Another free Shanty show on the docket tonight at 8 p.m., with three punk bands from Redding in the Swan Room spotlight. Don’t Care, Furlough Fridays and The Wokemen are all bringing the fury, but there’s a local angle, too. One of my absolute favorite local painters, Jesse Wiedel, will be jamming with the last […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Jan. 19
There’s a heavy punk presence at Savage Henry Comedy Club tonight at 7 p.m., where some concerned locals are throwing a “Safety Meeting” to address the best way to keep bigotry out of our local music scene as the rest of the country is being filled with the putrid stench of weaponized institutional racism in […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Nov. 6
I don’t mind boosting another Metal Monday night at Savage Henry Comedy Club because the lineups are good at balancing local talent with touring acts, I’m happy to support anything resembling a local metal scene and this regular gig is dependable, and Mondays are a tough field to carve out anything lasting on, and I […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, May 25
RampArt is hosting another hardcore punk show tonight at 7 p.m. Two Rhode Island bands, Providence’s Catalyst and Bullet Proof Backpack from Middletown (a group of teenagers who run their own label, which gets a huge thumbs up/fuck yeah from this old head), will share the stage with the Brain Dead Rejects, from parts unknown. […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Feb. 27
RampArt Skatepark has another all-ages noisefest tonight at 8 p.m. ($10). Come see San Diego’s punk collective Human Issue share the stage with locals Racket and Malicious Algorithm, whose grindcore I have enjoyed in the past.
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Punk and the Working Stiff
Ian Carey’s solo show at the Morris Graves Museum of Art features large mixed-media figures with elements of collage. More painted figures than figure paintings, they’ve been clipped like paper dolls from their original surroundings and re-assembled free-floating on the wall. Carey’s scrappy style veers from painstaking to deliberately de-skilled, sometimes careening giddily in the […]
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You and Me…
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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From the Hum: Your Weekly Sweat-inducing Punk Gig
San Diego’s Dead on the Wire hits the Alibi tonight, bringing shades of the Ramones, The Lazy Cowgirls and Rancid. If you appreciate 1970s punk rock – and judging from the fact that Iggy Pop & the Stooges are currently touring America, lots of people do – you will enjoy the hell out of this […]