Admit it: You’ve always wondered why the Barn (985 Riverfront St.), West Sac’s art installation-slash-event venue is called that, especially since it doesn’t look like one. While the name may never be clear, it will at least be more thematic now that West Sac Urban Farming has opened up their…
Local DJ, event producer and all around good guy Sam Sascha Keshavarz (aka Sam I Jam) is turning 40 soon and to celebrate, he’s throwing another one of his always awesome Le Twist parties on Thursday, Aug. 30 at LowBrau (1050 20th St., Sacramento). Beside it being Sam’s B-Day party,…
Unbeknownst to me at the time, I would be attending a 2013 Sacramento homecoming—the prerequisites: a love for Willie’s Burgers, weed, Jameson, sour gummies and Nintendo 64. Sacramento-based rapper Harris Rudman—who released his latest album 2013 in May—performed at Holy Diver alongside friends and fellow artists in an energetic yet…
One of Sacramento’s most memorable and historic murals that had faded and been worn down over the years is coming back to life thanks to a group of local artists and businesses. The iconic Tower Records mural on K Street, originally commissioned by Tower founder Russ Solomon in 1973 and…
My first exposure to Jesus and the Dinosaurs came in 2015 when I saw the band’s sticker on the wall above the urinal in the Cafe Colonial bathroom. It was black and white with a T-Rex in a leather jacket strutting down an alley. The band name (truly a gem)…
Motorcycles. When you’re young, your mom tells you they’re unsafe, and when you’re older, you’re afraid that buying one will mean people will think you’re getting an early start to your midlife crisis. But whether or not you’ve managed to overcome the biking double-bind, the sixth annual FXR’s of California…
With the newfound national successes of Sacramento rappers like Mozzy and Hobo Johnson, not to mention the continued critical favor shown to internet-darlings Death Grips, the local rap scene is getting more attention than ever. Yet it would be hard to sketch out any real conception of a “Sacramento sound,”…
Longtime Sacramento rapper Mr. P Chill is set to release his 13th studio album Funky Uncle Chill on Friday, Aug. 17, and he’ll be celebrating with a release party at Fox and Goose (1001 R St.). Funky sees an older, wiser Chill going a little less political with his raps…
Listening to Ordinary Corrupt Human Love on a packed light rail car, scraping along through the wreckage of the workweek under the full weight of afternoon midsummer heat, in close quarters with inscrutable humanity—anonymous lives in the thick of their separate mortal coils—might be the ideal context in which to…
Whether or not the name Shepard Fairey automatically conjures images of pop culture subversion, punk rock idolatry or street-art politics is irrelevant at this point. The 48-year-old artist is responsible for some of the most iconic imagery to have ever befouled the sacred real estate of public spaces in the…
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