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3 days ago
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Honey Hills Fest back with 4-day showcase of women-led bands
'Now read it in The Sacramento Bee/Ask your girlfriends and see if they know/Read it in the newspaper.' Thank you, Jack White, for that little shoutout at Channel 24 last week, in a crowd-amping shakeup of the lyrics to the White Stripes' seminal 'Ball and Biscuit.' We're flattered! Local artists, message Aaron Davis on Instagram if you have upcoming shows, @adavis_threetosee. The female-powered Honey Hills Fest is back for its sophomore installment, hopscotching to four different Nevada County venues (three in Nevada City plus one in Grass Valley) over four days. The multi-genre lineup is showcasing regional women and fem-presenting musical acts, and the festival is dedicated to promoting gender equality in the music industry. Razored-edge indie pop colorstorm Spacemoth (the enigmatic project of prolific sonic puppeteer Maryam Qudus, also a member of tingling 2024 Honey Hills headliner La Luz) joins Sacramento's post-punk rockers Clevers, haunted meadow traversing rock duo Witch Dick and Chaos Fiction for night one at St. Joseph's Hall in Grass Valley, while sultry electro-Americana-psych flamethrower (and former Gram Rabbit singer) Jesika Von Rabbit leads night two at the Fern with Everyone is Dirty and scandalously raucous MC5-influenced rock act Theya. Day three at Stardust Station has wistful cloud-surfing San Francisco rock outfit For Your Pleasure linking up with fellow Bay Area outfits Bad Tiger, Fieldress and Indianna Hale (you'll stop dead in your tracks and crank the volume for her spaghetti-psych diamond 'Hollow the Words'). Whimsical and endlessly captivating foothills folk duo Two Runner and high-desert honky tonk hellcats Noelle & the Deserters lead an outdoor lineup including Anna Hillburg, reverbing Oakland rockers the Stratospheres, Iona Swift and Artemis Arthur to close it out Sunday at Pioneer Park. Check out the fest's delightfully frenetic 'Honey Hills Fest '25 Official Playlist' on Spotify for a sampler platter of what's on deck (June 5-8. Also celebrating its second year is the one-day Pink Bandit Music Fest, an ultra-DIY fest with a loaded local lineup topped by whip-lashing guitar-driven alt-rock/dream pop act Rainbow City Park, which earlier this year offered up feisty five-song EP 'Fruitless.' Manicially sweat-pouring local rock staple the Snares — who scored the opening slot for the first of Jack White's two May Channel 24 shows — join Reno indie rockers Charity Kiss, ethereal hip-hop/pop artist Coco Simone, garage rockers Carport, jazz fusion ensemble Smally Big, Denim Nuns, Slow Pull, Riley Echo, chillwave standout Inner Nature and more to pack this lineup. There's also a side acoustic stage with a half-dozen artists including the likes of Aiko Shimada, Ludic Gal and others. It's free, with donations being accepted to help fund the artist-curated and -executed event (11 a.m. Saturday, June 7 at Auburn School Park Preserve. While we're looking east, we'll peek further up the hill to South Lake Tahoe — but you barely have to trek past 'the Y' for what we're eyeing. Tree-laden craft beer oasis The Hangar has dabbled in a couple of one-off al fresco shows from the likes of Rayland Baxter and the White Buffalo over the last few summers, so we figured they'd probably sprinkle in one or two more this year. Instead, they've gone absolutely bonkers with it, lining up roughly 20 gigs from big league indie touring talent, to the point where we can comfortably say that this is no longer 'a cool beer joint with occasional good music'... this is a venue now. On tap for June is a sold-out gig from funk-tickled dub reggae troupe Hip Abduction on June 7 and ethereally sprawling folk duo Rising Appalachia on June 8, followed by singer-songwriter and former Pentatonix member Avi Kaplan on June 13. July brings Ecuadorian-born indie artist Helado Negro (July 11), psych-surf darlings Allah-Las (July 19), indie rock heavy-hitters Whitney (July 20) and the dual-ego double bill of vintage soul scorchers The Altons and Thee Sinseers (July 31). Throbbing indie pop stalwarts STRFKR (Aug. 14), hot jazz/juke joint folk collective Dustbowl