Take a million-dollar inventory of LPs, CDs and DVDs, arrange them on several 80-foot-long tables and place them into a 10,000 square foot room for three days. This is the recipe for Capital Public Radio's (CPR) annual Used Record and CD Sale. It will commence on Friday night with a "Preview Party" from 6 - 9 p.m. For a $20 cover charge, people can get a jump start on the musical feast while enjoying live music, food and wine. On Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., the public can dig in for free and search through the leftovers. It all takes place in suite 172 of the "Howe 'bout Arden" shopping center at 2100 Arden Way. All-in-all there will be approximately 45,000 vinyl records

The Annual Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee is a Sacramento tradition that conjures up summer, swinging, and saxophones. This year's festival, the 36th annual, will feature 600 jazz artists from all over the United States and the world, including the Count Basie Jazz Orchestra, a number of featured performers and about 60 sponsored bands from all over the stylistic map. With 24 venues total, 19 in Old Sacramento and four at the Sacramento Convention Center, the whole shebang kicks off Thursday night at the Radisson Hotel from 8-9 p.m. The concert featuring the 17-time-Grammy-winning big band will be streamed live on Sacramento's Jazz Station, KXJZ 90.9. Tickets are $45 in advance, $5

Getting cutting edge rock music onto the airwaves has been a struggle since the days of “free form” FM radio’s birth in 1968. Hearing David Bowie on rock radio in 1972 was as rare as hearing U2 in 1982 or Radiohead in 1995. And Flaming Lips? Forget about it. Being young and into what has been called “alternative” rock (before it became a marketing term), Nick Brunner understands this. And like many before him, he is a tireless crusader for bands like New Pornographers and Shins and Pavement, bands who don’t get on the radio. Fortunately for Brunner, and for Sacramento music fans, Brunner works at Capital Public Radio’s KXJZ (90.9 FM), the local affiliate of National Public Radio. Though pr