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dive in The Extroverted Introvert Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com I’ve always considered myself to be somewhat of an introvert. I enjoy keeping to myself and I really don’t like large crowds. Sure, you could call me shy. Some people quickly label me as the “artist type,” going along with the common belief that artists tend to be more introverted than most. To some extent I can see that theory holding true. Two subjects featured in this issue, one a musician and the other a painter and tattoo artist, have similar attributes to myself and while being interviewed for Submerge admitted that they enjoy overcoming their introverted tendencies. On page 12 you’ll find our feature on local singer/ songwriter Justin Farren where he talks about stepping out of his comfort zone by touring. This humorous folk-pop musician is currently in the middle of a west coast tour promoting his new album Another Bluebird Day. Farren’s CD release show will be held in West Sacramento on April 6 at the CSA Event Center. On page 24, Corey Bernhardt admits to things that scare him but understands that by facing his fears it will help him learn and connect with people. This illustrator, painter and tattoo artist recently opened Reclamare, an art gallery and tattoo shop in Sacramento. This coming Second Saturday the gallery will have its very first art show where Bernhardt’s work will be on display along with his partner Jessica Ann White, plus a handful of other artists. Be sure to make your way to 2737 Riverside Boulevard in Land Park on April 13. After reading and writing about all this introverted stuff I can recognize how it affects me. For instance, over the years this little quirk has kept me from introducing myself to a number of people I admire and respect, especially in the local music and art community. One of my favorite local bands I’ve held off from introducing myself to even though I’ve seen them countless times is Black Mackerel. Though I might have a problem introducing myself to someone, know it will never hold me back from featuring them in Submerge. On page 22 you can read about this epic metal band and how they got to where they are now, their recently released album Fight or Flight and how having day jobs and kids keeps them grounded. You’ll also be able to see Black Mackerel perform on April 12 at Blue Lamp for Tricia Duncan’s benefit show along with Kill the Precedent and Murderlicious. Lastly, on page 14 you’ll find our interview with Oxford, England-based band Foals. While on tour in Switzerland we had the chance to speak with singer/guitarist Yannis Philippakis about their latest album, a semi-spiritual moment he had the last time he was in the United States and the reasons why he does (and doesn’t) want to write more songs in the future. More or less he doesn’t make music for applause or money, it’s just a desire to make something and say something important. Bravo Philippakis! Foals will be coming to Ace of Spades on April 20, so mark your calendar for that one. Yes, we all have personal challenges whether you’re an artist or not. Hopefully you can push yourself to learn and grow as a person. If not, you can always lock yourself up since season three of Game of Thrones just started! I wouldn’t blame you. Love = Issue #133! Hate = King Joffrey! Cheers, Melissa-Dubs

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As of last week Sophia’s Thai Kitchen in Davis is back at it again, hosting intimate live shows on their sweet little front porch. In the past I’ve seen some really amazing regional and touring indie and folk acts play on the tiny deck, out in the open air, under the stars on warm spring and summer nights. Their April lineup is looking pretty good, with the Bay Area’s Tumbleweed Wanderers (who have a new EP Worn Down Welcome out in later in the month) playing on April 5 with openers The Matinee from Vancouver, British Columbia. Then on April 6, San Francisco band Social Studies, on Antenna Farm Records, will headline with local openers Cold Eskimo. April 12 will see Foxtails Brigade perform, also from San Francisco and also on Antenna Farm Records, along with openers Swansea, a trio from Portland, Ore. Roots/jazz collective The Dustbowl Revival from Venice, Calif., will play Sophia’s on April 13 with Davis’ The West Nile Ramblers opening the show. The calendar doesn’t stop there, so check out Sophiasthaikitchen.com for more shows. Most concerts start at 9:30 p.m. and range from about $5 to $7, with those 21-and-over being welcome. Do yourself a favor and check out a show at Sophia’s this year, even if you’ve never heard of any of the bands playing, as they only bring topnotch talent through.

Recently I was chatting with Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos when he suggested I check out a new band with some regional ties called E V Kain. Featuring past members of Hella, Cigar and Broken Bells, E V Kain is an experimental pop-rock trio made up of Jon Sortland (drums/vocals), Brian Belier (guitar/vocals) and Jonathan Hischke (bass). Their two songs posted online (Soundcloud.com/evkain), “Yes No Maybe” and “Sun’s Holiday,” are addicting echo-y popbased tracks with interesting enough rhythms and changes to keep this easily bored math-rock nerd thoroughly entertained. Seriously people, E V Kain is really fucking good. Think The Police meets Faraquet, if that makes any sense. Dual vocal harmonies, precise guitar picking, complex (yet not overly so) drum rhythms and some of the most bad-ass bass lines I’ve heard in a long time. I’ve yet to see E V Kain live (although I’ve found some videos of them performing unreleased tracks on YouTube), but that will hopefully change soon as they are scheduled to play Old Ironsides on Friday, April 12 alongside Major Powers and the Lo-Fi Symphony and Ol’ Cotton Dreary. The show starts at 9 p.m. and is $5, 21-andover only. We hope to have more E V Kain coverage here in the pages of Submerge as we learn more about their release schedule, so keep an eye out for that. You can also visit Evkain.com for more information.

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A glow stick and run amok at Electric Run • April 20 Carmen Electra’s done it. Shoot, even Seth Rogan has had his fill. And now, Sacramento’s getting a little taste of the Electric Run. Held at Cal Expo on April 20, this 5K run is lit by artists and lighting technicians who are behind the scenes at Coachella each year and even have Dreamworks Animations and Disney credits. This event starts at 8 p.m. and participants are encouraged to dress up in otherworldly costumes that glow in the dark—maybe even some face paint, be creative. Teams of four are welcome and individuals too. Each course has five to 10 distinct lighting experiences that range from neon trees changing to the flow of music, to the more energetic and ethereal rooms. For more information and to register visit Electricrun.com.

