Stuff you can hear:
Pepper tomorrow night (Thursday) at Empire at 15th and R. Also on the bill, Supervillians and Passafire. Sounds cool.
And Friday night, some very cool acoustic music from the fast-rising alt.bluegrass group Devil Makes Three, at the Blue Lamp at Alhambra and N Street.
They need no introduction, but Cheech and Chong have been gone long enough that you might need a refresher. They'll be at the Memorial Auditorium in Sactown on Saturday night. (And please, no "Dave's not here" references...I grew up on that sh*t.)
And finally, Disturbed headlines a headbanger's bill that also includes Avenged Sevenfold and Skindred, Sunday at Arco Arena.
Here's Disturbed doing a cover of Metallica's "Fade to Black," with Avenged Sevenfold following...
Never could get with the hypermetal beats, but what the heck...there you have it.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Monday, 19 January 2009
And Springsteen opening the whole thing
And this is what Springsteen doing "The Rising" looked like from the crowd. Nice perspective...
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Onward
This blog is slowly - ok, not so slowly - being eclipsed by other forms of media. But jeez, isn't that the norm these days?
Twitter, Facebook and now SacramentoPress.com are proving much more dynamic, and accessible, than this blog has been. In any case, I never much warmed to it. I may find that I go to it more for personal posts, but I may just let it die.
In any case, I have GREAT news to report: I just accepted (duh!) a job as Managing Editor of SacramentoPress.com. The site, only up two months, is doing what I wanted to do when I left The Bee - actually, before I left The Bee, but the Bee had other ideas (thanks, RickRod!) - and much, much more. And the two guys running this know the Web far, far better than I. But I'm learning a lot.
So, bloggingthegrid has done its duty to my career, if not exactly to Sacramento (though I like to think it contributed). If you haven't checked out SacramentoPress.com, please do, I think you'll find it interesting, in potential if not in fact. In fact ain't bad - I got a great interview with a guy at The Bee who is training the people from India who are taking his job back to Jaipur - but in potential, it's simply astonishing. And with the crew we are assembling there, it can only get better.
So, thanks very much for paying attention to BloggingtheGrid, and no, this is not goodbye = but my attentions will be even more on SacramentoPress.com, and I'm still covering state courts for Bloomberg News, and then there will be Insight again (soon, I hope) and who knows what's next? A new album?
Good grief, what am I thinking?
Twitter, Facebook and now SacramentoPress.com are proving much more dynamic, and accessible, than this blog has been. In any case, I never much warmed to it. I may find that I go to it more for personal posts, but I may just let it die.
In any case, I have GREAT news to report: I just accepted (duh!) a job as Managing Editor of SacramentoPress.com. The site, only up two months, is doing what I wanted to do when I left The Bee - actually, before I left The Bee, but the Bee had other ideas (thanks, RickRod!) - and much, much more. And the two guys running this know the Web far, far better than I. But I'm learning a lot.
So, bloggingthegrid has done its duty to my career, if not exactly to Sacramento (though I like to think it contributed). If you haven't checked out SacramentoPress.com, please do, I think you'll find it interesting, in potential if not in fact. In fact ain't bad - I got a great interview with a guy at The Bee who is training the people from India who are taking his job back to Jaipur - but in potential, it's simply astonishing. And with the crew we are assembling there, it can only get better.
So, thanks very much for paying attention to BloggingtheGrid, and no, this is not goodbye = but my attentions will be even more on SacramentoPress.com, and I'm still covering state courts for Bloomberg News, and then there will be Insight again (soon, I hope) and who knows what's next? A new album?
Good grief, what am I thinking?
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
A slow start to a great year!
It's a pretty quiet week coming up, with most nightlife activity based on the first Second Saturday of the year. There are some cool art shows coming up, and the new outlet of the Sacramento Bike Kitchen will open at 19th and I Streets. Get more info at SacramentoPress.com.
For music that night, my for-sure pick is the EP release party by Nice Monster, featuring singer/songwriter J. Matthew Gerken, one of the three men responsible for the brilliant three-CD concept album "Of Great and Mortal Men," a.k.a. The Presidents Album. They'll be playing the Fox and Goose on Saturday.
Other shows of note are all local bands, including a great double bill at Luna's on Friday featuring singer songwriters Ricky Berger and Chelsea Wolfe. Here's Ricky...
The local act named 20,000 will celebrate the release of its new CD at Java Lounge, also on on Friday night.
In San Francisco on Friday and Saturday nights, the Wailers will celebrate the anniversary of the release of the great album Exodus, by playing the whole thing live at the Independent. Minus Bob Marley, of course...
The big "name" event of the weekend is the three-day run of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, which is now almost 40 years old. That'll be playing at the Community Center Theatre Friday through Sunday.
And the first "battle" of the the Jammies series of "battles of the bands" will take place Friday night at Club Retro, the all-ages venue in Orangevale. That leads up to the big Jammies show at the Crest on Feb. 28. For a listing of the Jammies showcases, go here.
And that's just about it.
For music that night, my for-sure pick is the EP release party by Nice Monster, featuring singer/songwriter J. Matthew Gerken, one of the three men responsible for the brilliant three-CD concept album "Of Great and Mortal Men," a.k.a. The Presidents Album. They'll be playing the Fox and Goose on Saturday.
Other shows of note are all local bands, including a great double bill at Luna's on Friday featuring singer songwriters Ricky Berger and Chelsea Wolfe. Here's Ricky...
The local act named 20,000 will celebrate the release of its new CD at Java Lounge, also on on Friday night.
In San Francisco on Friday and Saturday nights, the Wailers will celebrate the anniversary of the release of the great album Exodus, by playing the whole thing live at the Independent. Minus Bob Marley, of course...
The big "name" event of the weekend is the three-day run of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, which is now almost 40 years old. That'll be playing at the Community Center Theatre Friday through Sunday.
And the first "battle" of the the Jammies series of "battles of the bands" will take place Friday night at Club Retro, the all-ages venue in Orangevale. That leads up to the big Jammies show at the Crest on Feb. 28. For a listing of the Jammies showcases, go here.
And that's just about it.
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