Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

Sacramento's missing middle venue finally arrived, built from the ground up by the promoter behind Outside Lands. Channel 24 at 1800 24th Street in Midtown opened on 24 April 2025 with a Tucker Wetmore show, the first property entirely conceived, designed and executed by Another Planet Entertainment - the Bay Area independent whose portfolio spans the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, Oakland's Fox Theater, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, The Independent, the Castro Theatre and the Outside Lands festival. The project replaced a demolished 25,371-square-foot electrical supplies warehouse with a purpose-built 40,517-square-foot performance hall developed alongside SKK Developments. The name is a triple pun the promoters happily admit to: the 24th Street address, the 24-channel mixing boards that are a music-industry staple, and "channel" as an electrical term nodding to the warehouse era - with a bonus river reading in a city defined by two of them. The market logic was simpler: Sacramento had clubs like Ace of Spades at 1,000 capacity and the Golden 1 Center arena, but nothing in between, and APE president Allen Scott said artists had been asking for an appropriate mid-size room for twenty years. The 2,150-capacity layout delivers a flat general-admission floor, a balcony level mixing reserved seats with multi-tiered standing rails, multiple bars with food service, a VIP room and an upstairs open-air patio - impeccable sightlines being the design obsession throughout. The first season's booking showed the venue's pull immediately: Jack White, Cake, Interpol, Raye, Empire of the Sun and Death Cab for Cutie all played the room within months of opening, alongside comedy, podcasts and corporate events two to three nights a week. The Midtown site seals the fit: steps from the 23rd Street light rail stop on the Gold Line, surrounded by the neighbourhood's restaurant and bar grid, giving California's capital the walkable, big-league concert room its growth had long demanded.