Revival (Aug. 15), atmospheric harmony-drenched folk duo Hollow Coves (Sept. 5), Arc de Soleil (Sept. 19, pay attention here, Khruangbin fans), Southern blues/roots royalty North Mississippi Allstars (Sept. 21) and more flesh out the balance of an eye-popping summer slate ( Back down the hill, it's lucky 13 for the Davis Music Fest, the mini-South by Southwest-styled weekend festival going strong since 2011 and spreading throughout a smattering of downtown Davis venues — your wristband gets you access to all of the sets. Friday music is concentrated on two stages at Sudwerk Brewing with Gold Souls, Boot Juice, Broken Compass Bluegrass and others, with Sunday set up at Delta of Venus with the likes of Tracorum, Object Heavy and more. Saturday has six different venues open for business with gilded San Francisco funkified brass battalion Mission Delirium and psych-pop miscreants Milk for the Angry, Davis indie folk rock standout Nat Lefkoff, L.A. Americana stalwarts Rose's Pawn Shop and a cavalcade of local favorites including Sacramento pop-punk royalty Dog Party (Jack White's Night 2 guest), Jakhari Smith, LabRats, Boca do Rio, Katie Knipp, Ten Foot Tiger, and tons more rounding out a weekend slate of more than 40 acts — check out their 'DMF 2025' playlist on Spotify (June 20-22. There has to be a spike in searches similar to 'who are the musicians in 'Sinners'' since Sac State alum Ryan Coogler's roots music-powered 'vampire' flick was released in April. For anyone who was trying to zero in on the bloodsucking yet soul-stirring siren 'Joan' from the film's ominously leeching folk trio, in real life she goes by Lola Kirke — initially an actress by trade, but of late a buried treasure of zesty throwback country and Americana. One could find traces from the film's centrifuge of Mississippi Delta blues (not acquired via fang) in her upstart catalog, but you would need to send feelers out in many directions across the U.S. of A. to unravel it all for the 'Country Curious' singer. Go north to Nashville, up east towards the plush and twanging Appalachians, probably swing over the dust-blowing Southwest, and likely other directions yet to be uncovered by the prodigious maven. Chloe Kimes joins the bill as Kirke tours behind her newest offering 'Trailblazer' (8 p.m. Tuesday, June 17 at Starlet Room. $26.40. 'Swamp preacher' sounds like a C-grade horror movie, but we're sticking with it as an apt descriptor for veteran blues and soul peddler JJ Grey & Mofro, rolling into Sacramento for the first time in four years in support of his most robust work to date, 'Olustee.' His band now bursting at the seams with backing vocalists and brass, Grey over the years has morphed from a keyboard-perched wailer to enigmatic pulpit-leaning leading man, fanning the flames of his ever-maturing breed of humid rock 'n' roll, grimy swamp blues and levitating soul. His take on John Anderson's 'Seminole Wind' will tell you what you need to know (8 p.m. Tuesday, June 10 at Ace of Spades. $64. A cheeky tradition always accompanying the delectable deluge of pork belly that is Sacramento Bacon Fest is the Kevin Bacon Fest, where a troupe of bands gathers at Torch Club to perform their renditions of songs featured in, or having connection to, a Kevin Bacon movie (six degrees, or some such). Getting footloose (zing) and fancy free will be locals World Champ, the Legion of Decency, Chase'n the Beat, California Stars and John Neko (9 p.m. Friday, June 6. $15. Assuredly, there are myriad possibilities for songs that could overlap both Kevin Bacon Fest and the following weekend's '90's Nite — which is exactly what it sounds like. Hosts Band of Coyotes cobbled a gnarly lineup of locals to offer their takes on '90's hits (if anyone refers to this as 'classic rock,' we're having words!), including Accidents at Sundown, Bad Barnacles, Swan Ronson, Tiger Shade, Moxie Barker, Lewd Jaw, E-Regulars, 33Black, Ruining Everything and Sundazey (8 p.m. Saturday, June 14. $15. A mishmash of punk and alternative rock veterans descends on the Starlet Room this month, lead by Dead Bob - the slashing, synth-tinged solo project of John Wright (former drummer of legendary Canadian act NoMeansNo), which offered up its debut 'Life Like' in 2023. They're joined by thundering supergroup UltraBomb, composed of Greg Norton, founding bassist for the generational Husker Du, former Social Distortion and Agent Orange drummer Derek O'Brien, and Soul Asylum guitarist Ryan Smith (8 p.m. Wednesday, June 11. $26.40. Speaking of Social Distortion and punk rock godfather Mike Ness ... the legendary act is at the doorstep of an almost unfathomable 50 years of virtually nonstop touring, and lands June 14 at Channel 24. The venue also welcomes meteorically rising country/Americana star Charley Crockett (June 8) and veteran country singer/actor Ryan Bingham with the wily Texas Gentlemen serving as his band (June 18,
