Music

True rock ‘n’ roll survivors, the Meat Puppets are back once again with a new album Back in the early ‘80s, there were probably few who would have given the Meat Puppets a shot at leaving a lasting mark on the rock ‘n’ roll world. The Phoenix, Ariz., trio centering…

Earthless, Brubaker, Joy Harlow’s, Sacramento • Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 Words by Andrew Scoggins Earthless is the kind of band you feel compelled to talk about with your friends. Earthless is also the kind of band that will likely damage your hearing irrevocably without earplugs. And yet, it’s completely worth…

Part hip-hop cypher, part jazz lounge, Flow is an exciting new monthly event going down every second Thursday at Assembly (1000 K Street). Hosts Jay Siren and Andru Defeye welcome you to enjoy the sounds of your house band for the evening, Element Brass Band, while new guest MCs take…

Sacramento experimental band Cove readies for first EP and tour It’s two weeks before Scott Ferreter’s band Cove drops its first EP (mostly self-recorded in Ferreter’s mom’s basement), and before the trio goes on its first tour in the freshly purchased “Cove Mobile.” He doesn’t explicitly state it, but Ferreter…

Here’s an event where people willingly go in knowing that what they’re about to hear is going to be bad. Real bad. It’s the second annual Non Drummer Drum Off, presented by ZuhG Life! This year’s Non Drummer Drum Off, a drum off consisting of local music scene members whose…

A few friends of mine went to Treasure Island Music Festival last weekend. Most of them said something like, “It was awesome, but it was freeeezing!” which reminded me of an even colder music fest in our region, South Lake Tahoe’s SnowGlobe! They just recently announced the lineup for the…

Winter typically isn’t when you would expect to see big, arena-level concerts rolling through Sacramento. Larger acts mostly tour in the summer and festivals are almost always in fair weather months. If we’re lucky, each year there will be one or two giant Christmastime shows at Memorial Auditorium or Sleep…

If it were 1921 and you heard at random that Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas were coming to town, you might lock your doors in fear of being mowed down by a Tommy gun at the hands of two savage and depraved, gin-crazed hoods. But of course it’s not…

Olly Murs and Bonnie McKee Assembly, Sacramento • Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 There are two paths to pop stardom: one is to work your ass off until you bottom out or break out; the other is to miraculously land that fat, major label contract and let the industry do its…

Locally based progressive/post-hardcore band A Lot Like Birds, who are finally starting to blow up and not be so local anymore, are readying the release of a new full-length album via Equal Vision Records on Oct. 29, 2013. The record, titled No Place, is a sprawling, epic piece of work….