will find some of our own local distorted treasures: Brain Dead Rejects,Gourmandizer, Psyop Victim, and Radical Apes. This is an early show, with doors at5 p.m., and, […]
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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: Saturday, Aug. 9
One last shout out — for this week — for the Logger Bar, where local metal is on the menu, with two excellent groups chugging it out at 8 p.m. Psyop Victim and War Möth have graced these pages many times before, and will many times in the future, if I have anything to say […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, June 30
It’s another Metal Monday at Savage Henry Comedy Club, and this line-up looks cool. San Diego’s black/doom group Woods Witch is joined by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s solo black metal violinist Joey Molinaro, along with excellent local acts Ultramafic and Psyop Victim. As ever, the show starts at 7 p.m., it’s a $5-$20 sliding scale, and while […]
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That Summer Feeling
We live in a culture where apology, a change of temperament or evolving ideological alignment are considered signs of weakness. This seems like an intractable, complex problem, but it’s simple to sidestep when you remember everyone who runs things here is stupid as hell and arrogant to boot, and that you don’t have to be […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, May 19
It’s not just Metal Monday tonight at Savage Henry Comedy Club tonight, but the first of a two-night binge of heavy music, with doors at 7 p.m. and tickets running from $5-$20, sliding scale. Tonight’s gladiators are Martinez hardcore and powerviolence band Throat Rip, along with local shredders Psyop Victim and Gourmandizer, with a fourth […]
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Stevo by Starlight
Early last week, something terrible happened in the streets of Eureka that took the life of a man. I am not going to share the details of his passing. But don’t mistake this for an obituary, with vague allusions to death because this isn’t about death at all. This is about life, specifically the life […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 12
I am happy to report that the Siren’s Song Tavern is still up and running, and hosting a wicked and heavy show tonight at 6:30 p.m. Two of my favorite local amp slappers Ultramafic and Psyop Victim will be testing the earthquake retrofitting of the building, while another act I have yet to experience live […]
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Wildegeeses
Last week saw the departure of two very different musicians who have been extremely important to me throughout my life and to a great many other people as well, I would guess. First was Michael Hurley, the outer than outer limits singin’ stranger, with a singularly baffling songwriting skill that worked as an organic lightning […]