Of all the rotten luck!

The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslight Anthem.

Depending on how you look at it, either due to extreme good fortune or some severe karmic missteps in Sacramento’s past, Wednesday night held possibly the best night of live music in Sacramento’s history (for the indie pop/rock set):

  • Jenny Lewis at 6:30 PM at Empire
  • The Gaslight Anthem at 7:30 PM at the Boardwalk
  • The Hold Steady at 9:00 PM at Harlow’s

All three come highly recommended by basically anybody who has heard them. If it wasn’t for the Boardwalk being way out in Karma-knows-where, I suppose an enterprising hipster could have made all three performances (and then commit ritual suicide, obviously) but I think they probably had to settle for Ms Lewis and The Hold Steady and paying lots in cover charges.

For your listening pleasure, my favorite Hold Steady song, “Southtown Girls.” Hang on tight when the organ comes in:

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Author: CoolDMZ

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4 thoughts on “Of all the rotten luck!”

  1. Jenny Lewis is awesome but has never been a good live performer, so I’d go with The Hold Steady, who are AMAZING live. not sure if I can make it with the baby and all but I’ll try.

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  2. The first time I saw the Hold Steady perform live was when they were on Conan, and I was surprised by Craig Finn’s … what do you call it, stage presence. From listening I expected him to look and act kind of like Frank Black. They don’t sound the same but that’s the visual I got — subdued, drawly, low-key.

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