Three options tonight, so I’ll get with the facts. Two 7 p.m. gigs in Arcata. Over at the Arcata Playhouse, Harmonic Howl presents Women of Country, a group featuring singers Ruby Ruth George, Elle Penner and Briana Penner for $20. There’s a “Classic Cuntry” (costume contest, so dress accordingly.Meanwhile over at the Moss Oak Commons, […]
The Uncredible Phin Band
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Nov. 15
Moss Oak Commons is the place to be for another installment of Freq Night by Open Head Records. Tonight’s offering features the avant folk tunes of Olympia, Washington’s Wicking Game, along with local electroclash act Parking Structure, the lovely storytelling digital torch songs of God Z Dog and the drone folks of Mountain Mahogany. This […]
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Storytellers
I’ve been all over the place in these pages lately, writing about everything from the excellent Eureka Symphony, the Spanish Civil War, the architectural history of our own rapidly expanding police state and the incumbent circumstantial depression that comes with it, to some of the music from years past which I have overlooked or had […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 14
The Outer Space is putting on an all-ages show with some fine local groups, so I won’t waste any time with preamble. The Uncredible Phin Band — the “h” is silent — is one of my favorite world music acts and have electrified the titular Thai lute for a fantastic sound. As Known As plays […]
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If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Despite what a few of you might think, I believe the organizing principle of the world is supposed to be love, but somewhere along the way we all fucked it up. Read St. Augustine for more on that, or Milton, Plato, or Dante or Mary Oliver. The mid-20th century psychoanalyst and genius Wilhelm Reich was […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 27
Lots of gigs going down tonight, but I’d like to give a shout out to two, something old, and something new. In the first camp is Holus Bolus, a one-man guitar looping sound-meister who I’ve been writing about and advocating for since my first days on this beat. He’s playing a free gig at the […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Aug. 5
Mohama Saz is a psyche-rock act from Madrid, Spain, that jams in modal keyed RIS that draw out a sonic etch-a-sketch vision of pathways, minarets and half-step Arabic curves reminiscent of a cultural landscape built by Trajan and the Umayyad. Touches of the muezzin meeting the Monkees tick the needle’s dense geography over these melting […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Sept. 3
Well, it seems the Miniplex is slapping it out of the park this weekend with shows featuring great talents from the beautiful frontiers of contemporary musical potential. Tonight’s 9 p.m. gig spotlights the incredible acoustic guitar playing of Sir Richard Bishop, a guitarist/composer of unusual talent, who first cut his teeth in the national eye […]
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The Curtain Hits the Cast
I woke up on Sunday thinking about writing about the upcoming election, maybe some piece where I ramp up the direness of the results to see if I am actually a modern-day Cassandra or just another crank (probably). Instead, I was greeted by the news that Mimi Parker, one half of my favorite band, had […]