Fifteen Minutes: Buddy Hale, Sacramento Dirt
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What’s the sound of the other band clapping?
Essay: The COVID-19 pandemic ended live concerts. Live streams just aren’t the same, especially when no one is watching. “I miss live shows” is the…
Taking the BBQ online
Popular Burly Backyard event expands to raise money for Sac music venues.
Chris Isaak's bugs, drugs and rock'n'roll
By Jim Carnes “Bad ideas are like bugs on the windshield of my mind,” Chris Isaak sings in “Insects” off his latest album, First…
Sammies nominations, go!
It’s that time of the year again–no not the holidays. Unless you count celebrating local music achievements as a holiday. Which it is, kind of,…
EIGHT GIGS: Young Aundee
13WED photo by Josh Johnson Young Aundee Press Club, 8 p.m., $5 With elements of dark and new wave, trip-hop, pop and even a little…
Sacamento Philharmonic & Opera announce “Art Invasion 2015,” “Resurrection Season” announcement to come
The music seems to have been saved. In a press release sent to SN&R yesterday morning, the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera (an alliance self-described as…
Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch is not a candy-ass bitch…
… but that didn’t stop someone in Sacramento from hurling the phrase at the singer the last time he was in the area. At least…
Trash Talk returns home, no one riots
By Blake Gillespie Hardcore does not have many homes in Sacramento, but Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub is the last venue expected to house a Trash…
REVIEW: Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden
Review and photos by Paul Piazza. Last week, I took the lengthy drive to Wheatland’s Sleep Train Amphitheater to go see Soundgarden and Nine Inch…
Labor Day weekend = music festivals
*Editor’s note: The Aug. 28 print edition of SN&R (“Eight Gigs,” page 55) mistakenly stated the price of the Tejano Conjunto Festival as “no cover.”…
New Orleans Jazz Fest: review and photo essay
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux. by Paul Piazza The 45th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, also known as Jazz Fest, more than lived up…
PHOTO ESSAY: March Madness
by Paul Piazza March is a traditionally a time of distractions due to office tourney pools in the workplace and busted brackets everywhere. This year,…
This is your weekend on Mardi Gras
Photo by Jesse Vasquez By Julianna Boggs It’s Mardi Gras season, and while that may not mean much outside of New Orleans here in the…
†††: A cure for the February blahs
Chino Moreno's side project ††† just released its full-length debut February 11. The self-titled full-length is mostly a collection of the group’s previous work issued on…
Pete Seeger's last words to a Sacramento music lover
Sometimes timing is everything. Last August, Sacramento musician and music lover Kim Alexander sent a letter to one of her musical heroes, Pete Seeger, the…