********* The Stand Out State Location: Sacramento Genre: Alternative/Indie Pop Band Members: Grayson Gerstenkorn- Vocals/Guitar, Jared Kaser- Guitar, Adam Dillon- Bass, Daniel Paulin- Drums Influenced by: “West coast lifestyle and learning to live.” Discography: Scheduled to release two EP’s this year. ******* Finish Ticket Location: Alameda, CA Genre: Alternative/Rock/Indie Band members: Brendan Hoye – Vocals, [...]
Events
DJ Rock Bottom presents TST MKR: 4/6
Join us for a special event this Saturday, hosted by DJ Rock Bottom! “I’ve been performing as DJ Rock Bottom for 8 years,” said DJ Rock Bottom. “I would describe my dj style as soulful, eclectic & unique. Every song serves a purpose for the picture I want to paint. It’s about real music for [...]
Ava Mendoza’s Unnatural Ways, Nick Millevoi, and Gentleman Surfer: 4/9
********* Unnatural Ways is a trio comprised of guitarist Ava Mendoza, drummer Nick Tamburro and “bass synth” player Dominique Leone. They’ve been together for about a year. Mendoza started out playing classical guitar and was listed as one of “10 Female Guitarists You Should Know” by Guitar World. Mendoza described Unnatural Ways as “a type [...]
Natural Child, Golden Ghosts, Cool Ghouls and Fletcher C. Johnson: 3/28
********** Natural Child is a “party band” from Nashville. They formed their current lineup in 2009, apparently after eating weed brownies and deciding to form the “greatest rock n’ roll band in the world”. Music feature site Daytrotter‘s founder Sean Moeller had this to say about their latest LP, “Hard in Heaven”: “They ooze with [...]
Ghost to Falco, Christine Shields and Dead Western: 3/27
********* Portland-based Ghost to Falco has been around for about ten years. It began as the brainchild of Eric Crespo, and now includes a rotating group of musicians. Over the years, the band has “explored whisper quiet slow-core, minimalist string and analog synth composition, free jazz tinged post punk, death obsessed outsider folk, Morricone-esque expansiveness, [...]
Peck the Town Crier, Grex and The LURK: 3/26
********** Peck the Town Crier was created in 2005, when Chris Peck started performing outdoor poetry in San Francisco. He performs alone, but notes that he is not a “lone crier”– “A lot of badasses are involved in recording my albums, sometimes co-writing with me, always interpreting the songs I give them,” said Peck. “At [...]
Tarot Show
Our gallery exhibition for the month of April is the Tarot Show, which features each card in the Tarot deck made by a different artist. Stylistically, the artwork ranges from traditional Tarot imagery to the abstract, and includes paintings, drawings, collages, and photography. David Shoemaker, psychologist and past master of the Sacramento chapter of [...]
Blue Sky Black Death, Child Actor, 3 the Hard Way, Nick Bianco and Knox: 3/20
********* Blue Sky Black Death is a hip hop duo from San Francisco. They’ve been around for about 10 years and put out their first record in 2006 on Mush Records. “We rarely tour,” said the band, “so this is special to us and hopefully to fans.” The band recently coined their style as “glacial [...]
Cove, Low Hums and Gabe Mintz: 3/19
********* Cove is a new local band comprised of Scott Ferreter, Steven Cranston, and Charlie Dale. The band, which has only been around for a few months, was born out of Scott’s attempt to form a group in his native Sacramento after graduating from UC Santa Cruz. “It was a pretty haphazard process,” said Scott [...]
Awkward Lemon, TJ McNulty and Kevin Mason Hull: 3/16
******** Awkward Lemon is a local band comprised of Logan Phillips (guitar and vocals), Alyssa Mattson (lead vocals), Westin Harris (banjo), and Bryan Nichols (upright bass). They’ve been around for about two years, but have only been playing shows since last January. They started as Philips and Mattson cultivating a “genuine” singer-songwriter sound, and with [...]
