More than 13,000 music fans from Sacramento and beyond packed into Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo on Sept. 24, 2017 to enjoy Radio 94.7’s annual City of Trees Music Festival featuring Blink-182, DREAMCAR, Bishop Briggs, Iration and many others. Check out our photo gallery below! Don’t miss out on…
Since 1993, Gearhead has been catering to “rockers, rebels and weirdos” via their record label, clothing and accessories lines and even a magazine, and their annual Gearfest is a celebration of hot rods and rock ‘n’ roll. Beginning at 3 p.m. at the Red Lion Midtown (1319 30th St., Sacramento),…
Singer-songwriter Bishop Briggs may be relatively new to the scene, but her soulful voice, exuberant presence and stirring songs have helped her build a résumé that seems far in advance of her years. Her first single “Wild Horses,” released in 2015, landed a spot in an Acura commercial that got…
Ben Folds is a multi-platinum selling singer, composer and producer who originally found international success in the group Ben Folds Five. He has since gone on to have an impressive and influential solo career that consists of multiple studio albums, a couple live albums, music for film and TV, an…
Over the years, vocalist Mike Patton has had a complicated relationship with Sacramento music fans. Although area music fans seem to love every band he’s been a part of, he’s worked hard for decades to get some extreme reactions from them with his confrontational stage tactics. The vocalist, whose most…
Any avid music fan knows Los Angeles as a city of hip-hop legends: Snoop Dogg hailing from Long Beach, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E representing Compton and countless more that have contributed to the genre in their own way. Thanks to artists like them, the early ‘90s were a golden age…
The most common reason for starting over with a blank slate is for a second chance. People hit rock bottom, fail, regret choices, run away from their own crimes or the crimes of others. However, sometimes the answer is much simpler. In the case of Irish rock outfit ONOFF, it…
If listening to “My Year,” the latest, infectious single by Sacramento’s very own Soosh*e!, succeeds in shooting you upward a wave of optimism about your current state in life, it should be of special note that when he wrote it, some time ago, the song’s hopeful message rang hollow in…
Since the recent release of Tatiana McPhee’s debut album, Mean Mama, the singer-songwriter has been trucking around Northern California from honky-tonk to honky-tonk, sharing her songs of real life heartache and heartbreak. Before going solo, McPhee cut her teeth in cover bands that played everything from Alan Jackson to Tom…
Matisyahu hasn’t exactly had the smoothest ride throughout his decade-plus career. I was introduced to the artist through the clearing of a crowd backstage at Lollapalooza 2006 in Chicago, as a phalanx of Orthodox Jews walked in a mob surrounding the rapper/singer. The mysteries of the man who’d just released…
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