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dive in It Takes Two Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com For decades, duos have made their marks in the world of music. Sure, it’s nothing new, but I think there’s something to be said for the duos dominating the scene (Beach House, Japandroids and of course The Black Keys). Right now, some of the best music simply is coming from bands with two core members. It’s undeniable that certain standout duos have a remarkable working chemistry, which leads to incredible songwriting.

Such is the case for the band on our front cover, Middle Class Rut. This awesome twosome can and will blow your mind. With Pick Up Your Head, Zack Lopez and Sean Stockham bring forth their second full-length rock album.

After sharing the advance copy around the office, I’m already getting a feeling it will end up on our best-of yearend list. Unfortunately for you, their label recently pushed back the release date until June 25. Trust me, it will be worth the wait.

Traditionally Lopez and Stockham play live as a twopiece, and if you’ve ever seen them perform, it’s hard to believe all that sound comes from just two guys. However, gearing up for their upcoming tour, they will be setting forth with a full band. Don’t miss your chance to catch them for free again this year at Concerts in the Park in the Cesar Chavez Plaza on Friday, May 10. On page 12, you’ll find our interview with Lopez where he discusses working with a full band, why he hates South By Southwest as well as how and where Pick Up Your Head was written. You’ll also be able to find our second part of the MC Rut interview with Stockham on our website’s front page (Submergemag.com).

Sure, adding a backing band can have its challenges, but so does the relationship/dating/married factor for many duos. It seems to be a bit more rare, but if you love someone and you both possess the skills and talent to make/play music, why the heck not do it together?

Kisses, a Los Angeles duo also featured in this issue, are dating, but more importantly they are making incredible indie-pop music. They have a simple and clean sound with a definite ‘80s influence. They’re an up-and-coming band that you shouldn’t miss play in Sacramento on May 13 at Midtown BarFly. From my recent Facebook lurking, it seems like they’ve also added a drummer for this tour. Read our interview on page 16 where Jesse Kivel discusses L.A., how Kisses came to be as well as their new album, Kids in L.A., which comes out the day after they play Sacramento.

I’d like to end my column by telling you how not two, but four guys (Shawn Remy, Adam Beltz, Darin Morgan and Josh McCann) road their fixed gear bikes from Portland to San Francisco. Eight hundred and four miles later it’s funny to think that it’s really not about the destination but clearly the journey along the way. Local filmmaker and bike mechanic Bobby Gee went along to document the trek last summer, and now their short film called No Coast will be premiering at Hot Italian on May 11. Starting on page 20 you can find out how No Coast came to fruition, what day was the hardest on their journey and also get a glimpse into their passion for cycling.

Just a friendly reminder: May is Bike Month and the weather is nice so if you haven’t already, go rediscover your love for cycling whether it be solo, as a pair or in a big ol’ pack.

Read, bike, laugh, and have fun.

Enjoy issue #135, Melissa-Dubs

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It’s back, and it’s all good! GOOD Street Food and Design Market returns this Sunday, May 5 and continues every first Sunday through December. Great news: GOOD is free.99 this year, it was only like $3 for entrance last year, but still, free is always better.

GOOD goes down at 1409 Del Paso Boulevard (just north of Arden Way, across the street from the ice skating rink) and features a plethora of unique finds from carefully chosen local vendors as well as farms offering fresh produce, hands-on DIY workshops, food from street vendors, live DJs and more. Call it a “modern day marketplace,” as their website, Gooddesignmarket.com, so properly put it. When Submerge visited GOOD a couple times last year, we ended up just chilling out and having a drink after perusing through all the vendors’ stuff. That we did not want to just up and leave says a lot about the market. On May 5 look forward to a DIY Tequila Workshop with local bartender extraordinaire Andrew Calisterio; handmade jewelry, purses, accessories and more from Paisley Frills, JUST, Ten Four Goods and others; fresh handmade scones mixes, jams, jellies and more from Flour Girl; designer toys from Dragatomi; organic fruits and vegetables from Feeding Crane Farms and so much more. There’s a little something for everyone, and now that it’s free, there’s no excuse not to check out GOOD at least once this year. See you out there!

Portland, Ore. rock band with heavy Sacramento ties Ape Machine is releasing their third album Mangled by the Machine on May 14 via Ripple Music. The album will be available one day earlier in the United Kingdom. “A conceptual album that mixes animal aggression and technical precision,” says the album’s press release, “Mangled by the Machine carries an organic depth and warmth rarely heard since the time of rock’s glorious early years, and infused with an exceptional modern sensibility.” Mangled... according to the same press release, was recorded as one long continuous track in one take (how badass is that?) and will be broken up into 10 “chapters” when listeners get their hands on it either via vinyl, CD or online as a download. Mixing good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll with blues, stoner rock and psychedelia, Ape Machine is not to be missed when they play Blue Lamp on Thursday, May 2, especially if you’re a fan of bands like Black Sabbath, The Sword, Quicksand and Soundgarden.

Later in the month, Ape Machine heads overseas for a number of appearances at rock festivals and renowned venues, so don’t miss your shot to see them in Sacramento. Keep an eye out at Facebook. com/apemachinemusic or Apemachine.com for more information, future tour dates, etc.

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The great folks behind Davis Music Festival recently announced this year’s lineup as well as the venues that will be involved in the two-day shindig, going down on Saturday, June 22 and Sunday, June 23 at more than a dozen Davis venues such as Delta of Venus, Sophia’s, Central Park, City Tavern and more. New this year is the inclusion of the Mondavi Center as a DMF venue, a major score for the small, burgeoning music festival. There are more than 50 artists scheduled to play throughout the two days, both regional and touring, ranging from hard-hitting metal acts like Black Mackerel and Horseneck to folksy-indie bands like Chico, Calif.’s Surrogate and Sacramento’s darlings Sea of Bees. Singer/ songwriter JD McPherson (who Rolling Stone labeled an “artist to watch” just last year) is one of the larger billings on the alphabetically listed flier that DMF uploaded to their website (Davismusicfest.com), as is John Vanderslice, Jon Langford, and Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express.

The actual schedule that announces who plays when and where has yet to be released, so keep an eye out on their website and at Facebook. com/davismusicfest for more information, but for now, fans of live music might as well just block off June 22 and 23, becuase Davis is where you’ll want to be!

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An Evening with Yo La Tengo • May 12 Even though their sound generally fits the bill, to call Yo La Tengo an “indie band” would be a great disservice to the legacy they’ve built over their nearly 30-year career amongst their cult-like following. Members Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew have forged their own path, landing on critics’ best-of lists countless times, playing the world’s best concert halls and festivals as well as the diviest of dives. Earlier this year the group released their 13th album, Fade, and it is being hailed as one of their best albums in years. See Yo La Tengo live on Sunday, May 12 at Harlow’s (2708 J Street). Tickets are just $20 in advance, available at Harlows. com. Show starts at 9 p.m. and is 21-and-over. For more information on the band and to sample some tunes off of Fade, visit Yolatengo.com.

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Bust out your best derby attire—or hit up local boutiques if you don’t have any—and head to the Kentucky Derby Buffet at Cal Expo’s Miller Lite Grandstand on Saturday, May 4. Wager in style and watch the sure-to-be exciting 139th running of the Kentucky Derby via satellite while pigging out on tons of great food and beverages. Breakfast will be served from 7:30 a.m. until 11 a.m., when it will switch to a lunch buffet until 3 p.m. Tickets are $34 per person and doors open at 7 a.m. Call (916) 263-3279 now to reserve your seat in the clubhouse or view Calexpo.com/events/ kentucky-derby-buffet for more information.

