Your monthly dump (of Fresno area concerts for August 2024)
There's Satanic bluegrass and a new album (release show) from Blake Jones and the Trike Shop.
I’m gonna start this week’s newsletter with a non-music entry, because I have a compulsive need to share this stuff.
Plus, it’s my content and I can do what I want.
So: Check out this new video part from skateboarder Andy Anderson.
It’s 12 minutes of insane stuff, but Fresnans should pay particular attention to the 8:07 mark, when Andy does a smith grind down the curved stair rail at city hall. It’s a gnarly trick, and if you don’t believe me, there’s a full detailing of it over at the Nine Club.
Now that that’s out of the way, here is a curated, sort of comprehensive list of musical happenings around town this month, broken up by week for sake of ease.
Feel free to add what I missed in the comments.
Extended week 1 (Aug. 1-10)
Ringo Deathstar, Taleen Kali, 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, Strummer’s. $21.12. All ages.
Supergloom, Family of Light, Falter, IO Access, 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, Great Room. $10. All ages.
Touch of Gravy, 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, Fulton 55. $16.
Kathy Kallick should be well known among fans of folk, bluegrass and old-timey musics. The singer and songwriter has been performing, recording and releasing albums both as a solo artist and with her band for four decades.
The band stops in Fresno, Friday, Aug. 2, to kick off a three day mini-tour. It plays at the University Presbyterian Church. Tickets are $25-$30. This show is presented by the Fresno Folklore Society.
Drake Bell, Christian Lopez, 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, Strummer’s. $29.36. All ages.
Babylon AD, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, Fulton 55. $20-$25.
Iwanaga, 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, Goldstein’s. Free.
No Hero, DevilLikeMe, South Sixth, Sleeping with Strangers, D.A.T.E., Hazey Autumn, 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, Destructive Warehouse. $10 at door.
Jazz at the library, Adam Moezinia Folk Element Trio, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, Woodward Park Library. Free.
Margaritas Podridas, Seven Asterisk, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7, Strummer’s. $13-$15. All ages.
Bad Mutha Suckaz, Things of Twins, Beautiful Desastres, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7, the Great Room. $10. All ages.
Local Launch, Eclipsa, Devil Like Me, Paris On Fire, Hazey Autumn, Sideprojects, Mind, 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, Full Circle Brewing. $10-$15.
NFG, Out of the Ring, Mantis Watch, New Old Man, 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, 559 Beer. Free. All ages.
Los Cafres, 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, Fulton 55. $55.
Foam Wonderland, Said the Sky, Dion Timmer, Yultron, Madgrrl, 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, Chukchansi Park. $35.
Kotton Mouth Kings, 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, Full Circle Brewing. $33.85.
Wild Child, Dave Brock’s Door’s Experience, 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, Tower Theatre. $31.62-$39.86. All ages.
Millionaires, Brokencyde, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, Strummer’s. $12-$15. All ages.
Week 2 (Aug. 11-17)
Paul Cauthen, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14, Tower Theatre. $52.22-$61.49.
Kiss Country Concert Series, Chris Lane, Drew Balridge, Ryan Larkins, Caiden Wallace, 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15, Rotary Amphitheater. $17.35.
It’s not exactly clear whether Satanic bluegrass is an obviously real, if not utterly niche, musical genre or something just specific to Missouri’s Pentagram String Band.
The band plays gothic folk music, mixed with punk and thrash metal and does have musical and thematic similarities to groups like Bridger City Sinner, Goddamn Gallows and the like.
If that’s your thing, the band plays 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15 at the Tower Theatre Lounge. Tickets are $13.08 and all ages.
This is one of several shows that’s been hosted inside the old Daily Planet space since new management took over the theater last year.
Wednezday, 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, Fulton 55. $17.85.
Total Distortion, Rancid Radio, 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, Strummer’s. $18.03. All ages.
Pesado, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, Saroyan Theatre. $97-$291.
7 Summers, a Morgan Wallace tribute, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, Tower Theatre. $26.50-$36.77.
Brews and Breakdowns, Tioga Sequoia local rock summer series, Red Keep, Fire to the Throne, Perception, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, Tioga Sequoia Beer Garden. Free. All ages.
Week 3 (Aug. 18-24)
The Illusions, Miriah Avila, Adrian Carmine, 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, Fulton 55. $26.95-$32.25
Valentino Kahn, 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 23, Fulton 55. $25.55.
Shadows of Summer tour, Past Self, Puppet, Vick Vapors, Radio Vampire, 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, Full Circle Brewing. $17.35-$22.53.
R&B Night Out, Keyshia Cole, Ginuwine, Frankie J, Chingy, Paul Wall, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, Selland Arena. $61-$261+
Young Dubliners, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, Tower Theatre. $26.47-$36.77.
Week 4 (Aug. 25-31)
August is a busy month for Blake Jones and the Trike Shop.
Early in the month the band will be down in Los Angeles performing at the International Pop Overthrow Festival. The festival has been running since the late ‘90s, with annual incarnations across the globe.
Jones has been a regular at the festival for years and played at Chicago’s Pop Overthrow in April.
The band plays Sunday, Aug. 2 at the Redwood Bar in LA. The show starts at 2 p.m.
Come mid month (Aug. 16), the band will release its new album “and still,” on digital platforms and physical media via Big Stir Records.
To celebrate, Jones and company is hosting a free record release party, 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25 at Fulton 55. It’s a friends-and-family kind of affair, with performances from the Jones and the Trike Shop, plus Sedan Delivery, Brazen Tassel Belly Dance, Chelsea Jones and the Terry Barnes Trio.
Both Ragin’ Records and Tower District Records have signed on as sponsors of the night and “promise to bring along a few crates of cool vinyl (beside the cool vinyl that is the new Trike Shop album)”.
The album’s second single “Mock Stoner Voices,” was released in June.
Steel Pulse, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, Tower Theatre. $38.83-$52.22.
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Sedit and South Sixth, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, Fulton 55. $25-$30.
Tribute of a Down, with Dave’s Not Here, 8 p.m. Friday Aug. 30, Fulton 55. $15-$18.
Tim Flannery and the Lunatic Fringe, 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, Clovis Rodeo. $65.87.
Sonny Coelho Band, a tribute to George Strait, 6 p.m. Friday Aug. 30, Engelmann Cellars. $20.
Ana Barbara, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, Saroyan Theatre. $71-$249+
Warped Tour Tribute Night No. 2, eight bands, two stages, 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, Full Circle Brewing. $15.71.
Definitely Dead, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, Rainbow Ballroom. $28.
That’s it for this week. Remember you can now hear me on the Homegrown Show Sundays at 8 p.m. on New Rock 104.1 FM. Follow my other writing at The Fresno Bee. If you have anything you think I need to be looking at or listening to, feel free to let me know: jtehee@gmail.com