Music

Hot Water Music’s Return to Recording and the Road That Gainesville, Fla.’s Hot Water Music has become the elder statesman of the post-punk renaissance, first sprouted during the mid-‘90s, isn’t much of a surprise. The quartet—helmed by vocalists/guitarists Chris Wollard and Chuck Ragan, and rounded out by bassist Jason Black…

Emilie Autumn has created albums, crossed over to film and wrote a novel, but her whole career has lead up to this It’s 7 p.m. on a Thursday night, and Emilie Autumn is excited. She just got off the phone with director Darren Lynn Bousman, the macabre visionary behind Repo!…

From local bands and beyond, here are Submerge’s favorite albums of 2012, in tweet-friendly format. These albums are certified #awesome! 20) Jessica Pratt s/t (Birth Records) Pratt’s debut of home-recorded, time-capsule folk stood as a brilliant reminder of the beauty in lo-fi love letters. 19) Wife & Son This That…

Sacramento post-hardcore band A Lot Like Birds are set to tour in Europe this February, and although the guys are beyond stoked for their first trip overseas, their routing schedule looks brutal. They’ve got 23 shows scheduled in as many days! They’re hitting the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Hungary, Ukraine…

Local hard rock/metal band FallRise is celebrating the release of its new single/video “Make You Suffer” with a sick show at Ace of Spades on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. The lineup includes fellow hard rocking locals Prylosis, Misamore, Madison Avenue and White Minorities, along with Dimidium from Morgan Hill, Calif….

Texas Chainsaw 3D Rated R In the first weeks of any new year, people are clamoring to set the tone for the 12 months to follow. Texas Chainsaw 3D is the first widely released studio film of 2013, so maybe Hollywood wants us to expect plenty of gore this year….

One of our favorite Sacramento-area bands Tera Melos recently had its new single “Tropic Lame” premiered online by none other than Rolling Stone. Rolling-fucking-Stone, people! The song has a really cool surf-punk-meets-psych-pop vibe to it and will appear their upcoming album X’ed Out, to be released April 16 on Sargent…

Though Family Life Has Softened Pinback’s Rob Crow, His Drive to Create Has Never Been Stronger When I was 14, in 1995, the Internet was still in its fetal stage, especially regards to music distribution. Because I lived in a small town in Montana, as soon as the Internet started…

NOFX Ace of Spades, Sacramento – Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 I haven’t witnessed a local venue more packed full of music fanatics than at last Monday’s NOFX concert. Ace of Spades on R Street hosted an endless sea of punk rock music lovers when NOFX came to town Dec. 10….

From EPs to their debut album, Sacramento band K Será is making its mark on the world Words by Natalie Basurto – Photo by Daniel Dare The last time Mike Caswell, lead singer/guitarist and creator of the band K Será was interviewed by Submerge it was 2008. He was the…