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Jonathan Carabba jonathan@submergemag.com senior editor

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With temperatures reaching into the high 90s and a few 100-degree scorchers here and there, it’s obvious that summer is in full effect in Sacramento. Besides the blistering heat, it’s obviously summer because…um…have you heard about all these great music festivals coming up!? They are quite the talk of the town. In “The Stream” on page 8, learn more about two of them: the second annual Davis Music Fest that will be happening Saturday, June 23, as well as the just announced Aftershock Festival that will take place on Sept. 23 and will feature Deftones, Stone Temple Pilots and a bunch of other rock bands. Music fests are clearly thriving this year in the Sacramento area, but beyond that it seems that the local music scene is killing it in general. There are so many CD, EP and 7-inch release shows happening it’s hard to keep up! In this issue we are stoked to feature four really great bands from our area that are all releasing albums in the near future. On our front cover we have Tribe of Levi, who will be releasing their new album, Follow My Lead, on July 10. Luckily for you that same day you will be able to see them perform at Harlow’s. Check out our feature on page 12 and learn about how Follow My Lead came into fruition as well as their thoughts on the Sacramento hip-hop scene. On our back cover we have one of Sacramento’s most highenergy rock bands, Lite Brite. They will be releasing their selftitled CD and celebrating with a stellar lineup at Ace of Spades on July 6. On page 18 you can learn about their release and how they pretty much made it all themselves. You’ll also get a kick out of a good old fashion tour tale involving an amusing theft; however, no need to fret, their instruments were not stolen. On both of our covers you’ll notice a small inset photo (taken by one of our awesome photographers, Mike Ibe) of a band called Wife and Son. Maybe you’re lucky enough to have heard about them already, but I’m getting the feeling that they are one of those bands that not many know about…yet. I hope that Submerge turns you on to this phenomenal indie pop band from Rocklin. Just this April I discovered them when our writer Blake Gillespie sent me a link telling me about their digital release of This That and the Other. Immediately I dug it. Ever since then I’ve tried to keep my eye on when they will be doing an official release for the album, and that day has finally come. You will be able to purchase a physical copy of the album when they celebrate their release at The Press Club on June 28. Sounding so crisp and so clean, it’s hard to believe that this is another self-recorded album. Learn more about Wife and Son starting on page 20. You can also briefly learn about local reggae-rock group Street Urchinz in our “Submerge Your Senses” section on page 6. They will be celebrating their first release, Dissolved, at Ace of Spades on Friday, June 22. Nothing like a ton of local release love all up in these pages! But not to worry, there’s also our usual art, food and film coverage that you can (and should) get down with as well in this issue. Be sure to grab your copy of Submerge every other week and dive into our engaging feature stories while you’re eating fro-yo, sitting by a pool, drinking a cold one on a patio, stoop, porch or whatever is that tickles your fancy, floats your boat, rocks your socks, teeters your totter, bakes your cake… This 100 degree weather is obviously getting to me. Enjoy issue #113. Melissa-Dubs

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For a culinary and educational experience like no other, look no further than Local Roots Food Tour’s new Market-To-Plate Executive Chef’s Tour, running select Wednesdays and Thursdays through October. Your small group will be guided through a downtown Sacramento farmers market, either Cesar Plaza Farmer’s Market or East End Capitol Park Farmer’s Market, where you will chat with vendors and learn about what’s in season and how to choose and prepare fresh ingredients. From there you head to Morgan’s Restaurant for an exclusive three course lunch prepared by Chef Michel using fresh, seasonal and local ingredients. The lunch will be up close and personal with educational elements. Your meal will also be paired with a select local wine. As if that wasn’t enough, your tour will then head to Sugar and Spice Specialty Desserts, just a short walk from Morgan’s. You will meet the owner Chef Jones, take a tour of her award winning bakery, soak up knowledge of how to bake the best pastry using fresh local fruits from the market and best of all, indulge in some of her delicious creations. All of this for only $45 per person! Register early, as the tours do fill up fast, and be prepared to walk about one-and-a-half total miles in a two-and-a-half-hour time frame. To view the tour calendar and buy tickets in advance, visit Local-food-tours.com.

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Local reggae/rock group Street Urchinz is celebrating the release of its debut album Dissolve on Friday, June 22 at Ace of Spades alongside Arden Park Roots, The Holdup, Simple Creation and Element of Soul. “We started two years ago,” says Doug Riggs, rhythm guitar, keys and backup vocals for Street Urchinz. “It was just the lead singer and I playing acoustically under the bridge in Old Sacramento. This is our first album, and we have come a long way since then.” Longtime drummer of Sacramento posthardcore band Dance Gavin Dance, Matt Mingus, recently joined forces with the Urchinz. The group is rounded out by vocalist and lead guitarist Tommy Norman and bassist Trevor Ingram. If you can’t catch Street Urchinz on June 22, they’ve got quite a few other shows coming up in the area: Concerts in the Park in downtown Sacramento on July 6, G Street WunderBar in Davis on July 7 and Powerhouse Pub in Folsom on Aug. 18. For more information and to sample some tunes from the new album, visit Facebook. com/streeturchinz. Fans of Iration, Rebelution, Pepper and bands of the like would be well advised to look into this band. They might be a new local fave.

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D.L. Hughley is one of those guys who can do a little bit of everything and pull it all off. Acting, stand-up comedy, political commentating, radio personality, the dude is everywhere. And he can get a laugh out of almost anyone talking on almost any subject. Catch him live in Rancho Cordova for three nights only, July 6–8, at Tommy T’s, located at 12401 Folsom Boulevard. Tommyts.com for more information and to buy tickets ahead of time.

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Just hours before this issue went to press Submerge got word of a mega-huge rock festival coming to Sacramento on Sunday, Sept. 23 at Discovery Park. The Aftershock Festival, put on by Monster Energy, 98 Rock and Arms Division Concert Management will feature headliners Stone Temple Pilots, unarguably one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the ‘90s. Other giant acts performing are Bush Bush, Deftones, Chevelle, Oleander and many others. You’ve got your old school ‘90s rock as well as some modern stuff, like Escape the Fate and Hollywood Undead, so the crowd ought to be an interesting mix of youngsters and old-schoolers. Think Warped Tour meets Ozzfest. Score tickets for just $44.50 through 98 Rock’s pre-sale starting on June 20 at 10 a.m. and ending on June 21 at midnight by joining the Rock Mob (visit Aftershockconcert. com for details). General admission tickets will be $49.50 and go on sale June 22 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. The week of the show the price goes up to $54.50, and VIP tickets are available for $99.50 and will get you a VIP entrance into the festival, access to a VIP lounge with a dedicated bar and a great view (either seated or standing) of the main stage as well as a fancy little VIP guest laminate. Rock fans be sure to mark your calendars for this, as Aftershock Festival is adding to an already stellar summer of live music in Sacramento.

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The Optimistic Pessimist Wake Up Call Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com It’s the land of opportunity, or so we’ve been told. When this country began, people held a romantic belief that a poor immigrant could come to America and through hard work alone, become a rich man. That’s right, anyone with enough moxie could hit the big time! It was supposed to be a perfect place. Even immigrant mice at the time sang, “There are no cats in America and the streets are paved with cheese!” They called it the American Dream and it stood for the idea that every man could achieve success through hard work without being hindered by his class, race or creed. Those early Americans hoped for fairness in an otherwise unfair world. It was a great idea, but it rarely held up to close scrutiny. Rags to riches stories are the exception to the rule. If it were the norm, we wouldn’t be having a yearlong protest against 1 percent of the country. For all the Mark Zuckerbergs, LeBron Jameses and Leonardo DiCaprios in this country, there are millions of John Q.s who end up working at McDonald’s, Wal-Mart or Applebee’s. Now, some of those people are surely lazy and find themselves cleaning pee off a slide for good reason, but many of them work their asses off (sometimes at multiple jobs) just so they can feed their kids and pay rent. Poverty isn’t easy to break free from. Those kids at home have a good chance of being poor when they grow up too. The schools in their neighborhoods are underfunded and overcrowded so their first 12 years of education are going to suck, if they even graduate. Without a scholarship of some type these kids won’t likely go to college because they can’t afford it. Without a college degree their job options will be similar to those of their parents; places where hard work might let a person attain such illustrious titles as head waiter but that won’t offer much toward upward mobility. It’s hard to dream when you don’t have time to sleep. If class doesn’t get you, maybe racism will. It took this country over 100 years to declare an end to slavery, another 100 years to end blatant segregation and another 54 to elect a half-black president. Despite that progress,

