#sacramento punk

[alexbackwards0-0]

Attack Of The Hooligans! - 3AM

[thatbandlightweight]

2022 East Coast Tour • Chicago

[rockinshots]

Pierce the Veil was explosive at Hard Rock Live in Wheatland.

📷 @rockinshots @piercetheveil @piercethevic @hardrocklivesac @mnprmagazine @soundcheck_sf

[briannacarmel]

I'm coming back to this platform bc I accepted twitter's fate.

If we've never met, or if it's been a while, hello, my name is Brianna Carmel, I am a DIY singer-songwriter with a folkpunk soul, who also sings in a sadcore indie pop band called Blooming Heads (photo from our most recent show seen above). Based in Sacramento, CA. Our biggest accomplishment so far was probably opening for Crywank when they stopped at the Starlet Room, during their first ever US tour back in August.

This is a photo of us with Jay from Crywank. They are a sweetheart. :)

I happened to have just put out a solo EP of three ukulele tracks, thanks to my bandmate from Blooming Heads, Josiah Masteller, who did the recording, mixing, and mastering for all three tracks. I'd also like to shout-out my friends @xahferd and @lokeigh for helping me with the gang vocals on the second track. This might be the solo release I am the most proud of.

It's currently bandcamp-exclusive, but I'm going to get it up on spotify, youtube music, etc., in the near future. In the meantime, you can stream it there, and if you really like it, you can buy it digitally for $3 (or more, if you're feeling especially generous).

Also, I book DIY shows in the Sacramento-area! I have for years under the moniker 916 Growth Gigs, I work with bands and artists from a lot of different genres, and I have connects at a couple all ages DIY venues, a 21+ venue, and when the stars align just right, I occasionally throw a house show. I like to throw acoustic shows at local parks as well, as seen above, but it's November, so I probably can't do that again for a while, lol. If you want to book something with me, DM @/916.growth.gigs on instagram :)

If you want to keep up with me elsewhere--bc I will probably remain on twitter until it collapses--I have a carrd with all my socials (including my Patreon, which is only $2/month).

Thanks for reading! Have a lovely day/night.

[enbycatboidick]

Fun testing out new outfits today ♡

Any pronouns

Terfs and Minors dni

[little-tiny-knife]

this is a video of us playing our song roll up your sleeves at luna’s cafe here in sacramento

[bloomingheads]

We have one gig before we officially take a break from playing shows to focus on recording our debut album.

We're opening for King Strang, of the Bridge City Sinners, at Cafe Colonial on Sunday, January 29th.

We play The Colony a lot, but this is our first time in a looong time playing the Cafe side, since November 2021 for that year's Fuck Cancer series. Here's a snap from that show, taken by our good friend, the legendary Danny Reynoso.

Another friend of ours, Ash Bricky, is also sharing the stage with us. This is a live video of his cover of Ke$ha's Your Love Is My Drug, which you can also listen to on his latest album.

But I digress... Here are the show details:

Doors open at 7pm. Presale tickets are $12, which you can find here. The cover charge at the door will be $15 on the day of the show.

We're gonna be the saddest band at the folk punk show. It's gonna be sick. Come party with us for the last time in a while. 💖🌺

[loveceline]

Listen to my boys dope ass band 🤘🏽😤🤘🏽

[mywifeleftme]

16: Twinkeyz // Alpha-Jerk

Alpha-Jerk Twinkeyz 1979, Plurex

The Twinkeyz were a late ‘70s Sacramento garage rock band orbiting guitarist/singer/songwriter Donnie Jupiter. They cut a couple of singles in '77 and '78 and the Alpha-Jerk full-length in '79. The LP apparently suffered from mixing and mastering issues, and it disappeared virtually without a trace, taking the band with it. Jupiter would spend some time in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s playing bass in the even more obscure act Lizards, while also building a career in comics under his birthname Don Marquez. The Twinkeyz’ faint legend lingered though; their debut single “Aliens in Our Midst” is a regular on gay punk compilations, and they’re occasionally cited as a forerunner of queercore acts like Pansy Division.

