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Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 13

By Collin Yeo on September 13, 2024 at 4:00AM

This should be interesting, if for no other reason than it’s a new variation in the history of local vinyl-spun lore. Arcata Soul Party is going to be a DJ-curated dance party, but not at Humbrews.

Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 12

By Collin Yeo on September 12, 2024 at 9:41AM

Innovation is an interesting trick in music, especially within the confines of an established genre. One of the ironies of jam band music, for instance, is how much of it sounds the same, a sort of wash of noodling to the casual listening.

Music Tonight: Wednesday, Sept. 11

By Collin Yeo on September 11, 2024 at 4:00AM

The Arcata Playhouse is once again opening its welcoming wooden nest to a touring crew of masterful and fascinating musicians. Sam Reider and the Human Hands is led by the guy at the top of the masthead, a jazz pianist-turned accordion player and composer who writes an alluring type of music based around many folkloric world sounds.

Music Tonight: Tuesday, Sept. 10

By Collin Yeo on September 10, 2024 at 4:00AM

It’s already the second Tuesday of this newly minted month, which means it’s time for another installment of the experimental musicians union meet-up at the Sanctuary. The set-up is simple: You bring your preferred noisemaker, electronic doo-dad or plug-inable instrument, and after a discussion about flow and arrangement, you let loose with a crew of like-minded comrades.

Music Tonight: Monday, Sept. 9

By Collin Yeo on September 9, 2024 at 4:00AM

A large part of aging in this decade is seeing a flier for a show called “Glorv-G and the Chi-Rizzler: Beefing on Stacks with Farto-Hi$$$: THE REMATCH” and knowing by simple instinct that this type of promotional semaphore is designed only to make sense to people born after 9/11 and cause mild irritation or blank nothingness to those of us who remember rotary phones, cooler temperatures, a time before people threw tags around in nature, and the widespread biodiversity of winged insects. Anyway, unrelated to my previous words, the Arcata Theatre Lounge presents at 7 p.m. tonight Off the Xtras: Part 2, featuring 310Babii, Yung Chowder and, most importantly, OHGEESY, for whom you can purchase VIP meet and greet tickets for $150.

Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 7

By Collin Yeo on September 7, 2024 at 4:00AM

OK, here’s something old, something new ... I can’t think of borrowed or blue, but it’s all worth your time regardless, and I’m happy to celebrate this gig like a posting of the marriage banns from ages ago.

Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 6

By Collin Yeo on September 6, 2024 at 4:00AM

Regular readers will likely remember my tracking of the ascension of Fortuna’s The Critics, a very skilled and tight pop rock band with a lot of passion and moxy. I have a soft spot for anyone trying as hard as they do with gobs of talent to get into what I discovered in my 20s is one of the hardest, scummiest and most broke-ass creative industries out there (next to writing).

Ordinary Elephant plays the Arcata Playhouse on Thursday, Sept. 5 at 7 p.m.

Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 5

By Collin Yeo on September 5, 2024 at 4:00AM

Usually when people refer to elephants, they tend to be talking about the one in the room, an unspoken problem that everyone can see but no one wants to talk about. The list of suspects shortens when there is at least one married couple present.

Music Tonight: Wednesday, Sept. 4

By Collin Yeo on September 4, 2024 at 4:00AM

Do you love Beyoncé? Then run, don’t walk to the Miniplex at 8 p.m., where this week’s iteration of Big Mood, the weekly hump day queer-dance-a-thon is celebrating all things regarding the true queen of pop.

Comedy Tonight: Tuesday, Sept. 3

By Collin Yeo on September 3, 2024 at 4:00AM

Savage Henry Comedy Club has finally come up with something I can heartily endorse: Nationalist-based phrenology aimed at our neighbors to the north. The game is simple, two teams are shown pictures of people, and those teams have to decide Are They Canadian?

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