Building off the buzz from last year’s successful inaugural event, the all-local music and art event known as First Festival is bringing the heat in 2016, and we’re proud to bring you the exclusive first look at the killer lineup. It all goes down on Saturday, June 18 and Sunday,…
When the somewhat mysterious and criminally underrated local supergroup Contra took the stage at our 200th Issue Party at LowBrau just a couple months back, frontman Kris Anaya (Doombird, An Angle) said something to the effect of, and I’m paraphrasing here, “We don’t have any music for sale, so just…
Arguably Berlin’s greatest export, organist Cameron Carpenter is on a U.S. tour with his International Touring Organ. The fully mobile and $1.2 million dollar instrument is quite an amazing beast that somehow captures the spirit and essence of a stationary pipe organ yet has more bells and whistles than should…
Guitarists who want to feel inadequate are hereby summoned to Folsom’s Harris Center for a night of six-stringed wizardry. One of the featured artists on this year’s International Guitar Night ticket is Lulo Reinhardt—yes, from the lineage of the late jazz legend Django Reinhardt—whose playing recalls another time and place without…
The locally produced music and art show RAWTV (short for Regional Artist Web TV) is returning for their third season of on-air shenanigans starting on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2016. The 30-minute show airs at 1 a.m. on KCRA right after Saturday Night Live and features a random mix of creative…
Weird by Design If I ever needed to hire a hype group, Tell the Wolves can take all my money. The Sacramento five-piece is as energetic and bright as a crackling fire in rock ‘n’ roll hell. Offstage, the band is full of welcoming, positive and joyous dudes. Onstage, however,…
While many people might have been ringing in the New Year at a local bar among friends, Ventura, California rapper Kyle Harvey went riding into 2016 on an 8-foot Wham-O BZ foam surfboard in South Lake Tahoe—bringing the ancient art of crowd surfing back to its purest, most literal form….
Not even the Taliban could bring down Malala Yousafzai! This incredible young Pakistani female activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate was famously shot by Taliban gunmen in October 2012, when she was just 14 years old, after speaking out for many years about equal rights and education for girls all…
An up-and-coming local music festival is looking forward to growth in their second year. Organizers of First Festival, whose inaugural event took place in May 2015 at River Walk Park in West Sacramento, recently announced that they’re expanding the event to two days this year and changing locations to Southside…
Range Life Scott Kannberg’s resume has a bolded header that slaps you right across the face: Founding member and guitarist of Pavement. There isn’t much need to explain, because that single sentence says a lot of things. But Kannberg is more than one arm of a multi-limbed rock ‘n’ roll…
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