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racism still exists. According to the Center for American Progress in the second quarter of 2011, the unemployment rate for AfricanAmericans was nearly double that of whites. The Department of Justice has found that, by 2007, the number of African-Americans in prison was about five times greater than the number of whites. It’s hard to dream when you are locked in a cage. When the color of one’s skin just isn’t enough to keep them down, maybe their choice of religion will. At one point or another, everyone hated the Catholics, the Jews, the Quakers, the Protestants and the Mormons. Now we’ve decided it’s Muslims we hate. We profile them at airports and panic when they leave their bags unattended for a second. We won’t let them build mosques in our cities and yet, we call them extremists. It’s hard to dream when people keep telling you that you are going to hell and they won’t let you pray. Despite its faults, we still chase some form of the American Dream today, only now our dreams tend to ignore the whole fairness and equality thing and just jump straight to the cash. We’ve devolved into a society where reality stars are more important than presidents and we pay bank CEOs millions of dollars to steal from us. In rewarding these idiots and assholes, we’ve managed to convince ourselves that we too should be rich without having to really work for it. We want the huge house with the oddly shaped brightly colored couches. We want a different $50,000 car to drive for each day of the week. We want clothes, ho’s and 40 oz. We want enough money so that we can swim in it like Scrooge Motherfucking McDuck! We want it all, and we want it because we can juggle while we tap dance, we can burp the alphabet or we have a mole that looks sort of like Justin Bieber. We need to remember that dreams aren’t reality. They are jacked-up, usually nonsensical but sometimes insightful creations of our subconscious minds. The real world is out there and it needs your help. It’s hard to dream when there is nothing left. Eyes open, wide awake!

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2155 Town Center Plaza #E110 • west Sacramento Words adam saake | photos nicholas wray It’s easy to forget how spread out Sacramento is in terms of our city’s layout. I’ve said this before, but dining isn’t just limited to our downtown and Midtown areas and in fact (although not for long) it doesn’t even make up a good chunk. The surrounding neighborhoods offer so many great options for cuisine that it really pays to venture out and see what you can find. An easy destination is West Sacramento, which is just over the river and home to such notables as The River Cats, Whitey’s Drive-In and “Tongue and Chic’s” most recent visit, The Eatery. Owners Jess Milbourn, who is also head chef, and wife Monda Korich who holds down the front of the house, opened just shy of a year ago in August 2011. “Business has been great,” says Milbourn, a tall and friendly-faced chef. “Ups and downs like anything else, but overall people seem to enjoy it. And the packed house last Tuesday afternoon was proof that people are enjoying the food at The Eatery, an inconspicuous

restaurant squished between other businesses in the West Sacramento shopping center, Town Center Plaza. West Sacramento is still developing its dining options, and The Eatery is one of the trailblazing restaurants serving food of a higher quality with local and seasonal in mind. That should be a given, considering that West Sacramento is home to some of the most fertile farm land on the West Coast. Milbourn, like a lot of Sacramento chefs and restaurants lately, has partnered directly with West Sacramento’s Humble Roots Organic Farm. “We get a real one on one connection with the farmer and the land,” says Milbourn. Both Korich and Milbourn had worked in the restaurant biz since they were teenagers and as Milbourn puts it, “We were of the mindset that we could do the same job we were doing for someone else for ourselves.” As residents of West Sacramento, they decided to keep their hunt for a space close to home and after looking at a few places in and around town, they eventually settled on Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

their current location mainly out of financial necessity as well as the convenience of the space already being built out as a restaurant. “The Eatery was our interpretation of what you might find as a true bistro in France, but in America,” explains Milbourn. “‘Mom and Pop,’ and serving simply prepared, high quality food in a casual setting with a beverage selection to match.” Simple is the key word here. The term “comfort food” is often thrown around in this business of eating, and I often wonder if the definition is a general one. Are the same dishes that make me feel at home, at my mother’s table, equal to the ones that bring you close to home? I don’t have the answer to that but I think it’s safe to say that it’s a feeling more than anything. I get that feeling by just looking at The Eatery’s menu. There are quite a few hearty, stick-to-your-ribs-type options like the risotto with asparagus and mushrooms. Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy or rib eye steak with creamed spinach and scallop potatoes will surely tame SubmergeMag.com

your appetite. The gut buster of them all (I dared not attempt) were the disco fries ryan, a heap of French fries topped with bacon, melted cheddar cheese, chicken gravy and a sunnyside up egg. Yowzers! But, never fear all ye light eaters. Sautéed mussels with tomatoes, garlic, lemon, white wine and herbs may tickle your fancy. Sandwiches are also available and considering the source of the produce, salads are a must have at The Eatery. The spinach with grilled pineapple, chipotle cheddar and toasted almonds stuck out from the list and were fresh and cool; perfect for a hot summer day. Keep your eye out for fish specials that have included halibut with bacon consommé and cauliflower, and Passmore Ranch sturgeon pops up on this menu as well. “We really love what we are doing and are amazed every day that we get a chance to make people happy with our restaurant,” adds Milbourn. “Ultimately, the eatery is for its patrons. We want our guests to have fun, eat and drink well, leave full and want to return.”

Issue 113 • June 18 – July 2, 2012

Growing Up Hip-Hop

After many delays, Tribe of Levi release their first album, Follow My Lead Words Blake Gillespie • photo April Irene Fredrikson

ribe of Levi is a fixture in the Sacramento hip-hop scene as members of The People’s Revolution collective, but in the six years of being a crew the group never released a proper record. With the completion of Follow My Lead, the true schoolers are bringing local pride and world vision to the burgeoning scene. The night before our interview, Chuuwee, Task1 and Poor of Tribe of Levi, among other local MCs, hit the KDVS airwaves for a session as part of the ATF: All Things Fresh’s last show of the semester. Tribe of Levi member, N.O.N. listened in while on the job saying, “It was a good display for the radio with good MCs.”

With N.O.N. on the job and Mic Jordan tending to “domestic things,” Poor represented for Tribe of Levi on the session. “While I was there, it hit me that this radio show was really special,” Poor said. “Not just because there were hella rappers there. But because this show was the only underground hiphop you can hear on the radio. I’m not talking about Internet radio either. No diss to all the Internet radio cats out there, but I’m talking, in your car coming home on a late night radio. Feel me? On the FM dial! Plus, it is rare for me to be in a room with a lot of rappers that I consider really talented.” The following morning, sitting down with Mic Jordan and N.O.N. of Tribe of Levi at the Javalounge,

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it was stated immediately, “Sacramento, per capita, has the best hip-hop scene in the country.” Without my provocation, Mic Jordan and N.O.N. came to the interview with a positive spin on the exhausting conversation of the local scene. Perhaps, it is time to stop worrying about what we don’t have and start appreciating the assets we do? Like all talks with locals, it lapses into issuing complaints, issuing blame upon permits, shady promoters and community apathy. But as Tribe of Levi’s Follow My Lead record came together, the group saw past the common discrepancies to find inspiration and pride within the people who helped construct the album. As bleak as it can feel, an engineer working off the clock to perfect a mix, a local producer bouncing ideas and gathering resources and friends contributing guest verses and video treatments encouraged the group to see to it that Follow My Lead was released—even if they had to do it on their own. The making of Follow My Lead began after a trip to Austin, Texas, for SxSW in 2011. The group returned home rejuvenated from the love it received in the southern oasis. An unfinished record entitled Levitation, was waiting for them at home, looming over their heads in limbo after issues arose with a producer who decided his beats were off the market, despite the songs already being laid down.