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Inside Amy Schumer: The Live Tour • May 2 Amy Schumer is easily one of the fastest rising female stars in comedy. Her girl-next-door looks meets raunchy comedy routine has worked out well for her. She’s been on all the late-night talk shows (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Conan, etc.), featured in the biggest publications (Rolling Stone, The New York Times, etc.) and her one-hour stand-up special, Mostly Sex Stuff, was Comedy Central’s second-highest rated special last year. On April 30 her own show (also on Comedy Central) premiered called Inside Amy Schumer (you can watch the hilarious first episode at Comedycentral.com/ shows/inside-amy-schumer). For the last couple of months, Schumer has taken her act on the road, and on Thursday, May 2, she’ll be at Crest Theatre, located at 1013 K Street. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $32.50 before fees, available online at Tickets. com. This would make for a fun night out with a group of friends or a great date night, although probably not a great first date as most of Schumer’s material deals with sex and other generally awkward topics that might just be too weird for a new couple. Or, heck, maybe it’ll be a good show for new couples to attend. Might as well just get those morning-after-pills-jokes out of the way early!

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“CycloFemme” Mother’s Day Bike Ride on the American River Bike Trail • May 12 What better way to spend Mother’s Day than on a leisurely bike ride on Sacramento’s beautiful American River Parkway bike trail? May is Bike Month in Sacramento (check out Mayisbikemonth.com for tons of info and to log your cycling miles) and with it comes many cool events promoting cycling in our city, one of which is being billed as “CycloFemme” and is aimed at celebrating women in cycling. On Sunday, May 12, starting at 9 a.m. under the Guy West Bridge (the giant red-ish suspension bridge that spans across the American River near Sacramento State’s campus), organizers and riders will cruise up the nicely paved trail, taking a break at William B. Pond Park from 10 a.m. to about 10:30 a.m., so you can also join up with the group there if you’d like a shorter ride. From there the Mother’s Day bike crew will keep peddling, ending up at the Sunflower Drive-In in Fair Oaks around 11:30 a.m. You’ll ride anywhere from 12 to 27 miles, depending on if you take the whole ride. But don’t be discouraged, you can ride however far you’d like, so grab your cruiser, mountain bike, road bike, whatever (don’t forget Mom!), just get out there and ride!

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The Optimistic Pessimist It began with the P’Zone.

The ‘80s were over and the pizza game had grown stale. Round Table was overcharging for greasy slices, Domino’s was a pile of shit and Little Caesar’s was giving away free pies like it was bread and circuses, 24/7. Pizza Hut and its funky pan crust managed to remain in the middle of the pack, but the shareholders were getting antsy and this new-jack, Papa Murphy’s, was starting to pick up steam. Pizza Hut needed a game changer.

They decided that a new pizza architecture was in order; one “designed for that go-go ‘90s lifestyle.” The Board of Executives voted to bring chemists, biologists, physicists, psychologists, mathematicians, engineers and the entire population of a small town in rural Kansas together for a grand experiment, the results of which have never been released to the public. But, there are rumors.

For example, on the first day of the experiment, one of the psychologists asked the CEO if he hadn’t already considered making calzones. The CEO had never heard of a calzone and upon finding out that it was

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a pizza folded in half with the edge sealed, he had a heart attack and died on the spot.

You see, Pizza Hut had just invested a lot of dough in this experiment and this know-it-all psychologist had solved the problem in less time than it takes to deliver a pizza.

The public was left with Pizza Hut’s version of the calzone, the P’Zone, so named in respect of the dying wishes of their nowformer CEO. Unfortunately for Pizza Hut, the public’s appetite for a folded over Pizza Hut pizza wasn’t much better than it was for a regular Pizza Hut pizza. The recovery from the death of their CEO and another lukewarm offering was tough, but Pizza Hut still had some tricks up its sleeve.

The experiment in that small Kansas town had never stopped, and Pizza Hut had learned a lot over the years. For their next big offering, Pizza Hut showed the world that it could put cheese in the one cheese-less place on a pizza: the crust. The country’s collective cholesterol skyrocketed. Type II Diabetics couldn’t find their insulin fast enough. Sales of Lactaid went through the roof in a vain effort to contain the cheese overload. Pizza Hut had a hit and the board

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While the public ate cheese-stuffed crust, they unwittingly subjected themselves to the early stages of what Pizza Hut privately referred to as its, “Multi-Integrated Cheese Engineering” (MICE) technology. Cheese-stuffed crust was only the beginning; Pizza Hut had grander designs in mind. The new goal was world domination through pizzafication, and we are finally catching a glimpse of what the MICE tech can do.

Pizza Hut calls it the Crazy Cheesy Crust Pizza and it looks like a regular pizza, but it’s surrounded by cheese-filled pockets baked right on to the sides. It’s unclear whether the word “Crazy” in the name implies that the consumer will go crazy eating the pizza or that Pizza Hut is admitting that it is run by lunatics, hell-bent on destroying the world. Neither outcome is very promising and both are probably likely.

Rumors have leaked that Pizza Hut has the technology to alter brain chemistry through the insertion of cheese pockets, but the company isn’t stopping there. Pizza Hut has plans for pizza hats that make you appear taller and more savory and pizza cubes that can be built into, well, pizza huts. Before you know it, we

will be living in shanty towns made entirely of pizza where we will be forced into hard labor in factories making pizza AR-15s and stealth pizza bombers for our Pizza Hut overlords and their war machine.

For some of you, living in a pizza world sounds like a dream, but remember the pizza you’re surrounded with will be Pizza Hut’s. Plus, there is no way you will get to pick what job you do. You might luck out and get a cool job like dough-tosser, but what if you end up being the guy or girl who has to kill cats and dogs every day for pepperoni meat? Will you like being paid in lumps of cold Italian sausage, because that is probably what will happen.

If we don’t stop this now, the Kansas experiments may eventually lead to Pizza Hut breathing consciousness into giant pile of pizza who will eventually become an intergalactic gangster and call himself Pizza the Hut. But you don’t have to take it from me; it’s been foretold in the 1987 Mel Brooks classic Spaceballs. We cannot let this happen!

We must stop this madness now. All we have to do is refuse to eat Pizza Hut, which is actually pretty easy since it’s not very good anyway.

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Picnic Day has a rich reputation. Going on its 99th year, Picnic Day is believed to be the largest student-run event in the United States. UC Davis students begin planning for this infamous day months in advance, practicing to perform their talents and strut their stuff. Speaking of strutting their stuff, this past Picnic Day hosted the 26th annual Fashion and Design Society Fashion Show, Threads in Motion. Set in Freeborn Hall, fashion design majors are given the opportunity to showcase their handmade, hand-dyed signature collections.

Designer Faye Lessler started off the show with her environmentally conscious collection.

Lessler’s fashion philosophy and inspiration stem from social revolutions that used fashion as way to obtain social change in the world.

Inspired by this century’s Green Revolution, Lessler used non-toxic vegetable dyes and upcycled old clothing to create earth friendly pieces that will eventually become standard practices in commercial fashion.

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Rachel Law’s Hawaiian inspired collection was all about the details. After spending four long months pleating, dyeing and stenciling all of her garments by hand, Law described her experience as “the most rewarding feeling [to finish] and [see] all my outfits on the runway.”

The traditional Hawaiian iconography brought a diverse beauty to the show.

To end the show was one of Davis’ most meticulous designers, Faizan Dar, whose edgy collection focused on color and structure. His quality, multi-layered dyed fabrics had an exotic, animalistic quality, with the strong shoulders adding a contemporary feel to the classic silhouettes. Every designer brought something new and creative to the runway, making for a chic Picnic Day!

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Middle Class Rut pushes their sound forward on their sophomore LP Words James Barone • photo Emily Ibarra ophomore records have traditionally been a litmus test for bands, especially those like Middle Class Rut, who burst onto the national scene with a surprisingly successful debut. The Sacramento-bred duo of Zack Lopez (guitars/vocals) and Sean Stockham (drums/vocals) turned heads nationwide with their debut full-length No Name No Color, led by its infectious lead single “New Low.” Now, nearly three years later, the band is back with Pick Up Your Head, a thickly layered and bruising collection of 14 high-powered rock tracks crafted out of an almost hip-hop mentality.

MC Rut introduced their new album via the single “Aunt Betty,” a grinding, beat-driven rock track punctuated by an almost grungy big guitar riff and crashing layers of percussion. If “New Low” poised MC Rut for pop success, this track seems to be a bit of a 180. It’s no less catchy, but carries with it a rough, noisy power that may make mainstream radio listeners raise an eyebrow. “‘New Low’ was such a fluke thing,” Lopez said in a recent interview with Submerge. “Most of the people who know us by that song, once they bought the record, [they discovered] it was a hell of a lot heavier than that song.”

He went on to say that “Aunt Betty” is “more true” to what MC Rut usually does as opposed to their bestknown song to date.

“We have ‘New Low’ type songs, we’re always going to have those songs, but they’re not the biggest part of this band,” he said. “We love loud, heavy rock music. You end up using the tool you can reel the most people in with in the hopes they’ll get exposed

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to other shit and be into your band for the long haul.”

Though the two songs may have their differences, “Aunt Betty” and “New Low” were created from a similar place. Both feature nontraditional percussive elements, something that forms the backbone for much of Pick Up Your Head.

“All of the percussion beats were built at my mom’s house with her pots and pans,” Lopez explained. “I have an old school desk that she got for me in the fifth grade, and hardwood floors—anything we could find, we’d put it in a big room with high ceilings and put a microphone to it, and it sounds really good.”

Experimenting with rhythm isn’t something new for the band, but they took it to a higher level on their new album. Many of the songs were built rhythm first, Lopez related, saying they began with a beat and built instrumentation on top of it.

“We’ve always been stuck in that, taking a riff that sits in a good pocket and looping it for four minutes,” he said. “It’s always been our thing. We took that to an extreme level on this record.”

The result is a diverse and exciting album. Pick Up Your Head is both intelligent and primal, able to pummel listeners with precision. To recreate the album live, Lopez and Stockham opened MC Rut up to new musicians, and will take a five-piece band on the road this year. Their first go as a full band took place at this year’s South by Southwest. Both Lopez and Stockham took the time to answer our questions on MC Rut’s exciting new album and direction. You can read our conversation with Lopez here and look online to our newly redesigned website (Submergemag. com) for our companion piece with Stockham.

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What are you up to? Just chilling out today?

Yeah, I just got to our old Elk Grove studio that’s now turned into a fucking basement for storing shit. I’m trying to clear out some stuff, get some gear together.

What’s it like being in the old studio again?

It’s the place we started practicing when we were maybe 14 years old. That was like 15 years ago or however long it’s been. Slowly we’ve pushed ourselves out of it by storing 15 years worth of different bands’ gear and studio equipment. Now it’s to the point that we can’t even rehearse in it any more. I’m doing my own thing here, getting my singing in, getting my voice strong before we get on the road again, before the whole band starts rehearsing.

You’re putting together a whole band for the upcoming tour. Are you excited about working as a full band?

Yeah, we did a full week with those guys last month at South by Southwest. The hardest part was just finding them and trying them out. Even at that point, you still have to go on stage and live in a van with someone. It’s super hard. It’s like trying to get married after a first date. You don’t know what’s going to happen. These dudes are really cool, and we’re touring all of May and into the end of the summer, so we’ll find out real quick what works and what doesn’t.

How did SxSW go for you guys?

It was good. We tried at all costs to avoid it. It’s probably our least favorite thing in the world to do. We can’t stand it, but every year someone talks us into the fact that it’s a good thing for us to do, for whatever reason, and we just cave and go, “Alright, we’ll do it.”

It was fun. It was the first shows we did with a full band, playing the new record. In that case, it was a hell of a lot better than any other year we’ve played it. We’ve been off for a while, so it felt good to be out and playing new shit and doing something different.

Is the negativity in your songs just a way of getting it out, or do you see yourself as a negative person?

Yeah, I think whether I like to be or not. I didn’t start writing lyrics until six years ago. It’s not like I’ve been writing my whole life and have all this shit to get out. I was fortunate enough to hear melodies and kind of fill in the blanks with words. You don’t even realize what you’re writing until maybe you listen back to the songs. Clearly something’s going on in there whether you know it or not. But I’m not the most positive person. You could ask anyone [laughs].

“When you decide, OK, I’m going to be a singer. I want to be a writer. A lot of people want to do that, but I wouldn’t be good at fooling myself. If I wrote something I thought was shit, I wouldn’t put it out at all.

I’d be too insecure to.”

– Zack Lopez, MC Rut

What do you dislike about SxSW the most?

I get what it’s for, but for a band like us, I don’t see the use. We went there when we were first breaking out of Sacramento, and it made sense because we needed an agent, we needed management, we needed all that stuff. It’s kind of a place you go to gather tools. But at this point, we have all that. We have a label, we have a record that’s done. We don’t see the point because 5 percent of it are real music fans. Any music fan can’t afford to get a badge or whatever they need. You’re essentially playing in Hollywood. You have a bunch of people with their arms crossed staring at you. They’re not necessarily into it, you’re not necessarily into that scene and you’re both wondering why you’re there. We’re just burnt out on it, so we just need to do something else.

We talked about how the songs on Pick Up Your Head came from a rhythmic place. Did that change the way you write your guitar parts at all? It almost sounds like you were building the songs backwards.

Yeah, man. I would get a song done to the point where I’d do two verses and two choruses, and I’d say, shit, normally Sean and I would be staring at each other and trying to jam out what the bridge was going to be, but in this instance, you’re able to listen back to the song we have and go, alright, from a listener’s perspective, what’s going to make the coolest change versus what’s going to be the funnest to play. It’s hard to balance out, because sometimes what’s the funnest to play isn’t always the funnest to listen to. We found that all of our favorite songs that we have done weren’t necessarily the funnest to play, but they were the funnest to listen to. It changed the way I was writing a whole lot, but it was more fun. I felt way more freedom.

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I was checking out the lyrics to “Aunt Betty,” and there seems like a lot of hopelessness in the words.

Aunt Betty is just this weird person who’s been around in our lives.

Every time we see an insane woman, I don’t know why, but she’s always been Aunt Betty. She’s been a constant. She’s really no one, but she’s always been around. It’s always seemed like a fun name to sing. When I was jamming that riff over and over again, the first thing that came out of my mouth was “Aunt Betty,” so I just rolled with it. You can’t help but put yourself into whatever you’re writing. Anyone who knows this band knows that I’m coming from a similar place. I’m not the most positive person on the planet.

All you do is write what you know and whatever feels…honest. I thought I was branching out by writing something I wouldn’t traditionally write. It ended up, like, it’s a little different, but it still sounds like me.

Are you surprised by some of the stuff you come up with?

Maybe more so before. I was just grateful I had something to say at all.

When you decide, OK, I’m going to be a singer. I want to be a writer. A lot of people want to do that, but I wouldn’t be good at fooling myself. If I wrote something I thought was shit, I wouldn’t put it out at all. I’d be too insecure to.

I saw in your bio that all these songs were written in the same headspace.

Was that because they were all written at the same time, or did a theme emerge while you were writing the songs?

I’d say 75 percent of the record was done at my mom’s place. As soon as I started writing songs there and clanking around and making these beats and riffs, it was such a specific sound at a specific place. Whether they were fast songs or slow songs, they all felt like they came from this strange planet that was all one.

When I showed some of them to Sean, he felt the same way. With the first record, it was just a big span of time. With your second record, usually you’ll spend a year writing similar stuff before you switch gears. I think there will be more songs like this record, and then you just look for the next thing you fall into. I think I was fortunate enough to find something that was a consistent thread.

