It’s baaaaack! After a year-long hiatus, one of the dopest festivals on the West Coast, Treasure Island Music Festival, is returning, although it won’t be to Treasure Island as the name might suggest. Instead the festival is moving to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland and will be happening on…
Followers of punk rock, hardcore and heavy metal are likely already familiar with Converge. To many, they’ve been a household name for a long time, having been veterans of the music scene for nearly 30 years. Boston legends Jacob Bannon (vocals) and Kurt Ballou (guitar) released their debut album, Halo…
Longtime Sacramento creative Bru Lei is a talented rapper, muralist, activist and much more. Though he doesn’t limit himself to labels, Lei admits that the title of magician comes close. “I think that people who label themselves are limiting themselves,” said Lei when Submerge sat with him at B-Side on…
The raw, beating heart of funk, soul, jazz and hip-hop—all of which the furious Sacramento five-piece known as The Gold Souls have incorporated into their style—has always been the blues. Blues and its far-reaching tendrils have defined pop music in the last century, but it is not of pop. It…
If you’ve driven, walked or cycled on or near the 1400 block of R Street in downtown Sacramento in recent months, you’re likely aware of the massive amounts of construction going on. Well, all that fuss is finally done, and to celebrate the grand re-opening of one of Sacramento’s most…
You feel calm around Alex Jenkins. Despite the ambient hum of conversation and coffee grinding at Old Soul on a Saturday afternoon, it’s easy to talk to him. We start simply with family life, politics and weekend plans, and he points out the obvious—that he’s older (43) than he looks…
This summer is already shaping up to be a great one in Sacramento, and to kick things off, the month of June is stacked with rad events, outdoor concerts, night markets and block parties galore. Besides all the other great stuff featured throughout this issue, we wanted to be sure…
Nevada County’s premier performing arts organization, The Center for the Arts (314 W. Main St., Grass Valley), is just about a week away from breaking ground on a highly anticipated multimillion dollar renovation. On Tuesday, May 29, the venue will host a ground breaking ceremony at 10 a.m. The renovations,…
Metal musicians seem to take two extremes when it comes to how seriously they take their music. Either their new material they’ve been working on for the past decade will completely revolutionize the metal scene (and, in turn, society as a whole) or they use a picture of their own…
Sacramento songstress Jessica Malone is all set to record a new live album on Wednesday, June 6 at Harlow’s (2708 J St., Sacramento) alongside her talented five-piece band. The group consists of Malone on vocals, guitar and ukulele, as well as Giorgi Khokhobashvili on violin, Brett Vaughn on electric guitar,…
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