“We felt a little bogged down after spending five years trying to do Levitation,” Mic Jordan said. “It started to feel like an albatross.” Mic Jordan opened the front apartment of his Midtown property to producer Lee Bannon. With Bannon a door knock away, the group began recording in his living room. The producer also linked up Tribe of Levi with New Jersey producer Akili Beats, who handled a majority of the production. “At first we were re-arranging beats,” Poor said. “Switching one out for the other, and so on. Until eventually, we decided to just write a whole other album. Lee Bannon played a huge role in helping the Tribe of Levi get a second wind.” In August 2011, Tribe of Levi offered insight into the progress of Follow My Lead with a Jae Synth-directed video for “Things to Do” featuring fellow The People’s Revolution member Bru Lei. Shot at Mic Jordan’s home and around his 19th and G block, “Things to Do” opens with Poor riffing, “I’m on my Sacto shit today/I’m on my grown man shit too,” which is telling of the group’s mindset. Each rapper on the track sets up the closing stanza of his verse with, “I’m a grown ass man/I got things to do.” On Follow My Lead, the group attacks each track with a no frills mentality that runs deeper than just on record. Mic Jordan had few qualms with stating that the record will be their push to Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

take the group global, rather than fall victim to the small town thinking associated with the city. On “Things to Do” he raps, “Our community is crawling with future kings/But usually we stupidly ruin things.” “Historically and even presently we deal with this conundrum of being on the verge of being a big city and the verge of being a small back water,” he said. “There’s this strange confluence of really motivated, driven people and then you get to a certain level and you get shut down by retrograde, backwards, close-minded people who are plugged into a good ol’ boys network trying to preserve a status quo that’s actually kind of weak. It’s just rough.” Much like Mayor Kevin Johnson’s vision, Mic Jordan spoke of Sacramento as a “should be” destination city, citing the climate, the capitol and its beauty as attractions. The deterrent to a blossoming music scene, to him, comes down to overlapping enforcement agencies and regulations on live music that make it so little can be done. “International visitors can’t even get into the 21-and-over venues with their passports,” he said, which lends restriction on putting Sacramento hiphop on the global scale. “The idea for this album was to be able to do something that had national appeal,” he said. “If we are able to make the jump to being national or international, I hope I can put some sort of bridge or infrastructure in for the rest of the artists.” Historically, the artists from the capitol have not done much for the city that raised them, and it continues with bands like Trash Talk repping Los Angeles harder than here or Death Grips hiding out but only playing three shows locally. Listening to the Beastie Boys’ Hello Nasty record, a Mixmaster

“We felt a little bogged down after spending five years trying to do Levitation. It started to feel like an albatross.” – Mic Jordan, Tribe of Levi

Mike phone call before “Three MCs and One DJ” features Mike saying he’s out here, but as N.O.N. notes, “It’s just a trip because you don’t see people like Mixmaster Mike out here doing events.” “People don’t associate Sacramento’s biggest acts with Sacramento,” Mic Jordan added. “People don’t know that Blackalicious went to Kennedy. Other than [Brother] Lynch [Hung], he’s the only major act from here that was associated with it. But things are changing with Chuuwee, Death Grips and Bannon. Maybe the tide is turning finally. We’ve just got to figure out how to push it further.” Follow My Lead is littered with hometown pride as the city’s name is invoked numerously throughout the record. It boils down to the people who helped make the album possible. Tribe of Levi is deeply rooted, recording tracks in Bannon’s kitchen and taking them to be mastered by PeteSpace at SoundCap Audio. “Everybody seemed to really believe in what we were doing and made it feel like they were participating in something worth while,” Mic Jordan said. N.O.N. said he was recently searching Pandora Radio to see how many local MCs had stations, only to find artists like Mahtie Bush and Death Grips on the server. The initial push for Follow My Lead will begin on the grassroots level, as the group intends to handle its own public relations by writing letters and emails to the friends they’ve made internationally while traveling. The group will follow up the album with the delayed Levitation record, which is shaping up to be more of a mixtape, as well as solo projects from each member. N.O.N joked, “There’s a reason you have a mic in your house instead of a horse,” and it once again harkens to their grown men mindset. “There’s not many people from Sac who are up on Pandora,” he said. “We’ve been keeping it real underground for the most part. We’ve performed so many songs that people can’t buy or listen to in their car. We’re putting our record on there.”

Tribe of Levi’s album release show for Follow My Lead will be Tuesday, July 10 at Harlow’s. Follow the band on Twitter (Twitter.com/tribeoflevi) for more updates and information. You can listen to some of the tracks from the album on the group’s Reverb Nation page (Reverbnation.com and search “Tribe of Levi”).

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Community celebrates fine artist Milton 510 Bowens’ 20 years of service to art and education Words Nur Kausar

eatnik Studios on 17th between Broadway and X Street blends harmoniously with Milton 510 Bowens’ latest solo exhibition, Echoes of the Sweetest Sounds. The former is an urban loft-style gallery made of brick that brings photography, music and local artistry to a shared space. The latter is a wellhonored fine artist’s resolve to educate about music, history and social justice through art. Echoes… celebrates 20 years of Bowens’ work with pieces never before seen in Sacramento and gives a unique spin to this year’s local Black Music Month events (renamed African-American Music Appreciation Month by President Barack Obama). In the last 20 years, Bowens has reshaped his philosophy as a fine artist and taken the approach of a community activist and documentarian. Since, he has achieved great recognition nationally. Starting in 2009, his art became part of the syllabus for a course study in the Harlem Renaissance at Cornell University’s Africana Studies and Research Center. He is also a spokesperson for the K–8 art immersion program Any Given Child in public schools across the country in conjunction with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

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Bowens has had paintings showcased at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn.; been touted by local newspapers as having the largest solo exhibition (150 large pieces) in the United States in his hometown of Oakland; received this year’s Sacramento Artistic License Award; and received a resolution from the California Legislative Black Caucus for his work on arts and education in public schools. Undoubtedly, this unconventional exhibition has a message. “After you’ve done something for 20 years, it’s hard to choose what to show, but instead of doing a montage of random pieces...I chose those [pertaining to] music,” Bowens says, leaning back and looking relaxed on a sofa at the gallery after grabbing lunch at Slice of Broadway. “Beatnik, jazz, counterculture...it all goes together.” The pieces come from Bowens’ AfroClassical collection and some from his Soul Music series. He journeys through the jazz era and its historical importance in Afro-Classical with recurring images of everything from records, piano keys and musicians’ portraits to railroad tracks, slave ownership documents and tally marks. On his pieces, he writes what he feels, quotes that he admires and pushes the viewer Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

to take a closer look, “Don’t just hear what the work is saying, listen.” Bowens mixes media with organic materials like cloth, doilies and prints for “richer depth and more substance.” In pieces like God Bless the Child and Straight No Chaser, the use of children’s building blocks and rope along the top of the canvas adds another three-dimensional element. “I am trying to poetically encourage people to linger a little bit,” he says of his collages with lyricism that sometimes holds a double meaning. Bowens says he doesn’t approach his art with a “painterly perspective,” though he has the training and knows the techniques. He attended art schools early on as a high school student in Oakland and later at the California College of the Arts and multiple schools while serving in the U.S. Air Force. Two military museums collected and showed his work, and his time in the service helped shape his current philosophy. “I was in a rapid deployment unit with special forces so I got to travel and see art I’d only ever seen in my textbooks,” he says of the experience. “Seeing it in its original environment was uniquely transforming for me. I was exposed to the fact that there is no magical pixie dust when it comes to art. I learned the definition of art—skill, emotion, spirituality, commitment—and that’s where I’m at today.” The title Echoes of the Sweetest Sounds originally came up in 1998, Bowens says, when his philosophy and technique changed, and it has become a recurring theme. “When I listen to music, it’s not just for its commercial appeal,” he says, working up to a more pronounced position in his seat. “There is a poetic standpoint, an emotional response. Quality music to me is like a snapshot of history.” Take Bowens’ piece Chain Gang for instance, named for a Sam Cooke song. It has photo images of black men in striped garb imposed onto it, as well as a white man with his dogs and gun off to the left, and a worker looking down, holding a hoe to the right. “I love Sam Cooke’s ‘Chain Gang,’ and when you start to listen to the lyrics, that could be considered one of the first civil rights theme songs,” Bowens says.

