Boca do Rio wins DIMI grant in continuing bid to keep the Davis music scene alive
By Casey Rafter Spicy guitar echoes and tambourine shimmers trickle down a slope of Nevada City as Kevin Welch and Alex Calatayud hone their craft…
Read MoreBy Casey Rafter Spicy guitar echoes and tambourine shimmers trickle down a slope of Nevada City as Kevin Welch and Alex Calatayud hone their craft…
Read MoreSacramento writer sees attention, promising sales around his unlikely pitch for a maligned musical genre By Casey Rafter Joyful horns, bass and guitars flowed…
The unorthodox performer Blind Lemon Peel gets his footing in the Capital Region By Chris Elliott Blind Lemon Peel is a Sacramento newcomer, but he…
Our light at the end of the COVID tunnel feels like it’s arriving as the sky-glow of spring; but that does not mean peoples’ stress…
For a brief moment in the late 90s, the Capital City was on the verge of being the next ‘big’ music scene — and a…
In any normal year, we at SN&R would be in full-on SAMMIES mode, asking readers to vote for their favorite performers and prepping a big…
Blues performer and two-time SAMMIES winner Katie Knipp has just been given another honor to tuck under her belt. Early yesterday morning, Knipp learned she hit the Billboard Blues top ten for the second time in a row. While 2018’s Take It With You landed in the number ten spot, her newest, The Well, shot to number four straight out of the gate.
Destroy Boys on their new single, signing to Hopeless Records, and this weekend’s livestream “Those shows were so sick, especially the Sacramento show,” says Alexia…
In any normal year, we at SN&R would be in full-on SAMMIES mode, asking readers to vote for their favorite performers and prepping a big…
If there’s any time we need the comfort of music, it’s now. For the next few weeks, we’ll be checking in on some 2020 SAMMIES nominees and winners and nominees to see how they’ve stayed creative over the last year.
We’ll be checking in on some 2020 SAMMIES winners and nominees to see how they’ve stayed creative over the last year.
In any normal year, we at SN&R would be in full-on SAMMIES mode, asking readers to vote for their favorite performers and prepping a big…
A Davis institution launches a series of virtual concerts even as school closings hurt its bottom line.
Listeners to a new podcast can join the debate over bands Is there any more serious strain on a friendship than one friend forcing another…
“I have to acknowledge that Trump won,” Charles Albright says. “He didn’t just do a mildly successful local band based on the fakeness of celebrity. He rules the world with the fakeness of celebrity.”
Sacramento-based duo Weathering had just started practicing regularly with a full band before the pandemic hit. Elinor Carbone and Alex Acuna (formerly of Anxious Arms) and their new lineup hadn’t yet played a show before venues began closing.
Local musician Justin Farren will donate record proceeds to Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross.