The Solving Sacramento journalism collaborative is taking our Hangout Gigs local music series on the road — and our first stop is the Torch Club, a Sacramento music institution owned by the same family since 1969!

During the event, the jazz/hip hop fusion band LabRats will sit down before the audience for a 30-minute interview for a live episode of our podcast “Creativity in the Capital,” and then they’ll perform a few songs. There will be time for socializing, eating food (chicken and vegetarian sliders, with potato salad) and grabbing drinks from the bar. The event runs between 6 and 8 p.m. Get tickets here.

We see this event as a chance to pull back the curtain on how we do arts journalism, and a chance to support one of our favorite music venues in town. Hope to see you there!

The Torch Club is located at 904 15th Street in Downtown Sacramento.

For more coverage of the local music scene, check out SN&R’s recent feature by Casey Sexton, ‘Cosmic Roots: Unveiling the elemental key to Sacramento’s musical landscape.‘