There’s a circus tent over at 2515 Wyatt Lane in Arcata near Ennis Parkwhere some summer fun will be going down over the next few weeks. Onesuch event happens today at 6 p.m., when local roots and punk collectivesThe Cowtown Sound and Vegan Slaughterhouse will be joining forcesfor an event they are calling The Vegan […]
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The Pan Piper
A few weeks ago, I wrote an intro here about a dawn chorus of birds I heard while camping. I titled that column “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” after a famous chapter from The Wind in the Willows, in which the pagan god Pan appears as a benevolent shepherd of animals to help the […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 26
The Cowtown Sound is throwing a Honky Tonk Thursday at the Logger Bar tonight. There will be a two-step dance lesson for all comers at 8:30 p.m., with the music starting around a half hour after. No cover at the door, so tip everyone accordingly.
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 6
The Outer Space is hosting an indie rock showcase tonight at 7 p.m. Portland’s Tradie will share the stage with local acts The Cowtown Sound, Mold and Fig, for those of you out there inclined toward gentle jams and bedroom poetry. Considering we are hitting the three-decade mark of indie rock as a genre name, […]
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Hog of the Forsaken
Now that we have burst through the membrane of the macabre month of sweet decay and symbolic death, it’s time to settle into the darker reality of standard-time long nights and the spectacle of a (sort of) election in a country that is fairly anti-democratic. It’s all well and good in my household — I […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 26
Come out to the last Friday Night Market in Arcata — for now — and swing by the Outer Space at 7:30 p.m. for a very special local showcase in the intimate, all-ages, sober joint. We’re talking boogying with The Cowtown Sound, Jellyworks playing some instrumental space- synth, and the debut full-band show of both […]
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Post-Millennium Tension
At a certain point in your life, the corrosion of your memories meets the current of dreams and the two become more or less indistinguishable. Older impressions melt away in the psychic wash, only to reappear as patchwork colors on the uninvited night coat of sleep. After all, the mind has its own efficiencies, too, […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, July 20
New York-based Jalopy Records act Jackson and the Janks are a garage band who pump out rhythm and blues motion under a gospel spell to make a fine night of dance floor ecstasy for all comers. Extra icing on the show is local band The Cowtown Sound, who will make it shake, rattle and roll […]