Monday, Dec. 8
Monday’s Lowdown: Let’s Watch Some Bands, Shall We?
Your Lowdown will start out by urging you to run to your closets to locate warm, redundant-but-nice clothing items. KSLG and Betty Chinn would be super stoked if you could drive those down to the Eureka Co-op for the annual Warm and Fuzzy Clothing Drive. ’Tis the cold season. People need. Thanks.
After you have completed your good deed, you have earned a pass to enjoy Arcata’s too-good-for-Monday band options. Jambalaya’s musical hat trick is headlined by retro garage-dwellers Allah-Las (a/v sample below on the left), while Blondies hath coaxed a return trip from the alt-poppy Cosmonauts (and on the right).
Yay, Monday. You did good.
—Andrew Goff
Top Events!
(Look ahead!)
Warm and Fuzzy Clothing Drive
North Coast Co-Op in Eureka
/ 6 a.m.-6 p.m.
KSLG is hoping you’ll find it in your heart — and closet — to donate some warm clothes you no longer need during this benefit for Betty Chinn and her efforts to help the homeless.
River Rage ‘64
Winema Theater
/ 6:30-9:30 p.m.
/ Free
A free event will be held to commemorate the 1964 flood. Excerpts from a documentary still in production, “High Water Mark: Stories of the ’64 Flood,” will be shown.
Double Centennial
Minor Theatre
/ 7 p.m.
/ $12
The Minor Theatre and HSU Theatre celebrate the 100th anniversary of their shared opening with a staged reading of <em>Her Own Way</em>, originally performed on December 8, 1914. Proceeds benefit The Emma Center.
Cosmonauts, The Mother Vines
Blondies Food and Drink
/ 9 p.m.-midnight
/ $5
“Hailing from the sleepy suburban sprawl of Orange County, California, Cosmonauts forge malcontent drone-pop melodies, delivered with a clangy laser-fuzz backbone.”
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Allah-Las, Tashaki Miyaki, The Lost Luvs
The Jam
/ 9 p.m.
/ $12
/ 21+
“Three of the four bandmembers were working in the L.A. branch of the legendary record store Amoeba when the group formed in 2008, and they must have spent a great deal of time researching the garage and psychedelic sounds of the ‘60s while propping up the counter.”
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All Events!
Aber Miller and Drew Mohr
Sushi Spot McKinleyville
/ 5-8 p.m.
Electric jazz.
Quiz Night
Blondies Food and Drink
/ 7 p.m.
Aww, show people how smart you are when you drink. Adorable.
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Friendship Circle Dance
Moose Lodge
/ 7-10 p.m.
/ $4
Dancing to live music featuring tunes from the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s.
Open Mic
Shamus T Bones
/ 7 p.m.
Every Monday with bluesy hosts Jim Lahman Band.
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Double Centennial
Minor Theatre
/ 7 p.m.
/ $12
The Minor Theatre and HSU Theatre celebrate the 100th anniversary of their shared opening with a staged reading of <em>Her Own Way</em>, originally performed on December 8, 1914. Proceeds benefit The Emma Center.
Swing Dance Night
Redwood Raks World Dance Studio
/ 7-10 p.m.
/ $7
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The Mother Vines EP 7” Vinyl
Blondies Food and Drink
/ 8 p.m.
/ $20
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Really Cheap Bowling
Harbor Lanes
/ 8 p.m.-midnight
$1.75 per game? <em>Steeeee</em>-rike!
Jimi Jeff Open Jam Night
Simon LeGree’s Roadhouse Saloon
/ 8:30 p.m.
/ 21+
Jam in the middle of nowhere — really as far east as you ever want to go.
The Undercovers
Palm Lounge at The Eureka Inn
/ 9-11 p.m.
/ 21+
Humboldt County cover band.
Rude Lion Sound’s Dancehall Mondays
Ocean Grove Lodge
/ 9:30 p.m.
/ 21+
Reggae/dancehall night. Looks like <a href=”http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2014/feb/27/these-people-had-fun-rude-lion-sounds-dancehall-mo/”>this</a>.
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