Here are some local treats to stuff your stockings with. First up, Moss Oak Commons,where it’s Freq Night again, with music from the crossroads of experimental electronicsounds, tap loops, treated guitar amp worship, holy synths and modulators, and lo-figrooves. Check out Hudson Glover, Luker, Samantha and Aermac 8 at 7 p.m. for asuggested $5-$10. When […]
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The Ghost of Christmas Present
The morning holds its breath as each day begins with the uncertainty of whether the first exhalation will be expressed as a sigh or a scream. Or maybe all and more, with laughter filling out a frightening new combination. The news is just awful all the time, isn’t it? Everything we understood in years past […]
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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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Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 8
It seems as though the struggling Siren’s Song Tavern is keeping the doors open for now, and so I will do my part and spread the word about what’s going down on the glass and sidewalk stage while I still can. Tonight’s offering is a free 8 p.m. show featuring Good Time Charlies, Redwood Revolution […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 2
Speaking of returning friends from Portland, The Shivas are being hosted at the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m., celebrating the release of an album appropriately titled Can’t Stop Coming Around. Expect more of the same glorious, fuzzed out and harmonious true rock and roll that has made this act a hip household name for the […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 13
Two free shows tonight at great local venues with some of the best and offbeat bands around. Rooster McClintock brings the fine country jams alongside Heaven’s Taint (lol), which I am told has a surf rock vibe, to the Logger Bar at 8 p.m. An hour later over at the Shanty, you can enjoy a […]
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Big White Cloud
No, we didn’t get a proper eclipse last Monday, but I still found a momentary pulse beat of Satori from a gliding collision of outside sources, and that’s good enough for me. I had been driving around listening to the sublime John Cale song I titled this week’s column after, so perhaps a moment like […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Nov. 3
The Basement opened its doors again recently after a long layoff due to … well, the circumstances we all got keelhauled by over the last few years. I didn’t get a chance to mark the occasion at the time, so I am instead suggesting that those of you who, like myself, missed the joint should […]