The Miniplex is hosting a punk rock zoological cage match tonight around 9 p.m. withCincinnati trio Jon Q Public linking up with local fauna Dumpster Puppies, Berk & theJerx and The Smashed Glass. This venue has some of the better underground touringact calendars in the area, but rarely books straight up punk shows, so this […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Sept. 30
Two midweek shows in Arcata to report on then I’m done until the next deadline. First up at 7 p.m. at the Outer Space, you will find Los Angeles shoegaze and pop act Young Lovers sharing the all-ages stage with indie locals Pennies for Pluto and Luna Sophia. Tickets are a negotiable, sliding scale $10-$20 […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 26
Eraser is a band from Philadelphia whose sound slaps with a live wire urgency that rippled through and animated more than a few fantastic lurching grotesques from the past, such as DNA and Deerhoof. They’re playing at the Miniplex tonight at 9 p.m. Speaking of lurching from the past, local bladerunners Control Voltage, aka CV, […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 24
In an unusual turn of events for a Thursday night, there are two crucial shows going on tonight, which can only mean one thing: The long summer idyll is over.The Miniplex is hosting Portland psychedelic country rockers Rose City Band for an early 7 p.m. show to accommodate the venue’s popular karaoke afterward ($20).Meanwhile, at […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Sept. 23
One more show at the Miniplex then I’m done for the week. Orchestra Gold are a psychedelic Afro-beat rock band with roots in the mystic-groove storytelling musical traditions of Mali. Based in Oakland, the band is making a stop here tonight to share the rumble with local cumbia masters Makenu. This is an early gig […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Sept. 22
The Miniplex is showing The System, a 2025 documentary by Dutch filmmaker Joris Postema about three people trying to find a way to build a viable future in a world that values greed, corruption, and short term gains over a living planet. Grim stuff indeed, but the music is banging, mainly featuring works by master […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 11
Sir Richard Bishop has been here before, and has thankfully now come again, right on the cusp of the solstice — the summer’s brightest edge — in a year when we could all use something transmundane to drag us out of the muck and toward the light. For those of you who haven’t heard his […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 17
The Miniplex is hosting a local alterna-pop tonight at 8 p.m., when the sonic cavern will be taken over by the ever-ebullient Jacki & the Jollies and the interestingly named act Heaven’s Taint, playing power punk covers and others. I’ve seen Jacki & Co. get their jollies at a diverse range of venues, from the […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Feb. 25
As hinted at in the beginning of the weekend, Brian Weitz, better known as Geologist to fans of his much-loved main band Animal Collective, is bringing his solo act to towntonight at the Miniplex at 8:30 p.m. Expect a lot of loops and sounds undergirding ashocking amount of hurdy gurdy playing from the man himself. […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Feb. 20
Cooper Crain is busy, both as a member of noted Chicago drone band Cave and asone third of Bitchin Bajas, with a more explosive and fancy-free approach to theirexperimental jaunts through the airwaves. I think of track ‘Skylarking’ as a goodexample of the group’s sound, which unfolds like a synthetic barn swallow migratingthrough the transcontinental […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Nov. 12
Sometimes I have nothing to accompany me as I type up this column other than the howling ghosts of regret and loneliness that course through the space between my ears like a cruel, spectral turbine. And sometimes I have some swanky new tunes to accompany the ceaseless screams from the abyss torn into existence by […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 10
Michael Beach is a soundmaker from Melbourne, Australia who has found a home in North American hi-fi sets with his releases on outré rock label Goner Records. Known for his vibrant stage presence, you can see some of that lightning captured in the bottle that is the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m. Also on tap […]