The Mondavi Center at UC Davis is the only venue in Northern California where the Joshua Light Show will perform with visually stunning effects perfectly synchronized to the music of ’90s jazz trio Medeski Martin and Wood. Director Joshua White is known for creating what he deems as “liquid light” and is renowned for his psychedelic appeal and credibility. Light has lit the way for notable band performances including The Who, The Grateful Dead and even Jimi Hendrix during the ’60s and ’70s in New York. Tickets start at $35 and the show begins at 8 p.m., but what’s more is this psychedelic event just so happens to take place on April 20 (aka 4/20). Far out, man. Visit Mondaviarts.org for more information.

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Join the Sacramento French Film Festival for all things French-related and Gainsbourg-related on April 13, starting at 7:30 p.m. For the past four years, SFFF throws their annual Serge Gainsbourg tribute party in celebration of the French icon and this year, they’re at it again at Verge Center for the Arts (625 S Street). For only $7, sip on pastis cocktails, which is a French, licorice-flavored liqueur, while listening to live music provided by Afternoon Tea Cup Collection and Peter Petty IS Dirge Gainsbourg! But what the admission really gets you is a seat for screenings of short films inspired by and about Gainsbourg himself. Gainsbourg, who would’ve been 84 years old this year, was a singer/songwriter, director, actor and jack of all trades popular in the ’60s and ’70s. Celebrate his life along with the SFFF, who plans on keeping the night lively with a French pop dance party and music provided by DJs Roger Carpio and Christophe. Learn more at Sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org.

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The Optimistic Pessimist There was a wondrous holiday that I relished celebrating as a child. I was a bit of a class clown in my youth, if you can believe it. If I wasn’t saying funny things, I was doing funny things, so you can only imagine how excited I was when I learned that there was actually a holiday to celebrate pranks. They called it April Fools’ Day, and I was ready to pledge my allegiance to the Comedy Gods that next April 1. My mom was always up at the crack of dawn, and she began every day, like many of us do, with a nice warm cup of coffee. This was the ‘80s, so there wasn’t any of this Starbucks bullshit; Mom was drinking some pre-ground Yuban brewed in the Mr. Coffee. As a young coffee drinker myself, I knew how the brew was made, so I knew she would need to put water in the machine. I made that my point of attack. My trick was simple but effective: a rubber band wrapped around the trigger of the wellaimed, sink sprayer. As soon as she turned on the tap, she would be soaked. And just as I had predicted, the cold water leapt out to meet

my unknowing mother and woke her more than the coffee ever would have. Sure I got grounded, but the laugh I had and the story I gained were worth it. So now you know how I was introduced to April Fools’ Day, but where did this wonderful day actually come from? I recently looked into the history of April Fools’ Day but its origins are not exactly clear. Before April Fools’ Day there was the Roman festival of Hilaria, wherein people celebrated Cybele, the mother of the Gods, by playing games and dressing up in costumes meant to imitate their fellow Romans. It sounds like a great time, but it seems more like Halloween than April Fools’ to me. In medieval times, there was the Feast of Fools, which was apparently a day for people to make fun of the Church. While I could also get behind a holiday like this, the Church didn’t enjoy being the one getting bullied for a change and banned the holiday in 1431. Fortunately for us (and unfortunately for my mother), April Fools’ Day was already alive

April Fish! Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com and kicking by that time. I couldn’t find anything about the first April Fools’ Day, but there are mentions of it in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as early as 1392. By the 16th century, due to what I can only guess was an abundance of paper fish, people in Italy, France and Belgium began to tack them on each other’s backs before yelling, “April Fish!” The invention of the “kick me” sign was undoubtedly not too far behind, so it’s no coincidence that nerds the world over dislike April Fools’ Day. No one wants to be the victim of an April Fools’ Day prank, yet there are few ways to protect yourself short of hiding in a panic room all day. Even a preemptive attack can’t guarantee your safety. Your target (aka “friend”) may have already set a prank in motion that could devastate you before you fire off your first salvo of hilarity. The best you can hope for is mutual annihilation. Still, it doesn’t hurt to be prepared. The best gags take forethought and planning. My brother once pretended to cut his arm using Halloween makeup and fake blood. It scared the shit out of my sister and I, so it was quite

effective. If fake blood isn’t your thing, you could cover your friend’s room in teeny-bopper posters or torn up magazines. For the truly dedicated, foil wrapping a co-workers office is always well received. If you have a decent amount of time and access to your victim’s bathroom, there are plenty of great pranks you can pull. Try pouring some still-liquid Jell-o into your roommate’s sink and allowing it to set. You could also have your other friends pee or drop deuces in the toilet all week long without flushing. Not into potty humor? Why not fill up the bathtub with goldfish? That’s just a few ideas to get started, but I highly encourage you to think of some on your own as well. The possibilities are nearly endless. Just remember a few things: don’t pick on the same person over and over or they will eventually snap and possibly kill you; killing, in general, is bad, so try not to do that and do your best to avoid any physical injuries or maiming if possible; and finally, and most importantly, be creative and have fun with it. It’s your day to act a fool, so enjoy it!

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Capital Capture Spring Street Style Emily Bonsignore

Springtime is all about renewal and rejuvenation. Winter slows us all down, and for a short while the cold and gray is nice, but there comes a time when we need to crawl out of bed and jump-start our lives again. We pack up our heavy winter clothes and bring lightness back into our lives. Although it is still not warm enough to be in full hot weather mode, the ability to walk to school in the morning without being bundled up in a huge, bulky parka has been refreshing. The street style on campus this week had elements of both spring and fall, making for a smooth seasonal transition.

Paola Capo-Garcia Paola Capo-Garcia sported an earth-tone ensemble on a recent mild afternoon. When it comes to the transition from winter to spring layering is key. The mornings and evenings are still chilly and warrant a little cover up, but the afternoons call for cotton shirts and capri pants. To finish your spring look it is essential to have a unique pair of flats and statement sunnies.