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The top corner is a bright yellow, followed by bright blue and red. The bright colors sit atop Bowens’ neutral base, like all his pieces, of brown and black to portray not only his urban environment but also to hark back to the Harlem Renaissance, and before that, to slavery. “The only true colors are what rest on top of the surface, and below that the colors are all muted,” he says. “That’s because when I went to a California museum, or the Oakland Museum...nothing there reflected my Oakland, or my California. In my paintings, you will see the gritty undertone of Oakland, because I grew up seeing concrete buildings and basketball courts.” Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns largely influenced Bowens’ transformation as well. The artist loved Burns’ idea of taking black and white historical photographs, putting music behind them and then putting the interviews conducted in the documentary in bold color. It was the idea of combining “time, space and history” that enveloped Bowens, so much so that it was all he could do. He even went “cold turkey,” he says, on his other techniques. Since this change, Bowens says his message is becoming clearer, his work more calculated, his compositions tighter. But the exhibition still shows his reach, including a huge drawing done completely in pencil called Ancient Musicians, a collage of jazz masters and cultural icons that brings Bowens’ collection to a detailed, pictorial climax. Another influence is Bowens’ family. He gives his mother the credit for helping him reach his career today. Being the youngest of 10 children, and the fifth boy (hence 510), Bowens said his mother could have had less patience with him, but instead she gave the notorious child scribbler scrap paper by having his siblings cut Safeway brown paper bags for him. Bowens incorporates brown paper into his works because of this. Now, the younger members of Bowens’ family are his biggest influencers. “I have two special goddaughters who help me as an artist see how art can affect young people,” he says. Bowens works with goddaughter Mizauni, a second-grader, spending time with her as she learns to read and write. She recently won her school-wide reading competition and her family has seen

“amazing success” in her educational ability since the two have been spending time together. “I want to model what I’ve done with Mizauni to help hundreds of children in Sacramento,” Bowens says. Sacramento became the pilot city for Any Given Child, in which Bowens helped place local professional artists in schools to provide an integrated art curriculum and one-on-one interaction with students. Schools in other parts of the state, as well as in Portland, Ore., and Las Vegas, are following suit. “We take what they are studying, like California history or ancient civilizations, and add art as a teaching mechanism,” Bowens says. “Studies have shown that students have better retention of information this way, instead of just memorization.” Bowens says he is working toward other projects with youths, including starting a mentor diversion program in Alameda County with the juvenile court system and an art and literacy campaign in Sacramento. “I’m getting ready to rival [my largest exhibition in Oakland] with the Art of Storytelling exhibition that will engage a program for fine art and literacy, specifically one for third grade literacy,” he says. Bowens is basing the program off a study that upcoming correctional facilities decide on the number of beds they need by looking at the local third grade reading level. “It’s not something terrible, it’s just if we see a problem coming, we need to prepare for it,” he says. “We need to get involved now. I’m not a minister... I’m not a counselor, I’m a painter. But I believe I have the skills to make a change and inspire young people to read.” Some messages like this one are loud and clear in his work, while others take a little longer to see. But that’s the beauty of contemporary fine art, and though Bowens says his art “isn’t to decorate, but to educate,” he adds that he does enjoy seeing it hanging To catch Echoes of the Sweetest on the Sounds, visit Beatnik Studios at walls. th 2421 17 Street by June 26. An RSVP-only closing celebration will be held June 24. To RSVP, call Alan Dismuke at (916) 627-9528 or Kevin L. SantosCoy at (916) 613-4244, or email klscstudio@gmail.com.

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Lite Brite distills the energy of their high-powered live show on a brand new album Words Amy Serna | photo Lisa Lam

rock concert might be the only place in the world where it is acceptable to thrash around with full force, scream at the top of your lungs and push random people to the ground. If you tried this on the street, a grocery store, or a restaurant you will be kicked out and given the cold shoulder by society. Whether it’s moshing in the crowd or playing guitar on stage, rock concerts welcome your inner beast with open arms. There is one local band that produces this kind of high-energy show that can make anyone want to jump around. Submerge caught up with brothers Eddie and Matt Underwood, members of Sacramento rock-trio Lite Brite, in front of Peet’s Coffee to discuss their new self-titled album and rocking out on stage. “If we have any underlying rage, [performing] is a good way to release it,” said vocalist and guitarist, Eddie Underwood. “Instead of stabbing each other in the face,” continued drummer Matt Underwood. “It’s an expensive habit really.” Eddie, Matt and Robert Lander, bass, are ready to bring their high-energy show straight to your living room. Their goal was to make their new self-titled album as close to the band’s live show as possible, making Lite Brite’s stage-fueled passion completely mobile. The opening track of Lite Brite’s new album are recorded sounds from the band having fun with an analog phaser, creating eerie sounds that set the stage for their 12-track rock album. “We had an idea that it was going to be a theme in the record. I don’t think it ended up being exactly the way we thought it was going to be but it was a good way to tone the record,” Matt said. “I like the way that it turned out. It’s a noisy record.” Lite Brite is excited to unleash a record that it can completely claim as its own. There is only one track, “Heaven,” on which the band collaborated with a musical engineer. “We did it all ourselves. We mixed it all ourselves. We recorded it all ourselves. It was exactly what we want,” explained Eddie.

“It’s going to be really cool though, getting our music done, because we never really had a whole album that is just the way we wanted it to be,” Matt added. Lite Brite hopes to give the new music as much exposure as possible, including a tour in the near future and to make the tracks easily accessible and sometimes free online. Matt Underwood wanted to adopt a business model that was made popular in the ‘60s by bands such as The Rolling Stones, where they would release numerous singles at a rapid pace. “It would be really timely,” Matt explained. “It’s sort of this idealistic vision that I had, get something out and get it out on the street really fast. It would be the right song at the right moment.” So far the Underwoods have been very successful in getting their music out quickly even though they have only played music professionally for the past few years. While in high school, Matt and Eddie would jam out to cover songs in their parent’s garage with their friend Bob. “We just started playing covers and stuff. It was fun playing stuff that we like and Bob came over every day. He didn’t do homework. That worked out well,” joked Matt. Since then, Lite Brite has been on two West Coast tours including one with Middle Class Rut. During their past tour, life on the road never seemed to get dull for them. Every city had a new adventure waiting for them. While stopped in Minneapolis, they had their van broken into early in the morning. “What really pisses us off is that they stole our lunch meat,” Eddie said. “All of the equipment was in the back, and they could have easily gotten thousands of dollars worth of equipment, but they just went though our ice chest and downed 10 Red Bulls and ate our lunch meat on the spot.” But missing lunch meat wasn’t their only problem that day. The thief decided to break in through the passenger window and crack the windshield causing Lite Brite to rush to get it fixed before a show. While on the same tour but this time in Wyoming, Eddie and Bob almost landed in a bar fight over the topic of Nickelback.

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“I might have said something like, ‘Nickleback sucks,’ and one guy said, ‘Hey, hold on a second, I like Nickelback. I’m about to knock your teeth in.’ And then all of a sudden someone comes in from another room where Bob was playing pool and he said to me, ‘You better come quick… Your friend is about to get his teeth knocked in,’” Eddie said. They decided to leave the bar before anyone would have to make an emergency trip to the dentist. But the highlight of their previous tour was the high-energy and jam packed shows, full of people who have never heard of them before but loved every minute of it. “The last two U.S. tours that we did were awesome,” Matt said. “Pretty much every show was just tons of people to play for. “We completely sold out of CDs really early on our last tour. We had to burn thousands of CDs so we had something to sell.” Recently, you might have caught them at Friday Night Concerts in the Park in early May. That night was one of their most memorable performances because there were over 7,000 people watching them at Cesar Chavez Park. “You can’t really beat that,” Eddie said. Before playing a high-energy show, whether it’s in front of a huge park or small venue, there isn’t much that Eddie needs to get himself pumped up to jam on stage. “The best way to warm up is to have a couple of beers. You don’t want to overdo it but not too little, because we don’t want to stand there like a couple of stiffs,” Eddie joked. “And not too much or else Bob and I will start yelling at each other on stage.” But now Lite Brite is ready for Sacramento to join them at Ace of Spaces on July 6 for their CD release party. “The music scene has been ridiculously awesome to us in Sacramento, and if it wasn’t, we probably would have quit doing it a long time ago,” Matt explained. “Recording an album is stressful and everything but pay off is definitely worth it, it’s very gratifying, just having this giant project for months at a time come to an end. What’s cool about an album is that it’s always going to be there. It’s always going to exist. It’s always going to be around. And you will always have that work that you did.”

