Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo Rides the Chill-Wave Early and Often Many people aren’t awake at 4 a.m., unless they work a graveyard shift or are still stumbling around after a night of heavy drinking. But before the crack of dawn, Alan Palomo has “crazy, sleepless, caffeine, adrenaline fueled” music sessions….
Green Bay Packers quarterback and reigning Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers, a native of Chico, Calif., has launched a new record label called Suspended Sunrise Recordings and with it a group by the name of The Make. Comprising of core members Jeff Schneeweis (guitar/vocals), Trevor Sellers (bass) and Sarah Ann…
CHLLNGR, aka Steven Jess Borth II, is a rising Copenhagen-based (by way of Sacramento) electronic musician/producer with a new album out now on Green Owl Records called Haven. I was fortunate enough to hear this record early and it quickly found its way to the “allowed to play out loud…
Armed Forces Radio, Riot Radio, Joe Q. Citizen, Killdevil Distillery, Sacramento Friday, June 17, 2011 “I thought punk was dead,” someone recently said to me during a conversation about music. It’s a tiresome, ongoing debate that gets people way too worked up, and this writer has no desire to engage…
Local Roots Food Tours is giving Sacramento newcomers and natives alike a behind-the-scenes look at the area’s premier foodie hot spots, and throwing in a few cultural tidbits to boot, with their City of Trees Walking Food and Cultural Tour. On the three-hour tour of downtown and urban areas, “You’ll…
Black Cards proves Pete Wentz has many tricks still up his sleeve Pete Wentz has become synonymous with energetic, slightly emo pop-punk–not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s not difficult to understand why. As bassist and lyricist for Fall Out Boy, Wentz helped pen songs such as “Sugar, We’re…
Thrice will be quietly releasing their eighth studio album this year. After switching over from Island Records to Vagrant in 2007, the band released a collection of four EPs as two separate albums, The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II in 2007 and The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV…
Sacramento does not lack summertime outdoor concert series. We’ve got Cesar Chavez on Friday nights, Pops in the Park at McKinley, Curtis Park’s Music in the Park and now there’s a new one to add to the list: The Oak Park Concert Series in McClatchy Park presented by Naked Coffee…
Florence and the Machine is well into album number two, and according to producer Paul Epworth, it’s going to be much heavier. He told the BBC, “It’s going to be more stripped down, but it’s heavy, rhythmically. It’s a much heavier record than the first album.” There are 16 songs…
Every Tuesday night through August, Mix Downtown located at 1525 L Street will host Jazz in the Mix in their fantastic rooftop lounge setting. Starting at 6 p.m., hostess Ava Lemert, known as “the Singing Saxstress,” will start things off, eventually making way for the night’s featured act, which will…
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