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Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 22

By Collin Yeo on July 22, 2025 at 4:00AM

One more shout out to the Outer Space, with an all-ages alt-folk show, featuring Autumnal from Colorado along with tourmate Public Diary and the dream-folk stylings of local band My Ex- Wife. It’s $10 for this one, with the usual caveat of no one getting turned away because they don’t have the dough.

Music Tonight: Monday, July 21

By Collin Yeo on July 21, 2025 at 11:45AM

Mondays are great for hidden gem shows and tonight is one such perfect jewel. Animal Piss, It’s Everywhere from Western Massachusetts not only sits on the shortlist for strangest band names to ever grace this page, but the band is also fantastic, with an outsider country sound that is so far beyond it should be considered trans-dimensional.

Music Tonight: Sunday, July 20

By Collin Yeo on July 20, 2025 at 4:00AM

New York-based Jalopy Records act Jackson and the Janks are a garage band who pump out rhythm and blues motion under a gospel spell to make a fine night of dance floor ecstasy for all comers. Extra icing on the show is local band The Cowtown Sound, who will make it shake, rattle and roll while you boogie, baby.

Music Tonight: Saturday, July 19

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

Cellist Rebecca Roudman leads Dirty Cello, a San Francisco band that kicks out the jams – from funk to Americana and all points in between, with the titular instrument providing the filthy and slick lead work where one would more commonly find an electric guitar. This globetrotting band is doing something right, as it has gotten the word out and secured a decent following from the strength of its formidable live shows.

Music Tonight: Friday, July 18

By Collin Yeo on July 18, 2025 at 4:00AM

Modesto’s Valley Wolf packs a whole lot of party punch into its amplified output, making massive psychedelic and cumbia overtures out of the instruments of a humble quartet. It’s great fun and a perfect way to kick off a midsummer weekend, especially with local DJ scramblers Hispanic!

Music Tonight: Thursday, July 17

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

The Outer Space is hosting Portland acts Fry’d — a solo acoustic adventure — and Just Nick, who are both promoting a split record called American Progress. They will be joined by local acts Bleater and The Guiding Water for an evening of relatively easy-listening summer vibrations.

Fek and the Future Friends of Sound plays the Miniplex on Tuesday, July 15, at 8
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 15

By Collin Yeo on July 15, 2025 at 4:00AM

The Miniplex has a good one going on tonight at 8 p.m. for all you lovers of keys and electronic flourishes buttressing tropical beats and kinetic sonic paintings. Headliner Kolumbo is an electro-tropicalia quartet centered around the impressive keyboard mastery of Frank LoCrasto, also known for his work with Cass McCombs and Fruit Bats.

Music Tonight: Monday, July 14

By Collin Yeo on July 14, 2025 at 4:00AM

Moss Oak Commons is hosting a lineup of some bands on the louder and heavier end of the live music spectrum tonight at 7 p.m. Sacramento digital hardcore band An Apparition joins Reno, Nevada’s electro-rock band Lav Andula and local heavies Image Pit and Spayr for a stomp and grinding good time.

Music Today: Sunday, July 13

By Collin Yeo on July 13, 2025 at 4:00AM

Speaking of free concerts with donations welcome, there’s a fine matinee going down at the Eureka Woman’s Club at 2 p.m., where you will find the All Seasons Orchestra performing its summer program. In the songbook today will be selections from John Williams’ Star Wars score, Richard Meyer’s “American Rhapsody,” a Duke Ellington medley arranged by Calvin Custer, highlights from the musical Wicked, and a lesser-known Beethoven piece that is a vigorous dance number called “The Turkish March” from his Ruins of Athens work.

Music Tonight: Saturday, June 12

By Collin Yeo on July 12, 2025 at 4:00AM

Options abound tonight, but I’m going to steer you toward a tried-and-true summer jam that, from venue to performers, is a guaranteed good time for a warm night just off the Mad River. At 9 p.m., the Logger Bar will be hosting country-tinged strummers, pickers, singers and songwriters Turtle Goodwater and Jerome Stinsprig.

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