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Howlin Rain @ The Mystic
thru Dec 20 ~ Montgomery Village Concerts. FREE, Montgomery Village, 911 Village Ct., Santa Rosa, 707-545- 3844
thru Dec 27 ~ R and B Music Jams ~ Sebastopol Grange - Every Thursday, at 7p at the Grange unless it is otherwise booked. Call Peter, 829- 9052, to confirm location. FREE, 7p, Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Sebastopol Avenue, Hwy 12, Sebastopol, 707-829- 9052, Peter, sebastopolgrange.org
thru Dec 24 ~ Bluegrass Jam ~ Sebastopol Grange - Bluegrass Jam every 2nd and 4th Mon at 7 pm at the Grange unless it is otherwise booked. Call Peter, 829- 9052, to confirm location. FREE, 7p, Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Sebastopol Avenue, Hwy 12, Sebastopol, sebastopolgrange.org
thru Dec 8 ~ Blues Night, Second Saturdays $5, 7:30p - 9:30p, Cloverdale Art Alliance, Gallery, 204 North Cloverdale Blvd., Cloverdale, 707-894-4410, David Garland, cloverdalemusicworkshop.com
Nov 29 ~ Ricky Ray - Blues/Southern Roadhouse Rock, Free, 5p - 8p, Bluewater Bistro, 21301 Heron Dr., Bodega Bay, 707-875-3513
Nov 29 ~ Ricky Ray - Blues/Southern Roadhouse Rock, Free, 5p - 8p, Bluewater Bistro, 21301 Heron Dr., Bodega Bay, 707-875-3513
Nov 30 - Dec 1 ~ SRSC Chorus Tribute to Leonard Bernstein - Santa Rosa Symphonic Chorus Concert, “Happy 100th Birthday to Leonard Berstein - An American Icon”. $20, 11/30 7:30p, 12/1 3p, Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, santarosasymphonicchorus.com
Come get some sexy rock on with eNegative!!! Live, NO COVER! Free, 8p - 11p, 2 Tread Brewing Company, 1018 Santa Rosa Plaza, Santa Rosa, 707-327-2822, facebook.com/ events/250574235606273/
Nov 30 - Dec 2 ~ Broadway Holiday Spectacular. New holiday celebration for all ages, with performers from award-winning Broadway shows. 11/30 7:30p $39.00, 12/1 2p & 7p $39. 12/2 2p $39., Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa, 707-546-3600, lutherburbankcenter.org/event/ transcendences-broadway-holiday- spectacular/2018-11-30/
Dec1-Dec3~VivaItalia-Santa Rosa Sympony - Rossini’s William Tell, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Nokuthula Ngwenyama plays viola for Harold in Italy. Tickets start at $24, Sat & Mon evening performances 7:30p, Sun 3p, Green Music Center, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707-546-8742, srsymphony.org/EventDetail/136, tickets@srsymphony.org
Dec 2 ~ Out of the Fire Benefit Concert & Silent Auction. Legendary Sonoma County musicians. All proceeds go to The Out of the Fire Benefit Trust Fund. $10 Advance, $15 @ Door, 1:00p - 7:00p, Sally Tomatoe, 1100 Valley House Drive, Rohnert Park, eventbrite. com/e/out-of-the-fire-benefit-concert- silent-auction-tickets-51321407712
Dec 3 ~ Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Holiday Party. Spirited “Wild and Swingin’ Holiday Party” has become an eagerly anticipated annual family event. $35, 8p Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa, 707-546-3600, lutherburbankcenter. org/event/big-bad-voodoo-daddy/
Dec 4 ~ LeAnn Rimes Christmas Tour with Barry Zito - internationally acclaimed multi-platinum singer, sings holiday classics. $49., 7:30p Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa, 707- 546-3600, lutherburbankcenter.org/ event/leann-rimes-christmas-tour/
Dec 7 ~ Four Shillings Short - A Celtic Winter Concert - Christy & Aodh Og of the Celtic, Folk & World music duo Four Shillings Short. Main Street Bistro, 16280 Main St, Guerneville. INFO: 707-869-0501, mainststation. com
Dec 4 ~ Analy High School Bands and Orchestra 2018 Winter Concert. Kick off your holiday with music from all four Analy ensembles: Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Orchestra and Jazz Band. Come and enjoy concert band music, classical orchestra music and a little jazz – these are special student performances. It will be a night to remember. $7 at the door. Children under 6 are free. 6:30 PM at the Analy High School Theatre, 6950 Analy Ave, Sebastopol INFO: 707-824-2337
