Whitmore has consistently carved his own path, honoring the longstanding tradition of folk music throughout his nearly 20-year career, while always allowing his blues, soul, and punk rock influences to shine through. The venue offers a meeting space with a maximum capacity of 1000 guests. Still living on the same farm today, Whitmore has truly taken the time to discover where his center lies, and from that he will not be moved. Ace of Spades is located in the heart of the hip and historic R Street Corridor in Downtown Sacramento. With his powerful voice and honest approach, Whitmore comes from the land, growing up on a family farm in Lee County, Iowa. A man armed only with a banjo and a bass drum can be a formidable force, especially if his name is William Elliott Whitmore. His seventh album Kilonova (2018) is different from everything else in his catalog, a collection of 10 cover songs from artists who have influenced his 15 plus-year career. His songs are haunting, rustic, powerful, and real – byproducts of living his entire life on the family farm, being involved in the hardcore-punk scene in the local community, and touring hard across the country. He has released six full-length albums that seamlessly meld country, blues, folk, and punk styles – spanning from 2003’s Hymns for the Hopeless (Southern Records) to 2015’s Radium Death (ANTI-). William Elliott Whitmore is a singer-songwriter/banjoist/guitarist/drum-stompin’ solo act from Lee County, Iowa. The overriding sound is an amalgamation of textures ranging from dark and desolate to upbeat and brightly melodic, all of it landing somewhere under the orchestrated indie rock umbrella. The personnel and ingredients of the group consist of Sarah Balliet’s throaty cello melodies, singer/guitarist Adam Turla’s booming baritone vocals and brawny guitar strumming, drummer Dagan Thogerson and bassist Matt Armstrong’s locked-down, post-punk rhythm section interplay, and Scott Brackett’s (formerly of Okkervil River and Shearwater) multi-instrumentalist bag of tricks (including piano, trumpet, accordion, mandolin, vocals, percussion). What resonates most with supporters is the band’s energetic, unique, and altogether consistent sound and conceptualized vision. touring and performing ethics, and, most importantly, a dedicated, cult-like fanbase. While many of their formative-year scene-mates failed to make it much further than campustown’s borders, Murder By Death translated their anonymous beginnings into a 10+ year career founded on a bedrock of five full-length albums, tireless D.I.Y. Murder By Death’s path began in the early 2000s as most Midwestern college-town groups do, by playing to small crowds at ratty venues and frenzied house parties.

But behind the geography and moniker is a band of meticulous and literary songwriters matched by a specific brand of brooding, anthem-riding balladry and orchestral indie rock. On the surface, Murder By Death is a Bloomington, IN quintet with a wry, ominous name. Ace of Spades Parking Lots, Sacramento, California, USA Tuesday, J6:00 PM. Official website: Murder By Death, William Elliot Whitmoreįacebook: Murder By Death, William Elliot Whitmore

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