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
What I’m Listening To is a series where we talk to exciting artists and musicians and get a five song slice of their current playlist. – “It seems mystical to many people but I actually find it quite logical.” Sydney Jones kicks nards and spits for the band Separate Spines. What does that entail? … Continue reading
After a year of not releasing new music, Mean Jeans has dropped their new single, ‘Nite Vision’ through Fat Wreck Records.The pop-punk band is giving listeners a taste of their clean style with this track. Their single is only giving a hint of what’s to come in their full album, Tight New Dimension! which comes out on April … 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
Spring Fling Rock AF kicked off their second night of touring here in Sacramento CA on March 12, 2016. The night was jammed pack with rock and alternative artists from all over the world and well attended. Bear Hands, a New York band, kicked off the night with their own version of indie rock. Halfway … Continue reading
Psychedelic bliss-rockers Givers & Takers are on the rise. Their alternately soft-spoken and gritty psychedelia is catchy and full of fluid instrumentation. The band has just released their new single ‘Strangers.’ The song brings a bluesy bite to the normally keyboard heavy genre. Listen below, headphones suggested: Givers & Takers have also released ‘Start The Morning,’ a … 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
Ladies and gentlemen, beautiful people of Sacramento and beyond! Come marvel at a variety of oddities as the strangest and most dazzling performers in the land come together for one night and one night only during ArtMix Vaudeville at Crocker Art Museum, hosted by your friends at TUBE. Magazine! Join us Thursday, March 10, to revel … 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
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