Here are two very different shows happening at roughly the same time, 9 p.m.-ish, and for more or less the same price. The Basement is featuring guitarist Greg Douglass, possibly most famous for his time with the Steve Miller Band, during which he co-wrote the hit Jungle Love. He’ll be sitting in with Grateful Dead-ites […]
The Siren’s Song Tavern
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Music Tonight: Friday, October 4
The Siren’s Song Tavern is hosting the Salon des Refusés, a party of “the refused,” at 7 p.m. featuring returning rock champs The Beer Scouts, Roland Rock, Jimmy Foot and local surf rock mavericks The Starhoppers, fresh off a gig with Dick Dale’s son Jimmy. This looks like a blast and, more to the point, […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Jan. 11
The Siren’s Song Tavern is hosting an extreme metal show tonight at 8 p.m. San Francisco’s death grind gore band Cartilage with local smashers Sarcophilus Satanicus, Bloodspire and Heathenistic. At least that’s what I have gleaned from the cave bear-etched claw scribble of the band’s logos on the flyer. Door cover is a sliding scale […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Oct. 3
The Siren’s Song Tavern is hosting an interesting gig tonight at 7 p.m. The Secret Emchy Society is an Oakland-based, queer roots and country act that dabbles in the darker side of honky tonkin’, murder balladry. I don’t have a lock on the door price, but I’d suggest you give these folks a try regardless, […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 30
The world of music runs not on the headliner alone but on their secret weapon. You can call them the hired gun, the sideman, the multi-instrumentalist, but the job really all shakes out to be the same thing: they can play almost anything, on almost any instrument and make it sound good. The late David […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 7
Fans of goth, post-punk, darkwave and the more experimental side of sonic heaviness have some good news coming their way this evening at 7 p.m. The Siren’s Song Tavern is putting on a show with exactly that kind of crew, headlined by Atlanta’s Dead Register with Oakland to Arcata transplants Silence in the Snow, as […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, July 6
The Siren’s Song Tavern is hosting an alternative rock night at 7:30 p.m. Frequency Within is a touring act from SoCal, while local heavies Drastic Gnarlys anchor things down in the 707. I don’t know the door charge as of press time, but if you leave the house with $20, you should be able to […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Nov. 21
The Siren’s Song Tavern is hosting a paranormal open mic at 7 p.m. While not entirely certain, I suspect that this entails sharing your own anecdotes about strange encounters with like-minded fellow travelers. It’s free, and probably good for a shiver or a laugh.
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Beer with Seoul
The Booth Brewing Co., one of the newest additions to Humboldt County’s craft beer scene, began over a craving for one of humankind’s simplest and surest pleasures: pizza and beer. In 2013, beer lovers Sunghoo Yang and Heeyoon Kim, a financial analyst and medical doctor, respectively, joined forces with Daniel Tudor, an Economist writer living […]
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No Pardon
Friends sometimes ask me what I actually listen to, as I seem to carry an annoying aloofness in this column when it comes to music. And it grates, I am told. Well, tonight there is a big ol’ harvest moon outside so I am listening to … anything but Neil Young. I hate to be […]
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Many Hats (and Roller Skates)
From government to the environment to music and the military in Humboldt, Natalie Arroyo has her foot in it or on it — figuratively and literally. One place that has special significance to her is the Eureka Waterfront Trail, the newly completed 6.3-mile contiguous trail that runs north from Herrick Avenue to Tydd Street. “Since […]