Last Saturday, saw the Fourth Annual Sac PorchFest taking over 21st St in Midtown Sacramento between streets G and I. Sac PorchFest is a free, all ages event with donations benefiting the Mustard Seed School, an emergency school for homeless children. Learn more about it here. Photos: Benz Doctolero. Continue reading
Chalk It Up was born in 1991 and returned to celebrate it’s 27th year this Labor Day weekend! September 2nd-4th artists decorated the sidewalks of downtown Sacramento’s Fremont Park with amazing chalk art. Chalk It Up is a family friendly event with food trucks and live music that included Blue Oaks, The Brodys and Humble … Continue reading
Just because it’s not October doesn’t mean the living dead can’t come out and play! Saturday, August 26th, the dead met up for the 17th annual Sacramento Zombie Walk in Roosevelt Park and flooded out into the streets of downtown Sacramento. You could hear hungry howls and screeches as the living dead wandered the streets. … Continue reading
Welcome to The List. a gathering of our favorite happenings that are happening each week in Sacramento CA. Check out the where to go, what to do and who to see guide for the week of August 28-September 5 below. 1. Menagerie has a dreamy little line up of artists showing at Outlet Coworking on … Continue reading
Pleasant Screams and Punch and Pie Productions put a great little show together at the Press Club (Sacramento) tonight. Dog Party, La Lenguas and Sneeze Attack!! Doors are at 8PM, show is $5 bucks and is 21 and up. Check out La Lenguas now and then come see them live with us tonight. Press Club is located at 2030 … Continue reading
David Adams is one of the brilliant artistic forces in Sacramento CA. He plays music, makes videos, writes plays, is a poet and an actor. David currently plays in three bands; Drive Thru Mystics, Captain Amazing and the Okay I Guesses, and Garble. TUBE. caught up with David to discuss his upbringing and recent projects. … Continue reading
Back by popular demand, THE SANTALAND DIARIES by David Sedaris returns to Capital Stage with the universally praised Aaron Wilton reprising the role of Crumpet the Elf! For mature elves only, this play takes you to the heart of Macy’s Santaland of 1989 and skewers it with the kind of candid wit any adult will … Continue reading
Demolition of Sacramento’s Downtown Plaza became visible on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 starting at the corner of L and 6th Streets. What is now a pile of rubble will become the new home of the Sacramento Kings Arena near October 2016. A space with a viewing window for the public has been set up at … Continue reading
We caught Lauren Cole Norton, The Lower 48 and Miss Maddy’s F Street Stompers at the Fox and Goose. Photos Melissa Uroff and Naomi Lucchesi Continue reading
All-ages venues come and go fairly often in Sacramento, but rarely does one’s identity transcend that of local music hot spot and become a gathering place for all things local. Art gallery, café, and vintage clothing boutique are but a few ways to describe Bows and Arrows, the latest and greatest venue to break our … Continue reading
When the D.I.Y. spirit is a monumental faction of any artistic community, one will be offered a variety of works, ranging from exceptional to shoddy. A band’s debut album is one such product that shows how much they truly care. The one-of-a-kind “authenticity” of a Sharpeed home-burnt disc protected by hand-drawn CD artwork on … Continue reading
This Thursday’s Art Mix at the Crocker Museum was a bright swirl of neon colors against darkened rooms. In the lobby, there was a lightshow by John Sonderegger and Ted Ternes. It undulated overhead, complimenting the music that sang behind the murmur of the conversations of the crowd. Every hour a pair of aerialists in … Continue reading
Electro Group, Cruel Summer and Tepid Joy had a little show at Luigis Fungarden in Sacramento Ca on November 22. Read our little interview with Electro Group here and have a look at the show below. Continue reading
Having just released their first full-length album, Los Angeles-based PAPA will soon be rocking the West Coast, headlining here in Sacramento at Harlow’s. A genre-defying mix of rock, punk, jazz, and folk music, the band immediately catches the listeners’ attention and promises something for every music lover. The singer and drummer, Darren Weiss, lends the … Continue reading
Melbourne-based band Alpine, which vocalist Lou James describes as, “art rock pop,” is coming to Sacramento to take the stage at Assembly. Alpine provides some of the strongest vocals in the indie world, featuring two powerful female voices that stand out from any other band of its type. In the band’s first album, A is … Continue reading
Autumn Sky is done with being cute. “Most people look at me and see a short girl so they think I’m adorable and something cute is about to happen,” she says, and smiles charmingly. In her Annie Hall-esque felt hat, blazer, and tied off white blouse she looks mature and well put together rather than … Continue reading
Blonde Redhead formed in New York City in 1994 with a rather unique sound. They have been called everything from noise-rock band to an art band and have been compared to innovators such as Sonic Youth and Portishead. The band is composed of Kazu Makino (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and twin brothers Simone Pace (drums, vocals) and … Continue reading
LAUNCH is a whirlwind of music, fashion and art which takes over Sacramento for nearly a week. We here at TUBE hit the town and clicked the shutter throughout it all. Sacramento knows how to throw a pretty kick ass party. We cannot wait until next year! And check out the LAUNCH website where they have … Continue reading
Launch Festival certainly knew who to call on to throw one hell of a party to kick off their first night in Cesar Chavez Park. But how does one begin to describe the spectacle that is a live Girl Talk show? There really is no comparison to make, no precedent set. Describing Girl Talk’s set … Continue reading
Babs Johnson Gang is a band who continues to do their own thing, making music they want to hear, not music that they’ve already heard. They are a far cry from the punk or singer/songwriter scenes that are big in Sacramento, but still manage to crossover into both, carefully mixing a plethora of genres together … Continue reading
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