Axios
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Green Day, Blink-182 and Weezer headline daily lineups at Riot Fest
Riot Fest is returning to Douglass Park this summer and treating its loyal fans to one-of-a-kind performances. The latest: The festival released its daily lineups and will mark its 20th anniversary by having 20 bands play full album sets. Friday, Sept. 19: Blink-182, "Weird Al" Yankovic and Alkaline Trio headline the evening. Saturday, Sept. 20: Weezer, Jack White and the Sex Pistols headline. Sunday, Sept. 21: Green Day, IDLES, Jawbreaker and Bad Religion. Zoom in: In addition to the headliners, Riot Fest announced the 20 acts that will play their iconic albums live in their entirety. Some of those include: Weezer: "The Blue Album" Sex Pistols: "Never Mind the Bullocks" Alkaline Trio: "Maybe I'll Catch Fire" Bad Religion: "Suffer" The Pogues: "Rum Sodomy & The Lash" The Hold Steady: "Separation Sunday" The Academy Is: "Almost Here" Helmet: "Betty" Smoking Popes: "Born To Quit" The big picture: Riot Fest has performed at several parks over its 20-year history, but has settled in at Douglass Park despite a rocky relationship with neighbors and the Chicago Park District. Earlier this year, the festival and the park district signed a multi-year deal that not only keeps the festival in Chicago but also promises over $4 million in park revenue, including $1 million for Douglass Park specifically.
Time Out
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Iconic punk venue CBGB is coming back for a one-day-only festival this September
A dearly departed piece of New York's punk past is being resurrected for one night only this fall. CBGB —the iconic East Village music club that helped kickstart the careers of many notable punk rock and new wave bands, including Ramones, Blondie, Television, Talking Heads, Dead Boys and Patti Smith Group, among others—has announced that it will be popping up once again as CBGB Festival on September 27 at Under the K Bridge Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. (The original CBGB shuttered for good in 2006 at 315 Bowery.) Presented with The Bowery Presents, the one-day gig—a 'festival for uplifting gormandizers,' per organizers, nodding to the old club's full name—will kick off the tunes at 3pm and feature 21 bands, many of whom previously rattled and rocked that historic music hall during its heyday in the 1970s and '80. Along with high-profile headliners Iggy Pop and Jack White, the lineup will span three stages with performers such as Sex Pistols, Johnny Marr, Lunachicks, Marky Ramone, The Damned, Melvins. But it's not just old favorites on the docket: 'The CBGB Festival celebrates New York City's gritty, sticker-covered past through the lens of the modern punk era, with a lineup bridging punk's origins to its future torchbearers,' proclaims the festival website. That means fresh-faced rockers like The Linda Lindas, Destroy Boys, Angel Du$t, Scowl, Pinkshift, Teen Mortgage, YHWH Nailgun and Lip Critic, among others, will also be taking the CBGB stage. Presale registration is open now at Presale begins Thursday, May 15 at 10am Eastern Time, with general ticket sales kicking off Friday, May 16 at 10am. Ticket prices range from a $73 'Young Punks' option (reserved for concertgoers under 24 years old) to good ol' general admission tickets starting at $149. Along with those mosh-ready musical sets, CBGB Festival will also feature vintage and new merch collections, loads of local food & beverage options, and expansive CBGB installations including relics from the original club. Check out more information at the CBGB Festival website.
