The days of Limewire and Napster are behind us by at least a decade. CDs are practically ancient artifacts. Catering to the music obsessions of the Millennials is nearly over, and business markets are looking to gratify the fixations of Generation Z. The tech savvy Generation Z are internet experts…
Every year, more than 150,000 people pack into the Community Center Theater to see and hear the sights and sounds of some of Broadway’s most popular productions, brought right here to our very own city via California Musical Theatre’s Broadway Sacramento series. The 2017-2018 season is kicking off in style…
Scratch the surface of your being long enough and you’ll fall through into the abyss, a non-world without end, without up or down. Stripped of all context, it is a place where one is left prey to all the wraith-ish antagonists of the psyche; to survive here, one must not…
For many local musicians, the all-too-rare “album release show” is likely the highlight of their year—hell, maybe even their entire gigging career. To have not only written an entire album’s worth of material, but then to have gotten it recorded, mixed, mastered and printed/pressed, and then on top of all…
Odesza has been headlining festivals, selling out arenas and topping the electronic charts for months and it’s easy to see why. Their shows are roiling waves of glittering twenty-somethings, smiling, bouncing and grooving in multilayered seas of synth ecstasy. Slap a pair of headphones on and you begin to feel…
Folk singers are the novelists of the music world. Each song they write is a different chapter that ultimately creates the story that they wish to tell. Brendan Stone, lead singer and founder of Sacramento outfit Blue Oaks, makes more than folk music, but the music he makes follows the…
The first time I saw Andrew Bird live onstage was at the debut Wanderlust Festival up in Squaw Valley, 2009. He’d flown in for the gig from Detroit or Milwaukee, or some damned place, and the airline had lost his luggage, which of course included all of his gear aside…
We’ve often wondered why there aren’t more live music series that happen in the fall here in Sacramento. With those wretched 100-degree days behind us (thank the lord!), fall is arguably the best season weather wise in the Sacramento valley. Warm days, cool nights, it’s the perfect backdrop for some…
Grammy Award-winning alternative rockers Imagine Dragons brought their Evolve World Tour to Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center this past Wednesday, October 4. The Las Vegas natives are no strangers to the Farm-to-Fork Capital as they made stops back in 2012 at Ace of Spades and headlined the former Launch Festival the…
She glowers at the controls of a mixer in a dimly lit music venue, microphone poised like a dagger in her hands over a faintly spreading smile. Dressed in garters and a quicksilver bob-cut, for a moment she becomes a mannequin, and in the void of motion, the roar of…
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