Three to Stream: New music from Rituals of Mine; Farm Aid has powerful quartet
We’re devoting our usual “Three to See” concert space to rounding up some info on what local and out-of-town artists are up to as we continue to fight COVID-19. Hosting a show online or releasing new music? Message us on Instagram with details: @adavis_threetosee.
New album “Hype Nostalgia” from Rituals of Mine: Many Sacramentans may still think of them as Sister Crayon, the original name Terra Lopez went by as a brooding local upstart. Everyone else is quickly learning about Rituals of Mine, now the breakout moniker of Lopez’s indie-electronica project. “Hype Nostalgia” drops on Friday, September 25, with the haunting, ethereal video for “Trauma” out now — be prepared to be marooned in a jarringly sparse two-and-a-half minute abyss. “The line ‘trauma could never figure me out’ is an ode to myself and to the fact that despite the circumstances around me, I didn’t succumb to it,” Lopez says of the song. “I persevered, I continue to persevere. This song is for anyone that might resonate with fighting every single day to break the cycle.” Rituals of Mine will host a listening party at 7 p.m. on Sept. 25, and an album release performance at 7 p.m. Saturday Sept. 26., both on YouTube. www.youtube.com/c/ritualsofmine.
Farm Aid at-home (5 .m to 8 p.m. Saturday September 26): As is tradition, the legendary quartet of Neil Young, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews — all four are also members of the Farm Aid board — are your headliners for the annual Farm Aid festival, which is condensed this year into a tidy three-hour package of streaming performances. Their formidable war chest of supporting acts is likewise stacked with Black Pumas, Bonnie Raitt and Boz Scaggs, Edie Brickell with Charlie Sexton, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, Jamey Johnson, Jon Batiste, Kelsey Waldon, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, Particle Kid, the Record Company, Valerie June and The War And Treaty. The festival is an annual affair to raise funds for the organization, which since 2001 has raised more than $60 million to help build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. www.farmaid.org/festival.
Bonnaroo’s ‘Virtual ROO-ALITY’ (September 24 through 26): Bonnaroo is cracking open its formidable vault with streaming archive sets from the likes of Beastie Boys (2009), James Brown (2003), the White Stripes from 2007 and Jack White from 2014, Tears For Fears (2015), Run The Jewels (2015), Alabama Shakes (2015), Metallica (2008) and Dave Matthews and friends (2004). A host of new performances and appearances are also on deck from the likes of Chromeo, Big Gigantic, Bruce Hornsby featuring James Mercer of the Shins, Old Crow Medicine Show’s Bonnarootenanny, Caamp, Galactic, Devon Gilfillian and heaps more. There’s a heck of a lot more going on throughout this three-day event. www.youtube.com/user/Bonnaroo365; www.bonnaroo.com.
Sound Summit 2016 rebroadcast (7 p.m. Sunday September 27): Sound Summit, held annually in the wooded groves atop Mt. Tamaplais, is broadcasting chunks of its 2016 iteration, headlined by alt-country titans Wilco, who were (unsurprisingly) joined for a few songs that day by Grateful Dead frontman and Marin County fixture Bob Weir. The venerable Los Lobos, Bill Frisell, Matt Jaffe and fireballing Bay Area blues-rock standouts the Stone Foxes round out the lineup. The free-to-watch stream will be collecting donations to go directly to Bay Area musicians, via Sweet Relief. soundsummit.net.
