Longtime alt-country stalwarts Old 97’s played Harlow's in Sacramento on Saturday night with fellow Texan Sarah Jaffe opening (see Sacramento Press article and photos on Sarah) . Old 97's are touring in advance of the release of The Grand Theatre, Vol. 2 on July 5. As has been standard for the shows in the last few months at Harlow's that this photographer has attended (North Mississippi Allstars, The Devil Makes Three, Trampled By Turtles), the packed crowd was extremely enthusiastic. And the band responded: playing over 25 songs in their set (including an extended encore) spanning their 18-year career

Twenty-four-year-old budding musician Sarah Jaffe will bring her folk-inspired guitar, soothing voice and Texas spirit to the stage at Harlow’s on Saturday as part of her summer U.S. tour opening for The Old 97’s, a folk band with a country twang and alternative edge also from Texas. Jaffe was noted as one of the breakout artists of 2010 by many nationally recognized publications, such as Rolling Stone and Paste Magazine, according to her management Stunt Company. She has also performed at Austin, Texas’, music-conference festival South by Southwest tour four times. Jaffe said she was encouraged by folk music at an early age and listened to Joni Mitchell and Patsy Cline growing up. This

Is bigger always better? That is the question that has been circulating the landscape of college football for the past few weeks in the aftermath of revelations that the Pac-10 conference had not so quietly been trying to lure several teams from other conferences to join its Pacific coast alliance. Teams that were initially mentioned to join the Pac-10 have included the usual suspects of Utah, BYU, Colorado, Boise St, and even Texas was thrown in the mix. For area college football fans particularly those fans and alumni's of Pac-10 town near you. Let the chaos begin now that the first two dominoes have fallen in the pond of reshuffling, as Colorado and Nebraska are leading the wave to gree

Energy Parametrics & Communications, Inc., the global leader in environmental-friendly power generation solutions featuring true smart grid and power management technologies, this week held a construction groundbreaking ceremony at its new Sacramento, California power management data center. The new west coast 51,400 sq. ft. power data management center is located in the North Sacramento/Del Paso Heights area, 2040 Railroad Drive, Sacramento, California. “Our new Sacramento data managment center will showcase our company’s proven products and services to create safe and reliable green energy generation and power systems management. The site will also serve to train industry professionals