Everyone knows that during Sacramento summers, Friday nights are for Concerts in the Park. Now in its 25th year, CIP is bigger and better than ever, providing our city’s residents with a professionally produced festival-style concert for free every week from May through July. Week in and week out, regardless…
Genre Peak, an experimental project spearheaded by electronic percussionist/composer Martin Birke along with a bevy of super talented players are hosting a CD release show for the collective’s new long player, Your Sleekest Engine. If the near eight-minute album opener, “Nightfalls,” doesn’t make your head turn and stop staring blankly…
Some believe that having a strong message and storytelling through music is crucial. However, sometimes the language of music is spoken without saying a single word. Consisting of Matt Jalbert (guitar), Charlie Dolan (bass), Alric “A.C” Carter (keyboards) and Isaac Teel (drums), it’s quite certain that Oyster Bay, New York’s…
Like a wrecked ship caught halfway in the transition from steel construct to living reef, Pinnacles achieves harmony through clashing processes. They often characterize their music as “prog” or “math” rock, but their work is not overly indulgent in the byzantine excesses of the former or the regimented oblivion of…
Spring Fling Rock AF 2016 Tour: Cage the Elephant, Silversun Pickups, Foals, Bear Hands Sleep Train Arena, Sacramento • Saturday, March 12, 2016 As spring break vibes come to a bittersweet end for some—or are just about to start flowing for others—Sacramento was fortunate enough to experience this wistfully transient…
Best in Show It takes a bit to slow Andrew Castro down. It’s happened (we’ll get to that later), but Castro knows what he wants and isn’t interested in sitting around (though he has, and again, we’ll get to that). Since 2013, the Sacramento musician has played more than 600…
The last time the beloved American rock band Cage the Elephant played Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, they opened for the legendary Foo Fighters and nearly stole the show with their stage-diving, crowd-surfing, guitar-riffing, microphone-swinging insane energy level. Now, Cage is coming back to the old arena in Natomas for…
While most know Tim Bluhm as the frontman of Chico, California’s greatest export since the beer bong, The Mother Hips, the singer/songwriter has also dabbled in many other projects with great effect. For the uninitiated, Bluhm also played in the Skinny Singers (with Jackie Greene), Brokedown In Bakersfield, Ball-Point Birds,…
If you’re going to call it quits, it’s nice to know you’re going out on top. Such is the case with local hard rock/alternative metal band FallRise, who will play their final show ever on Saturday, March 12 at Ace of Spades. The extremely popular and very hard working local…
Blue Note Special The Seattle-based three-piece band The Flavr Blue describes itself briefly on Facebook as “synthesized love notes, dreams, vices and a whole lot of Flavr!” The first of those tags proves especially true with their latest EP, and the last, without question, has held up through the span of their…
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