On Friday, June 27, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento Fire Mountain was rocking as Sacramento’s hardcore rock band, Dance Gavin Dance, delivered a thrilling performance to a sold-out crowd.

We didn’t really care for it. We didn’t have a message, but we knew we didn’t like that stuff. Some of the underground punk stuff we liked. We didn’t understand it, but we liked it.

Entertainment Drummer, founding member of popular hard rock band dies at 63: ‘We’ve all lost our center’ Published: Jul. 09, 2025, 8:02 a.m.