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
I Love This Band! is a new series where TUBErs get to release their inner fan and talk directly about the bands they love. Anyone who has had a conversation about music with me in the last few months has probably heard about my new obsession/infatuation: Ghost (also known in America as Ghost BC). The … Continue reading
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
The Polyorchids is a Sacramento based group that has been around for three years and are ready to deliver new material. Embracing indie and power pop influences, they are set to release their first full-length, self-titled debut along with a couple of record release shows to top off their release. Their last folk-punk EP, Popgun, … Continue reading
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
See You In The Morning Light is a chronical of grief. Scott Ferreter lost his father to stomach cancer in 2012. The musician (previously of Comfort Twin, Cove) then spent the next four years making his upcoming album See You In The Morning Light with twenty-five other musicians and friends, calling the project Deep Pools. Ferreter says the process … Continue reading
If you like strange yet entrancing music videos with haunting music reminiscent of Kimbra, take a look at Danish artist Agnes Obel’s single ‘Golden Green.’ The video is a collage of animation, both beautiful and unnerving, dancing on the edge of the Uncanny Valley. The song itself is sparse, held together by a xylophone-like percussion, clapping … Continue reading
Portland musician Sallie Ford has released a new single. ‘Get Out’ is a venting of insecurities. Ford says it is about “how my insecurities of my music are related to the insecurities I feel about me in general. I tend to want to give up or easily feel overwhelmed and want to escape.” The song … Continue reading
A lot has been said about NOFX. The band has been around for over thirty years, helped invent melodic punk alongside Rancid and Bad Religion, battled skinhead punks in the eighties, major-label executives in the nineties and George W. Bush in the early 2000s, and recently released a New York Times bestselling memoir NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub And … Continue reading
Pixies’ new album, Head Carrier, is an energetic punk romp, that calls back to the band’s classic sound. Pixies, who first formed in 1984 and released hits like ‘Here Comes Your Man’ and ‘Where Is My Mind’ before breaking up in 1993, reunited in 2004. A year after the departure of beloved bassist Kim Deal in 2013, the … Continue reading
Self-described experimental pop project, SunMonks has released a fun new single. ‘No Me’ is bright catchy number, full of energy and careless joy. Listen to it below. The duo, made up of Geoffrey CK and Alexandra Steele will be playing Shine Cafe,1400 E St, Sacramento at 5 pm on Saturday, September 24th. Words: K. Hules. Continue reading
San Kazakgascar describes itself as “quasi-Middle Eastern/Indian psychedelia.” The description is a fitting one as the Sacramento band takes Middle Eastern and Indian sounds, which are already often associated with hippy mind-altering experiences, and weaves them in hypnotic patterns. Their sound is somewhat reminiscent of Dead Can Dance and the sitar music of Ravi Shankar that inspired … Continue reading
British musician Eliot Sumner is making a solo debut splash. The singer, formerly of I Blame Coco, is the third of Sting’s children and has a remarkably androgynous sound. This is appropriate as the singer recently stated they did not believe in gender labels and did not identify with any particular gender. Sumner’s vocals are low … Continue reading
Let Direct Hit take you on a trip this summer with their upcoming album, Wasted Mind. The 11-track story brings the listener on a journey from the perspective of drugged up and twisted characters going through a distorted reality. Nick Woods, singer, guitarist and lyricist for the band, clarifies the odd choice in topic, affirming … Continue reading
Sometimes being at a party is like riding a wave of energy, full of fun and interesting people. Sometimes though, you end up stuck in someone’s bedroom–alone and wondering how long you can hide in there before some couple tries to use the bed. This is the kind of party New York musician and producer Rena … Continue reading
VÉRITÉ creates airy tracks with sparse instrumentations and repetitive lyrics. Her songs are atmospheric and her star is rapidly rising. The enigmatic artist sold out her first ever headlining tour last year, and included festival debuts at SXSW, Lollapalooza and Firefly in her list of achievements. She just dropped her new EP Living and already her singles ‘Constant … Continue reading
Mondo Deco and Honyock are blasting into the past with a collaborative, four song release. These two bands are working together to make an old-school cassette, even recording in a garage onto an 1985-vintage tape deck, to complete the authenticity. Through cassette recording, Honyock and Mondo Deco add a vintage feel to their experimental, psychedelic music. … Continue reading
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