Two free gigs with very promising lineups for a July night of solid entertainment, perhaps rowdy, even. Only problem is both are at 9 p.m. and nowhere near each other, so you’ll have to pick one. Over at the Shanty, The Pine Hill Haints are back in town and ready to slap the gutbucket and […]
The Pine Hill Haints
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Summer Breeze
“July is dressed up and playing her tune,” is the relevant line from this week’s headline song, a dark, soft rock masterpiece from way back when. The question is, are you listening and from where? For my own part, I am temporarily housebound, recovering from a wee medical thing from last week (I’m fine), and […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, July 15
Regular readers will notice that certain bands get a mention every time they roll through town. This is due to a group having done something to catch my attention in a profound enough fashion that I feel the desire to get as many people on board with the opportunity to see it live as is […]
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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 […]
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Summer Camp Splendor
OK campers, pick a perch and cop a squat. I’ve got the 411 for you but this is not a recording and I will not be repeating myself. This week’s checklist of activities will include: the reunion of a local honky-tonk institution, visitors from Canada and England, booty shaking (no laughing, Johnson, or dammit, I […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 29
Humboldt’s finest Pink Floyd tribute band Money plays the Eureka Friday Night Market on Clarke Plaza this afternoon at 5 p.m. This free gig — not in the sky — will allow you ample ambling time to check out the various wares around you at the market while vibing out to analog verisimilitude of bygone […]
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Bells, Banjos and Puppets
As I write this from my friend’s porch on a hot afternoon in the last week of June, my ears are met with the sweet sounds of summer. No, wait, that’s just a rooster mindlessly screaming in the yard while it pecks around in the dry dirt for snacks. Meanwhile, spreading around me with the […]