Archive for the 'Music' Category

Zach Hill

By Tony King Photo courtesy of Terroreyes.tv

I’m just going to say it: Zach Hill is the most extreme musician in Sacramento. A self-taught drummer and founding member of the deconstructionist duo Hella, Hill has earned accolades and fans both here and abroad for his signature brand of hyperkinetic drum destruction. Read more »

Musical Chairs – Susan Moll

Sue Moll is a force of nature in feminine form (36-27-39, she informs us) who has been writing about music for somewhere over 13 years, Read more »

Nacho Business

By Tony King

As a rule, Sunday nights in Sacramento are chill at their best, and downright dull at their worst. As the drudgery of the working week waits just around the corner, most people usually opt to crack open a beer, Read more »

Musical Chairs, Trish Consunji

Trish Consunji is a writer, music nut and travel addict, so it seemed natural to combine all three in Travel to Music, a blog that was “part concert review and mostly personal concert experience.” Read more »

Paper Pistols

By Niki Kangas  Photo by Raoul Ortega

Ira Skinner runs a recording studio with local drum pro Matt McCord and mans the sound board at several local venues, including Luigi’s Fun Garden in Midtown. In fact, Skinner has eschewed the day job thing for seven years now, and is making a living hustling in the name of music Read more »

Musical Chairs, May 2011

Bill Hughes

We were stoked to get this submission from local author, poet and well-known Doors groupie William J Hughes. In addition to being an official ‘Midtown character,’ Bill is the author of a new novel, Salud, Read more »

Interview: Buk Buk Bigups

By Becky Grunewald  Photos by Scott Duncan

Buk Buk Bigups was a project before it was a band.  It was spawned in 2009 on the laptop of Aaron Zeff at a house on T street Read more »

Musical Chairs, April 2011

Daniel Barnes

This isn’t the first time SNR’s longtime film reviewer Dan Barnes has written for MidMo, but it is the first time he’s waxed on something not related to the Silver Screen for us. Read more »

Musical Chairs, March 2011

As soon as we scheduled a Food Issue there was no question who was at the top of our list for the issue’s Musical Chair: Aaron Moreno. If Moreno doesn’t sound familiar, odds are you may know his alter ego: bluesman Aaron King. Read more »

A Grand Night For Singing

By James W. Cameron

The twenty years when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ruled the American musical stage have been resurrected at Sacramento’s own Cosmopolitan Cabaret.  The result is a playful two hour romp in delightful music Read more »