Did writing the songs at your mom’s house have any influence on how they turned out?

No, God, if they did… If you could only see how my mom’s house is, you could never equate what you’re listening to, to these nicely finished armoires… It’s probably the least inspiring Pick Up Your Head will be released room on the planet,

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A Bizarre Trip

How local graphic designer and poster artist Jason Malmberg came up through the ranks Words Jenn Walker

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f you look at a Jason Malmberg poster and you’re unsure at first of what you’re looking at, if you need a minute to stare and process, if things seem off balance, if for a moment you feel like you are looking at a worksheet out of a German school book—don’t be alarmed. This is just the effect the local graphic designer is going for.

In the ‘70s, even public service announcement posters were psychedelic, Malmberg remembers, including one he’ll never forget. It was of a sobbing child throwing his arms over his head in horror, except his arms were 13 or 14 snakes. The poster read, “Why you shouldn’t take LSD” and went on to list what happens in the first 15 minutes, and in the second.

Take a look at the poster Malmberg made for the Foals show at Ace of Spades last month, and in the midst of colliding geometric shapes, you’ll see two intersecting male arms, each turning into the head of a snake from the elbow up.

Malmberg sampled two to four hands, arms and snakes to put together that image alone.

“I don’t like hacking on other images,” he explains over the phone from his home office. “I want it to be more my own.”

So he salvages bits and pieces from historical images and online library archives public libraries, sometimes drawing on top of them, to recreate entirely new concepts, often with a ‘60s and ‘70s feel. Then he’ll lay out some type—and as a selfproclaimed typography nerd, this is key.

For the last 13 years, Malmberg has designed posters for just under 100 shows, including mainstream acts like Mos Def and the Violent

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Femmes as well as indie rock band Foals and former underground pop band Luna. Next month, he will showcase some of his pieces in his second-ever poster art show, Modern Lehzure, at Cuffs in Midtown.

Visit Decabet.com and you will get a taste of Malmberg’s work. Yes, decabet, as in Dan Aykroyd’s 10-letter alphabet on Saturday Night Live.

Poster design is Malmberg’s ultimate outlet.

What he hasn’t been able to get away with in his day job, he has gotten away with in poster art.

Within the last year Malmberg landed a job with a branding agency in Washington, D.C, where he is now developing his Web skills.

Before that, he worked in print, as an art director for a handful of local publications, like Sacramento News & Review, Sactown Magazine and MGW. While he was with Sactown Magazine, one of his designs popped up on T-shirts at Nordstrom sometime in 2007. You’d never know it, he says, and that’s probably all for the best. Unfortunately, his unique filigree design somehow became a part of the douche bag national uniform, he discloses.

Regardless, life wasn’t always peachy for Malmberg. If anyone has earned the seat they are sitting in now, he certainly has. It took a lengthy series of events to get him here.

To put it bluntly, “I’ve worked every shitty, low-paying job you could imagine,” he says.

This includes working fast food joints, at an eyeglass factory, in furniture assembly and smoothing down edges of windshields for eight hours a day.

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Malmberg’s beginnings took place in Omaha, Neb. His teen years preceded Saddle Creek Records.

“It’s still not really cool to be from Omaha, but more than it was when I was there,” he says.

“Now Omaha is sort of like a mini Athens kind of city—not Greek obviously—with their hipster cred. I was there in 1999, when it was a terrible wasteland and our claim to fame at the time, which everyone is still trying to live down, is 311.”

He studied under a “hands-off” kind of art teacher in the Omaha suburb of Bellevue, who provided Malmberg with just the right amount of guidance that made him successful. He had gallery shows before graduating from high school and went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Unfortunately, along with admittance into one of the best art schools in the country came unlimited pretentiousness.

He was surrounded by art students. To his dismay many of them were kids desperately attempting to fit social roles and convince the world they were someone other than themselves.

He quickly came to this realization: “I love people who make art, but I hate artists.”

He also realized that the Art Institute was not for him.

“I was making less art than when I was just a bum working at Taco Bell,” he remembers.

So, a year into it, Malmberg did what many students who find themselves in similar situations don’t have the courage to do—he left.

He returned to Omaha at 19 and began designing T-shirts for his friend’s skateboard gig.

It seemed like a good idea at the time he said, but it didn’t last long. Then he took on the factory jobs. After that he spent three years as a rave promoter in Omaha. The last rave he threw was in 1997. It was going to be a huge party, outside.

Tons of people were going to be there. This was the one that was going to lift him out of poverty, he thought.

Not quite. But it did result in him getting work laying out classified ads for a small local publication called The Reader. It started out as work to repay a debt. Up to that point he had never used a computer to design.

“I had no idea what I was doing,” he confesses.

The bus only ran twice daily between his place and the office, so rather than go home he would stay all night at the office and teach himself how to design. Eventually he was bumped up to art director.

Within about 18 months he redesigned the publication, drawing national accolades.

Sacramento News & Review took notice and offered him a position as art director. He took it, and moved to Sacramento in 1999.

In 2006, he connected with the editors of Sactown Magazine when the publication was in its infancy. He became their art director, and helped create the look of the publication from its inception in 2006 until last year.

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“You don’t want to be one of those guys who’s basically just churning out art prints and tacking band names on them, because that’s not cool.

If the bands don’t sound the same, the posters shouldn’t look the same.”

– Jason Malmberg It was only a matter of time before he ran into local promoter and legend Brian McKenna in the early ‘00s. Next thing you know, Malmberg was designing posters for local shows on the side.

As his designs have improved he has become more selective about which shows he designs for. If he’s designing a poster for a show, it’s because he’s a fan of the band on the ticket. He doesn’t get paid much, if anything, for his work. He designed the Foals poster out-ofpocket. Hearing back from the band, however, is excellent compensation.

When Malmberg designed a poster for Luna’s show at Harlow’s in 2005, the band liked the design so much they asked to repurpose it as a limited edition sale item for their final show in New York. By the third show they sold out of 250 posters. The following year they used the design again for the DVD cover of their farewell tour.

Regardless of who he designs for, he makes it a point to represent the band properly through his design. For each band poster he designs, he’ll listen to the albums to come up with a theme.

Each poster should have its own feel.

“You don’t want to be one of those guys who’s basically just churning out art prints and tacking band names on them, because that’s not cool,” he says. “If the bands don’t sound the same, the posters shouldn’t look the same.

“I don’t try to be literal or narrative,” he says.

That’s how he ends up with posters that look like German ice cream bar wrappers from the ‘70s, like the one he made for the NakedTagline and Famous show. Both fun and grotesque, what looks like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup wags its tongue beneath the noses of two interlinked revolvers.

Malmberg explains the look on his website.

“With the band’s bright candy-colored-yettasteful aesthetic in mind, I had the idea to try to make something a little European and a lot of odd,” he says. “I started out wanting to make something bizarre in the Polish movie poster vein but ended up with something a bit more like a German ice cream bar wrapper from the ‘70s. A little pop-art, a little glam, a lot of odd.”

Check out Jason Malmberg’s Modern Lehzure at Cuffs in Midtown (2523 J Street) on May 11. The event is part of Second Saturday. You can learn more about Malmberg at Decabet.com.

While you’re online checking out his rad designs, why not check out Cuffs’ home on the Web at Shopcuffs.com?

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Off Season

Pop duo Kisses explore Los Angeles when it’s seemingly shut down Words Robin Bacior

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hen you think of a band, you might not think that visuals would be the first thing to pop into your head.

But subconsciously, maybe. Musical presentation has significantly changed shape with the birth of online media, and suddenly artists are building social media empires with aesthetics to match the sound. Some find this a burden (they’re aural, not visual!), but others take to it, use it to their advantage. This seems to be the case for the duo, Kisses. The Los Angeles couple/group Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson have a clear, L.A.-centric image, packed with visuals. If you’ve visited any of their websites, you’ll notice minimal information given regarding the band’s background.

“I just think personal band website bios are cheesy,” Jesse Kivel said. “You’re trying to tell your fans to like you instead of letting them buy into what you’re doing.”

In lieu of a bio is the one-line banner, “Always leave a little to chance.” The cheeky saying comes from Kivel having lunch with a friend, and was said off-handedly about giving a tuna melt a try at a dive-y restaurant and ending up finding a great spot.

“I thought it was a silly but profound thing,” Kivel said. “That’s essentially what our plan would want to be, is to make music that’s inspiring but also has a lightheartedness to it.”

Instead of written information, there’s a strong sense of attention to aesthetic—sun-bleached coloring, clean white background bedding old magazine covers, sound clips and wallpapers—a visual collage of L.A. cyber artifacts, which is somewhat the motive of Kisses’ sound.

“The intention lyrically is to make L.A. seem iconic, not in the Hollywood cheesy way but in an almost historic way,” Kivel said. “I think L.A. doesn’t get credit as being a historic city since California is known as the place with no history.

L.A. is Hollywood and fake and whatever, but if you look closely there’s a lot of interesting things that have been around for a long time in the area, and that’s the iconography we’re working with.”

Kisses materialized out of songs Kivel was writing that weren’t fitting the mold of his initial project, Princeton.

“It wasn’t like I brought them there, and we were like, “These aren’t good.’ I was just writing a bunch of tracks,” Kivel said.

He took them to his girlfriend, Edmundson (keyboards), and the two turned them into a duo project dubbed Kisses. They quickly drummed up some online curiosity, which went from buzz to recognition with their debut album, Heart of the Nightlife. The LP focused on the glimmering post-nightlife haze of Palm Springs,

“The intention lyrically is to make L.A. seem iconic, not in the Hollywood cheesy way but in an almost historic way. I think L.A. doesn’t get credit as being a historic city since California is known as the place with no history. L.A. is Hollywood and fake and whatever, but if you look closely there’s a lot of interesting things that have been around for a long time in the area, and that’s the iconography we’re working with.”

– Jesse Kivel, Kisses

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Calif. The result was a clean, glittery feeling album; upbeat lilts with droning undertones. Kivel’s vocals move slowly over fluttering drums, electronic pulses and keyboard accents, tying together a nice pop package with heavy ‘80s influence.

When it came time to make the next record, there were a few slight detours.

“I’d originally written a bunch of songs that were going to be the next record, but they just sounded like the 2.0 version of the first record,” Kivel said. “It seemed like it was going to be the same old thing,” Kivel also had another batch of songs in the works for yet another potential group, but “I was realizing they could be adapting,” he said.

Once the songs were settled, recording began, but the process ended up spanning more than a year and a half.

The first record was recorded in Kivel’s garage in a quick month, but Kids in L.A. was a little more piecemeal. The skeleton was initially recorded over a month’s process in another garage space, but the production wasn’t right, so the next year was spent reshaping the songs when time could be found.

“That was just frustrating as an artist to sit around and wait for your record to be done, knowing you’re writing these new songs and moving on,” Kivel said.

From patience and time came their newest, Kids in L.A., a natural evolvement and transition from the debut’s focus. Rather than the endless summer appeal, Kids in L.A. focuses on the abandoned winter feel of L.A., glamour coated in a little rust.

As a result of that, there’s a sort of hollowness to the tracks, intermittently filled by Kivel’s quicker vocal melodies and some brush of electric guitar, but an overall more stark feeling. It still maintains the same spirit of Kisses—pop structures mixed with late ‘80s freestyle (head nod to Lisa Lisa and Debbie Deb)—but rather than feeling that juxtaposition of nightlife energy and winding down all at once, it comes off more as cruising through deserted beaches with knocked over umbrellas, portraying “that off-season thought, ” Kivel said.

Most of the band’s attention went into the production of the record, but lyrically the album has some themed focus as well. As mentioned earlier, the intention is to highlight the L.A. setting and history, but the songs also follow the path of a few high school kids, all fictionalized.

“The characters aren’t based in any reality—although, I mean they’re just caricatures of people and events that have taken place in my life, there’s not any one thing I can go, ‘OK, this happened to me in 11th grade,” Kivel said.

As for upcoming plans, the two will be zig-zagging through Kisses will perform live in Sacramento on May 13 at the continents on tour, starting Midtown BarFly (1119 21st Street). with a West Coast string of Yalls, Survival Guide, Adam Jay and OANA will also perform. dates, heading to New York for Tickets are $7 and can be L Magazine’s Northside Festival, purchased in advance through then heading overseas to the Kisses’ Facebook page, Facebook.com/blowkisses.

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ight hundred and four miles in seven days, 26,000 feet climbed and about 44,000 calories burned were all well worth it in the end for cyclists Shawn Remy, Adam Beltz, Darin Morgan and Josh McCann. Their starting point: Chrome Industries in Portland, Ore., with San Francisco as their ending location. During their endurance-heavy journey, the guys rode track bikes (or fixed gears), meaning constant pedaling remained the only option mile after mile. Coasting was out of the question.

PedalHard team manager, Remy, organized the idea and wanted to document the group’s experience, so he enlisted the filmmaking skills of 22-year-old Bobby Gee. With a GoPro taped to the hood and a handheld Cannon T3i, Gee captured Remy, Beltz, Morgan and McCann’s entire venture up and down the Pacific Northwest coast, forever cementing their achievement in the short documentary No Coast.

“When you have a track bike, you deal with what you have in front of you,” explains Remy.

“It’s your push and your motivation to make it on that single speed. For me, [cycling] is more mental. It’s just a passion that I have. I am so intrigued by how it makes me feel.”

The whole project began with Remy’s urge to ride 200 miles from Sacramento to San Francisco last July. The ride took him a total of 11 hours and 20 minutes with him starting at 5 a.m., arriving in San Francisco by 1 p.m. and getting home to the PedalHard headquarters (1703 T Street) by 7:30 p.m. that evening. After the miles were logged, Remy, now inspired to ride further, began organizing a bigger plan and a longer trip with No Coast.

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went out and worked together as a team and made something really cool happen; positive things.”

After arranging bike races to raise money in Land Park, gathering sponsors like Chocolate Fish coffee roasters, American Icon Wheels, Cadence Cycling in Philadelphia and hand picking his team, Remy says the financial and major detail worries of their trip finally melted away as soon as they arrived in Portland. During the film, Gee, who also happens to be a mechanic at The Bicycle Business (3077 Freeport Boulevard) and driver Jordan Yee, both followed the four men in an assist vehicle, lending a hand with broken bicycle chains, flat tires or general first aid if needed.

“We were lucky to have the assist vehicle with the cameras,” says Beltz. “If we ever had bike trouble, we could get in touch with them and Bobby and Jordan were amazing in the sense that any time we had a flat or a bike issue, they took care of it. All we had to do was relax and eat food SubmergeMag.com

while we were stopped and get water. That was really helpful.”

Ask the guys what day proved the most difficult and all will agree—day one. But not because of hundreds of miles logged or steep elevations. Try 20 MPH head winds and seven hours worth of storm to welcome the beginning of their expedition. Still, Beltz describes the remainder of the trip full of light winds, sunshine and temperatures ranging from 65 to 75 degrees instantly changing any doubts the riders developed.

“We wanted everyone who started to finish,” says Beltz. “Most of this ride is climbing or descending. I can count on one hand how many times I remember riding just a stretch of flat. We would spend half the day climbing something and the rest of the half of the day going down it. We were on the bike like six to eight hours a day.”

The documentary is filled with landscape shots

of both cities, architecturally pleasing buildings and moments where the four ride across bridges.

There are both sunrises and sunsets as backdrops, and dramatic slow motion shots displaying the gusty weather blowing against the cyclists’ gear.

All of this was filmed by Gee mostly hanging out a window recording every aspect of their story.

“The things that I like about shooting and filming is just detail, it has a lot to do with detail and bicycles have a lot to do with detail,” describes Gee. “I like showing people what I see.

I don’t like to communicate with people. I don’t like talking. I just like to look at stuff and observe.”

The screening is set for 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 11 at Hot Italian (1627 16th Street). With this day nearing, all involved in No Coast stress they aren’t looking for pats on the back or praise for finishing over 800 miles in seven days. Instead they simply aim to educate viewers about track bikes and share a story of four friends accomplishing a goal that began with a small idea, then a bigger idea, which eventually evolved into their finished product.

“The film itself isn’t about, ‘Hey, look what we did, we rode our track bikes from Portland to

San Francisco, wow we’re so amazing,’” explains Beltz. “That’s not what it’s about. There are a lot of people that go and do that. It’s more about if you love cycling and you love the Northwest coast, you’re going to see both of those and it’s going to be put together in a beautiful way. That’s what it’s really about.”

For Remy, the greatest moment experienced was riding across the Golden Gate Bridge, his friends behind him and knowing their last destination was now only five miles away.

“I just get the biggest high from cycling and accomplishing a big ride like that,” says Remy.

“My endorphins just went off… For me, it was like, ‘We did it.’ It was just like that nice peaceful moment of silence and I was just staring off into the Bay, I was going across the bridge and I just wanted to cry with happiness and laughter.”

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upcakes are slowly taking over the world, but so far no one is complaining.

It’s difficult not to fall in love with cupcakes. They are the perfectly portioned dessert—delicious, fluffy and frosted. But these days, people don’t crave the average cupcake.

They want something more, something original.

Now the competition is booming to not only make a beautiful cupcake on the outside but make them taste delicious on the inside.

Recently, cupcakes have been replacing the good old-fashioned two-tiered cake everywhere you look. Television shows such as DC Cupcakes, Cupcake Wars and The Cupcake Girls feature small bakeries in action and host competitions to bake the best cupcakes around.

Since then gourmet cupcakes have jumped from television to local bakeries around town.

Amidst the cupcake craze is TreyBcakes located in downtown Sacramento. This high-end bakery and restaurant is giving Sacramento a reason to splurge on dessert instead of dinner.

Upon first walking into the bakery you can see all of the beautiful pastries neatly placed behind a glass case. It is like a dessert museum where you can only admire the mouth-watering pastries, while they lure you in making you ready to indulge. Depending upon your dessert preference, TreyBcakes offers a list of pastries with a guarantee that you will leave with a happy stomach. You can choose between the famous cupcakes, a slice of cake,

tarts, cookies, macarons, brownies, or gelato.

The mastermind behind most of these savory pastries is head Chef Jenni Brewster.

Brewster was made a finalist on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, where bakers from around the country go head to head in the ultimate cupcake challenge. Although she didn’t leave with the winning title, she came home with praise and ready to feed hungry locals.

Since then she has made appearances on Good Day Sacramento, News 10 and Fox 40 News. Chef Jenni is the creator of the Hawaiian German Chocolate (a rich chocolate cake with coconut frosting), the Black and White Cake, Strawberry Shortcake Cupcake, the Lulu Cupcake (a chocolate cupcake filled with marshmallow), the Zingo Brownie (a fudge brownie with cream cheese frosting topped with a raspberry swirl), Peanut Butter Brownie (a chocolate brownie with fudge and topped with nuts), Banana Cream Pie, New York Cheesecake and many other desserts to make you dream in pastries. Ever since the Cupcake Wars episode aired with Chef Jenni, TreyBcakes has been stirring the cupcake craze around Sacramento.

One of the most unique pastries Jenni stirs up is a cupcake called the Mai Tai, a yellow cupcake that comes with a mini umbrella and a cherry on top. It also includes a very surprising ingredient you might not taste right away.

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“I think one thing that makes us really unique is that everything that I make is from scratch,” Brewster explained. “I don’t use any bases or starter mixes. It’s all butter, eggs, sugar. I don’t use margarine or shortening. I try and use all-natural, fresh ingredients [and] try to keep it seasonal as possible. I think that’s one of the things that makes us different.”

All of the natural ingredients she uses to bake with prove that cupcakes can now be considered a delicacy. Weather you’re eating a stud muffin or a Mai Tai cupcake, TreyBcakes has all of the desserts that you crave. They are located at the corner of 18th and L streets and open until 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday to cure your late night pastry cravings. Most of the pastries come at a fairly affordable price between $2 and $6. Although $6 might seem like a high price for a slice of cake, don’t forget you get what you pay for. In return you will get a slice of cake that is high quality and freshly baked by Jenni herself. There is no better place in Sacramento where you can find unique pastries and be a part of the cupcake craze.

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“I use Bacardi Rum 151 in the frosting and the cake itself,” explained Brewster over the phone. “In the cake the alcohol gets baked out, but in the frosting it’s still in there. But it’s not a lot, not enough to have any effect. I always let parents know there is a little bit of alcohol in the frosting.” After posting a picture of an empty bottle of Bacardi rum on her Facebook wall she joked, “It’s 12 o’clock somewhere right? Just kidding… Just finished more Mai Tai cups. They have been very popular since the show!”

While being featured on News 10, Jenni made Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes as a special treat for St. Patrick’s Day. But if frosted mini cakes don’t tickle your taste buds, TreyBcakes offers a wide selection of lunch and breakfast items. You can choose from salads, sandwiches, burgers and, my personal favorite, chicken potpie. The potpie had a wonderful mixture of potatoes, carrots, peas, gravy and chicken all bundled up in a warm crispy crust. Another popular lunch choice is the Stud Muffin, a lunch option that looks like a cupcake—a meat cupcake. It is meatloaf topped with creamy mashed potatoes all contained together in a breaded pastry. From lunch to dessert, Chef Jenni strives to make

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Parlare Shine w/ DJ Epik, DJ Oasis, DJ Lahn, 9 p.m.

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Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub College Night w/ DJ Rigatony, DJ Alazzawi, 10:30 p.m.

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Luigi’s Fungarden Of Us Giants, 8 p.m.

Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, DJ Peeti-V, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Fudi, Losing All Pride, Six Cents, 8 p.m.

Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

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Harlow’s Infamous Stringdusters, The Brothers Comatose, 7 p.m.

Marilyn’s Erin and the Project, M.R.Q., Jay Shaner Band, 8 p.m.

Pine Cove Battle of the Musicians & Open Mic Night, 9:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Beat Connection w/ Osesza, 8 p.m.

Bows and Arrows Classical Revolution: Percussion Night, 8 p.m.

University Union Serna Plaza, CSUS Nooner feat. Mitch & the Groove Deluxe Band, 12 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Machine Gun Kelly, 7 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Rich McCulley, 50 Watt Heavy, 9 p.m.

The Boardwalk Hell Or Highwater, WarNRV, Self Proclaimed, Hit and Run, No Sympathy, 7 p.m.

Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Northern Soul, 8 p.m.

Harlow’s Todd Snider feat. members of Great American Taxi, 7 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Mischief Brew, Mad Judy, C.A.F., Julie the Bruce, 8 p.m.

Thursday

Ace of Spades Rehab, BNMC, 6:30 p.m.

Bows and Arrows In the Flow Fest w/ Element Brass Band, Gentleman Surfer, Lovely Builders, Anthony Braxton’s Composition 334 Conducted by Phillip Greenlief, 6 p.m.

