It’s been a bad week, to be honest. My news-addicted mind experienced a mild apoplexy at two items I can’t help but treat as related. The United Nations has released a stunning report that humans — and more specifically our exploitative world economic engines — are accelerating the extinction of some million-plus species of plants […]
Unholy Orifice
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Music Tonight: Sunday, May 20
Metal is on the menu tonight at the Siren’s Song at 6:30 p.m. for those suffering from twee-fatigue or iron deficiencies (price TBA). Join Yreka’s thrash masters Chains of Belmont — that has to be a Castlevania reference, right? — with Shasta Lake City’s Bullet Lobotomy and local metal mavens Muppet Hunter and Unholy Orifice […]
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Call Me By Your Band Name
The more creatively named bands featured this week got my wheels spinning down memory lane. Despite a preternatural and seething distrust of all things over and done with, I couldn’t help thinking about some of the uniquely named groups I’ve encountered over the decades. I myself used to front a New Orleans-based punk/psych outfit called […]