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Emily Yang Emily Yang combines jewel tones and lace into this flirty spring look. Her nude and black lace top is right on trend for this season as countless American designers used the combo in their 2013 spring collections. A ruby skirt brightens up Emily’s muted top, but instead of sandals try a pair of oxfords in a contrasting color to give hip vibe to a simple outfit.

Divya Singh Finally, Divya Singh’s cobalt blouse caught my eye on campus. Her look was classic and effortless with a pair of black skinnies and a quilted bag that made the blue pop! Any solid color blouse will wear well through all of spring and summer, because it is easily paired with high-waisted shorts and maxi skirts.

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Out of Bounds Local singer/songwriter Justin Farren talks about his music and latest album, and why touring pushes his boundaries, in the best way Words Jenn Walker • photo wesly davis

ntroversion arguably produces the best artists. Those who can spend hours holed up in isolation working on a project often emerge with a gem. Land them at a party or social gathering, however, and they’re quickly making a beeline to the nearest bathroom or unoccupied space. Justin Farren is an exemplary introvert. If he’s not out backpacking or camping, then he is keeping busy on a project—fixing up his yellow truck, woodworking or writing an album in his garage. For this local singer/songwriter, touring means treading outside his comfort zone. You might not know it if you saw him perform, but it is nothing short of a challenge. He was in fact on tour as he was explaining this over the phone, camping with some friends in Bellingham, Wash., and prepping for a show that same night. Touring, he concludes, is good for him. Given any other circumstance, “I’d want to just go hide,” he says. But after a show, he has no choice but to open up and talk to people. After three or four more shows along the North Coast, he returns to the Sacramento area for his April 6 CD release show at the CSA Event Center, celebrating the release of his album Another Bluebird Day. Then he’ll continue down to Southern California to promote the album.

This is Farren’s third album. With the exception of his friends Brian Rogers on drums and Emily Kollars singing backup vocals, the album is all Farren, from the guitar, bass, keyboard and shakers to the samples of him pounding aluminum cans. This project sums up his last six months, which were spent recording and mixing the entire thing in his garage-turned-studio at his house. There is nothing obscure about Farren’s songs. Over immaculate finger picking and slide guitar, he sings with lighthearted honesty about life’s tougher blows, compacted into three to four minute folk pop, storytime songs. “It has these kind of heartbreaking ideas, and I think that the whole album hopefully places these in a light of appreciation,” he says. “Stand in those moments where it would be easy to be depressed, and just appreciate that you got to have those experiences.” Farren grew up in Elk Grove when it was nothing more than fields, long before it overdosed on suburban steroids. There are no known musicians in his family, though he says there’s talk of a bad-ass accordionist amongst his ancestry. But somewhere along the way, Farren taught himself how to play music, and he’s been at it ever since. Within the last five or six years, he’s even been able to make a living off it. He’s opened for the likes

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of Hot Buttered Rum, Matt Costa and Jackie Greene. He was voted “Best Lyricist” in 2010 by Sacramento Magazine and “Best Musician” in 2009 and 2010 by the Sacramento News and Review. Farren released his last album, Songs from Spare Rooms, in 2008. Those songs were all written in the two years he surfed couches while his house was being built. (It’s worth mentioning that Farren and his now-fiancée built their house in Oak Park from scratch, inspired by a trip they made to Alaska in 2004.) “We thought, well, let’s just build a house and not think too much about it,” he says. It’s where the two currently reside, with three dogs, two of which are lovingly named Pickle Breath and Mr. Pig. Indeed, they have been sources of inspiration. Pickle Breath inspired the song on the album, “Sometimes I Like to Kill Things Too.” Go on to Farren’s music page on Facebook, and you will see several flattering photos of Mr. Pig (who, by the way, needs a new happy home). “Mr. Pig, the one in all the pictures, is maybe the nicest dog I’ve ever known,” Farren says with utmost sincerity. “So I can’t take him to the SPCA, I have to find him a home.” Other than Mr. Pig, here is an excerpt of more interesting things that came up in the conversation.

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So we were talking about your place in Oak Park, how long ago did you build that? We started in 2005. It took a couple years, we moved in in late 2007.

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Do you generally write first-hand accounts when you write songs? Yeah, in general. There’s a lot of firstperson and talking about stuff that is affecting me. I’ve always admired writers who can read a book and write a song about a character in the book. I feel like I’m a selfish songwriter in that way, I’m always just writing about myself. But that’s kind of all that I have, that’s what comes out all the time. It’s an outlet, then? Yeah, it’s the outlet. It’s an outlet, and I try to think of the songs as a byproduct of living, and I want to live a really fun, interesting life, so that I can have fun, interesting songs. Your music was featured on Laguna Beach? Yeah, one of the songs I wrote was featured. It’s from the first album. It’s a song I wrote about my band breaking up. I had a piece of shit car, and I didn’t have much going on in my life. And they played that song during a scene in Laguna Beach when they were complaining about their car, and they were driving some fancy Escalade or something, and they were talking about how their car sucks. It’s an awful show. It’s terrible. What is your least favorite song in the world of songs? Oh my God, least favorite song in the world? I have to think about it, because that’s such a huge question. There’s just a dense forest of songs that I hate so much. I feel like it’s maybe the biggest question that we’ve talked about. For me to say that I hate it, I have to really mean it.

