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Sacramento’s music history, sourced and cited. A field guide to the venues, artists, events, and institutions that shaped the scene.
Researched by Jason Pierce · Updated continuously
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Bret Bair
Bret Bair is a Sacramento music-venue owner, operator, and talent buyer who, in partnership with Eric Rushing, founded and ran several of downtown Sacramento's most prominent live-music venues, including Ace of Spades and Goldfield. He is described as "one of the forces behind the music venues Ace of Spades and…
Bryan Nichols
Bryan Nichols is a Sacramento-scene musician and organizer best known as the frontman, lead singer, and guitarist of the local jam band ZuhG. Beyond performing, he operated a Sacramento music store, booked live shows, and founded recurring local music events, making him a connective figure across the city's jam,…
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Daniel Taylor
Daniel Taylor is a Chico, California drummer who has performed in Northern California heavy and post-rock bands that toured through the Sacramento scene, including West By Swan and Cold Blue Mountain. He is documented as a drummer rather than as a Sacramento native, and his bands originate from Chico, placing him in…
Danny Secretion
Danny Secretion is a Sacramento punk musician and scene figure, best known as the drummer and a vocalist of the long-running local band The Secretions, which he co-founded in 1991. His legal surname is Reynoso — he performs and is widely known under the stage name "Danny Secretion." Beyond the band, he is recognized…
DJ Rated R
DJ Rated R (real name Ron Florente) is a Sacramento turntablist, DJ and hip-hop producer who came up through Sac State's student station KSSU and became a fixture of the local hip-hop scene as the DJ for the crew Live Manikins, a member of the production crew The Sleeprockers, and the touring partner of rapper Random…
DJ Whores
DJ Whores was the stage name of Daniel "Dan" Osterhoff, a Sacramento DJ, club-night organizer and bass-music selector described by Submerge as one of the city's most elite turntablists, best known for running the long-running Midtown dubstep-and-bass night Grimey. Submerge reported his death on April 8, 2017, noting…
Drew Walker
Drew Walker is a Sacramento musician and live-sound engineer who has been a recurring presence in the city's experimental and DIY music scene, best known as a member of the experimental rock band Gentleman Surfer, as the house sound engineer at the Midtown venue Witch Room, and as the organizer of the venue's farewell…
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Jerry Perry
Jerry Perry is a longtime Sacramento music promoter, talent buyer and club operator, repeatedly described in Submerge coverage as an "icon" and "OG" of the local scene. Across decades he has booked clubs, free outdoor concert series and even political rallies, and is treated as a load-bearing figure connecting young…
Jess Gowrie
Jess Gowrie is a Sacramento-scene drummer and vocalist whose career threads through a long list of local and touring rock projects, including Red Host, The Drama, I'm Dirty Too, Horseneck, and the touring band of Chelsea Wolfe. A fixture of the Sacramento music community, she is repeatedly framed as a longtime local…
Joe Johnston
Joe Johnston is a Sacramento recording engineer who runs Pus Cavern, a local recording studio that became a go-to facility for the region's rock, punk, reggae and indie acts. Before his engineering career he was an active local musician, playing in Sacramento bands such as 58 Fury and Target in the 1980s.
John Baccigaluppi
John Baccigaluppi is a Sacramento recording engineer, producer and studio owner, and the publisher of the recording-industry magazine Tape Op. For roughly two decades he ran the Sacramento recording studio The Hangar, and he has been a central behind-the-scenes figure in the local music scene as a producer and mentor.
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Robert Cheek
Robert Cheek — sometimes credited as Robert "Flossy" Cheek — is a Sacramento-based record producer, engineer and mixer who became one of the city's most-used and most-respected studio hands across the late 2000s and 2010s, frequently working out of The Hangar studio. He is also an active musician, playing in the bands…
Roger Carpio
Roger Carpio is a Sacramento DJ and club-night promoter, best known as the longtime co-resident of Lipstick, an indie-dance night at Old Ironsides that he and Shaun Slaughter ran together for over a decade. He is repeatedly identified as one of Sacramento's local DJs and was a fixture across several of the city's most…
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Sean Stockham
Sean Stockham is a Sacramento drummer and vocalist, best known as one half of the hard-rock duo Middle Class Rut (MC Rut) alongside guitarist/vocalist Zack Lopez. The pair are repeatedly identified as Sacramento natives, and MC Rut became one of the short list of local bands to find mainstream success beyond the…
Shaun Slaughter
Shaun Slaughter is a Sacramento DJ, club-night promoter, producer, and flyer designer who became one of the most prominent figures in the city's indie-dance and electronic nightlife scene, best known as co-founder of the long-running dance night Lipstick. Over more than a decade he ran or co-ran a string of Sacramento…
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Wes Davis
Wes Davis is a Sacramento-area music photographer, videographer and musician who has documented and participated in the local music scene across multiple roles, associated with Beatnik Studios. He co-founded the local music-video project Live in the City of Trees and later became a founding member of the indie-folk…
Will Swan
Will Swan is a Sacramento guitarist, primary songwriter, and label head, best known as the founding guitarist and main creative force of the Sacramento post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Dance. He also founded the independent label Blue Swan Records and co-founded the multi-band supergroup Sianvar, making him a connective…
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