The Twinkeyz were a B-movie Velvet Underground, laconic, witty rock and roll sweatered in primitive synth warbles and (to quote Scott Miller of Game Theory) “enough guitar effects to stun an elephant.” The lead guitarist (presumably Jupiter) is often the only one who seems more than minimally competent, and (although the songs on Alpha-Jerk were drawn from different sessions) the mix uniformly sounds like it’s thudding from a blown speaker. If the choice to self-produce robs Alpha-Jerk of a professional sheen, they also get to do a lot of stuff most producers wouldn’t allow. Nearly every track is studded with odd noises and found sounds, giving it a hand-made texture that suits the peculiarity of the music.

As with Suicide’s Alan Vega, the thing that makes Jupiter’s blunt songwriting distinctive is that it feels like an indoor kid’s idea of cool teenage music. “Strange Feeling” approximates then-current new wave pop, but the flatness of its affect seems to imply having feelings at all is the strange part; “Sweet Nothing” pulls the archetypally dumb garage move of ripping off the title (and nearly the melody) of a more well-known song, like they were trying to recreate “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’” from memory after dad broke their copy of Loaded over his knee. The lyrics about love, UFOs, psychic powers, and cartoons are obviously cute, but sometimes a sick sense of humour peeps through. Referring to weird psych as “bad drug” music in a well-worn cliché, but it’s the right description of “Alpha-Jerk,” a discordant dirge that could be about a kaiju or the Book of Revelations. The noises in the mix resemble the work of a crow leaving shiny bits and bobs on a tombstone.

It's all very good stuff for anyone with a taste for wimpy garage rock, but “Aliens in Our Midst” stands hips and knees over anything else here. The lyric cleverly mixes yarns about literal aliens with uncharacteristically direct anecdotes about queers and weirdos who “turn out okay” despite shitty circumstances, creating an anthem that is sentimental, bleakly funny, and ultimately hopeful in the exact ratio I adore. The campy call and response vocals in the chorus, Plan 9-ass guitar tone, subtly counterintuitive riff… it’s the stuff abductions are made of.

16/365

Sidebar: Cartuneland.com, the bizarre website of Donnie Jupiter (AKA Don Marquez)

As noted, Jupiter/Marquez mostly switched to illustration after the collapse of the Twinkeyz, and he's still selling his art on eBay. His own site, Cartuneland.com, is bewildering and uncanny in the way webpages end up when a brand outsources its content management to an overseas SEO firm. Samples of his fantasy paperback-style art are interspersed with bland stock photography, and the structure of the site is clearly based on a corporate template—only Marquez isn’t advertising himself as a freelancer, and the site isn't connected to his eBay page. The contact and social links are variously empty or broken, and the links to his past comics direct to Wayback Machine-captures from an Angelfire-era version of the site the artist probably built himself.

Strangest of all is the blog which, shockingly, has two posts this month alone—both of them about the Bodhran, an Irish hand drum. Of the six total posts on the blog as of this writing, two of them are interviews with Marquez. The others are ChatGPT-quality posts about general topics in music (e.g. “Connecting literature to art”; “What is a tin whistle?”) and a peculiar first-person story about learning to play the flute, all credited to someone named Rachel George. The idea was probably to pad out the blog with keyword-laden content to help the site become more visible to search engines, but to what end? Is Marquez really all that bent on becoming the most visible hit on “Don Marquez music” or “Bodhran for beginners”? You wouldn’t be able to tell from the interviews, which feature terse answers from the former Twinkey, such as:

Q: Many of your creations are based on classic horror and sci-fi films from the 1950s.

DM: I wasn’t trying to be retro.

Q: What’s missing from the current cinema that makes old films so memorable?

DM: Horror is a broad genre. Horror is a vast genre.

