Collin Yeo

There’s a pretty fantastic loud and wild show over at Moss Oak Commons tonight at 7 p.m. The headliner is the Tokyo group The Wameki, whose dry explosive sound evokes a kind of radio-wave diarrhea mess in the most fabulous way possible. Sickening sounds with great effectiveness. To sweeten the pot, three of our best local crash-dealers are providing extra ballast: Image Pit, Radical A.P.E. and Racket. The venue has a general none-turned-away-for-being-broke policy, so the $5-$20 sliding scale door cost is very negotiable.

A few weeks ago, I wrote an intro here about a dawn chorus of birds I heard while camping. I titled that column “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” after a famous chapter from The Wind in the Willows, in which the pagan god Pan appears as a benevolent shepherd of animals to help the […]

Francis Vanek is an exceptional tenor sax player who is likely familiar to many of you in the jazz community, having played around these parts quite a few times over the years with local jazz studs RLA along with other various groups. Whether you are a returning audience member or uninitiated fan-to-be, you should roll through the Basement after 7:30 p.m.

Regular readers of this space should be familiar with The Pine Hill Haints, Alabama’s best group of country hill stompers and cemetery creepers in this or any other century. Hell, they even have a stick and bucket slap bass and know how to use it. I’m happy to announce they’ll be haunting the Swan Room at the Shanty tonight at 9 p.m. for a free gig along with

While Reggae on the River might be a month away, Humbrews is hosting the official pre-party tonight at 9 p.m. If you need your fix, come through for the rhythms of Green Lion Crew and Noble Tobal Sound System to hold you over until August. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

Vegan Slaughterhouse performs in the circus tent on Wyatt Lane in Arcata on Sunday at 6 p.m. Credit: Photo courtesy of the artists

Los Angeles noise rock and freak-out folk act The Clog will be playing at Moss Oak Commons this evening at 7 p.m. for a very negotiable $10. The local acts are going to be hot, too, with sun and fun synthetic jazz funk greats Fek and the Future Friends of Sound joining up with the enigmatic

One good way to beat back the summertime blues is to enjoy some hot and sparkly vintage country, courtesy of returning Portland road dogs Jenny Don’t & the Spurs. This time through, the group will be kicking it up at Humbrews, where tickets will run you $25 at the door, and $20 in advance. That door should be opening up around 8:30 p.m., for those of you who

I’m going to keep this brief because I am worn out. A little too much fun and sundown by the riverside over the weekend has caught up with me and I am tapped out. All work and no play might make one dull, but I’m not exactly feeling sharp at the moment either. There’s probably […]

Yagódy is a Ukrainian folk quartet composed of four women of varied musical tastes who coalesce under a banner of song made up of pure homage and love to their motherland. If you’re interested in active sounds from Ukrainian folk traditions old and new, swing by the