Music

Between Bliss and Fear

Le Butcherettes’ Frontwoman Teresa Suárez is Impossible to Ignore If you’ve borne witness to a Le Butcherettes show you know that Teresa Suárez can pull the audience into her lyrical, dark abyss like a black hole pulls a star down into its depths. Once you fall under the unrelenting gravitational…

The Unsinkable • Celebrating 80 Years of Old Ironsides

Rich with history dating back to the 1870s, Old Ironsides, an old-time bar and venue on the corner of 10th and S streets (the location was originally home to a grocery story owned by the Thomas P. Ryan family) celebrates 80 years of business throughout the month of September. Submerge…

William Mylar’s Hippie Hour Fridays Move to Starlite Lounge

Local singer/songwriter William Mylar first stepped on a stage to entertain fellow Sacramentans at the ripe age of 13. He just recently turned 60-years-young and is still doing the damn thing! We’re not too good at math, but that’s a really long time to be jammin’ out tunes for people…

Zeroclient Releases Debut Full-Length Album Omnia Oct. 10, 2014 at Assembly

Local prog-rock/alt-metal group Zeroclient are celebrating the release of their debut full-length album Omnia with a huge show at Assembly on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. With just a four-track demo under their belts, Zeroclient (made up of Brian Vees on vocals/rhythm guitar, Arnold Peña on lead guitar, James Wolf on…

Brightness of Empire

Frontman Luke Steele Shares the Rhapsodic Sound and Vision of Empire of the Sun Those mesmerized by the shimmering hooks of Empire of the Sun’s Walking on a Dream in 2008 were glimpsing merely the tip of an iceberg; back then, before a massive resurgence in EDM, festival culture and…

Experimental and Noise Genres at NorCal NoiseFest

Of all the cities in the world, what makes Sacramento unique? Is it the general feel of creativity and communal support? Absolutely. Sacramento doesn’t produce a public, but rather, fosters individuals. What’s so great about that, you may ask? Consider NorCal NoiseFest, an event that started as a two-day, jam-sesh-esque…

Submerge Your Senses: Special TBD Fest Edition!

What used to be known as Launch has morphed into a brand new, even bigger shebang called TBD Fest. From Oct. 3 to 5, 2014, TBD will invade The Bridge District in West Sacramento (hence the name “TBD Fest”), right along the River Walk next to Raley Field. Sweeping views…

Noah Clark and the Homewrecking Crew Release Mama Rich EP Oct. 1, 2014

Sacramento songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Noah Clark is no stranger to the local scene. His old band Brilliant Red Lights was one of my absolute favorite regional groups in the mid-2000s (some of those early shows with Tera Melos were legendary!). He’s also worked with or performed alongside acts like Cake, !!! (Chk…

The Genre Trap

Toronto’s Keys N Krates aren’t easily classified, and that’s fine by them The members of Keys N Krates like to take it easy before they perform. Sometimes they do a little yoga, sometimes they nosh on salads and on occasion they even indulge in half of a Red Bull. “We…

Right Place, Right Time

Jake Smith of The White Buffalo gets conceptual on his latest album Jake Smith’s story of becoming an artist is not uncommon. The singer/songwriter otherwise known as The White Buffalo began writing in the early 2000s and played just a handful of shows in San Francisco, struggling to find a…