Music

If there is one trend we’ve noticed about the local music scene from running Submerge, it’s that not a lot of local bands release new work in the winter months. Sure there are exceptions here and there, but for one reason or another it’s mostly a fair-weather thing. That’s why…

Rock duos are so hot right now! Think about the popularity of bands like The White Stripes, Black Keys, Matt & Kim, Japandroids and Death from Above 1979, to name a few. There is something about the simplicity of just two people on stage, turned up loud and bringing the…

Paragary Restaurant Group is branching out into the theater and live music business with the opening of a new mixed-use venue called Assembly, located at 1000 K Street in downtown Sacramento. Taking over Cosmopolitan Cabaret’s former space, Assembly will showcase local, regional and national touring talent. The 9,000 square-foot space…

Despite his mostly rock-based background, Zac Diebels aka Z Rokk is making big moves as an electronic artist On a quiet and cold Tuesday night, students are coming and going from their lessons at Rock Inc., a music school and recording studio with approximately 150 students in Citrus Heights founded…

Deadlands re-releases debut album Evilution to an international audience of headbangers Local thrash metal band Deadlands is barely more than two years old, but this isn’t a group of rookies. Members Brian O’Connor (vocals), Michael Garner (lead guitar), Kevin Rohr (guitar), Steve “Dedbass” Northam (bass) and Danny Sabian (drums) have…

Submerge had been hearing rumors for a while about legendary Sacramento recording studio The Hangar closing after 20-some-odd years in its current downtown location, but until owner John Baccigaluppi blogged about it on Feb. 18, 2013 at Thehangarstudios.net/blog, we were holding out hope that they were untrue. “In March of…

Equipto may be calling it quits on a solo career, but he has a busy future ahead A wise man once told me never to use the word “unique” when describing music or a musician, because surely there was something similar. He is right to an extent, but I can…

Word to Your Motherland aims to break down cultural barriers between South Asia, Africa and America When Nisha K. Sembi and Mandeep Sethi last went to India, they met with a different kind of inspiration than what some might experience on the subcontinent. Sembi, then a Bay Area graffiti writer…

Flowerss is the new-ish electro-shoegaze project from Sacramento’s Christapher Larsen (formerly of Buildings Breeding) and Austin, Texas-based DJ Bird Peterson. Live shows feature an alternating cast that may include members Johnny Guttenberger (Far, Two Sheds), Kevin Dockter (Chelsea Wolfe), Justin Titsworth (Buildings Breeding) and Chris Robyn (Far, Crosses), making this…

Here is your first look at the 2013 Concerts in the Park lineup. Last summer saw record setting attendance for the Friday night series and by the looks of it this year shouldn’t be any different. Here is what we’re particularly stoked about: local hip-hop from the likes of Rasar,…