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ocklin-based indie pop band Wife and Son is a shini ng ex ample of why you shouldn’t take yourself too seriously. Formed in 20 09, the now fiv epiece group wa s ori ginally the brainchil d of guitaris t/voc ali sts Richie Smith an d Robert Brundage. They had been ma king music together for a while in a series of what they refer to as "joke bands," un til they started tak ing music more serious ly under the moniker of Wife and Son. Th is That and the Othe r, the band’s debu t album wa s relea sed digita lly in April but it is now ready for its officia l physical relea se. Smith and Brundag e have been friend s for about eight years , Smith says, and we re introduced through his little sister Ale xis. Smith, a Grass Valle y native, and Brund age, born in Monterey, Calif., but raised in Folsom, played in a variety of bands before entering into Wife and Son. These ea rly bands included Th e Outrights and Po lar Bear Filth. These outfits garnered some cof fee house gigs, but Sm ith says that they we re strictly just for fun . However, though they say that none of the songs on This That and the Other find their origins in the Polar Bear Filth catalog, those formative ye ars of goofing around with music have pla yed some part in where they’re at today. “I feel like the jok ing around allowed me to not take anything seriously,” Brundag e says. “That way, yo u’re not afraid to try some cra zy harmon y that’s kind of fla shy or too pop-y —just be ing willing to try an yth ing, even if it might so und like something that you told yourself yo u’d never write.”

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Funny enough, Wife and Son also started out as a jok e but quickly morph ed into something mu ch more. With Smith ’s wife Mars Wheeler (synthesizer/vocal s) rounding out the ori ginal lineup, the gro up immediately starte d demoing songs. “We started writin g songs, and we rea lly liked them, so we decided to ac tually try and do it,” Brundag e explains. “T he goal wa s to be as original as possible,” Smith sa ys of the band’s ea rly wr iting sessions. “W e all are big fans of pop music and go od pop song wr itin g, like the Beatles as one of the best ex ample s, but we also wante d to forego the cla ssic pop song for mula. We wanted to wr ite freely and not nece ssarily go with the typical verse -choru s-verse for mat. Th ose are the thing s we would talk about a little bit, and we jus t wr ote these song po ems, almos t, and put the m together.” Those demos stuck , however. Brundag e says that all but on e of the songs from the band’s original de mo have found the ir way to This That and the Other, though they have evolved considera bly since thank s to playing and gigging them a lot. The addition s of bass player Josh Qu imby and drummer Luke Arredondo also ha d a huge role in the songs’ maturation proces s.

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“How we wrote the album was we wrote all the parts,” Smith says. “We compose d the bass lines and we composed the drum parts as well. We’re not drummers. We can play a little bit, bu t we composed in ou r minds what kind of beat patterns we wa nted to go with the song s. We presented the m to Luke, and he would make it make sense. ” “He’d make them ac tual drum parts ,” Brundage adds. This That and the Other was produced and recorded almos t entirely by the ba nd. Other than the dru ms, which were tra cke d at One Eleven Recor ding and Music Stu dio in Roseville with the help of Kevin Princ e, the album was recorded in Smith’s apartme nt using Logic and Bru ndage’s Macbook. It was an arduous task, bu t the band is happ y with the result. “We worked on the record over the course of a year, off and on,” Smith sa ys. “It wa s a long pro cess. There wa s a lot of stuff we had track ed that we ended up retracking. Honestl y, we’re glad to be done with that process. We learned a ton on this firs t record.” This being their firs t album, a lot of tria l and error went int o the process. Bru ndage says that some of the songs were rec orded up to eight times. “I was basically lea rning how to record while we were rec ording, and we we re all learning about pro duction too,” Brund age says. “It was like thi s huge music schoo l on how to make a rec ord.” You’d probably ne ver realize the meticulous nature of its recording by

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listening to This Th at and the Other. Op ening track “Sea Salt” set s the tone with its carefree struc ture and generous use of reverb. The song fee ls loose, but in a go od way— in a way tha t speaks of a band just having fun with the music and not com ing off as guarded. “Sea Salt,” one of the first songs the band demoed, wa s written in a very freewheeling manner. “We just hit record and Mars and I started singing,” Bru ndage says. “We jus t started freestyling , and we liked what we had to say.” “Rob and I were jus t jamming on guita r parts,” Smith says of the song. “We wr ote the guitar, bass lin e and drum part all in one sit ting, in abou t an hour, then Ma rs woke up from a na p to lay down the vocal.” Other songs came from a more struc tured writing process. The Brund agepenned “Little Baby Hurricane” had mo re intent behind it. “I just sat down on e day, and I just wanted to make a tribute to ‘50s doo-w op,” he says. “I sat down and pretty much wr ote the whole thing an d brought it to Ric hie an d Mars, and they pu t in their two cents. Richie added this great gu itar solo at the en d.” In this way, Wife an d Son mix up their approach to writin g. Smith, Brundage and Wheeler all split so ng writing duties (as they do with vocal s), sometimes writin g separately and pre senting the songs to the

rest of the group, and other times wr iting together in the same room. The dif feren t approaches may ha ve been a reason why This That and the Other, aptly titled, has such a fresh and va ried sound. Though the album is only just recently completed, Smith, Brundage and com pany have their sights set on the future of the band. Smith says tha t the band already has enough material on tap for a second alb um, which they also ho pe to produce thems elves. “We like the creati ve control,” Smith says. “The fac t that we learned so much on the first record, we’re ac tually excited to work on the songs for the second record.” Smith says that the lessons learned will make Wife and Son’s recording pro cess faster next time aro und. He says the ba nd will set deadlines for itself and work on being more efficie nt. It almost sounds like they’re taking thems elves seriously. If Wi fe and Son’s exciting debut is any indica tion, that’s definitely no t a bad thing.

This That and The Oth er’s release show will take place at The Press Club in Sacramento on Jun In addition to Wife and e 28. Son, The Tambo Rays and Sic fus per form. If you’d like will also to the album before you listen to buy it, go to Wifeandson.bandcam p.c of course, you can kee om and p their latest happening up with s them on Facebook (Fa by liking cebook.com/ wifeandson).

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Cache Creek Casino War, 9 p.m. Club 21 Bojangles Dance Club w/ DJs Robert Long, Daruma, Markz, Peanut, 9 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 DJ JB, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Traditional Irish Jam Session, 7 p.m. Harlow’s Joe Cravin Trio, 7 p.m. Javalounge Trivia Happy Hour w/ Musical Charis, 8 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Shift, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Captain Amazing and the Okay I Guesses, 9:30 p.m. On The Y Wrath of Vesuvius, Kennedy Veil, Dissonance in Design, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Brand X Savior, Larisa Bryski, Are We Human, 9 p.m. Press Club M.D.L., Appalachian Terror Unit, Riot Radio, 8:30 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Nathan Owens, 7 p.m. Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Buster Blue, 9 p.m. Uncle Vitos (Davis) Boom Bip w/ The Flower Vato, 10 p.m.

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The Refuge Honyock, The Trees, Alyssa Cox, 7:30 p.m. Shine Parie Wood (CD Release), 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Big Tree, Bells, 9 p.m.

Press Club Stalking Distance, Keeping Score, Thirty Pack, 8:30 p.m.

Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Kaye Bohler, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Nathan Owens, 7 p.m.

Townhouse Lorelei, English Singles (7-inch Release), Knock Knock, Manatee, 8:30 p.m.

Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; The Coffis Brothers, 9 p.m.

