Well if this isn’t perfect news to be sharing today, on 4/20 of all days, then we don’t know what is! High Times magazine just announced a MASSIVE lineup for their Cannabis Cup Central Valley event going down at Cal Expo Fairgrounds in Sacramento on May 4 – 5, 2018!…
Now entering its third year, Torch Club’s annual Neck Fest is quickly establishing itself as one of Sacramento’s premier weekends of live music. This year, the primarily country/roots rock/Americana festival (although it’s not strictly confined to those genres) has expanded to three days, not two like last year, and a…
For a band, fitting into a genre can be tricky. Music is often subjective, fluid, personal, but it also has to find a venue and an audience. For Winters-based trio The Polyorchids, they weren’t quite sure where or what that was. The group, consisting of Justin Cox, Tony Clark and…
The aggressive, clanking, dystopian monster that is industrial metal has powered through the better part of four decades. That feat is due in no small part to the staying power of Ministry’s blueprint—breakneck hardcore rhythms and the theatricality of metal paired with impish, future-shock subversion and distorted railing against the…
“Why is this artist no[t] that famous!!?!!?? So underattttteedddd,” is the top comment for the Madi Sipes and the Painted Blue track “After Hours” on YouTube. It’s not exactly new for an audience to discover an artist online and wonder why they aren’t topping the charts and filling arenas, but…
Sacramento’s largest free outdoor concert series will return to Cesar Chavez Plaza on Friday, May 4, 2018. Concerts in the Park just announced their lineup today and we’ve got your first official look at the artists that are set to rock the park this year. Highly acclaimed internationally touring bands…
If you aren’t yet familiar with Lion Babe, don’t worry. You soon will be. The duo, consisting of Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman, have already collaborated with Childish Gambino and Disclosure, and if that weren’t enough to rocket them toward next-big-thing status, their upcoming performance at this year’s Coachella Music…
Easily one of the biggest and most hyped local concert series, Concerts in the Park, is holding a free event called Lunch + Launch on Thursday, April 5, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m at Cesar Chavez Plaza (9th and J streets) to reveal the lineup for this year’s run…
Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino, members of the electronic pop act Matt and Kim, have been partners in crime since the early 2000s, when they met as students at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute. They almost instantly began collaborating musically. Their infectious, melodic sound is instantly recognizable, as are both Johnson’s unique…
When Marty Taters throws a party, he pulls out all the stops. The local singer-songwriter and familiar face on the open mic scene is gearing up for his album release show on March 24 at Old Ironsides (1901 10th St.), and for the measly cover charge of $12 (just $10…
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