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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 27

By Collin Yeo on March 27, 2025 at 9:33AM

Here’s another venue that hasn’t gotten much, if any, ink in this column. The Local Cider Bar is hosting a free pajama party at 7 p.m. with music by the DJ crew of Hispanic!

Music Tonight: Wednesday, March 26

By Collin Yeo on March 26, 2025 at 4:00AM

Seattle duo Yaima has been making multi-instrumental world music with vocals and electronic features for the last decade, and represent a sort of staying power to a music scene that has seen a lot of losses and a few lasting groups, like Beats Antique, who rolled through earlier this month. The Arcata Theatre Lounge has also shown its staying power by keeping the lights on for such acts to have a venue and, while this music is not always to my taste, kudos to that as well.

Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 25

By Collin Yeo on March 25, 2025 at 10:14AM

Recalling viral music trends and archiving them in the mind seems at odds with the transient nature of the medium — and the flashbang attention span economy it represents — but for those of you who remember, there was a sea shanty thing kicking around about a while ago, starting with a cover of “The Wellerman” sung by a young Scotsman named Nathan Evans backed up by internet friends. That sensation turned into a group, appropriately called The Wellermen who have since expanded their repertoire into more areas of traditional folk and recorded some music for a more lasting approach to a career.

Music Tonight: Monday, March 24

By Collin Yeo on March 24, 2025 at 4:00PM

Mondays can be hard to nail down for a lot of people and often go overlooked as viable entertainment nights. However, when the right show comes through, it’s like fishing on an empty pier and bagging a monster.

Music Tonight: Saturday, March 22

By Collin Yeo on March 22, 2025 at 4:56PM

If you have been online lately looking around for local acts that have broken Humboldt containment into media virality, the odds are even you’ve heard of the country folk act Brett McFarland and the Freedom Riders. Weaving spells of old county tales for the masses out there, this group has garnered enough attention to launch a proper tour and are rocketing off from the Arcata Theatre Lounge tonight at 7 p.m.

The Uppies play Wild Hare Tavern on Friday, March 21, at 8:30 p.m.

Music Tonight: Friday, March 21

By Collin Yeo on March 21, 2025 at 4:00AM

Spring is a good time for something old returning and something new blooming. And so I offer you two gigs in that order.

Music Tonight: Thursday, March 20

By Collin Yeo on March 20, 2025 at 9:29AM

The springtime has come again to our hemisphere, and where better in our little chunk of the planet to celebrate the equal split between night and day than in bonny Blue Lake? Specifically, the Logger Bar at 8 p.m., where you can enjoy a solo show by Vanishing Pints and Miracle Show-man Jeff Kelley.

Music Tonight: Wednesday, March 19

By Collin Yeo on March 19, 2025 at 4:00AM

Two oddball and frankly fantastic underground cult bands from yesteryear are converging at the Miniplex tonight, and I don’t suggest missing this shebang. Oneida is from New York City, and Kinski are from Seattle, but both hit the bricks hard around the same time, having been birthed from the late ’90s ecstatic noise and pop scene that created some of the best moments of sound over the last couple of decades.

Music Tonight: Monday, March 17

By Collin Yeo on March 17, 2025 at 4:00AM

Regular readers know how little regard I have for this plastic Paddy holiday, having run the gauntlet bartending and been mistaken as Irish on this silly, American drinking pageant. No shade on the Irish, by the way, and up the ‘RA and get your Brits out, as Kneecap, a favorite Irish rap group of mine, likes to remind people.

Music Tonight: Sunday, March 16

By Collin Yeo on March 16, 2025 at 4:00AM

Scott Cook and Pamela Mae play folk music, as an acoustic duo with the fella on guitar and vox, and the lady on upright bass and harmonies. Simple, unpretentious stuff, as you will discover for yourself at Synapsis at 7 p.m.

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