Vega’s Barbarous Cock, Magikool Doods, Cracker Family Circus, Maxxx, 8 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Arden Park Roots, The Holdup, Simple Creation, Element of Soul, Street Urchinz (CD Release), 6:30 p.m.

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The Blue Lamp Smirker, Ghost River, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Long In the Tooth (CD Release), Bypassing Oblivion, Tragic November, Trench, Lost Freedom, 7 p.m. The Boxing Donkey X Quintet, 9 p.m.

Ace of Spades PointDexter (CD Release), Telemetry, The Coast, First Class Act, March Into Paris, 6:30 p.m. Armadillo Music Davis Music Fest w/ Nuggl, Big Joe Daddy, The California Honeydrops, Tha Dirt Feelin, The Nickel Slots, Mr. Glass, DJ Vee, 2:30 p.m. Bertha Henschel Park Pops in the Park w/ Ivan Najera & Friends, 6 p.m.

Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ Esef and special guests, 10 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Ol’ Cotton Dreary, 8 p.m.

Center for the Arts Indigo Girls, The Shadowboxers, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Simple Creation, Sono Vero, Official Response, T-Dub & The Internationals, Parallel, Sunny B, 7 p.m.

Cesar Chavez Park Concerts in the Park w/ 7 Seconds, Bastards of Young, City of Vain, DJ Whores, 5 p.m.

Center for the Arts The Machine (Pink Floyd tribute), 8 p.m.

Club Retro Kalima, Roses for Lions, Abstract Abyss, 7 p.m.

Club 21 Reverence w/ DJs Panic, Chattnoir, Skarkrow, 9:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose Dana Gumbiner, Ricky Berger, Erik Hanson, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m. Harlow’s 2012 Midtown Business Association Gala w/ Harley White Jr. Orchestra, Jonny James, Sam I Jam, 6 p.m.; The Hits, 10 p.m. Haven Underground Fast Rattler (CD Release), Bodhi Busick, Lee Bob Watson, Easy Leaves, 8:30 p.m. Javalounge Sun Valley Gun Club, Bright Faces, Damon Wykoff, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Bolo World Music, Michael Tobias, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s Sambandha Music of the World, 9 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Vicci Martinez, Larisa Bryski, 6:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Songwriter’s Showcase & BBQ w/ David Silva, Jack Donaldson, Dave Baldwin, Applewhite, Parallel Planes, Janel Drewis, Janet & Dale Drewis, Brian Emery Rinehart, Dante Romandia, Leo Bootes, Kyle Tuttle, 3 p.m. The Boardwalk Auburn Nightmare, Some Seek Forgiveness, Hazel Rage, Dead By Nightfall, The Fourth Horseman, Straight Jacket Strippers, 6:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Club 21 Bojangles Dance Club w/ DJs Robert Long, Daruma, Markz, Peanut, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Muriel Anderson, 7 p.m.

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The Blue Lamp Blood Freak, Coffin Dust, KnifeThruHead, Plague Widow, 8 p.m.

Haven Underground The Still Sea, Exquisite Corps, Pillars and Tongues, Requa Cambium, 8 p.m.

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

Javalounge Egg, Medodora, 8 p.m.

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

Powerhouse Pub Samantha Fish, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Ace’s Up, 7 p.m. Swabbies on the River Life In the Fast Lane (Eagles tribute), 5 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Miss Mouthpeace, 8 p.m.

Raleigh Moncrief, Lee Bannon, DAIMS&CHRISUPREME Luigi’s Fungarden 7 p.m. Press Club Rat Damage, Short Changed, Shambles, 8:30 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Fastlane, 7 p.m. Sol Collective Microphone Mondays, 8 p.m.

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Bows and Arrows Gentlemen Surfer, Moon Pearl, Dash Jacket, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Russian Circles, And So I Watch You From Afar, Deafheaven, 8 p.m. Javalounge Open Mic, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Midtown Irregulars, 5:30 p.m.; Open Mic w/ Chris 2Me, 7:30 p.m.

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The Boxing Donkey Tony Bataska, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ Esef and special guests, 10 p.m. The Cave Jilt vs Jonah, La Noche Oskura, The Vicious Kenits, So Many Ways, 8 p.m. Cesar Chavez Park Concerts in the Park w/ The Nibblers, Coalition, Diva Kings, DJ Fedi, 5 p.m. District 30 DJ TonyTone, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Tessie Marie & the Poor Man Band, The Hucklebucks, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Tainted Love, 10 p.m.

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

Fox & Goose Audiodrome, Pets, 8 p.m.

Press Club FFFreak w/ CrookOne, DJ Hailey, Dogtones, 9:30 p.m.

Fremont Park Hot Lunch Concert Series w/ KB & the Slingtones, 11:30 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Fastlane, 7 p.m.

Harlow’s Tainted Love, 10 p.m.

Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m.

Javalounge Casey Groat, Cassandra Henwood, 8 p.m.

T2 Nightclub & Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Hans Eberbach, 5:30 p.m.; Island of Black & White, 9 p.m.

6.27 wednesday

Center for the Arts Squeeze, 7 p.m. Club 21 Bojangles Dance Club w/ DJs Robert Long, Daruma, Markz, Peanut, 9 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Chris Clouse, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Steve McLane, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Russian Circles, And So I Watch You From Afar, Deafheaven, 7 p.m. Javalounge Trivia Happy Hour w/ Musical Charis, 8 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Banshee Bones, 9 p.m. Mix DJs Gabe Xavier and Peeti-V, 9 p.m.

Marilyn’s Rock On Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Malakite, Judah Heffington & the Jackals of Middle Distinction, Armed Forces Radio, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Fastlane, 7 p.m. Shine So Stressed, Pity Sex, Bad Liars, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Mrs. Magician, English Singles, 8 p.m. Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; Big Iron, 9 p.m.

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Thursday

The Blue Lamp ScratchPad w/ AJAX, Chuck Flava, Mike Colossal, DJ Drew, DJ Los, Another Rap Group, 7evin, Sleeprockers, Snayk Eyez, 9 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge Speakers, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Steel Breeze, Diego’s Umbrella, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen The Driftwood Singers, Merry Gold, 8 p.m. Studio 21 Lionheart, Thick As Blood, Dead Icons, Recognize, Hoods, Mountain Mover, Days Of Struggle, Cadence, Of Strength & Sacrifice, 6 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Trace Adkins, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; The Nibblers, 9 p.m. ZuhG Life Store Rupert Waters, 6 p.m.

6.30

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The Boardwalk Wesley Avery, Method Echo, Wrings, The Reel, Sensual Saint, The Andromeda Project, 7 p.m.

Ace of Spades Who’s Bad, 6:30 p.m.

On The Y Minenwerfer (CD Release), Rotten Funeral, Pale Chalice, Pandiscordian Necrogenesis, 8:30 p.m.

Ace of Spades Jonny Craig, The Seeking, Tyler Rich, Incredible Me, Taking’s Not Stealing, It Starts With Alaska, 6:30 p.m.

Press Club Work Your Soul, 9 p.m.

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Mix DJ Elliott Estes, 8:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Wannabe Barnaby, The Dirty Stomp, Mason Rex, 9 p.m.

Shine The Videches, Diana Campos, 8 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Nevada Backwards, 50 Watt Heavy, Bright Faces, Kate Gaffney, 9 p.m.

Uncle Vitos (Davis) Boom Bip w/ The Flower Vato, 10 p.m.

Marilyn’s Sean Lehe, Sean Barfly and Friends, 9 p.m.

Press Club Wife & Son (Album Release), The Tambo Rays, Sicfus, 8:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Element of Soul, ADD (Acoustic), Old Screen Door, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Grant Farm, 9 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Sly Park, Signifiers, Julie The Bruce, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Tom Drinnon, 5 p.m.; Audioboxx, 10 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Shine Heavy Hawaii, Darlingchemicalia, 9:30 p.m.

Javalounge Alarms, Catch Hell, STR, 8 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Whiskey Row, 9:30 p.m.

Beatnik Studios Mason Rex, Hans Eberbach, The Cave Women, 6 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Fastlane, 7 p.m.