Broderick Roadhouse Live DJ’s, 9:30 p.m.

Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m.

Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.

Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

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Harlow’s Head for the Hills, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Dead By Nightfall, Artemis Gone, Of Arson, 7 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe In the Flow Fest w/ Inertia (Alex Jenkins and Dyne Effertsen), Dave Lynch Group, Steve Adams and Scott Walton Duo, Kris Tiner Trio, 7:30 p.m.

Bows and Arrows The Laurels, The Fleeting Joys, Ivo, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s The Golden Cadillacs, Bellygunner, The Wooden Revolt, 9 p.m.

Broderick Roadhouse Live DJ’s, 9:30 p.m.

Midtown BarFly DJ Esef and guests, 10 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, 9 p.m.

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Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Marilyn’s Rock On Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Mix DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Aces Up, 9:30 p.m.

Press Club Union Hearts, The Loss, Alarms, 8 p.m.

The Stoney Inn Jason Buell & the Double Barrel Band, 10 p.m.

Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; Dippin Sauce, 9 p.m.

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Colusa Casino Fastlane, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose O Street, Austin Robins, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Petty Theft (Tom Petty tribute), Zoo Station (U2 tribute), 9 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Hot Pants w/ DJ Rock Bottom, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides William Mylar, 5 p.m.; 58 Fury (Reunion Show), Blossom Rock, Mixed Fiction, 9 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Shift, 9 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Superbad, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Brodie Stewart, 10 p.m.

Sammy’s Rockin’ Island Bar and Grill Joe Friday Band, 9:30 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen El Radio Fantastique, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5 p.m.; Twilight Drifters, 9 p.m.

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Assembly Feva in da Funkhouse, 10 p.m.

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The Blue Lamp Psychosomatic, Toe Tag, World of Lies, Solanum, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk The Technicolors, Fictionist, Race to the Bottom, Nightline, Trikome, 7 p.m.

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District 30 Back From The Future w/ Penthaus, Jurts, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5 p.m.; The Inciters, 9 p.m.

Midtown Village Cafe In the Flow Fest w/ Instagon, CAVE Women, 3:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose Akron Engine, The Bleedin’ Hearts, KB & the Slingtones, 9 p.m.

Townhouse Pop Freq w/ DJ X-GVNR, 9 p.m.

Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m.

Harlow’s Steelin’ Dan, 7 p.m.; DJ Anthony Vincent, 10 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m.

Mix DJ Mike Moss & DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides Fascination: New Wave Dance Club, 9:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub 8 Track Massacre, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Brodie Stewart, 10 p.m.

Sammy’s Rockin’ Island Bar and Grill Rebel Yell, 9:30 p.m.

Shine Chord Four, Urban Sherpas, 8 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Miss Lonely Hearts, The Golden Cadillacs, 9 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Riff Raff, Skid Roses, 3 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Back to the Block Tour w/ B-Legit, Scorpio, Ray Luv, Aristotle, Ice Dogg, Gunji, Choppa, Balla Billion Dollar Bill, FHOD, 6 p.m.

Antiquite Maison Privee In the Flow Fest w/ Lisa Mezzacappa’s Bait and Switch, Ross Hammond Quartet, Hearts + Horses, Vinny Golia Septet, 6:30 p.m.

Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

District 30 2nd Sundays Electronic Dance Music, 9 p.m.

G Street WunderBar Tha Dirt Feelin, Burnt, Giraffe Aftermath, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Yo La Tengo, 8 p.m.

Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry, 9 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Skippinbrook, 2 p.m.

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Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; The Cry, 8 p.m.

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Wanda Sykes Community Center Theater 8 p.m.

Monday

The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m.

Midtown BarFly Kisses, Yalls, Survival Guide, Adam Jay, Oana, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage Open Mic hosted by Barry Crider, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Harlow’s Man or Astro-Man?, Secretions, 8 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe In the Flow Fest w/ Nagual, Rent Romus’ Life Blood Trio, Bristle, Electropoetic Coffee, 6:30 p.m.

Press Club Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children Macnuggits, Mystic Knights of the Cobra, One Eyed Reilly, The Junk Merchants, 8 p.m.

Sol Collective Microphone Mondays, 8 p.m.

Townhouse Open Jam/ Open Mic hosted by Brian Rinehart & Mr Erik James, 9 p.m.

Comedy Assembly B Street: Live! Sketch and Improv Comedy Show, Thursday’s, Friday’s and Saturday’s, 7 p.m.

Bows and Arrows Comedy Open Mic Night hosted by Ray Molina, May 8, 8 p.m.

Clarion Inn & Conference Center Capitol Steps Comedy Troupe, May 5, 6 p.m.

Community Center Theater Wanda Sykes, May 10, 8 p.m.

Crest Theatre Amy Schumer, May 2, 8 p.m.

David Sedaris, May 4, 8 p.m.

Fair Oaks Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre Comedy Under the Stars, May 10, 7 p.m.

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Luna’s Cafe Keith Lowell Jensen’s Comedy Night, Wednesday’s, 8 p.m.

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GOOD Street Food & Design Market Opening Day, May 5, 1 p.m.

Po’Boyz Bar & Grill (Folsom) Comedy Open Mic, every Monday, 9 p.m.

4th Annual Vida de Oro Folk Art Festival, May 11, 11 a.m.

Punchline Comedy Club Deathsquad Comedy w/ Brian Redban, May 3 - 4, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.

American River College’s Black Box Theater Kaleidoscope Fashion Show, May 3, 11 a.m., 5 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Cinco de Mayo Comedy Jam w/ Kabir “Kabeezy” Singh, Ellis Rodriguez, Ric James, May 5, 7 p.m.

Dan Soder, May 9 - 12, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic Scramble, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 7:30 p.m.

Assembly 1st Annual Rock the Runway Benefit: Fashion Show Presented by Establish Apparel, Crazy Mary’s, Sugar Shack, Heart Boutique, Identity Boutique, May 1, 8 p.m.

Blue Cue Trivia Night, every Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Harold Night, Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s, 9 p.m.

Bows & Arrows Opening Reception for Chromatic: Featuring new artwork by Interval Press, May 3, 6 p.m.

Improv Lab, Wednesday’s, 7 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, every Tuesday, 8 p.m.

Comedy Kong, Thursday’s, 9 p.m.

California State Capitol West Steps May Is Bike Month: Capitol BikeFest, May 9, 11 a.m.

Top 10 List Podcast Live!, Saturday’s, 7:30 p.m.

Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, 9 p.m.

The Stoney Inn Nutty Monday’s Comedy Showcase and Open Mic, Monday’s, 9 p.m.

Sleep Train Arena Latin Stars of Comedy: Paul Rodriguez, Carlos Mencia, Johnny Sanchez, Juan Villareal, Dennis Gaxiola, Shayla Rivera, Manny Maldonado, Gilbert Esquival, Jay Lamont and more, May 5, 5 p.m.

Tommy T’s Comedy Showcase, May 1, 7:30 p.m.

Crest Theatre Wild & Scenic Film Festival, May 10, 6:30 p.m.

Cuffs Opening Reception for Modern Lehzure: The Gigposters of Jason Malmberg, May 11, 6 p.m.

Downtown & Vine Luncheon with Michael Mondavi, May 2, 12 p.m.

Elks Tower Historic Ballroom Sacramento Ballet and Pecorelli Productions Present: 3rd Annual Tapas & Tutus Fundraiser, May 5, 2 p.m.

Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, every Wednesday, 8 p.m.

Old Sacramento Bars Cinco De Old Sacto, May 5, 6 p.m.

Sacramento Fine Arts Center Open Studio, Open Mic, Open Movement, April 29, 5:30 p.m.

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Three Stages Performing Arts Center An Evening of Dance, May 2, 6 p.m.