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I read that you consider yourself a little bit of an introvert, so I was wondering if touring was a challenge. Oh yeah, it’s a huge challenge. It always has been and I think it always will be… The more tours I go on, the higher my threshold gets. I am able to comfortably sleep on a stranger’s couch and wake up and make them breakfast, and have a morning conversation with someone that I don’t know. Fifteen years ago that would have been mortifying and terribly difficult for me to even imagine doing. I think maybe that’s the best thing I can do as a human being, is hopefully raise that threshold. Because the threshold is higher, I’m able to learn from more people and be around new ideas and broaden my horizons. So touring represents all of that, all at once to me, because I’m out and I’m sharing something that’s so important to me with people who have no idea who I am a lot of the time. It forces me to swallow my pride and just do my best and play the song, and hope someone gets on the page and buys a CD or whatever.

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What prompted you to do that? The summer before, in 2004, my girlfriend and I went and worked in Alaska in a really tiny little town called McCarthy, just as something to do. We drove up and we worked in this little town, and a lot of the people up there build their own homes. Over the five or six months that we were there, we were talking to a lot of the locals and kind of getting inspired, like that might be some cool thing to do. We decided we wanted to try it when we got home.

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The Sound of Arriving

Foals continue their evolution with latest release Holy Fire Words Jonathan Carabba photo Steve Gullick

ith the release of their third fulllength album Holy Fire, Oxford, England-based rock quintet Foals have shown immense growth as a band, proving they have more diversity in their sound than most critics and reviewers thought possible. Much more ballsy and hard-edged than Foals’ 2010 sophomore album Total Life Forever and especially more mature sounding than their 2008 debut Antidotes (which has since become sort of a relic), Holy Fire is the band’s most direct and focused work to date. As their official bio puts it, “This is the sound of Foals arriving.” “We’re definitely not the same band that we were when we were making Antidotes,” admits singer/guitarist Yannis Philippakis in a recent interview with Submerge. “It’s definitely been a process of us growing up through each record, so I’d expect them to be different. It keeps it fresh for us. It’s a constant evolution. What we sound like is the five of us making music, but it’s not in a definable box. All three records have been quite different, yet I feel that there is something consistent to the three of them. There is something identifiably us about each of the records.” With an intense couple years of touring ahead of them playing sold-out club shows and giant festivals all over the world, Philippakis took some time to chat with Submerge over the phone from Zurich, Switzerland, in anticipation of their April 20 Sacramento show at Ace of Spades, just one day after the band plays Coachella.

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Leading up to the release of Holy Fire, I was shocked to hear how heavy and gritty the first single “Inhaler” was. Then when “My Number” dropped, I was equally thrown off by how polished, clean and dance-y it was. What was the thought process behind releasing those two contrasting tracks first? Just to throw people off the scent, really. I guess to show the diversity in the record. Definitely putting out “Inhaler” was the kind of thing where we relish in surprising people and being unpredictable to some extent. I think it was the song that we felt was the furthest from what had come before. And then “My Number,” you know, it was just the second song released, there wasn’t a particular tactic. I think it’s good to show people the scope of the record. It keeps listeners off guard and seems like it’s a fun way to make it playful. Yeah, exactly, playfulness is the right word. It keeps things exciting. It makes it feel less like you’re putting a product out and it actually becomes more psychological I guess. Quite a few parts on the new album have a sticky, swampy, sort of delta-vibe to them. Where did that come from? I think it came from different vantage points. One of the formative experiences was recording in Sydney, outside. We were in a studio, and it wasn’t really gelling. It just felt unnatural to be in a dark room while it was gorgeous weather outside, so we relocated to a river house. I think being surrounded by the natural environment and by insects in particular, things just sounded different in that environment. We felt it was an inspiring way to textualize the songs. It also similarly came from an imaginary understanding of things like the Delta and the Bayou, like old Alan Lomax recordings. You can smell the sweat on a lot of old blues and gospel recordings. There is a zealous energy to it. It just seeped into our pores basically, and it started to become what subliminally we were trying to achieve on certain tracks.

“I don’t want to do [music] for applause, or for money, or for security. I just want to feel like I’ve got some burning desire to make something and to say something.” – Yannis Philippakis, Foals

How was it working with Flood and Alan Moulder, two people who produced and engineered some of your favorite albums growing up? It was great. It definitely brought stability to the recording process. There was a trust there. We were working with these elder statesmen of the British recording business, you know? It brought a balance. It made us feel content and confident. It turned the volume down on the neurosis that sometimes plagued our experiences of making records before. Holy Fire has been out for a while now, and the reviews are all in. You’ve had time to breathe and sort of let things settle. What is it like to look back on it now? Relieved? Anxious to write new material? I feel good about it. I feel like I kind of want to make another record already. After the last two records did you immediately feel that urge? Maybe not as much, but I don’t think it has anything to do with this specific record. At the moment I’ve got kind of an impulsive urge to produce more. Maybe in some ways it’s the pressure of the time that it takes, you know? It takes two years to tour and write. I want to be able to spend more time creating and then releasing quicker—not such a retracted period. There is such a long build up before we actually get to put music out into the world. A little of it is coming from that. But in terms of how I feel, I feel good about the record. It is what it is. It is a document of where we were at the time, and I think it sounds great. I have no real urge to re-do the record, I just want to make another one. I want to write the next paragraph in the book. I thought I read somewhere that you said you have one more album in you lyrically. Still think that holds true? I can’t say for sure, but I definitely have one more, then we’ll have to see. I feel like musically speaking we could write music and instrumentals, like riffs and pieces of music, for a long time. I don’t think there’s any kind of cap on that. I’m just not sure lyrically if I can… Trying to write songs is a different task. I definitely feel like I’ve got enough right now to do one more, but it just depends I guess on the life experience I have in the next two years. I feel like there’s a trap in contentedness. You slow down, you start to enjoy cooking, you have a pleasantly moderate social life, everything gets comfortable. And then that booming desire to spend all of your time working on music and trying to get yourself mentally into a place where you can write songs that you feel are meaningful is something that maybe the inclinations for it lessen. What I don’t want to do is make music without…I don’t want to do it for applause, or for money, or for security. I just want to feel like I’ve got some burning desire to make something and to say something. So, it depends.