Extra.ie
04-05-2025
- Business
- Extra.ie
I'm off home now ...to the car park -- campervan owners enjoying rural pubs taxi free
Campervan owners are parking up at rural pubs to enjoy a night out free of taxis and pricey beds, while more premises are looking to accommodate them to compensate for a dwindling trade. It comes as reported last week that the number of campervans registered in Ireland exceeded 20,000 for the first time last year. With Ireland criticised by motorhome owners for a lack of facilities compared to continental Europe, pubs around the country are offering their outdoor space as a rest stop for the night, either for a small fee or by asking visitors to spend money inside the business. Jack White's Motorhome Park, Co Wicklow. Pic: Seán Dwyer Jack White's Inn in Brittas Bay, Co. Wicklow, recently opened 35 serviced motorhome bays, where users can access electricity and water for a small fee, or can stay in the car park for free. Owner Tadhg Kennedy said many of the customers haven't travelled great distances, and a lot go away most weekends. 'I suppose they want to get out of the big towns, and it's a night out', he told Extra .ie 'It just wipes away taxis and some of the other nonsense associated with going out… yet it's somewhere different, and they feel they're away. They're in holiday mode, even if they're only here for one night.' Sarah Cooke, who owns the rental company Cookies Campers in Rathcoole in Co. Dublin, said there is 'definitely that trend where people are going to these pub stops to socialise together'. Tadgh Kennedy, proprietor of Jack White's Motorhome Park. Pic: Seán Dwyer She told 'Taxis are such an issue in rural areas. I definitely have friends who have campervans, and it's great—they can go to the local pub and park there for the night if need be.' Ms Cooke noted that campers are 'often quite social people'. 'They want to go somewhere where there's a bit of craic, there's a bit of music, there's good food.' Bri Delahunty, who has lived in his motorhome for eight years and set up the Facebook group Ireland Motorhome Pub Stops, said the relationship between pubs and campervan owners 'has become a two-way street'. 'The pubs themselves, when I spoke to them, said because of the dying midweek trade, they were welcoming and open to motorhomes staying,' he told the Campervans are becoming extremely popular in Ireland. Pic: Getty Images 'You will get tourists going in, even groups of motorhomes will turn up at a place, and then that whole place will be rammed for a night or two.' Mr Delahunty said members of his Facebook group 'will drive for four hours to a pub on the west coast of Ireland'. 'Some pubs have cottoned on and are providing live music and such. Anderson's Thatch Pub [in rural Roscommon] for instance – that guy gets up in the morning and leaves you fresh-baked baguettes and croissants, all for your €10 generosity donation. 'It's not compulsory but people pay. You don't get the mentality of somebody who is only staying overnight and just driving off.' He recalls spending €120 in a pub in Achill on meals and drinks, then spending the night outside. 'That was €120 that pub wouldn't have got, and it was out of season. When we spoke to the owner, he said: 'That's fantastic – that's why we support the motorhomes coming here.'' Colm Redmond of Johny O'Loghlen's pub in Cashel, Co. Galway, said the trade from campervan Situated along the Wild Atlantic Way, the pub is a welcome rest stop for plenty of overseas visitors. But many other customers are 'local people with campervans going semi-local' for their night out, Mr Redmond said. 'It means you're keeping the money in the area, or in the county. We have people coming from Westport, Castlebar, Achill, Galway?' Paul Dunne, who manages the rental company Rambling Rover Campervans in Slane, Co. Meath, said the pub stopover is 'a big revenue earner for the pubs'. 'The man that's rented the campervan will bring an egg and maybe a bowl of corn flakes for the breakfast, but he's going in and having a sandwich and a cup of tea in the pub, or eating a meal and having a few pints or whatever.' Mr Dunne said renting campers to go to music festivals in towns is now 'a massive thing'. 'They're all going to Nathan Carter or Mike Denver or whoever, staying in the pub or the hotel car park, and they're all going to the music festival.' The Connemara pub (which lays claim to the cheapest Guinness in Ireland at €4.50 a pint) has space to accommodate campers and will introduce facilities next year. 'We're only getting used to it,' Mr Redmond said. 'It seems to be a growing industry, and a lot of people are looking at the price of hotel rooms and they're saying this is a good alternative.'
Toronto Star
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
Electric Six, Alison Moyet, MJ Lenderman and more play Toronto
Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen St. W. Electric Six (Sat., 8:30 p.m.) Since releasing 'Fire,' their classic debut, in 2003, these ironic garage rockers (with early help from Jack White) have quietly — well, maybe not that quietly — released another 15 studio albums, comprising a fantastic, and often hilarious, body of work. Danforth Music Hall, 147 Danforth Ave. Alison Moyet (Mon., 7 p.m.) The venerable concert venue welcomes the voice behind Yaz's synth-duo classics 'Situation,' 'Don't Go' and 'Only You,' who's a terrific solo artist in her own right. MJ Lenderman and the Wind (Thurs., 7 p.m.) The indie-rock singer-guitarist tours his latest album, 'Manning Fireworks.' History, 1663 Queen St. E. Sharon Van Etten (Tues., 8 p.m.) With her backing band the Attachment Theory, the acclaimed American singer-songwriter purveys her brand of folky alt-rock. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne St. Lambrini Girls (Tues., 7 p.m.) The shouty British punk rockers deliver their abrasive, riot girrrl-inspired hits like 'Homewrecker' and 'Help Me I'm Gay.' Axis, 722 College St. Cheekface (Weds., 7 p.m.) The Los Angeles trio bring their quirky-cute indie pop to Little Italy. Lee's Palace, 529 Bloor St. W. Death From Above 1979 (Thurs., 7 p.m.) As part the club's 40th anniversary concerts, Toronto's legendary dance-noise duo celebrates nearly a quarter-century of making a racket.
