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Dirty Beaches // Clift Hotel, 9pm $FREE (w/rsvp)

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01 Sepalcure // “Taking you Back (excerpt)”
02 PART TIME // “I Wanna Take You Out”
03 Ganglians// “Sleep”
04 Mikal Cronin // “Get Along”
05 Mikal Cronin // “Apathy”
06 Religious Girls // “OG”
07 Surf Club // “It’s True”
08 WHITE CLOUD // “Braised Cattle”
09 Blasted Canyons // “Death and a Half”
10 The Splinters // “Cactus”
11 Girls // “Vomit”

Several big announcements/reminders for the next few days….

* Saturday: is having a fundraiser at AfterLife boutique on Valencia (cross street 21st), from 8pm-10pm. and are both scheduled to play, so get there early and buy enough booze to keep the magazine afloat. They also have a set up to help them reach their goal. [].

* This Weekend: S-S Records 10 Year Anniversary shows Friday and Saturday (Bottom of the Hill), and Sunday (Hemlock Tavern). Read a little about the history of the influential Sacramento-based label , courtesy of Michelle Broder Van Dyke, who also blogs for our friends over at .

*The guys at had a chance to sit down with Merrill Gaubus of tUnE-yArDs in Oakland before she set off on her tour. Gaubus talks about thematic elements present in w h o k i l l, her wildly successful second album. She also performs a rendition of “You Yes You,” captured on Vimeo. (EDIT: If you are unaware of the great work video-art bloggers and SF-based YourTru.ly has already accomplished in the short time they’ve been operating, including a deal with Pitchfork to record SXSW this year, cruise over and check the website out now.)

* is selling half of which the tour took on tour to Europe. A day after our interview, The Bay Bridged about Innings and what growing up in Olympia means for the band’s sound today.

*Ty Segall explodes onto the national blogroll, with the new single “You Make the Sun Fry” from Goodbye Bread (album artwork above) appearing at , , . Read the with Pitchfork where he talks about how MTV killed Laguna Beach.

*Ganglians put out a trippy video for Jungle. There are aliens and other weird stuff. An early candidate for video of the year, it probably deserves a post of its own. Watch it below.

Stereogum had a small writeup on the Sacramento two-piece band today in which the writer of a less-than-favorable review of their album, There’s No 666 in Outer Space, meekly justifies his SPIN piece while simultaneously lavishing praise on the band’s new effort, a 10 track yet-to-be-named album. You can listen to the first track of the record, which could be described as a No Age jam session after a road trip listening to nothing but Amputechture, . The state’s capital, home to about 500,000 residents, has never been recognized as a hotbed of indie talent, and in some ways has been historically overshadowed by the small, yet vibrant music scene 35 miles south, in Stockton. In many ways I think Sacramento doesn’t really mind, and would rather play host to an underground tuvian throatsinging bluegrass metal scene than what most people would recognize as “indie” today. Which is not to say that you can’t see a good show in Sac — Blue Lamp, Fox and Goose, Old I are all more than decent clubs that book local indie acts and other bands slogging through central California.

Which is to preface everything that follows: several legit bands still call Sacramento home. Ganglians, , and , three bands hailing from the 916, have all been quietly churning out very listenable stuff, which in turn has fed into several of the larger Bay Area online music outlets that are eager to pick up anything from east of the Altamont. Ganglians in particular. Their third LP, Still Living, which would be an appropriate title of an article detailing the Sacramento music scene in general, has been featured on , , and other music blogs that do not claim geographical boundaries. “Refined weirdness” is how their sound has been described — not surprising considering the input of (who recorded Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca). You can listen to their single off the record, which was included in the April mix, below:

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Ganglians // Jungle

Still Living comes out 8/23. Preorder and maybe score one of the first 50 cassette tapes.
We probably won’t ever know why more bands don’t call Sacramento home, but it probably has to do with the fact that it’s 91 degrees today. And who the fuck wants to play in a garage when its 91 outside?

Listen to more Sacramento music below:

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Pregnant // Wiff of a Father

Appetite // Anonymous Citizens

01 Dominant Legs // young at love and heart
02 Animal Collective // brothersport (live at Great American Music Hall)
03 Ganglians // jungle
04 Nick Waterhouse // some place
05 Ty Segall // first heart mighty dawn dart (Marc Bolan cover)
06 A B & the Sea // care of cell 44 (zombies cover)
07 Nodzzz // is she there
08 Weekend // coma summer (speculator’s subconscious mix)
09 Thee Oh Sees // i need seed