The Sacramento area has a large and diverse punk scene, with styles ranging from pop punk to folk punk to hardcore. But from time to time, the local music scene becomes permeated by a handful of bands who are playing another exciting and danceable sub-genre: ska punk. One of these…
If you log onto Spotify, you can pretty easily locate the artist page for local band Sunday School. On that page, you will find their recently released self-titled EP, a single from 2016 entitled “That’s Reasonable (I’m Not),” and a three-track single for a German house band from the mid-‘90s….
Clothes are cool and all, but not as cool as seeing people in their underwear. Do you know what else is cool? Live music. In a stroke of genius, The Skivvies, comprised of actors/musicians Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, figured out it would be awesome to combine the two. According…
The enduring trope of the NorCal-SoCal cultural divide is a perfectly entertaining way to play up the superficial aesthetic differences of our state’s major urban centers, but neglects the far richer patchwork of the Californias that reside along the margins. The Sierra Nevada foothills is one such kingdom unto itself,…
Mall Walk hails from Oakland, a place notorious for its struggles to cultivate an environment where artists can simply exist while also not displacing them in one of the most severely financially imbalanced areas in the country. So when the band was asked to play the Davis Music Festival, they…
The Crocker Art Museum’s Summer Jazz Series is starting up again this month, and you can expect to find soulful live jazz performances at the museum every third Thursday between now and the end of September. Jazz Night at the Crocker is Sacramento’s longest-running summer jazz series, and this year,…
The ‘90s is considered the golden age of hip-hop. A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, N.W.A., Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. easily come to mind. The raw truth, political content, clever rhymes and seemingly countless notable figures have molded the style’s existence into the unique limitless genre it is…
There are probably plenty of great reasons why Graves at Sea released their debut full-length, The Curse That Is, a scant 14 years after they formed. The Portland-by-way-of-Oakland sludge quartet did have a sizable hiatus from 2008 to 2012, when guitarist Nick Phit moved to the Pacific Northwest following the…
Earlier this month on May 5, A Lot Like Birds released their latest full-length album DIVISI on Equal Vision records. This culminated a creative journey that began more than a year ago when the band entered the studio, retooled with a new lineup and ready to get down to business…
Do you like to get lit? So do the pair of Sacramento-grown brothers behind up-and-coming Blaq Tuxedo. And they’re bringing the fire. Brothers Dominique and Darius Logan have written hits for Ty Dolla $ign (“LA” featuring Kendrick Lamar, Brandy, and James Fauntleroy), Chris Brown (“Anyway”), The Rej3ctz (“Cat Daddy”) and…
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