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The last time you were in the States you had a weird experience in Detroit, right? What can you tell me about that day on tour? We had been touring for a while, and we got to Detroit. It was just a special moment. I felt something in that city, and I’ve felt it every time I’ve been there. But I had a specific encounter with a street drummer named Larry. He and I hung out for a little while and he was playing these incredible drum rudiments, real precision drumming but on a couple of trashcans. We got high together, and it was just kind of a semi-spiritual moment. That’s pretty cool. Were you just out wandering the streets? Yeah, kind of. We had played the show and it was great, it was fun. I just crossed the road and I could hear the sound of him drumming. I followed the sound. I was kind of entranced by it. Then you know there’s like these burnt out tenements behind him and the whole thing was just very surreal. For a middle class boy from England, to be in that sort of environment, the experience is just sort of a special one for me. You and Larry are from two totally different worlds yet music, more specifically the rhythms that drew you to him, were sort of your guys’ common ground. Yeah, exactly. There was just a real beauty to the way that he was playing, and that was kind of all he had on him were these two trashcans and some drumsticks.

Maybe Yannis will run into a Sacramento street performer and have another semi-spiritual tour moment when his band Foals hits Ace of Spades on Saturday, April 20. Locals Cold Eskimo and Desario will open the show. Doors open at 7 p.m. and all ages are welcome. Hit up Dimple Records, The Beat or Aceofspadessac.com for tickets.

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Marilyn’s Rock On Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m. Midtown BarFly Tel Cairo (Album Release), Jonah Matranga, Paper Pistols, Agustus thElefant, Mahtie Bush, DJ Epik and more, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Jen Rogar, 5 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Snakes and Cider, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Psychosomatic, Eat the Turnbuckle, Knifethruhead, Rat Damage, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 7 p.m. Sammy’s Rockin’ Island Bar and Grill Dyer Maker, 7 p.m. The Stoney Inn Brodie Stewart Band, 8 p.m. Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; Dippin Sauce, 9 p.m.

4.05 Friday

Ace of Spades Jonny Craig, Kurt Travis, Hail The Sun, The Seeking, James Cavern, Visiting Days, 6:30 p.m. Ancient Future Sac Vegan Challenge Fundraiser w/ Kyle Vincent, 6 p.m. Assembly The California Honeydrops, 10 p.m. The Blue Lamp Death Valley High, Misamore, Horseneck, Goodbye Black Sky, 8 p.m. Broderick Roadhouse Live DJ’s, 9:30 p.m. Center for the Arts The English Beat, 8 p.m. Club Car FM-80’s, 9 p.m. CSA Event Center David Wilcox, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Pushtonawanda, The Chick P’s, Marty O’Reilly, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Lord Huron, Papa, 8:30 p.m. Haven Underground Hot Lunch, Occult Wisdom, The Still Sea, 9 p.m. Level Up Lounge Hot Pants w/ DJ Rock Bottom, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden 50 Watt Heavy, Whiskey & Stitches, Banner Days, 8:30 p.m. Marilyn’s SunMonks, Sam Elliot, Honyock, 8 p.m. Midtown BarFly DJ Shortkut, KV Lacerator, DJ Esef, Kris Ward, 10 p.m. Midtown Village Cafe Julie the Bruce, Machine City, Keep it from the Cops (EP Release), Tiger Streaks, 8 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Del tha Funky Homosapien, 10 p.m. Old Ironsides March Into Paris, Saint Solitaire, For All I’ve Done, 9 p.m. On The Y Embodied Torment, Viral, Slaughterbox, Killgasm, Solitary Priapism, 8 p.m.

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4.06 Saturday

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4.07 Sunday

Cache Creek Casino Lea Salonga, 4 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Center for the Arts Colin Hay, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Rebel Punk, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Tribe of the Red Horse, 3 p.m.; Open Blues Jam, 7 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Michael Beck, 7 p.m. Sammy’s Rockin’ Island Bar and Grill Spencer Day, 7 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Tess Marie & the Poor Man Band, 8 p.m.

4.08 Monday

Bows and Arrows Pregnant (CD Release), Hana and the Goose, Humble Cub, 8 p.m. 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 hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

Midtown Village Cafe Cock ESP, Lotion, Ennui Trust, Joltthrower, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club Work Your Soul w/ Andy Garcia and Friends, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Buddy Emmer Band, 7 p.m. Sol Collective Microphone Mondays, 8 p.m. Townhouse Open Jam/Open Mic hosted by Brian Rinehart & Mr Erik James, 9 p.m.

4.09 Tuesday

The Blue Lamp Polica, Night Moves, 8 p.m. Bows and Arrows Ava Mendoza’s Unnatural Ways, Gentleman Surfer, Nick Millevoi, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Beat Boutique feat. Benji The Hunter, 9 p.m. LowBrau Le Twist feat. Astronautica, Sam I Jam, Roderick Carpio, Adam J, Taylor Cho, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden G Green, Protomartyr, Turn to Crime, Surf Club, 8:30 p.m. Marilyn’s Greatest Stories Ever Told: Free Live Music Series, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub College Night w/ DJ Rigatony, DJ Alazzawi, 10:30 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Buddy Emmer Band, 7 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam w/ Jason Galbraith & Guests, 8 p.m. T2 Nightclub & Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Bill Mylar, 5:30 p.m.; Big Earl & the Cryin Shame, 9 p.m.

4.10 wednesday

Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Northern Soul, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Snarky Puppy, ZuhG, 8 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Chuuwee, Mic Jordan, Nick Flare, DJ Gio, hosted by Jae Synth, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Parlare Shine w/ DJ Epik, DJ Oasis, DJ Lahn, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Allinaday, Pointdexter, Stellar (tribute to Incubus), 8 p.m. Press Club Malaikat Dan Singa, Biosexual, Bad Dudes, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Buddy Emmer Band, 7 p.m. The Stoney Inn Tom Drinnon, 8 p.m. Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Peter Petty Review, 9 p.m. University Union Serna Plaza, CSUS Nooner feat. Sac State Jazz Ensemble, 12 p.m.

