1) Lose your voice singing along to all your favorite hits from the ‘80s and ‘90s at Harlow’s (2708 J St.) when Bay Area dance-rock band Pop Rocks brings the house down. Doors open at 9 p.m. Early bird tickets start at just $25 at Harlows.com. 21-plus. 2) If bands…
Niki J Crawford fills any room she performs in, and not only with the powerful voice that made her the star of her hometown church choir in Springhill, Louisiana. She rises to meet the space she stands in, however large or intimate, raising the emotional temperature to reach every individual,…
“I’m a little bit tipsy but it’ll make for an interesting interview,” SG Lewis admits to me over the phone, eight hours east of the Pacific Time zone I just woke up in. That phrase, and the naturally engaging tone that accompanies it, isn’t entirely necessary in capturing my attention…
The Los Angeles pop-up and food truck Vuture Food (a nod to a vegan future) is making a trek around the nation and is making a one-time stop at the Midtown taproom and beer garden located at the At Ease Brewing Company (1825 I St.) on Friday, Dec. 27. Formerly…
I was 10 years old when my mom brought me to Tower Records with hard-saved allowance to buy my first vinyl: Purple Rain. Little did she know about the lyrics to “Darling Nikki.” The feeling of putting my money on the counter and the guy at the register giving me…
Christmas came early at the Golden 1 Center on Friday, Dec. 6. for this year’s edition of Alt 94.7’s Electric Christmas. The annual yuletide throwdown brought big names and loads of energy to Sacramento. Not even an early winter downpour could keep fans away from the show. First up was…
In its 15th season, Irish Christmas in America, a holiday show featuring Irish music, dances and stories, is making two stops in the Sacramento region. You can catch their first show on Friday, Dec. 20 at the Amaral Center in Grass Valley’s Nevada County Fairgrounds (11228 McCourtney Road) at 1…
Brandon Vedder’s newly released film, Strange Negotiations, is in a way neither particularly strange nor in any way a negotiation. Quite the opposite, in fact. What it is instead is magnificently unpolished and relentless in its examination of David Bazan, formerly (and… surprise, currently—but the film will get into that)…
What’s old is cool again. Knitting, weaving and crocheting, often associated with apple-headed grannies making outdated yet sweet gifts no one wanted, are making a comeback. Maybe it’s climate change activists like Jane Fonda encouraging people to minimize their material consumption and be content with what’s enough. Or maybe it’s…
In 2015, the band Darlingchemicalia came to an end, as a few members were leaving the group. Not wanting the band to be finished, the remaining members of the band forged on as a band of brothers to form Grave Lake. When Grave Lake did indeed emerge from the albeit…
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