live music

  By Jim Carnes “Bad ideas are like bugs on the windshield of my mind,” Chris Isaak sings in “Insects” off his latest album, First…

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,…

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…

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…

… 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…

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 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…

*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.”…

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux. by Paul Piazza The 45th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, also known as Jazz Fest, more than lived up…

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,…

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…

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…

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…