4.11 Thursday

Ace of Spades The Rocket Summer, The Classic Crime, Joe Brooks, 6:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Prime Tracks Showcase, 9 p.m. Bows and Arrows Classical Revolution, 8 p.m. Broderick Roadhouse Live DJ’s, 9:30 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. Fox & Goose Bob Waller, 8 p.m. Haven Underground The Fungineers, Little Dinosaur, Th’Mole, Empire Mine, 9 p.m. Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden Heavy Glow, Darling Chemicalia, The Trees, 7:30 p.m. Marilyn’s Rock On Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Jen Rogar, 5 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Aces Up, Parmalee, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Race to the Bottom, Cardboard Ringo, 8:30 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Buddy Emmer Band, 7 p.m. Shady Lady Saloon Jazz Gitan, 9 p.m. Shine Astral Cult, Megafauna, 8 p.m.

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4.12 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Andre Nickatina, Roach Gigz, Mumbls, Black C , Playah K, K-Ottic, 6:30 p.m. Assembly Crash Kings, 9 p.m. The Blue Lamp Kill the Precedent, Murderlicious, Black Mackerel, 9 p.m. Bows and Arrows Stand Out State, Finish Ticket, 8 p.m. Broderick Roadhouse Live DJ’s, 9:30 p.m. Center for the Arts Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks, 8 p.m. Club Car Dream and the Dreamer, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Island of Black & White, Yogoman Burning Band, O Street Dub, The Tender Cinders, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m. Level Up Lounge Hot Pants w/ DJ Rock Bottom, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden The Speed Of Sound In Seawater, So Much Light, Yvette Young, Welcome To Limerick, Wander, 7:30 p.m. Midtown BarFly Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ Esef and guests, 10 p.m. Old Ironsides Major Powers and the Lo-Fi Symphony, E V Kain, Ol’ Cotton Dreary, 9 p.m.

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Cache Creek Casino Los Shakas La Banda, 5 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. District 30 2nd Sundays Electronic Dance Music, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Cidney & the Lost Cats, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub A.C. Myles, 3 p.m.; Open Blues Jam, 7 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Aces Up, 7 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Delta City Ramblers, 8 p.m.

4.13 4.15 Saturday

Ace of Spades The Expendables, Pacific Dub, Arden Park Roots, 7 p.m. The Blue Lamp Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, Brubaker, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Millionaires, Trace Cyrus, Beneath the Sun, Commercialized, The Gold Standard, Lonely Avenue, 6:30 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Angie Stone, 5 p.m. Center for the Arts Guitar Extravaganza XIV, 8 p.m. Club Car Foxtrot Mary, 9 p.m. District 30 DJ Billy Lane, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Wolfgang Vega, Spangler, The Twilight Stragglers, Stevie Nader, 8:30 p.m. Harlow’s Toad the Wet Sprocket, 7 p.m. Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Local Natives, 7:30 p.m.; DJ SN1, 10:30 p.m. Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Adam Balbo, The Pine Street Ramblers, Andrew Hotz, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s Krippler, Purification By Fire, Soultorn, From Cities to Salt, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Fascination: 80’s New Wave Dance Club, 9:30 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Superlicious, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Rail Bridge Cellars Penthouse Lounge Steve and Francesca Homan Jazz Ensemble, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Ryan Hernandez, 5 p.m.; The Spazmatics, 10 p.m. Sammy’s Rockin’ Island Bar and Grill Volker Strifler, 9:30 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen The Dustbowl Revival, The West Nile Ramblers, 9:30 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Vicki Lawrence, 8:30 p.m. Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5 p.m.; Daniel Castro, 9 p.m. Townhouse Pop Freq w/ DJ X-GVNR, 9 p.m.

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Comedy Dive Bar Tanked feat. Butch Escobar, Sammy Obeid, Marcus Parker, Pete Munoz, hosted by Carlos Rodriguez, April 7, 7:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Comedy Open Mic Showcase, April 2, 8 p.m. D’Lai, Jay Reid, April 4, 8 p.m. Cory and Chad, Jimmy Earl, April 5 - 7, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m. Vince Morris, G King, April 12 - 14, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Keith Lowell Jensen’s Comedy Night, every Wednesday, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s A Very Uncensored Comedy Show w/ Steve Hofstetter, April 12, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Po’Boyz Bar & Grill (Folsom) Comedy Open Mic, every Monday, 9 p.m. Punchline Comedy Club New Faces Showcase, April 3, 8 p.m. Josh Blue, April 4 - 6, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. Sammy Obeid, April 7, 8 p.m. Steve Trevino, April 11 - 14, 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. Harold Night, Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Improv Lab, Wednesday’s, 7 p.m. Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, 9 p.m.

Top 10 List Podcast Live!, Saturday’s, 10:30 p.m. The Stoney Inn Nutty Monday’s Comedy Showcase and Open Mic, Monday’s, 9 p.m. Tommy T’s Del Van Dyke, April 3, 7:30 p.m. Ralph Harris, April 4 - 7, Thurs., 7:30 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Chris Franklin, April 10, 7:30 p.m. Luenell, April 11 - 14, Thurs., 7:30 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. University Union Ballroom, CSUS Free Comedy Show feat. Mike E. Winfield, Sammy Obeid, April 4, 7:30 p.m.

