What’s going on with the nightlife in Sacramento? Several clubs have gone out in recent years (first the Sacramento Capitol Club within the Downtown Plaza at 400 Capitol Mall, then the Sacramento Tuesday Club of Sacramento just to the east of the capitol city freeway at 1050 38th St, along with several others). Granted, before these clubs went out, they both went through unhealthy shifts in management, thus incorporating uninvited musical shifts across the board. These clubs apparently changed so frequently that they certainly did not leave a void for any signature style. Regardless, what musical style is “in” or “out” right now anyway? Who will be the next to go? And now what will become the growing fashion?
Also, does this indicate a decline in the Sacramento nightlife? That’s simply out of the question! Rather than understanding this as any form of loss, this face-lift needs to be understood more for its new or innovative or modern or even liberated artistic sense. Oh, what will be?
Let’s dig into the rudiments of the club scene: The Sacramento nightlife is always just one step behind SF—though even closer than the rest of Northern California, let alone the rest of the country—and LA accentuates a more individual “heart-beat,” if you will. So now I’ll rub my little Crystal Ball to see what ideals and patterns it will display to cast a bit of clairvoyance on the future…
Popscene, huh? Imagine a dance club centered around a band on a stage and there you have it. 330 Ritch Street in SF has become world-renowned as a pacesetter of this rock music medley that people can dance to, and it’s making its way. Off 3rd and Townsend streets in SF, walking distance from the AT&T park in San Francisco (“the Home of the San Francisco Giants”), this scene has set the pace for the innovative style to come. The Popscene lives on weekly at this SoMa hot-spot, 330 Ritch Street in San Francisco, were new Popscene sensations are presented every Thursday.
B David Ferrel
