Music

Moving Pictures

With Their Debut EP for Equal Vision Records, Mozart Season Gets Down to Business Movies–especially great love stories–end when the characters realize their love for one another. But really, isn’t that the beginning of the story? With roughly five years under its belt, Sacramento post-hardcore band Mozart Season has had…

Breaking the Silence

Dusty Brown Rides the Buzz of This City Is Killing Me Toward a New Album Stolen gear, finicky crowds at shows and an anxiety toward giving his music to anyone he doesn’t call “friend” are just a few of the reasons Dusty Brown feels like this city is killing him….

Always on the Move

Arden Park Roots are at home on the road The road is fuckin’ rough. Ask any DIY touring musicians and they’ll likely confirm this. Long drives, sketchy venues, snakey promoters trying to screw you out of gas money, pissing in water bottles while driving the van and then the van…

The Numbers Game

Eightfourseven proves the past four years wasn’t lost time with new release Lossless Some of Sacramento’s favorite sons have returned with new music recently. Deftones battled back from bass player Chi Cheng’s coma to release a new album and Far rose from the dead to release their first new album…

A New Focus

Deftones Diamond Eyes (Reprise) Deftones fans are awesome. Each have their own strong opinions of which album is the best; swearing by some and oftentimes discrediting others. A vast majority like to save face by announcing that they only like the “old Deftones,” and then they’ll reference one of two…

Horse Of A Different Color

Band of Horses releases Infinite Arms under a new face When asked if he had any parting words at the end of our interview, Band of Horses keyboardist Ryan Monroe paused, chuckled a bit, then hesitantly replied, “I slept all day–and we’re about to sound-check with Pearl Jam.” No tone…

Warming Up the Workweek

HUMP (Apache Cleo, DJ Whores, Jonathan Francis) The Press Club – Wednesday, March 24, 2010 When I used to hear the word “hump,” two things would come to mind. The first was those annoying dogs you don’t know that always want to mount your leg even though they’re neutered. Annoying….

Many Strings Attached

Oakland’s Judgement Day Invites The Verdict I shoveled the last of my Best Wurst bratwurst into my face and walked to the corner where a large crowd had gathered to watch a band that had set up shop on the sidewalk. This was SXSW, so it seemed like nothing out…

Room to Breathe

Circa Survive branches out on Blue Sky Noise When Philadelphia-based rock band Circa Survive began writing in late 2008 for what would become their third full-length album, the group was at a rather uncertain point in their career. Not only had their contract with longtime allies Equal Vision Records come…

A Few Conquering Many

Sacramento MC A.R.A.B. looks to infiltrate bigger markets with The Trojan Horse Talk with any rapper or MC who’s been hustling in the music business for five or more years and they won’t hesitate to speak on the “salt in the game”—shifty promoters and snake managers trying to swindle for…