Season of the Witch is an eclectic playlist compiled of songs you can listen to during a seance or spell casting, dance during the festival of the dead or just jam out with your coven. Sarah Elliott is a mother, Witch, and photographer living in the Sacramento area for the past 20 years. Follow her … Continue reading
The longest-running experimental music festival in the United States is back! NorCal Noisefest, a free all-ages three day, seventy band celebration of noise is happening from October 2nd to October 4th, online at http://www.YouTube.com/norcalnoisfest. Performances will include both live and pre-recorded segments. The festival will also include Zoom meetups to allow performers and participants can socialize between … Continue reading
Sacramento doom band CHRCH will be touring with Portland’s Usnea this summer. CHRCH is a five-piece band that specializes in long-form songs filled with dark sonic textures, ethereal vocals, and heavy guitars. The tour, which runs from July 5th in Sacramento through July 18th in Denver, follows the band’s previously-announced Pacific Northwest mini-tour this June. … Continue reading
The excitement was in the air Friday night in anticipation of Concerts in the Park. CIP exploded into Mosh Pit Mayhem! This was one of the most popular and exhilarating nights of the year. Mosher’s, driven by the music, slowly amped up “the pit” for a massive release of energy and emotion. What initially looked … Continue reading
We are happy to share with you the exclusive release of Vinnie Guidera and The Dead Birds very first music video, ‘Part of the Act’. Outside influences are sometimes needed to get an artist’s vision in concrete detail, which requires different but similar thinking- a practical and perfect way of how collaborations should work in … Continue reading
More than ever it seems as if Sacramento is becoming a bicycle town. With this new enthusiasm, deepens the importance of one of our city’s most treasured institutions, the Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen, an organization dedicated to promoting cycling as a low-cost alternative form of transportation. The “SBK” provides space, tools, and education for bicycle maintenance, … Continue reading
CONCERTS IN THE PARK Fridays, May 3 – July 26, 2019, from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm Cesar Chavez Plaza, 9th and J Streets, Sacramento CA FREE and all ages Line up below. See you there! Photography Mickey Morrow Poster Jason Malmberg Continue reading
Soccer Mommy found the time to bless us with a show in Sacramento at Harlow’s in-between weekend sets at Coachella. The all-ages show, put on by Noise Pop Presents, was opened by the Oakland based, Boy Scouts. Words and Photography Benz Doctolero Continue reading
Skating Polly, Monsterwatch, and Las Pulgas, at Holy Diver in Sacramento CA. Photography Anouk Nexus Continue reading
The twenty-something-year-old tradition that is the Sacramento Halloween Show took place at the Verge Center for the Arts in Southside Park, Sacramento. This year’s theme was Colours and featured bands the likes of: The Moody Blues, Silver Jews, Big Black, Red Kross, Black Flag, Green Day, Tangerine Dream, The White Stripes, Concrete Blonde, The Cranberries, … Continue reading
Local favorites, Drug APTS, performed at The Red Museum in Sacramento CA on March 23rd to support their new album, “Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances”. The packed show showcased local bands Grave Lake and Drug APTS. along with Dots from Oakland and Nocturnal Habits from Olympia, Washington. The show marked the start of a west … Continue reading
Punch and Pie Productions hosted a great Shoegaze show with the likes of local pillars of the scene: Desario and Soft Science. They were joined by Chicago band, Light Foils, on what was their last show of a current tour. Photography Benz Doctolero Continue reading
Killer Kouture, Witch Hands, Encrypted. The Colony. March 10, 2019Sacramento CA. Photography Sarah Elliott. Continue reading
Rockabilly sweethearts, The Twilight Drifters release their newest music video “‘Round Curves” March 7th, 2019. The Northern CA band consists of Geoffrey Miller (guitar/vox), Todd Hinton (bass), and Brad Cross (drums). Channeling sounds of the 1950s, the band draws influence from Eddie Cochran, Big Joe Turner, Bob Wills and Elvis Presley. “Round Curves” was directed, … Continue reading
Poppy. Regency Ballroom. San Francisco CA. February 24, 2019. Learn more about Poppy here and listen here. Photography Sarah Elliott Continue reading
Sacramento band Drug Apts is releasing their new album Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances next month. The LP is a jarring, unhinged collision of garage punk and weirdo art rock, full of screaming and swirling psychedelic feedback. It drops on March 23rd from Mt. St. Mtn records. Drug Apts got their name from “those Mid-Century … Continue reading
Get your singing pipes ready cause Chicago’s own Smoking Popes, with their heartbreak and melodic fury, are headed to Holy Diver in Sacramento CA on Sunday, February 24th. Smoking Popes released Into The Agony in 2018 via Asian Man Records and will be playing classics along with your new favorite jams. They are joined on … Continue reading
We caught up with Dallon Weekes and Ryan Seaman from I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME while they were hanging out at Sacramento’s 94.7 FM to play an on-air acoustic performance. The two-piece band, often shortened to iDKHOW, has a back story of being a “forgotten band” from the ’80s that has recently been … Continue reading
Sacramento has long been home to a wide variety of talented bands and artists. One group that’s been making music together for nearly a decade is Sun Valley Gun Club, a self-described “Punk-Influenced Alt/Country Band” that has been growing in popularity over the last few years, including opening for The Front Bottoms at Cornerstone in … Continue reading
Les Butcherettes played at Goldfield’s Trading Post in Sacramento on February 6th. The band promoting their album bi/MENTAL and left an indelible print on all who attended. The night got off to a rousing start with Los Angeles based opener Stars at Night who brought high energy, beat heavy strain of alternative music to an … Continue reading
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