Sacramento loves music. With dozens of music venues and one of the largest rock and metal concerts in the nation calling the state capital home, it’s not hard to recognize the city’s adoration for the art form.
However, the city has never been particularly known for producing big names. Only a handful of musicians and bands hailing from Sacramento have found major commercial success. But this year at the Aftershock music festival, two of those bands returned to remind the hometown crowd what Sacramento is capable of.
Oleander, a rock band most popular in the late ’90s and 2000s, and Dance Gavin Dance, a beloved group with a mural immortalizing its name in downtown Sacramento, performed at Aftershock on Sunday.
Back on the home stage, 10 years later
The last time the Oleander crew looked out onto a crowd of Sacramento fans was more than seven years ago. In September 2018, they played a show at Thunder Valley Casino’s outdoor amphitheater in Lincoln…