Haven Underground Bass Cadet, Flook, Chris Depesa, Orion, 9 p.m.

Bows and Arrows Golden Cadillacs, Flannel, 8 p.m.

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24th Street Theatre Richard Thompson, Sherman Baker, 7 p.m. Ace of Spades Outsiders, Picture Me Broken, Deadlines & Diamonds, Calling All Survivors, The Sun Sets Here, The Silver Lining, 6:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Chris SugarBalls Sprague & His 18 Wheelers, The B Stars, Kit & The Branded Men, 9 p.m.

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6.30

The Boardwalk Shades of Devastation, Salythia, Standing in Silence, Without An Answer, Beyond All Ends, Without Conclusion, 7 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.

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The Boardwalk Deadlands, Restrayned, Sucker Punch, Force of Habit, Terra Ferno, 7 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Adam Donald, 9 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Aegis, 8 p.m.

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The Cave Ete Pasquiers, Nick Kindler, Dan Rosemon, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Musical Charis, Mammoth Life, Hot Tar Roofers, 9 p.m. Javalounge Defyant Circle, Skin of Saints, Queen Alice, 4 p.m.; (Waning), Satya Sena, Accidentally Murdered, 8:30 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden Wales (EP Release), 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe David Houston & The Strings, Skip Heller, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s Pine and Battery, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Mike Moss, 9 p.m. MontBleu Outdoor Concert Pavilion Lake Tahoe Reggae Festival w/ Pepper, Katchafire, J Boog, Hot Rain, Keyser Soze, The Mark Sexton Band, UpRising, Squarefield Massive, 2 p.m.

June 21-24 TONY ROCK Press Club Work Your Soul, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides Whoopie Qat, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Northern Heat, 7 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Dramarama, 10 p.m.

Sol Collective Microphone Mondays, 8 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Tom Drinnon, 5 p.m.; Audioboxx, 10 p.m. Shaker’s Pub Switchblade Frankie, Maidens Sorrow, Seeker, 9 p.m. Shine Hans Eberbach, Edmund Wayne, The Shiz, 8 p.m. Social Nightclub Therapy w/ Rick Preston, Donald Glaude, Nate Davit, Stylus, Mike Diamond & My Cousin Vinny, Heartwork and more, 3 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Tristen, Sean Flinn & the Royal We, 9 p.m. Swabbies on the River Rogue, Skid Roses, 3 p.m. Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5 p.m.; The Strange, 9 p.m. ZuhG Life Store Adrian Bourgeois, Mac Russ, 1 p.m.

7.01 Sunday

Cache Creek Casino Aegis, 4 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. The Cave Rookie of the Year, Challenger, Eryn Woods, 8 p.m. Club 21 Bojangles Dance Club w/ DJs Robert Long, Daruma, Markz, Peanut, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Dive Bar B&B Music Factory, 9 p.m. Javalounge Hug of War, Run-On Sunshine, Clouds Over Eden, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Grady Champion, 3 p.m. Press Club The Scouse Gits, Ghost Bikini, 6 p.m.; Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Chaparral, 7 p.m. Swabbies on the River The Nibblers, 3 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Tess Marie and the Poor Man Band, 8 p.m.

7.02 Monday

The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays w/ Signifiers, Anthony Coleman Quintet, 7:30 p.m.

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Brad Williams, June 29 - July 1, Thurs., 7:30 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Misc. 1409 Del Paso Blvd. GOOD: Street Food + Design Market, July 1, 1 p.m. AIA Central Valley Gallery Soul of the City: Street Food in the City w/ discussion facilitators Costa Apostolos (of SactoMofo), Catherine Enfield, June 27, 5:45 p.m. Blue Cue Trivia Night, every Wednesday, 8 p.m. Bows & Arrows Live Figure Drawing w/ Pompsicle, June 28, 6 p.m.

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6/30 Superheroes versus Zombies party w/ Pine and Battery 7/7 Old Screen Door, Egg, Silhouette Silhouet and Mirrors, Awkward Melon

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Colonial Theatre Sacramento Horror Film Festival’s Cult Cinema w/ The Rocky Horror Picture Show, June 22, 10 p.m.; Repo! The Genetic Opera, June 23, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre 11th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival, through June 24 Crowne Plaza Hotel Sacramento Swingtime Car/Art/ Music Festival, June 23, 11 a.m. East Area Water Tank (Davis) Summer Solstice Sun-Day w/ artists Sofia Lacin and Hennessy Christophel, June 24, 10 a.m. Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, every Tuesday, 7 p.m. Fremont Park Hot Poetry in the Park w/ Chris Olander, Maureen Hurley, hosted by Rebecca Moos, June 18, 7 p.m. Garcia Bend Park Food Truck Expo, June 20, 5 p.m. Golden Bear Random Knowledge Trivia Night, every Wednesday, 8 p.m. Historical City Hall Hearing Room Seminar w/ author Staci Joy, June 26, 12 p.m. Howe ‘Bout Arden Shopping Center Capitol Public Radio’s Annual Used Record & CD Sale, June 23 - 24, 10 a.m. InAlliance Sacramento Campus Sacramento Chef Challenge, June 23, 4 p.m. Javalounge Art Reception for Shaina Hernandez, June 29, 5 p.m.

Shenanigans Comedy Work Out w/ host Dorian Foster, Thursdays, 8 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, every Thursday, 8 p.m.

Shine Thursday Night Jive w/ Clare O’Kane, David Gborie, Ray Molina, AJ Guzman, hosted by Daniel Humbarger, June 21, 8 p.m.

Sacramento Zoo King of Feasts, June 23, 6 p.m.

Tommy T’s Tony Roberts, June 21 - 24,Thurs., 7:30 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

INDUSTRY NIGHT

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

Ladies Comedy Night, June 29, 9 p.m.

The Stoney Inn Comedy Open Mic, every Monday, 8 p.m.

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Acoustic Open Mic Talent Showcase 6 - 10 PM

Punchline Comedy Club Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

T U E S D AY S

Powerhouse Pub Pole Dancing Exhibition, June 19, 9 p.m.

Shine Poetry with Legs, June 27, 7:30 p.m. Tommy T’s Murder Mystery Show, June 27, 7 p.m. The Urban Hive TEDGlobal 2012: Radical Openness, June 27, 8 a.m.

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Yes it’s cliché, but it’s true what they say: you don’t realize what you’re missing until it’s gone. After passing time in a microcosm with a population of just over 1000, where you are lucky if there’s a live band playing once a week, or if a tree reaches 10 feet, a visit back to Sacramento reminds you of all that you have been missing. Take the free Hot Lunch Concert series at Fremont Park, for instance. A makeshift stage planted between tacky, whimsical ceramic statues and towering trees triggers moments of nostalgia that only this city can provide. Singer/songwriter Jonah Matranga seemed to feel the same way when he played there last Thursday. Matranga spent a chunk of his musical career in Sacramento, developing his former band Far, in addition to his solo project Onelinedrawing. He lives in the Bay Area now,

but he came to town to play a few shows, including this one at the park. “I can’t thank this place enough,” he said to a crowd that had grown from about 20 to 75 middle-aged adults and kids spread out on picnic blankets and lawn chairs. For the music scene, cheap rent and allages clubs that allowed him to flourish as a musician, he owes Sacramento his gratitude, he explained. Appearing at ease in his white tee and khakis, he was a one-man show and sustained an ongoing conversation with the crowd, his acoustic guitar and the PA system being his only accompaniments onstage. He began the set with three velvety, acoustic Prince covers, including “Purple Rain,” “Kiss” and “The Cross,” tributes to the legendary performer, who had apparently been spotted

