Another big day for fans of loud, amplified electric guitars and battered-attitude drums. The ever-fantastic metal guerrilla cell Psyop Victim sits atop a bill with Hotel Riot, Bipolar Bear — featuring members of the Hitch, the Cookers and Scurvy Dogs — and Dave O’s fantastic bass- driven punk bullhorn TheBoredAgain. More interesting still, it’s all […]
The Smashed Glass
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Jan. 17
Back over to the Eureka Theater for a showing of Rural Rock & Roll along with sets bylocal OG titans The Hitch and The Smashed Glass. Get there at 8 p.m. with $10 inhand for all the fun.
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 20
It’s solstice eve, and due to the coming of another more celebrated eve on Wednesday,I’m loading the underboughs of this evening with shows to balance the silent nightsahead. The big shebang is happening over at the Arcata Playhouse, where the JingleJam Holiday Benefit, packed with so many local shining stars, will be happening in two […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 31
As usual, there are many, many, many events going on all over the county. In years past I detailed quite a few of them, but lately I’ve remembered that this column isn’t called the calendar for a reason, so I’m only going to detail two shows, all live music with great bands, in an area […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, July 13
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 […]
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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: Sunday, March 17
Regular readers will already know my preamble for this holiday, so I’ll make it brief. I’m one of the few American guys named Collin who doesn’t flex on claims of Irish heritage, and I bartended too much to pretend to enjoy this plastic Paddy green beer fest. But for those about to rock, I salute […]
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When the Springtime Comes Again
Spring is coming back, which means we’ve pushed through two human-made hurdles in which I have little interest: the Oscars and Daylight Savings time. To the latter I say pick one and stick with it, a sentiment shared by a majority of my fellow Californians, and, like many such things, an issue hopelessly tied up […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Aug. 6
Another two-fer recommendation, this time in Eureka. At 2 p.m. at the Shanty, you will find a free matinee gig of two of the rompingest, stompin’-est, mightiest pub rock punk bands in the 707, when The Bow-Legged Buzzards join forces with the boys in The Smashed Glass to blow the lid off the patio. If […]
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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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Dr. Woo
I’m writing this at the beginning of the week, the day after the eclipse of the Super Flower Blood Moon. I’m probably more immune to the effects of magical thinking and “woo” than most of my fellow Redwood Curtain citizens, but I’m still a little touched by the outré aspects of the natural world. And […]