UC Davis Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre The Sacramento Ballet presents Solos, Duets, and Trios, May 2 - 4, 8 p.m.

University Union Gallery, CSUS Breathing for Dummies: 50 Incompatible Cartoons, April 29 - May 23; Reception May 2, 6 p.m.

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University Union Serna Plaza, CSUS Free Movie Screening: Warm Bodies, May 9, 8 p.m.

Franklin Community Library Poetry Slam for Teens, April 30, 4 p.m.

William Land Park Celebrate Sacramento, May 11, 12 p.m.

Weediculous Comedy Tour, May 8, 7:30 p.m.

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It may be difficult to fathom, but Michael Bay’s latest film Pain and Gain is based on a true story. At one point, as Paul Doyle (played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) grills the severed hands of a murdered pornography king and his wife, text flashes on the screen to remind you that what you’re watching actually happened. You know what they say, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, and when it is, it usually makes for decent cinema, and such is the case here.

Set in mid-‘90s Miami, Fla., Pain and Gain centers around three body builders and their quest to live the American Dream by any means necessary. Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) is the ringleader. He’s an ambitious but likable man with a sketchy past. He finds his niche at Sun Gym, where he excels as a trainer while honing his body to peak physical condition. He attends self-help seminars and yearns for a bigger piece of the pie. He sees everything he wants in Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub), a Colombian transplant and self-made millionaire. Lugo begins formulating a scheme to kidnap Kershaw and take all of his wealth. To do so, he enlists the help of gym buddy Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie), a steroid user who’s just as dissatisfied with his station in life. When they meet Doyle, a born again, recovering cocaine addict fresh out of prison, their plan finally hatches.

After a few botched attempts, the trio abducts Kershaw, a rather despicable fellow, and after many rounds of torture, he finally succumbs to the Sun Gym Gang’s demands. For a while, Lugo, Doorbal and Doyle live the good life, but as you’d expect, it’s not long before it all comes crashing down.

There’s a lot of stuff to like here. Pain and Gain is an excellent choice for a guy’s night out. It’s fast-paced and fun, though it does seem a little too lengthy. There are plenty of fights, shoot outs and big dumb action sequences to satiate those who enjoy seeing things blow up on screen. It’s funny, too.

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Even when things get really gruesome, the violence almost has a Looney Tunes quality about it. Sure, it might be a grisly sight when someone gets his toe shot off, but it’s so over-the top and ridiculous it won’t curdle your stomach. Johnson looks like he’s having the most fun of the bunch. The WWE superstar plays the sympathetic Doyle wonderfully deadpan. His character also proves to be the most dynamic—fluctuating from Jesus-loving nice guy to cocaine-fueled maniac and back again with smooth transitions—while his cohorts just seem to yell all the goddamn time. Shalhoub is one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood, and he does well again here, making his cartoonish, quasivillain’s role believable. The lone female stand out is Rebel Wilson, who plays Robin Peck, a nurse at the penis clinic who ends up being Doorbal’s lover and eventual wife. She’s hilarious in the role and steals the show in her limited screen time.

Michael Bay may not be Hollywood’s best director—far from it—but he’s remarkably adept at picking his projects. Much like the Transformers franchise, Pain and Gain resides firmly in Bay’s wheelhouse. It’s an extremely outlandish story, and his ridiculously frenetic style is perfect for it. The men are impossibly buff, the women are supernaturally sexy and Miami is presented in all its nauseatingly pastel glory. Every frame is shrink-wrapped and buffed in the glossiest sheen. It’s sort of like visual cocaine, and the dizzying camera work is enough to leave you twitching by the film’s end.

Pain and Gain is sandwiched between Oblivion and Iron Man 3, so it will certainly be lost in the shuffle, but if you want to avoid the long lines and crowded theaters for the next big Marvel movie next week, you could do a lot worse than unplugging your brain and absorbing this bizarre piece of reality-based film crack.

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the shallow end When horrible tragedies like the Boston Marathon Bombings go down, the easiest question to ask is, “Why?” As it turns out, it’s also the most difficult question to answer.

What makes a kind and normal, by his friends’ accounts, young man like Dzokhar Tsarnaev team up with his radical brother to pull off such a heinous crime? I don’t feel sorry for Dzokhar. He wasn’t devoid of choice in the matter. But it still makes you wonder…

Unfortunately, I’m not equipped to give you a definitive answer. That’s not a statement borne out of false modesty either. I’m not sure even a great mind would be able to answer “Why?” without it sounding like pure—albeit well-informed—speculation.

So, let’s not try to figure it out here, in roughly 750 words. Perhaps it would be easier to discuss more ethereal questions.

For instance, what’s up with matter and antimatter? Yes, that’s something we might be able to handle.

I’ve always wondered about antimatter.

Truth be told, I’ve often been fascinated by

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anti-anythings. But antimatter is by far the most interesting contrary substance in the galaxy. What gets me the most, based upon my crude understanding of Big Bang Theory (not the sit-com) is that all the matter in the universe was created at once. However, if for every bit of matter, there’s also equal amounts of antimatter, and if antimatter and matter are supposed to cancel out, then how come I’m sitting here typing this at all? The Big Bang should have been a sort of nonevent, right?

It would’ve been more like a celestial bottle rocket that fizzled and popped in the great ether instead of the singular moment from which everything ever sprouted into being.

Clearly, I’m not capable of answering that question either. If I was, I probably wouldn’t be writing this column every two weeks—as much as I enjoy it. I’d probably be in a think tank somewhere, hanging out with Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson and coming up with all kinds of theoretically badass shit.

That’s why we have the good people at CERN, what with their Large Hadron Collider

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James Barone jb@submergemag.com and all. Back in March, they confirmed their discovery of the Higgs boson particle (aka the God particle), which is supposed to be a key to the beginning of the universe. You know, no big. But now CERN’s super nifty collider thingy has helped researchers theorize about the apparent lack of antimatter in the universe.

There’s this particle called the “B0s,” and it doesn’t break down evenly into matter and antimatter, favoring the former. It’s the fourth such particle known to react in such a matter.

Though it points to a reason why we have all this matter floating around the universe, it still doesn’t account for everything. According to an article posted to Cbc.ca, the discrepancy presented by the B0s would only account for about a galaxy’s worth of extra matter. Which is a lot, I suppose, but not a lot.

It’s interesting to know that sub-atomic particles could have that much impact. That the decay of something that’s not even as large as a single atom of hydrogen could be an essential building block for an entire solar system.

If you look at things that way, you can see

how random all of this is. The fact that I’m even here to write this column every couple of weeks, whether you read it or not, is a fucking miracle.

Your mouse pad is a miracle. Candy Crush Saga is a miracle…a harsh, cruel and addictive miracle that forbids you from playing it for 10 minutes if you fuck up at it too many times, and if anyone can help me get past level 25, I’d really appreciate it…

But you get what I’m trying to say, right?

Maybe if more people thought about things like Higgs bosons or the balance of matter and antimatter, they’d be less apt to pack a knapsack full of explosives and leave it on a crowded city corner. Maybe they’d realize that all the different religions, political ideals and sexual orientations are just window dressing. Everything, even Candy Crush Saga, is just residual particle dust that didn’t get gobbled up by the vast nothingness of space. It’s a pretty comforting thought if you think about it. Now, if you’ll excuse me, the Candy gods are saying I’m allowed to resume my colorful quest through Lemonade Lake. I’d really hate to keep them waiting.

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Dive into Sacramento & its Surrounding Areas

april 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 13, 2013

#135

music + art + lifestYle

No Coast Pedaling Nonstop on the Open Road

middle class rut The New Nasty

free

kisses

Adventures in LaLa Land

TreyBcakes Jason Malmberg Feeding THE Cupcake Craze

GOOD Street Food & Design Market

Amy Schumer

Visual Oddities

Ape Machine