Photos by Tony Sheppard Smashing Pumpkins Crest Theatre September 6, 2010

First off, here’s a little reminder about Smashing Pumpkins at the Crest Theatre on Monday; Tickets.com indicates that the event is sold out, but some day-ofs may still pop up. Best to try the Crest directly for any hope of catching Pumpkins 2.0. Aside from that whopper of a local show, here’s the other fun on deck for your Labor Day weekend, after you pour beer on the coals and head out on the town! Chalk it Up Festival – Now, we certainly don’t want you to step over those awesome sidewalk drawings that our local conglomerate of chalk-stick Rembrandts will be spinning on Labor Day weekend – but, from a music standpoint, this lineup just keeps getting more and more awesome, and this year

When word first hit the streets that long time local promoter Jerry Perry was sitting on a video recording of Nirvana playing at the Cattle Club 20 years ago, it didn’t take long for friends in Sacramento’s music community to begin shouting “here we are now, entertain us.” “Everyone was asking me ‘can I come over and watch it’ or ‘can you burn me a copy,’” Perry said. “Everyone under the sun was saying ‘I’ll have a BBQ and you bring the movie.’ I probably turned down the BBQ invitation about four times.” “We did not want to let bootlegs (of the performance) get out everywhere, we wanted it to be really special and we didn’t want to exploit it,” Perry added. “So I thought, why don’t we ju

Yes, you read that headline correctly. The poster children for the alternative rock revolution of the early 1990's, and creators of one of the undeniably greatest double albums in history, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness," Smashing Pumpkins will perform in Downtown Sacramento at the Crest Theatre (1013 K St.) at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, September 6. Tickets for the general admission show are $40, and are available now at Tickets.com or Eventbrite.com. The Pumpkins' show, announced yesterday by Abstract Entertainment, now becomes the cornerstone of a red-hot Sactown September concert calendar that also features such gems as Mason Jennings (9/9), Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave (9/17),