Viva Los Gigantes! October baseball is in full swing, friends, with the Giants gearing up for a pitching-heavy series against Flip-Flip-Flipadelphia that will probably feature less scoring than a church group ice cream social. Good news is, games one and two are on on early this weekend, so there's plenty of time to catch some tunes and a couple (more) adult beverages. Ozomatli - Ya se fue! It can be easy to moan about the sometimes spotty and inconsistent calendar of large name touring acts that pass through Sactown, but Ozo is one of those bands that consistently drops us some love, routinely playing an annual gig at Sac State’s Union Ballroom. “Fire Away,” released on April 20 (shock

Before we get into this week’s happenings, a quick observation from this weekend’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco: Jackie Greene just continues to get better and better. It really doesn’t seem like that long ago that the wiry young singer in his early twenties was our “next big thing” here in Sacramento, when he was playing regular gigs at Harlow’s and the Torch Club – but doesn’t every town have their own soon-to-fade “next big thing” going at pretty much all times. But now, here he is, playing a main-stage closing spot at a festival that drew an estimated 600,000 people. We tried to tag him as “the next Dylan” or stuff him into the bluesman category, but give Jack

The Grammy-award winning Latin fusion band Ozomatli will be performing at the Sacramento State campus, in the University Union Ballroom, on Oct 29.  Ozomatli's music is known as an urban-Latino-and-beyond collision of hip hop and salsa, dancehall and cumbia, samba and funk, merengue and comparsa, East LA R&B and New Orleans second line, Jamaican ragga and Indian raga, according to the band's website.  More than a decade ago, 14 years to be exact, Ozomatli formed in Los Angeles to play at a labor protest. Since then they have been involved with "community activist events, protests, and city fundraisers," their website states.  Ozomatli's indigenous LA music has been played by The Los Ang