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Music Tonight: Sunday, Aug. 11

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

No Metal Monday this week but Metal Sunday ain’t too shabby. At 6 p.m., you will find Sorcia, Witch Ripper and Tigers on Opium holding down the volume knob at the regular spot, Savage Henry Comedy Club, for the usual price of $5-$10 sliding.

Winter Band plays the Miniplex at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10.

Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 10

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

If you like day-glo and oil-slicked psychedelia from a better time, when San Francisco had more soul than capital, you’re in for a treat tonight at the Miniplex at 8:30 p.m. Magic Fig plays its own shimmering pop dewdrops of lysergic dee-lite channeled by a host of musicians from various Bay Area garage bands.

Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 9

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

I am hearing news that this afternoon and evening will see the final Arts Arcata, which I am receiving with stoic indifference because I have learned to never say die about our institutions — even when the organizers of those institutions are saying it — and because Arts Arcata honestly never did much for me. Sorry, Eureka has always done this sort of thing better. But if you are nicer than me and have some nostalgic attachment to the deal, I can suggest a gig within strolling distance to settle any dancing desires you might have.

Music Tonight: Thursday, Aug. 8

By Collin Yeo on August 8, 2024 at 9:16AM

Faun Fables are back in town, playing an immersive theatrical gig at Synapsis at 8 p.m. ($15-$25 sliding scale).

Music Tonight: Wednesday, Aug. 7

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

First Wednesday of the month means all things fusion jazz over at the Speakeasy at 7 p.m. The sounds will be provided by the very capable hands and ears of local quartet RLAD, and the price of admission is a refreshment and some moolah for the boys in the band if you are up to it.

Music Tonight: Tuesday, Aug. 6

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

It’s an early-week metal night in Eureka, but tonight’s venue isn’t ye olde comedy club, but rather, the Siren’s Song Tavern a few blocks deeper into Old Town. There at 6:30 p.m., you will find a fine mix of touring and local grinders, with Paradise’s Aberrance, Contra Charge from Chicago, and Minneapolis’ Infuriate holding up the road dawg end of the deal.

Music Tonight: Monday, Aug. 5

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

Mohama Saz is a psyche-rock act from Madrid, Spain, that jams in modal keyed RIS that draw out a sonic etch-a-sketch vision of pathways, minarets and half-step Arabic curves reminiscent of a cultural landscape built by Trajan and the Umayyad. Touches of the muezzin meeting the Monkees tick the needle’s dense geography over these melting vinyl wax tracks of droning delight.

Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 3

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

It’s the final night of the Daze Between Festival over at Humbrews, a three-night musical encomium to the Grateful Dead. Tonight’s band is Jerry’s Kids, and, no, I am not talking about the long running Boston punk institution from the early days of hardcore.

The White Card’s Dialogue on Race and Art

By Kelby McIntosh on August 2, 2024 at 5:46PM

Like a speck of dirt on a pristine white dinner jacket, a black flatscreen TV hangs starkly against the all-white set, the screen showing the intense tennis battle between the Willams sisters at the 2017 Australian Open. The sound of shoes screeching and the claps of the tennis ball being smacked back and forth on the court are silenced with the press of a button.

Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 2

By Collin Yeo on August 2, 2024 at 4:00AM

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 last two decades.

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