Music

Sheet Rock

Goodness Gracious Me is Leaving the Garage Goodness Gracious Me practices near Sacramento City College in a tiny garage that barely houses Skyler Henry’s drumset, let alone the rest of the three-piece rock band’s equipment. Cables snake all around the floor and unfinished sheet rock hangs in the balance from…

It’s a Karnivool Out There

One of the biggest rock bands from down under comes to Sacramento When rock band Karnivool from Perth, Western Australia, released their sophomore album Sound Awake in June 2009, the record skyrocketed to No. 2 on the ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Charts. It sat just behind Black Eyed Peas’…

Slave to the Grind

After Two Decades of Creating Music, Brian Hanover Collects No Dust Words Anthony Giannotti | Photo Scot Stewart Brian Hanover is most well known for his years fronting the Sacramento-based street punk band Hanover Saints. After seven U.S. tours, two full-length records, four EPs and nearly 10 years playing together,…

On a Plain

Final Summation at Home on The Road and Ready to Turn 10 America is a great big country, and over the past 10 years, Sacramento punk rockers Final Summation have seen just about all of it. When Submerge caught up with the band, they were traveling the frozen northern United…

Garden Party

Joanna Newsom Have One on Me Drag City In an era when single-song downloads are dominating music sales, dropping a two-hour opus sprawled over three discs is probably the worst possible business decision. But if you’re holding your breath hoping Joanna Newsom is going to dumb it down so she…

Family Soul

Ex-Cuesta Drive’s Dane Drewis Takes His Music Solo”¦ Well, Sort of”¦ With the disbanding of Cuesta Drive last year, lead guitarist and vocalist Dane Drewis refused to go quietly into obscurity. Drewis’ work ethic speaks for itself as he’s already completed his solo record, Rock & Soul, and scheduled a…

Body of Work

Alesana Authors Their Third Album in Four Years Stimulating body and mind, Alesana creates a rare breed of heavy music that’s equal parts brain and brawn. Folding literary references, both ancient and modern, into their lyrics, the band sounds sort of like a book on tape set to three harmonized…

The Devil Gets His Due

Peter Hayes and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club go their own way An hour on the phone with the amiable Peter Hayes of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and it is easy to understand why his service in Brian Jonestown Massacre was short-lived: Hayes was and still is far too sequestered in…

In the Wings

Whether center-stage or behind the scenes, Sean Lennon continues on a remarkable music legacy If your father was one of the most respected and beloved songwriters of all time, and your mother was one of the most polarizing figures in pop culture, anonymity would be difficult to come by. Still,…

The Electric Company

Tycho Tycho and the Command Collective look to the next decade of Sacramento Electronica Sacramento is a cowtown; we cannot escape that fact. Living in a city disrespected by the rest of California keeps us out of the Hypemachine, to a fault, but it’s also a benefit. Our artists move…