What we’re looking at here is most likely a Fiver contractor’s unfinished attempt to turn Jupiter’s website into a place to sell his original art, but as it stands it’s an oddly perfect web presence for a 73-year-old garage micro-legend and purveyor of swords ‘n’ tits fantasy. If anybody finds Question Mark’s Livejournal, please drop a link in the comments. And Donnie, if you're reading this, get in touch and I will fix your website for cheap!

[valkaes]

Im a motherfucking Beamer Boy

[dotknifehead]

a couple of shots from the gig this weekend

[nugothrhythms]

“Mirror Twin” by Sacramento, California-based solo darkwave artist Harsh Symmetry

Though this is a single release, it will be featured on his solo album, Display Model, which will be released August 10, 2022

[rockinshots]

Bert McCracken of The Used, turned up the heat 🔥🔥 at Hard Rock Live in Wheatland.

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[briannacarmel]

Okay. Time for a new pinned post.

My name is Brianna Carmel. I'm a 25-year-old musician (mainly a vocalist) and DIY show promoter from Sacramento, CA.

My main project is a sadcore indie pop band called @bloomingheads, consisting of myself and my dear friend Josiah. We have been active since late 2018, and released our debut EP in January 2021.

Our biggest achievement so far is probably opening for Crywank on their first US tour, at The Starlet Room in Sacramento.

My personal favorite show we've played that there is footage of, is the going away house show we played for our dear friend Autumn (Otto) Sky Hall, who moved to Pennsylvania near the end of last year. This is me gushing about how much I love them as a segue into the first song we ever wrote.

Our next show is on January 29th at Cafe Colonial, opening for King Strang, with our friend Ash Bricky as another local opener. You can buy presale tix here.

I also recently joined Josiah's main project, a chiptune folk punk band called Little Tiny Knife (formerly known as Wayne Jetski). There's technically three of us, but our bassist Jim is currently away doing Real Adult Things™️. He's a cool dude tho, we share a birthday.

Here are screenshots from a video @xahferd took for us, during our most recent show at The Hatch in Stockton, CA.

I can't quite put into words how much finally joining this project means to me. Like, I have a fucking Wayne Jetski tattoo. Josiah's music is the reason we know each other, I've genuinely loved it for years and it's the reason I asked them to start Blooming Heads with me. I've never earned a spot in a band I love before. It's truly an indescribable feeling.

Here's a video of us playing with Jim during a Halloween show last year. This song is called "Long Division." Josiah was a target employee, Jim was bananarchy, and I was... A spooky doll girl...??? Idk okay I was just vibing with makeup

I'm also a solo artist when I'm not busy with anything else--I like to call myself a singer-songwriter with a folk punk soul. I've been writing on my own for fun since 2014 or so.

Here's a live session I did at Warm Robot Studios, inside The Library of Musiclandria, to promote my single that I released in September, "Skeletons."

My most recent release, "Building Blocks EP," was released on Bandcamp Friday in November. There's only proper live video of the first track, "Alone Again." (Shout-out to High House!!)

The EP is made up of three tracks, and can be found on spotify, bandcamp, and many other streaming services.

And, last but not least, yes, like I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I am a DIY show promoter. If you've ever been to a show in the Sacramento-area with "916 Growth Gigs presents" on the flyer, that was me. My main venue connects include The Colonial Complex (Cafe Colonial/The Colony Sacramento), The Library of Musiclandria, Golden Bear (21+), and the occasional house show or acoustic show at a park. I am on a hiatus of sorts for the moment, but plan on dipping my toes back in soon.

If you're a fellow DIY musician, especially if you're touring thru Sacramento, let's be mutuals! Even if I can't book you, I love making new friends. 🥰

[enbycatboidick]

I love this look

Any pronouns

Minors do not interact

Terfs chew gravel challenge.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

INDIE GIRLS JUST WANNA PLAY IN A TWEE BAND -- CLASS OF '93.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Sacramento, CA-based indie/twee-pop band TIGER TRAP, performing live at Brownies in NYC, c. Autumn 1993. 📸: @lauren_a_krohn.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3308515145981337498.