Destroy Boys keep it loud
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…
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Checking in: SAMMIES 2020 winners and nominees
We’ll be checking in on some 2020 SAMMIES winners and nominees to see how they’ve stayed creative over the last year.
Checking in: SAMMIES 2020 winners and nominees
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…
Fifteen Minutes: Buddy Hale, Sacramento Dirt
Musiclandria’s latest venture is the streaming online radio station Sacramento Dirt
Making music in Trump era
“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.”
Flexing musical muscle
Sacramento’s Allyson Seconds revisits her debut album.
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…
Video scratches the performance itch: Weathering’s “Chimera”
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.
Justin Farren’s Pretty Free gets pretty DIY
Local musician Justin Farren will donate record proceeds to Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross.
This year, NorCal Noisefest is completely online and free. Tune in this weekend.
If you’re a regular attendee of Sacramento’s monthly noise-brunch, Audio Waffle, you’re well aware that Norcal Noisefest begins Friday night and continues through Sunday evening….
Anton Barbeau returns to Sacramento with Manbird
“I think originally after we saw Lady Bird, we thought, ‘Let’s make our own film called Manbird’—just kind of a joke where I wandered around the streets of Sacramento or whatever. But then I thought, ‘Wow, gotta make a song out of this.’”
Music review: Free Advice, Cindy
This record is—in the best way—not for dancing; it’s for swaying. Or, to make my recommendation hyper-specific to Sacramento, it’s a record to be absorbed while laying on your floor under your wall-unit AC on 100-degree-plus days.
New-old oldies for night owls
Unless you’re looking for it—and that’s if you listen to terrestrial radio at all—you’ll probably miss KJAY 1430 AM/98.1 FM on your dial. But the…
Shape-shifting Secret Center
In an hour talking to Jason Dezember and Scott Miller, two of the three founders of Sacramento’s Secret Center Records, the words “funny” and “fun”…