Red Ex Vol IV is the fourth annual one day music festival fundraiser hosted by The Red Museum in Downtown Sacramento. Our goal is to produce a great event for our community and to raise funds for our DIY artist warehouse space.
WHAT: Red Ex Vol. IV
WHEN: September 11, 2021 from 3 pm to 11 pm
WHERE: The Red Museum, 212 15th Street, Sacramento CA 95814
WHAT: Two stages of California-based music plus art installations, food, wine, creative cocktails, and local vegan food.
LINEUP: La Luz // DRUG APTS // DEFEM // Tre Burt // Camilia Covington // Joules Satyr (of Sea of Bees) // Ex-Heir // Kairos Creature Club // Eternity Hotline // Ego Death // Andrew Wayne
Headlining Red Ex Vol. IV is La Luz, the all-femme, indie rock trio now based in California. La Luz are experts at making earworms out of sonic contradictions. The music of Shana Cleveland (guitar, vocals), Alice Sandahl (keys, vocals), and Lena Simon (bass, vocals) is, at times, both atmospheric and driving, golden-hued yet weirdly morbid. Their songs interpolate everything from surf rock legends Dick Dale, Link Wray, and Takeshi Teracuchi to the airtight harmonies of the Ronettes and the funhouse organ crescendos of the B-52’s. When combined, these influences evoke the sight of a vast and glorious UFO overhead, as the beguiling music of La Luz pulls you in like a tractor beam. A new album on Sub Pop’s sister label Hardly Art is on its way this year.
Raw, raucous, and revelatory, Drug Apts has been shaking Red Museum’s walls since 2016 with their distinctive form of garage punk. Known for their primal energy, intense live performances, and throat-shredding vocalization of frontwoman Whitney Kebschull, this is the band’s fourth appearance at Red Ex. The four piece are currently writing the follow-up to their debut Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances.
DEFEM is a visual art and music project from Sacramento, comprised of former members of local heroes G. Green and Screature. Originally conceived as a weekly free-form jam session and artistic exercise meant to introduce new styles, techniques, and instruments to it's four members, DEFEM is the latest exciting entry to Sacramento’s rock lineage. They plan to release their first full length LP in late 2021.
Friend of the Red Museum, much has changed for Tre Burt since his last performance at Red Ex in 2018. Touring the world, signing to John Prine’s label Oh Boy Records, recording with Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, Nathaniel Rateliff), it is clear that Burt’s personal songs of personal affliction are resonating with audiences outside of Northern California. Tre will release his sophomore effort You, Yeah, You on August 27th, 2021.
Also returning is Camilla Covington, a local singer/songwriter and inarguably one of the most ascending contemporary artists in Sacramento. The key ingredient to Camilla’s sultry and sweet swoon? Her one-in-a-million vocal delivery that effortlessly weaves through beats, horns, guitar, even the occasional steel drum. Her debut EP Love Letters & Prophecies was released this summer.
New name, same exquisite soul... Joules Satyr is the latest moniker of the enduring local favorite Sea of Bees songwriter Jules B. Always poignant, candid, and arresting, this will be Joules’s first performance in over two years.
Kairos Creature Club is a collaborative music and visual project between Lena Simon (La Luz) and Gleen Michael Van Dyke (Boytoy). Their debut EP Join the Club is out this summer on Green Records & features performances by Lucas Harwood (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard), and Sarah Palin (One Sentence Supervisor).
Joining the lineup is the goth-tinged, minimal synth stylings of Ex-Heir, the modulated beat freneticism of Eternity Hotline, experimental electronic musician Ego Death, and the noise artist/theremin savant Andrew Wayne.
This event is ALL AGES.
Tickets are available NOW at our IndieGoGo campaign here.
