Tim Montana, courtesy. SACRAMENTO — There are overnight successes, and then there are musicians like Tim Montana. The Southern rock singer-songwriter had been working in the music business for more than two decades. Burned out on the Nashville scene, he returned home to Montana believing he’d carry on releasing…

Holy Wars, courtesy. This week’s column offers lots of metal with Holy Wars and KYNG, Soft Play’s metal-tinged punk, Tim Montana’s country-tinged post-grunge, and rounding it out some pop by Alex Winston, an upbeat song of indistinguishable genre from Funke and the Two Tone Baby, and some new-wave by…