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around town. Then he delved into his own material, stopping frequently, sometimes mid-song, to comment on being badgered for singing “The Cross” despite being Jewish, or about his love for Neil Young and Eddie Vedder. Despite his quirky, spirited demeanor, at any given moment Matranga’s songs shifted from uplifting to depressing as he played pieces both from his solo career and from Far. He would sing about springtime, fingerpicking a cheery pop song, and then alternate to a minor key, pounding his guitar strings while delivering cryptic lyrics on spending too much time thinking about ways to die. Someone who has been in the music scene as long as Matranga has plenty to sing about. Throughout his career he has grown accustomed to the workings of the music business and watched his daughter grow up. He sang frequently of both. “Every Mistake,” he said, was for his daughter, words of wisdom insisting that living is about making mistakes and embracing them with grace. Whatever he was doing on stage was working. As he progressed through the set, audience members young and old trickled forward to make donations and pick up a CD from the box that lay at Matranga’s feet. At some point a disheveled drifter wandered up to Matranga to make a litany of song requests, which included artists Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and Elton John. In acquiescence, Matranga played “In My Life” by the Beatles. Soon enough, the shade receded from the crowd back toward the trees, and the relentless sun hanging overhead prompted several onlookers to start packing up their blankets and chairs. By this time Matranga was preparing to play his last two songs. “There are lots of mopey songs in the world. I’ve written about half of them,” he said, offering an explanation of his next song, “Smile,” which extends a dose of optimism regarding life. “If you’re here right now you are ridiculously privileged,” he added. Just then, a group of fashionable young women happened to ride past on their pink and sea green cruisers with shiny silver handlebars, outfitted in sundresses and shades. Indeed, an afternoon spent listening to music on a picnic blanket beneath trees isn’t so easy to come by in other places. If you are living in the City of Trees, do us a favor and take it in, and don’t forget that you’ve got it made.

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Words James Barone Ridley Scott’s Alien came out in 1979, perhaps before a lot of you were born. The sci-fi/ horror hybrid was a truly frightening and groundbreaking film that propelled Sigourney Weaver to superstardom and birthed countless comic book crossovers and a long-lived film franchise, of which only the first two films (including James Cameron’s action-fueled 1986 sequel, Aliens) are really worth seeing. Prometheus takes us back before the beginning. It’s a prequel, a word that may have left a bad taste in your mouths after the debacle that was the prequels to the Star Wars saga. In Prometheus’ case, a look back proves to be more enlightening (and opens up even more questions) to the events portrayed in the Alien series as opposed to damaging their legacy. The year is 2089. Two researchers, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace, Lisbeth Salander of the Swedish-language The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), have patched together clues from ancient cave paintings, left by

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films to pad their box office numbers, but much like Avatar, which really ignited the 3-D frenzy, it would be to your detriment to view Prometheus in its flat transfer. Sweeping panoramas of alien landscapes, wonderfully rendered computer effects and trippy digitalstatic overlays are wonderful fodder for eyepopping visuals, and Scott seems to use them to wonderful effect. Do yourself a favor and spring for the extra few bucks. More traditional elements also enhance this feast for the eyes. H.R. Giger’s twisted cyberotica, which has been an Alien series hallmark since 1979, flavor Prometheus with terrifying notes, touching upon fears that are exotic and familiar. From the macabre marriage of the technological and organic of the Engineers’ fortress and control rooms to the freakishly vulgar creature creations, the uneasiness of the characters seems mirrored in their otherworldly surroundings. It’s good that the visuals are so stupendous, because the film’s plot is surprisingly basic. Cowritten by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof (with John Spaihts), one might expect a dizzying story with a lot of twists and turns, but there aren’t many to be had. There are instances where we see flashes of the philosophical/spiritual mindbenders that were Lost’s trademark, but in the end, Prometheus stays true to the Alien

franchise formula: humans trying to manipulate forces they don’t fully understand to their own greedy ends. There is the rich man, Weyland, who knows more than he lets on (a sort of Charles Widmore, perhaps?) and the android who seems helpful but may have its own nefarious agenda—devices that anyone familiar with these movies has probably come to expect. Unfortunately, other than a tense scene in a robotic surgery chamber, there isn’t much in the way of suspense that made Alien such a classic. There are a couple of noteworthy performances, though. Rapace, who really gets run through the wringer in Prometheus, is the prototypical Scott heroin. Amazingly fit, she’s also tough, persistent and perhaps a bit bitchy, but she certainly upholds the high standard set by Weaver in previous films as the central character. Michael Fassbender is a wonderful antithesis to Rapace as the outwardly charming robot David, who models his appearance after Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. Underneath his classic screen star looks is a personality more akin to 2001’s HAL9000, however. In true Lindelof fashion, Prometheus answers as many questions about the Aliens’ origins as it poses new ones, which may be answered in another film. As beginnings go, it at the very least opens the door to a promising future.

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Amazing Discoveries James Barone jb@submergemag.com The cool thing about people, in general, is that they’re always finding things. Unfortunately, this isn’t a skill I possess. I consider any day that I can find my keys right away, instead of looking for them for 20 minutes before I leave the house for work, a raging success. Even in this day and age when we’ve mapped every corner of the globe and even mapped Mars on Google, people are still able to discover things. A few neat discoveries caught my attention in the news recently. First, human bones found beneath a church in Bulgaria are believed by some to be those of John the Baptist. In 2010, an excavation beneath a medieval church on the island of Sveti Ivan (which translates to Saint John) yielded a small sarcophagus containing a cache of bones—some animal, others human. The human bones still had enough collagen to facilitate carbon dating, which was recently performed by a team from Oxford University. Much to their shock, the bones dated back from the first century A.D. Further testing conducted by the University of Copenhagen confirmed that the bones were all from the same person, who most likely came from the Middle East, Saint John’s ol’ baptizing grounds. Historical texts dating back to 4 A.D. speak of the Baptist's remains being moved from Jerusalem, including parts of his skull, which fueled speculation that these could be Saint John’s remains. A National Geographic Channel special titled Head of John the Baptist aired in the United Kingdom on June 17. Of course, no one will say for sure. The world may never know for an absolute fact, but it’s fun to think about if you’re a nerd and have nothing better to do. Like me! Dating even further back than Saint John, another discovery back in May revealed what might be the oldest pigment ever found. Philip Wibley of the British Geological Survey stumbled upon an ancient ink sac from a prehistoric giant squid in Wiltshire, England. A study from the University of Virginia stated that the fossilized ink sac dated back over 160 million years, which is a very, very long time ago. The finding of identifiable organic material dating back that far is extremely rare. The melanin found within the sac proved to be nearly identical to that found in modern-day cuttlefish. It also suggested that cephalopod characteristics haven’t really changed all that much through the years. I guess that’s one case

where evolution got it pretty much right the first time. I’m not sure if that’s really interesting to anyone other than our octopi members of our readership, but I find it fascinating. I used to scour the rocks in my parents' back yard hoping I’d find something fossilized. I had tons of illustrated dinosaur books, so I figured that made me something of an expert. This one time, I found a smooth dark gray rock that I was sure contained the imprint of a tiny dinosaur’s face (the Shroud of Bedrock, perhaps?). I saved the thing forever until I realized that whole dinosaur faces imprinted into rocks just didn’t exist, and if they did, they’d be larger than the size of my thumbnail, most likely. Maybe I was wrong? God I hope not. That was my one shot at the big time. A different kind of discovery caused the creators of my favorite TV show to apologize this week. Game of Thrones just finished up a momentous second season on HBO, but a small storm of controversy brewed from the discovery of something hidden in season one. It turns out that one of the heads on the spikes adorning the walls of Kings Landing was a likeness of former President George W. Bush. According to the creators’ commentary, the head wasn’t meant as a political statement, but was used out of practicality. “We just had to use whatever head we had around.” While I think this is hilarious, some people didn’t find it so funny. HBO issued a statement that they found the use of the expresident’s decapitated likeness in bad taste and unacceptable. They have vowed to remove the head from future productions of the DVD (in other words, get your copy of season one today). Creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff also apologized saying that there is an abundance of prosthetic limbs needed to give the show its gruesome realism, and it wouldn’t be costeffective to have all of them custom made. To cut down on costs, prosthetics are rented in bulk and it just so happened one of them bore a striking resemblance to Dubya. The discovery was made by a “redditor” who goes by the name of SidIncognito. Clearly, a nerd with even more time on his hands than I have. Honestly, I’m a bit envious, because I’ve always wanted to be the one to find something like this. I mean, I found these links, but a discovery of a discovery hardly counts. Or does it? Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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