SATURDAY - great heavy show at Colony w/ Hazzards Cure Abstracter Augurs Cura Cochino + Xtomhanx. Some Fear None + Lonely Kings + Number Station + The Kelps + A Mile Till Dawn @Assembly.
Fayuca + Storytellers + First Place + Corduroy Jim@ Blue Lamp
Male Gaze + Persons + Nones @ Chillanova,Davis, all ages.
Dose of Adolescence + Cromwell + Assuming We Survive + Low Life Music + Vague Intentions @ Boardwalk, all ages.

crazy load of shows all over the sacramento area tonight -- starting at the 3500 block of Stockton - youve got Sick, Bloodscribe, Cerebral Engorgement, Killgasm in one room and Dottie Attie, Azeotropes, and Dad Punch in the other at the Colon complex. Legends all over downtown with English Beat at Ace of Spades, Junior Brown at Blue Lamp. Soft Science record release at Luigis w/ Desario. Motograter out at Boardwalk with Chernobog and more. And don't forget the FREE punk show at the Stag w/ The Strange Party + Concussion + Avenue Saints + Black Market Prophets + Dynamite Johnson.

Valentines Day Massacre action in Sacramento - starting in Davis its a night of Valentines hardcore with a Valentines day dance off in the pit with Another Mistake, Out of Time, Vitality, Crossface, and Downturn. Over at the Colony celebrate Valentines Day with Woolen Men, Darling Chemicalia, and MLTD. Luigis has Valentines madness with Plots, Dad Punch, and Quiet Smile while Old Ironsides brings you the Valentines love with Wolfhouse, Race to the Bottom and Cardboard Ringo. Over at Marilyns is a festive Valentines celebration (preceded by a speed-dating event) with SLippery Slope, STorytellers, and The Old Screen Door. And if that's not enough, its a night for lovvers at the Boardwalk with Metal Church, Solanum and more. Hope you get laid.

Friday night -- lots to do to celebrate the rain -- Alarms w/ Kushgrinder/Maidens Sorrow/Capital Bastard at Casa de Chaos, all ages. Bombs Overhead+Purification by Fire + Soliary Priapism @ On the Y. Stickup Kid + Second to Last + Indian Taker + Foxhound. Ghostplay + All About Rockets + Major Powers Lofi Symphony @ Old Ironsides. Devil makes Three and Brothers Comatose @ Ace of Spades. Drive safe, have fun, be nice.

Saturday night -- Ballistic Burnout + Simpl3jack @ Boardwalk. Kanes + The Radishes + Drive-Thru Mystics @ Blue Lamp, Noctooa + Dead Western + Halfpence and Haypenny @Colony. Jonah Matranga + Kevin Seconds @ Naked Lounge and big, free all ages KDVS 50th Anniversary Party @ Rock Band University.

Friday night -- another night full of really good shows - I count 5 - all with some sort of redeeming value.  At Bows and Arrows the last hurrah with Boats!, Charles Albright, The Four Eyes, and Hit Reset.  Over at Cafe Colonial, Rise Entertainment presents Another Damn Disapointment with Heroes at Gunpoint and Barfly The Bar Fly Effect.  Luigis Slice Fungarden has The Clutter Family Singers, Sac Storytellers and Capt. Captain Billy's Whiz Bang.  All of those are all ages.  For the 21 and up crowd Blue Lamp Sacramento has Memphis Murder Men and Rebel Punk, Old Ironsides has Whiskey and Stitches, Nickel Slots, and Tattooed Love Dogs.

Saturday night - Sacramento has an asston of shows dripping right out it's bunghole and down it's leg....At Luigis, all ages punk with The Moans/Community/Rebel Radio + Absent Minds from Portland who play cool melodic punk with a cello in the mix and it really works. Fine local punk over at Old Ironsides -- Left Hand/Avenue Saints/Losing Kind and MDL playing -- has MDL ever played Old I before. Cafe Colonial celebrates their beer and wine license with the mighty Maidens Sorrow + Stignob + Clinchfist + Archea. Over at Starlite Lounge -- Race to the Bottom/SWIM/Barfly Effect. Blue Lamp has a beach party with the refined surf sounds of the Lava Pups + Tiki Lounge Lizards and Funnicelos. Assembly has got Los Rabanes and La Noche Oskura. Busy city we be.

Friday night -- big metal bash at On the Y w/ Embryonic Devourment. Bleed ByExample, Hang the Kode, Dead in Seconds, 21+. All ages fun at Third Space in Davis w/ Abigails, Spirit Molecules, Donald Beamon, Bunnymilk. The Colony - Sacramento has Self-Proclaimed, Fighting the Future, Average League, all ages. !!! and Fine Steps over at Assembly Music Hall - I think that one is 18+.