Music

This Changes Everything

Release Date for Thrice’s Beggars Pushed Up Due to Early Album Leak We are living in an era of immediacy. News is broadcast to us almost instantaneously regardless of where we are via laptops, iPhones and Blackberrys. Take a look around next time you’re in public and chances are you’ll…

Straight from the Source

Gregg Gillis Discusses the Finer Points of Girl Talk Other than at the Grammys, it might be hard to imagine Busta Rhymes and Sting in the same room, let alone collaborating with one another. However, in the capable hands of Gregg Gillis, the two might as well be Simon and…

Sing Along!

If they say the music industry is in a bit of a bind, Coldplay wouldn’t know the first thing about it. The London-based alternative rock quartet has sold tens of millions of records worldwide and consistently draws enormous crowds wherever they perform. This night was no different; Sacramento and its…

O’ Father, Let’s Eat Now

Dad’s Kitchen 2983 Freeport Blvd., Sacramento It was a picturesque summer evening. The sun had just gone down and a mild breeze moved about the quaint patio in the rear of Dad’s Kitchen. At the 8 o’clock hour, the 10 black tables that angled along large gray tiles were filled…

Revenue Retrieval

E-40 on the Changing Tides and Staying on Top I’m not a trained journalist so all the rules of being unbiased are out the window over here. Pound for pound, album to album there isn’t an MC who can match E-40. For a musician of any genre to stay relevant…

Think for Yourself

Dredg Digs Deep on New Album The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion When used properly, words have immense power. Whether written, spoken or sung, they can and will affect people’s thoughts and actions. Perhaps no one is as familiar with this as British Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie, whose…

Difficult Transformation

Punk Rock Vixen Turned Full-Time Mom Brody Dalle Blossoms With Spinnerette Don’t grieve over the loss of badass punk rock singer and guitarist Brody Dalle of The Distillers quite yet—Dalle’s new band, Spinnerette, offers more ear candy for your listening pleasure. Named after a spider’s silk-spinning organ, Spinnerette is more…

Prieta

Hardly Sleeping All Night It wasn’t that long ago that a batch of pissed off, combat-booted, plaid-clad debutantes from the Pacific Northwest began creating racket in the garage, siphoning the marrow of blues, classic rock, psychedelia, punk and metal into a new kind of artistic fibula. The media called it…

It Takes Two

Middle Class Rut Cesar Chavez Park – Friday, June 19, 2009 Last Friday’s Concert in the Park Series at Cesar Chavez saw the triumphant return of Middle Class Rut, another long-awaited addition to the short list of bands that have found mainstream success beyond our county lines. This success is…

School’s Out For Summer

The Donnas Hit the Road With Their Greatest Hits in Tow The Donnas sound like staying out way past curfew, sneaking cigarettes in parking lots, or whatever you know you shouldn’t be doing but would regret if you didn’t try it at least once. The foursome from Palo Alto, Calif.,…