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usic has gotten progressively safer since the ‘90s—even metal. Nifty programs like ProTools have smoothed out a lot of the mistakes that used to make records sound more human, and the heavy use of effects have made guitars into sorts of musical science projects. These aren’t necessarily bad things—just another step in the constant evolution of rock music. Still, that’s why it’s refreshing to hear a band such as Black Mackerel, Sacramento’s grungiest and most primal metal band. Black Mackerel’s frontline consists of Rotten Scotty Gardner (vocals and guitar) and Scott Clayton (bass and vocals), a couple of working class guys you’d be hard pressed to find a photo of without beers and cigarettes in hand, they say. They have day jobs and responsibilities—Gardner has an 11-year-old daughter—but armed with their instruments, the duo is capable of unleashing unholy levels of whoop-ass through their music. On Feb. 28, 2013, Black Mackerel released Fight or Flight, the band’s first album, which is adorned with a beheaded chicken on its cover. It’s just eight-tracks deep, but it’ll only take a quick listen to realize the cover image is quite fitting. Songs such as opener “Poison Death Motor” and “Good Friend” are grueling, bottom-heavy grinders sure to get your gut rumbling and your head banging. Powerful riffs, brutal bass hooks (“Evilkenevil” is as catchy as it is heavy) and the full-throttle drumming of Slade Anderson punctuate what is sure to be one of the most memorable local releases of the year—in any genre.

The intense interplay of Gardner’s guitar work and Clayton’s bass playing stands at the forefront of the album. It’s a sort of sludgy stew—hot, chunky and wholly satisfying. Clayton, a guitarist by trade, brings a guitarist’s mentality to playing the bass. “I keep the bass on the bottom end…but I totally play it like a guitar,” he says. “I just treat it like it’s a four-string rhythm guitar. I can slap-pop and do all that shit with my fingers. I could probably be a real bass player if I wanted to, but that’s not really how I want to play. I want to be rhythm guitar on the bass.” “Scott is like the lead on the bass, and I’m more of the rhythm,” Gardner interjects. “We do everything a little bit backwards.” Forwards or backwards doesn’t seem to matter, whatever they’re doing is working. But Black Mackerel almost didn’t make it this far. The band actually formed back in 2004, but with the passing of original drummer Kenny Mackrel, the band’s namesake who took his own life back in 2007, Black Mackerel’s future seemed unsure. “We were going to quit, but Kenny’s brother Dennis told us don’t quit, keep it going,” Gardner says. “We went a couple of years with another drummer, and it was good, but it was kind of stagnant.” Enter Anderson, with whom Gardner and Clayton also play alongside in thrash-punk forefathers Condemned?, a band that holds the distinction of having one of the first releases on venerable metal label Nuclear Blast. Gardner says that Anderson is “one of those drummers who won’t stop playing in Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

practice.” This left Gardner and Clayton with He says he hopes Black Mackerel will make a two choices, “get mad or just start jamming,” run up to the Pacific Northwest soon, but in the Gardner says. meantime, the band will play a special show with Gardner credits Anderson with getting the current Kill the Precedent and Murderlicious on April 12 in incarnation of Black Mackerel up and running. Sacramento at Blue Lamp. The show will be a benefit “I don’t want to stroke him too much, because for their friend Tricia Duncan, who was badly injured when he reads this, he’s going to think he’s the bee’s after a fall. Duncan suffered some brain damage from knees,” he jokes. “He was kind of the catalyst for the fall and lost her job and apartment as a result. everything we’re doing now. Everything just started Proceeds from the show will be donated to Duncan. to pick up songwriting and gig-wise. He just started Music may not be Gardner and Clayton’s only to pull it together somehow.” concern, but having family obligations or day jobs “Slade’s been in every band there ever was,” hasn’t been a death knell for Black Mackerel. If Clayton adds. “It certainly didn’t take that much to anything, those things have enhanced their drive to make it work.” create music. Gardner describes Black Mackerel’s writing “I think it keeps us in touch with reality,” Gardner process as “open ended,” in which everyone has a says. “It gives us something to write about. You say as to the direction of the songs. Given Anderson’s can’t love or hate anything unless you’re exposed always-be-drumming mentality, and Clayton and to it. Dealing with people and everything every day, Gardner’s eagerness to keep up, new songs can that’s where I get some of my influence. People piss happen at any time. me off, so I write aggressive songs about it and get it “These guys will write out, and then I feel better later. It’s something while I’m in the therapeutic.” “If I didn’t play [music], bathroom sometimes,” Clayton Clayton adds, “It does keep us I wouldn’t get up to says. “Those two are just going off grounded. I would quit my day job work in the morning. I’d while I’m taking a piss. I’ll come if I could and just go play music probably be a miserable back and I’ll hear a song, I’ll be for a living. It’s kind of tough to drunk by the railroad like, ‘Don’t stop doing that!’” juggle, but you do it. It’s a labor tracks.” Gardner even wrote a song of love. If I didn’t play, I wouldn’t – Scott Clayton, on a short-scale Fender guitar get up to work in the morning. I’d Black Mackerel belonging to his daughter, who probably be a miserable drunk by also sings and plays violin; the railroad tracks.” however, she has yet to develop an ear for metal. It may be a juggling act, but the guys in Black “She’s into New Direction, or One Direction or Mackerel are handling it really well. The band may be whatever the fuck that is...Nicki Minaj and all that. something of a throwback to a wilder time in music, I’m hoping she’ll get over it, but whatever,” he says. but they’re putting forth a sound that’s just as vital I don’t care what she’s playing as long as she’s into and stirring as ever. something good like music.” “I just wanted to do something different,” Gardner Gardner says that a lot of songs Black Mackerel says. “There aren’t too many bands in Sacramento has written since Anderson joined the group didn’t like us. I wanted to do something heavy and loud.” even make it to Fight or Flight, though they may be If that’s the case, released at some point down the road. And Clayton mission definitely Check out Black Mackerel, Kill the adds that the band is looking to write more songs to accomplished. Precedent and Murderlicious at Blue progress their sound even further. Lamp in Sacramento on April 12 at the Tricia Duncan Benefit Show. In The band’s immediate future, however, will involve addition to great, heavy music, there playing shows here and there to promote Fight or Flight. will also be raffles and baked goods for sale. Entrance is just $10, and the “We all have bills and day jobs, so we can’t take money will go to a very worthy cause. off more than four or five days at a time,” Clayton If you’d like to listen to and purchase Fight or Flight, go to Buriedinhell. says. “We love going on the road. If they’d pay us, bandcamp.com/releases. we’d be doing it all the time.” SubmergeMag.com

