Interviews

PSYCHOSOMATIC’S Jeff Salgado – “We’ve worked for everything we have and don’t like asking bigger bands for shows.”

After four successful tours across the country and a small handful of West Coast tours, the band has become a veritable headliner without ever having proper distribution or a significant record label to help finance and back tours. As luck would have it, they will start yet another five-week trek directly following their upcoming CD release show at Blue Lamp.

New Conquer Divide Video Interview In Sacramento, California

“We wanted to stay true to our roots” explains Kristen, guitarist. “Everything we’ve written comes from a real life experience. Music, like any art medium, has always been a form of catharsis for us, its all about trying to take something negative that happened in your life and turn it into something positive. And we’ve had a lot of pent up anger to get out on this record. But we did our best to move past those issues and turn them into something for the greater good, because, I think, the whole idea is, if I can’t heal from my art, how can you heal from it?.” “Yeah, we’ve poured our hearts into this record and we really hope people can connect with it on some level” Sarah adds.

New Glug Interview And Performance Footage At Valdez Family Benefit Show in Sacramento, California

As most of you know, Sacramento has all come together for a Memorial Benefit for The Valdez Family in memory of Sally Nava on Friday, July 17th at The Starlite Lounge in downtown Sacramento. Sally is the mother of our dear friend Randall (Randy) Valdez, who was a native of the Sacramento area and great friend to many of us in the music scene. Randy passed away in August 2010, his mother Sally passed away in April of this year. When Randy passed, he left behind three children, two of which went to live with Sally. This benefit was to support them in any way we can.

New Gift Giver Interview @ Ace Of Spades – Sacramento California

GIFT GIVER is the latest uncompromising, no-fucks-given gang of hard-living party animals to emerge from one of the world’s most notorious urban landscapes, Detroit. Alice Cooper, MC5, Iggy & The Stooges and iconoclastic controversy magnet Madonna are just a few of the firebrand rabble-rousers birthed in the fertile soil of Michigan, which famously gave the world the middle-fingers waving Eminem and Kid Rock, as well.