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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Dec. 31

By Collin Yeo on December 31, 2024 at 4:00AM

It’s the long goodbye, coming in early in the week this year, and I’m going to make a few suggestions, not in chronological order, but rather paired by location and style. For instance, if you are interested in some DJ’ed dance parties, you can check out the big EDM blow at the Arcata Theatre Lounge at 8:30 p.m., with Bass Culture, Whomp, John Holliday, Esch and many more.

Music Tonight: Monday, Dec. 30

By Collin Yeo on December 30, 2024 at 10:22AM

It’s New Year’s Eve-eve, and the folks at Septentrio are kicking off a two-night goodbye to 2024 with a couple of big-ol’ dance parties starting at 7 p.m. DJs Red and King Maxwell will be providing the musical mortar to fill the gaps between sets by funk masters Object Heavy and Deadheads The Magnificent Sanctuary Band.

Movies Today: Sunday, Dec. 29

By Collin Yeo on December 29, 2024 at 4:00AM

Let’s break from the musical build-up to the year-killer and enjoy a day at the movies. The Eureka Theater is showing a 2 p.m. matinee of An American Tail, the beloved 1986 film animated by Don Bluth and co. about the coming to America story of young Fievel Mousekewitz, whose family is escaping a Cossack pogrom in the Ukraine ($10, $5 for kids 12 and under).

Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 28

By Collin Yeo on December 28, 2024 at 4:00AM

Here are two very different shows happening at roughly the same time, 9 p.m.-ish, and for more or less the same price. The Basement is featuring guitarist Greg Douglass, possibly most famous for his time with the Steve Miller Band, during which he co-wrote the hit Jungle Love.

Oryan Peterson-Jones of The Uncredible Phin Band, playing the Logger Bar on
Friday, Dec. 27, at 9 p.m.

Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 27

By Collin Yeo on December 27, 2024 at 9:51AM

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.

Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 21

By Collin Yeo on December 21, 2024 at 4:00AM

Here’s a trio of ways to celebrate the longest night of the year, laid out in chronological form for your discernment. At the Arcata Playhouse at 7 p.m., singer and trombonist James Zeller presents the music of Chet Baker (and other Capricorns).

Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 20

By Collin Yeo on December 20, 2024 at 4:00AM

Tomáseen Foley’s “A Celtic Christmas” is on the program tonight at the Van Duzer Theatre at 7 p.m. ($25-$50).

Music Tonight: Thursday, Dec. 19

By Collin Yeo on December 19, 2024 at 11:08AM

Here’s a thought: Try starting your long solstice weekend off with some free jazz. Not free in the sense of genre, but a no-cover show at the Basement at 7:30 p.m., with fusion group HDMB Jazz.

Comedy Night: Tuesday, Dec. 17

By Collin Yeo on December 17, 2024 at 4:00AM

Speaking of Savage Henry Comedy Club, tonight at 9 p.m. you can enjoy True Kult, a show created and hosted by comedian Patrick Redmond, where comedians explore all things paranormal, from little gray men to cryptids to xenomorphs. Just $5 gets you a spot inside, with an online fee that once again produces an odd price, this time $7.18.

Comedy Tonight: Monday, Dec. 16

By Collin Yeo on December 16, 2024 at 4:00AM

Low brow, low budget, painfully bad films are an itch to tickle for some of you out there. If you are in that number, you can’t get any closer to the rancid wet shit of terrible, sub-cult films than Feeders 2: Slay Bells.

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