Dec 8 ~ The Grain w/ The King Street Giants & The Big Fit - a balance of well crafted original songs and classic cover tunes. $14-$18, 8:30p Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma, mystictheatre.tunestub. com/event.cfm?cart&id=286303
Dec 9 ~ The Slackers w/ The Aggrolites & Viernes 13 - one of the most notable bands to emerge out of NYC Ska revival scene of the 1990s. $18, 8:30pMystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma, mystictheatre.tunestub. com/event.cfm?cart&id=286655
Dec 11 ~ Tony Bennett - “We aren’t likely to see a recording career like this again.” — The New York Times $89, 7:30pLuther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa, 707-546-3600, lutherburbankcenter.org/event/tony- bennett
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Since their debut in 2006, Oakland, California’s Howlin Rain has seen as many highs, lows, and wild adventures as any great American rock band. Led by singer/guitarist/lead howler Ethan Miller (co-founder of blistering psych rockers Comets On Fire), they’ve performed
to worldwide audiences, enlisted a megastar
producer and label, moved on from said
megastar producer and label, and ultimately
embraced a DIY spirit.
With their new LP The Alligator Bride, Miller’s merry band of pranksters deliver their fifth full-length set of swampy, ragged, and unapologetic rock ’n roll. “The guiding principle for The Alligator Bride was to create ‘Neal Cassady Rock,’” says Miller. “Which is to say, high energy, good-times adventure music, driving the hippie bus, shirtless and stoned, up for four days straight, and extremely fuzzy around the edges.”
It’s their first release on Silver Current Records, the artist-run label owned by Miller, who carefully oversees all curation, recording, graphic design, and distribution. The Alligator Bride is gleefully indebted to classic rock.
Tracked over three days by Eric “King Riff” Bauer at the Mansion in San Francisco, The Alligator Bride is the sound of a full band playing live to tape, cutting the material in first and second takes.
Miller attributes the magic to the vibe of the Mansion studio, the same space that gave birth to modern garage-psych classics by Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, and Mikal Cronin. From the first notes of opening track “Rainbow Trout,” Miller’s guitar choogles out an inescapable riff, a sly reference to the sky spirits of Norman Greenbaum and ZZ Top. The riff – that riff! – unabashedly grounds The Alligator Bride in the classics, but reaches for the stars.
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Daniel Cervantes’ bottleneck slide guitar eases into place along with Miller’s tuneful-yet-ravaged lead vocals, followed by Jeff McElroy’s bass and Justin Smith’s charging drums. Title track “Alligator Bride” soon crashes the gates like Crazy Horse in all their ragged glory, telling a carnivalesque tale of American splendor, a parade of creatures across time and space.
And final track “Coming Down” slow-burns its way through eight minutes of indestructible twin guitars, blazing to a heroic, acid-damaged finish.“We’re in a vortex of futuristic events,” ruminates Miller. “At this present moment, we can still remember the way the train whistle sounded in the middle of
the night, rolling through the dark on the outskirts of town. An old America before we walked on the moon, before TV, cell phones, and the internet. The song (and perhaps the entire album) ‘Alligator Bride’ is about standing in the eye of that tornado of time – between the past and the present – in America.”
It’s a fitting vision for the band: torn between eras, an epic perspective on what’s come before and what lies ahead, woven into a cosmic tapestry of riffs, rhymes, and resonant frequencies. Whiskerman: Lush instrumentation combined with front man Graham Patzner’s profound lyricism and unflinching delivery culminate in a sound that is soulful, mythical, and raw.
Saturday, Dec 29 @ 8:30 PM (Doors open at 7:30 PM) Tickets: $15. - $18.Restrictions: 21 & over
Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma http://mystictheatre.tunestub.com/event.cfm?cart&id=288055
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