Music

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…

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…

The instrumental rock trio Strawberry Girls is back with a new full-length album called Tasmanian Glow. As is typical for the Salinas, California-born group, it’s hard to pin the album down to any specific genre. Leaping from prog, to funk, to R&B—sometimes in the span of a single song—Tasmanian Glow…

When you find yourself in a mood where you can’t decide on what type of music you want to listen to, Red Dirt Ruckus might be your all-in-one solution of the jam-band persuasion. There’s a chance you might’ve already even run into one of their performances by now. The six-piece…

Picture yourself driving down the Pacific Coast Highway from Malibu to Santa Monica on a lazy Sunday afternoon. You’re driving in a classic convertible. You have the top down. There’s no traffic (hey, it’s a fantasy). For this idyllic scenario, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better soundtrack than Local…

With luscious layered synths, a rock-solid rhythm section and a captivating vocalist and frontwoman, Placerville-based five-piece band Mookatite is kicking out a lovely blend of neo-soul, jazz and indie rock that, in our humble opinions, puts them a step above a lot of your average local bar bands. Their new…

Whether it’s through Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman or Prophets of Rage, Tom Morello continues his battle cry against corporate America, police brutality and corrupt politicians with his 2018 release, The Atlas Underground. Using his name for the very first time to release an album, and supporting his…

“Tightest rhythm section in Los Angeles and California,” Adryon de León, Orgone’s vocalist from Ojai, California,tells me over the phone. “I mean, I’m partial, but I’ve heard ‘em all,” she confesses. For a vocalist who sings in a group applauded by critics for “hitting their stride” following the release of…

Thursday, Nov. 7 Camp Fire: One Year Later at McClatchy New Ventures Lab Join prestigious Sacramento Bee reporters and photographers at this multimedia showcase to reflect on the Camp Fire, which last year destroyed the town of Paradise and became the deadliest wildfire in California history. Experience virtual reality and…

To know Sacramento music is to know The Storytellers (or the Sacto Storytellers, or the Sac Storytellers, or the Tellers or any other version of the name that has been used over the years). It’s been 20 years since this band of ever-rotating musicians has been filling Sacramento clubs, parks,…