Local Sacramento bands The STiLTS and The Stenographers will play their last show with frontman and Sacramento native Christopher Fairman at Luna’s at 8 p.m. Saturday. Fairman has played guitar in The STiLTS since it formed in 2008, and bass in The Stenographers since it formed in 2009. But the bands will be one man short after Fairman moves to Austin, Texas on Dec. 27 to pursue a career as a musician. “Not in a bad way but (Sacramento) is not the place to be. “When I first started playing music people always said ‘You never know who’s going to be in the audience,’ and that was true for a few years,” Fairman said. But he said that’s not the case anymore. “It’s not very beneficial for

Neil Young is on borrowed time. He’s had brushes with death ranging from childhood diabetes to epilepsy to a major brain aneurism that nearly killed him in 2005. Instead of killing him, it gave us all “Prairie Wind.” Not to mention that the ol’ rock and roll lifestyle isn’t exactly marketing material for your average life insurance firm – and Neil has been a part of it for the better part of a half-century. Such is the continuing cycle of one of the true legends of rock and roll as he celebrates his 65th birthday, which was on Friday. In commemorating “Shakey's” birthday, Jerry Perry did what he does best on Saturday night at Harlow’s and arranged a troupe of local acts (with a little h

Playing music outside is like playing to the ocean, local musician Kate Gaffney said. "If you're standing near the ocean, anything that's ever bothering you, you can just toss it out into the sea, and the sea will just engulf it and you won't have to worry about it again." On Friday, the Philadelphia-native singer/songwriter will be headlining Concerts in the Park. Opening for Gaffney are Boulevard Park, West of Next and Christopher Fairman & The Stilts (click on links for MySpace). Gaffney first visited California during a college internship, instantly deciding it was the place for her. After earning her bachelor's degree from Penn State, she moved here and took a job at Sacramento Coun