Quirk rock is the only description fully fit for the pop punk band, Shark Toys. Their fluid and loud beats provided by the bass and drums are spiced up with strange synth and guitar, topped by the lead singer’s abrasive but melodic voice. Shark Toys is notorious for weird and rough sets. However, they’ve incorporated … Continue reading
24th Annual SAMMIES Concert and Awards at Ace of Spades SAMMIES are back with your favorite Sac artists! On Thursday, March 24, starting at 6:30 PM, Ace of Spades (1417 R St) and Sacramento News and Review are hosting the 24th Annual SAMMIES! The event will feature the awards, as well as a concert featuring … Continue reading
We had a blast bringing our “freaky” friends to perform at the Crocker Museum for the ArtMix on March 10, 2016. We run around with some of the most crazy talented folks around. Be sure to learn more about our “freaky friends” in our latest print issue (pick one up at Phono Select Records or … Continue reading
Open Mic at Cafe Colonial All you need for this event is a couple of pages of lyrics, the courage to get up on the mic, and your fancy self! On Thursday, March 17, starting at 7 PM, Cafe Colonial (3520 Stockton Blvd), Marty Taters and Tim Lithium are hosting an open mic night! Celebrate … Continue reading
Women’s History Month Event at The Met Sacramento High School The Met Sacramento High School (810 V Street) has featured many exciting community events, but this event is a definite contender to be number one. On Wednesday, March 9, from 6 PM to 8 PM, Viola Lebeau of Sacramento Young Feminists Alliance and the Met … Continue reading
Celebrating this year’s Sacramento Fashion Week at Beatnik Studios on Wednesday was truly something to behold. As the line grew, so did the excitement and chatter. People were milling about, talking, looking at the booths, and trying to find a good seat to view the event. It was packed. As the MC announced that … Continue reading
Cane Morto’s film Amo-Te Lisboa: An Ignominious Street Art Movie is now available online! A somewhat surrealist take on the Italian street art collective’s unauthorized painting activities in Lisbon, the film follows them through a two month period of rediscovering their street art roots with the help of other artists like Borondo and RUN as well as a“cruel dead-dog deity … Continue reading
#Right2Rest Meeting at Southside Park Punks for Peace, a local Sacramento youth activist organization, is putting on a meeting supporting #Right2Rest on February 17th at Southside Park (2115 6th St) starting at 6:30 PM. #Right2Rest is an operation organized in support of more rights for the homeless. Punks for Peace is a fantastic group of … Continue reading
Solo artist Bibio, (also known as Stephen Wilkinson) is releasing his seventh album, A Mineral Love. Along with the announcement he’s sharing the album’s first official single, ‘Feeling,’ with an accompanying video directed by Bibio himself. ‘Feeling’ is buoyed up by a bouncy 70’s throwback riff and the video looks like a light show out of the same … Continue reading
What I’m Listening To is a new series where we talk to exciting artists and musicians and get a five song slice of their current playlist. – “Music is my first love.” – Shannan Robertson grew up in a house filled with music: her mother’s beautiful soprano, her grandmother’s Glenn Miller records which she taught Robertson … Continue reading
Youth Lagoon’s new video, ‘Rotten Human’ is a beautiful hypnotic art piece. Slow and strange, it makes fantastic use of the natural beauty of Iceland and is nearly impossible to stop watching once you start. The video was directed by Patrick Blades and stars model Daytona Williams. It melds wonderfully with the aching melancholy of … Continue reading
On February 5th, Low Cut High Tops, Seattle’s own digital punk, one-man band, released his 10-track album, Eh, Whatever. David Burns shaped the entire album, allowing him to totally immerse himself into every lyric, beat, and growl. This musician’s style has given him wide recognition for his unique, computerized arrangements. A series of music videos, … Continue reading
This is an art show inspired by David Bowie. Life On Mars was released on 1971 on Bowie’s album Hunky Dory. Originally 40 artists were randomly assigned a line to create from the song Life On Mars. We have now added on 20 additional artists who will create a piece inspired by the song in … Continue reading
Black Lives Matter! at Sol Collective As we enter Black History Month, it’s important to remember history is still being made today. Police brutality against black people has been going on too long, and on February 10 at Sol Collective (2574 21st St.), starting at 7 PM, there is an opportunity to learn more about … Continue reading
Cross Record, also known as Emily Cross, is starting off 2016 with a new album and three new singles. The latest single, ‘Basket,’ is an eerie soft-spoken song that crawls along the listener’s spine and digs its claws in. The track is built around a series of repeated lyrics and the instrumentation is sparse. The initial vocals were intended to … Continue reading
Post-punk band SKATERS have gone DIY. They recently left Warner Bros, struck out on their own, and emerged from the studio with more than sixty new tracks. “There was a true sense of freedom knowing that the record couldn’t be rejected,” says SKATERS frontman Michael Ian Cummings in a recent interview. The band’s latest single, ‘Head … Continue reading
Art Hotel 916 Art Hotel 916 is an art exhibit that will be available from February 5-February 13 at an abandoned hotel at 1122 7th Street. The hotel is scheduled to be demolished mid-2016, and over 60 artists from around the world stepped up to make its final days memorable. Each room, including kitchens, … Continue reading
What I’m Listening To is a new series where we talk to exciting artists and musicians and get a five song slice of their current playlist. ” Vixens of Vinyl are kinda Sex, Drugs, and Rock’ n Roll …only without the Sex, and the Drugs.” – The Vixens of Vinyl is “a bad ass group … Continue reading
By the green facade of the Peace Market sits a restored hundred year-old treasure chest. The chest has been painted a little more recently and now sports the monopoly man among other exciting designs and the hashtag #SacFreeArtDrop. The Sacramento Free Art Drop is exactly what it sounds like: a safe place for artists to … Continue reading
Sunflower Bean, a psychedelic rock group from Brooklyn, is releasing a new album this February. The trio of under twenty-one-year-olds: Julia Cumming, Jacob Faber and Nick Kivlen, have been together since 2013. Their music consists of Cumming’s ethereal singing mixed with grounding cadence from the bass and Faber’s drums. Adding to this is Kivlen’s infectious … Continue reading
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