Music

Detroit MC/Producer Black Milk Lands in Sacramento on Continent-Wide Tour Curtis Cross, aka Black Milk, is, if anything, a builder of worlds. Spin a copy of his latest album, If There’s a Hell Below, and you’ll find yourself in the heart of one: aural labyrinths of driving percussion and pulsating…

Run the Gamut Dance Gavin Dance, whose quirky and genre-defying sound fits somewhere between post-hardcore, progressive rock and screamo, isn’t worried that fans might not like their new album. Right now, they’re just pumped that they’ve found their groove, both creatively and within the band’s dynamic itself. Since the band’s…

Male Gaze Outruns Ghosts of Projects’ Past on Excellent Debut Despite the fact that Male Gaze is essentially a brand new band, their collective pedigree has afforded the group the opportunity for larger shows and bigger stages nearly right out of the gate. “We’ve all been around and we know…

After forming in late 2003, releasing an EP in 2004, and touring the West Coast on and off for a few years after that, regional indie/punk/queercore duo Butch Vs Femme went on what they thought was going to be a permanent hiatus. Then in August 2014, drummer Kimberli Aparicio and…

The Sacramento Comedy Spot’s Third Annual 48-Hour Comedy Marathon is exactly what it sounds like, two straight days of comedy shows featuring some of the Spot’s most successful main stage shows along with cult favorites and even some brand new show formats that they’ll be testing out for the first…

When the beloved and much too-short-lived Midtown venue Witch Room (ex-Bows and Arrows) shut down late last year, they sure did go out with a bang! “Sac Go Home Fest” was an epic, two-day, mostly local music free-for-all, and if you were there for any of it, you know how…

With a name like White Knuckle Riot and influences such as Pantera and Metallica, you might think the local heavy rock/metal band is made up of a bunch of middle-fingers-up-don’t-give-a-fuck hard-asses. To be fair, they are pretty hard-edged, but they’ve also got big hearts, as evidenced by the band’s current…

From 2006 to 2010, the regional folk/Americana band Silver Darling enchanted fans locally as well as up and down the West Coast via extensive touring, sharing the stage with such greats as Jason Isbell, Damien Jurado, The Cave Singers and others. Silver Darling released one full-length album (Your Ghost Fits…

With a new album and national tour, it’s a year of firsts for L.A. Witch If there had been a Wicked Witch of the South, she’d have been less a villain and more the cat’s meow, flying around on her broom over the 405 while all the suckers went Falling…

Once again winter has passed (if you can call that a winter), which means that spring is here and with it, the 2015 Concerts in the Park series, which officially kicks off on Friday, May 1! We’ve got your first glance at the eclectic lineup right here, and there’s a…