Music

Modest Mouse will be releasing a new video directed by the late Heath Ledger for the song “King Rat,” a bonus track off their 2007 album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Ledger and Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock met in Australia through a mutual friend and spawned…

DJ Esef, Selector KDK and Ras Matthew Give Sacramento a Weekly Dose of Reggae By Nicole Martinez | Photo By Dominick Porras Every week, right here in Midtown, reggae dancehall music gets put into heavy rotation at the Capitol Garage. Any Friday night you can walk into an atmosphere of…

Jamie Anderson’s Career Is Soaring At just 18 years of age, professional snowboarder Jamie Anderson is at the top of her game. Both TransWorld SNOWboarding and Snowboarder Magazine, arguably the two biggest publications in the industry, recently named the South Lake Tahoe native Top Female Snowboarder of the Year. She…

As he continues to distance himself from his estranged sister, Jack White has recently added yet another side project to his list of musical monikers. White unveiled new band The Dead Weather at a private Nashville gig earlier in March. Although White was named the #17 “Greatest Guitarist of All…

If you were alive in the ’90s and had MTV or a stereo (remember those?), you probably had a boner for Nina Persson. As frontwoman for the Cardigan’s, her dreamy voice, elfin features, deep blue eyes, super model body… Sorry, I forgot what I was saying. Right, I got an…

Ready For More David Schmitt and Kyle Even of Breathe Carolina may be young—but damn, their songs are catchy. And the boys seem to know it. “I got the lines that’ll be in you tonight,” they write in their song “Diamonds.” This is dance music—with a twist. What sets Denver-based…

Dusty Brown w/ DJ Whores Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009 The Press Club, Sacramento Do you ever wonder if the musicians you love really understand how talented they are? Music is a powerful thing that has the ability to move and change us; it can conjure the good or the evil…

The Breeders are notoriously slow. After releasing their most successful album, Last Splash, in 1993, the group took a long hiatus (nine years!) before releasing the uneven Title TK. After that, another six years passed before the release of their next album. But are they now picking up the pace?…

Four years ago, the world was a different place: electing a black president was still just a fantasy; thought of a serious, wordwide recession was just another thing for alarmists to rant and rave about; and Sacramento’s spaz-rockers Hella was together as a duo. Now in 2009, no one bats…

Dark Child Tragedy has shortened the careers of many rock ‘n’ roll musicians. In 1990, it would seem like Bay Area thrash band Death Angel would have to be added to that list. The young group, signed to a label before its members had even turned 20 years old, saw…