Music

Luigi’s Slice, a hip pizza joint in the MARRS Building that for years has also acted as one of Sacramento’s few all-ages music venues, has been sold to the owners of Azul Mexican Food and Tequila Bar, located just steps from Luigi’s in the same building. The space will close…

Hometown reggae/rock favorites Arden Park Roots are readying the release of their fourth full-length album titled Burning the Midnight Oil. The new album is 12 tracks total and was recorded and engineered by Joe Johnston at Pus Cavern Studios over the course of three months. Besides featuring guests Andre Fylling…

Marsha Ambrosius prepares for album release It’s not uncommon to pigeonhole ourselves into music genres, to skip a song or station because it doesn’t fit that perfectly curated Spotify playlist or it doesn’t sound familiar. However, some artists who often deserve a second listen transcend genres—their music becomes a mission…

It’s no secret: EDM (electronic dance music) has taken over American culture within the last two years. The acquisition was inevitable; EDM has consumed the European music scene for almost 30 years now; the United States was just a little late to join the party. The antagonists of anything-electronica typically…

Local singer/songwriter Christopher Fairman has a new project called Le Kelton that we here at Submerge are pretty excited about, and they are releasing their new album Saint on April 19, 2014 at Witch Room. Fairman started working on the album four years ago at Moon Studios with David Houston,…

Black Lips, Coathangers Assembly, Sacramento • Tuesday, March 25, 2014 Words & Photo by Andrew Scoggins As advertised, the Black Lips show at Assembly last Tuesday was a booze-fueled, sweat-soaked rage fest where the dull day-to-day drudgery of the week faded into the background for a few moments of cathartic…

TJ of 1st Place Comes to Terms with switching from Hyphy to Alt-Rap To Bay Area rap fans, the frontman for 1st Place may look familiar. A few years back he went by the name Stresmatic, onethird of the group The Federation. Infamously known for their hit song “Hyphy,” and…

Local rock act The Three Way looks to make noise on the Sacramento scene with the release of its debut album It should have been difficult to catch up with a band with this much momentum. Since their current lineup solidified back in January 2012, The Three Way has wasted…

I should probably confess I think Lady Gaga is pretty cool. I’m not sure how much this will affect your opinion of me, positively or negatively, but I think it’s important that we get that piece of information out of the way before we continue. I don’t own any of…

Are you a fan of heavy music? Do you live in or around the greater Sacramento area? If you answered yes to both of those questions, you need to drop everything you are doing and immediately snag tickets to see metal supergroup Devil You Know at Assembly (1000 K Street)…