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Diverse artist Corey Bernhardt talks about his dream job and his winding path along the way Words Nur Kausar

peaking in front of people scares Corey Bernhardt. So does tattooing, painting and producing comic books. But he does all four. “I like to challenge myself,” the Sacramento native says. “Tattooing scares the shit out of me, but that’s why I do it. That’s why I paint. I make this statement, ‘I’m gonna do this’ and it scares me to talk in front people but that’s why I love it.” He admits to being scared of this interview too, but along with his ability to face his fears, Bernhardt knows he wants to connect with people and to learn from experiences and mistakes. He also knows that all he’s ever wanted to be since he learned to read is a comic book illustrator. “I had a friend who lived down the street when I was 5 or 6 years old and he had three or four comic books, and I was instantly blown away,” says Bernhardt, now 32. “He gave them to me probably because all I wanted to do was look at them when I went to his house, and I just read them front to back over and over again and started trying to emulate the illustrations.” Bernhardt didn’t release his first creator-owned comic book Cardboard City, until 2010, some 15 years after his childhood comic experience. The short-lived action sci-fi publication with a robot as a

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main character received mixed reviews. “I made a lot of mistakes,” he says. “I had never done a comic book before. I had trouble drawing certain things, or the pacing wasn’t right. I want to take what’s there and rework it and re-release it.” Bernhardt loves storytelling and when he’s not painting, teaching or tattooing, he is home storyboarding and figuring out characters. He started his professional art training in his early 20s, when a friend got him an interview for a graphic design position at a Tower Records production office. “I started at Tower Records—it was kind of like the evil empire, a bizarre work environment,” he says looking back. “When I started I had no real graphic design experience, I knew a little Photoshop, I was 20 or 21, but I took some of my work and titled the folder ‘Please hire me,’ and the person interviewing said ‘It’s not the best work, but I like your attitude.’” Bernhardt learned from other graphic artists working at the office and later produced freelance work for local bands and businesses—flyers, stickers, whatever he could try. Hoping to further hone his skills, Bernhardt studied illustration in 2005 at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. In 2009 his freelancing and illustration work landed

him an apprenticeship at Pretty in Ink Tattoo in Roseville. “I never in a million years thought I would be a tattoo artist,” Bernhardt says. “When I was 19 or 20, I had some friends say I should tattoo but I was intimidated by tattoo artists. I didn’t have that persona, didn’t think I could hang out with them. But through graphic design, I got into it.” Along the way, Bernhardt found much respect for tattoo art and painting. “What I like about tattooing is it allows me to crisscross back and forth between the art forms, switch gears and do more sequential work or illustration, then go to painting,” he says. “I can’t say I love one over the other. And I think that’s how art is going today. You have to be able to cross genres, put down the pencil and pick up a camera, then put down the camera and pick up a paintbrush. But it is hard to find a distinct style.” Bernhardt says he found his painting style, which reflects in his other work, when he first started putting oil on wood. “I was never interested in painting—I just wanted to be a comic book illustrator— but when I started working at a tattoo shop, both tattoo artists I worked with were oil painting and they would bring out a canvas in between clients,” he says. The practice intrigued him.

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“With tattoos you would think it’s more about drawing, but it’s more like the fundamentals of painting, color theory, mixing colors,” he says. “Until I tried it I didn’t realize that. And when you work at a shop, you can put [your painting] behind you and a client will see it and might want it. It’s one more thing in your arsenal when you’re a freelance artist or independent contractor.” So Bernhardt took a magnifying glass to his favorite artists’ prints and chose oil on wood to begin painting. A Circa Survive album cover inspired him, and he found out the artist had been Esao Andrews. His style, along with that of James Gleeson, left an impression. “When I saw what those guys are doing I was like, yeah, that’s what I want to do,” he says enthusiastically. “It’s beautiful, grotesque, what I admire and I’m trying to emulate that kind of universe that they paint in. I think what made me so attached to that style of painting is when you see the painting, you want to be there, you want to see what it’s like to live there for a day.” Bernhardt is more attracted to painting

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“I like to do bizarre things like put a fish in the sky, a bird under water. It’s more a conceptual thing than a message. I’m not trying to convey a message, I’m just trying to get a feeling out of it.” – Corey Bernhardt the bizarre in nature, using animals, insects and fruit. “I like to do bizarre things like put a fish in the sky, a bird under water,” he says. “It’s more a conceptual thing than a message. I’m not trying to convey a message, I’m just trying to get a feeling out of it.” Bernhardt has only been practicing fine art for a couple years, but he has befriended a slew of Sacramento artists along the way. After connecting with local tattoo artist Jessica Ann White, and sharing with her a vision for a fine art gallery that also includes a tattoo shop, the two decided to open Reclamare Gallery and Custom Tattoo at 2737 Riverside Boulevard in Land Park. The gallery will host pieces from both Bernhardt and White regularly, as well as from Andy Steele, Jared Tharp, Chris

Bales, Jared Konopitski, Jacquelyn Bond, Jayme Goodwin, Andrew Luck, Jason Taylor, Kathryn Mayo and Joel Smith during April’s Second Saturday. “I wanted to get people to keep coming to the shop and also help other local artists by being a hub,” Bernhardt says. “You see that nowadays, there will be a gallery but there will be a bar or something in it, so the gallery doesn’t draw a lot people but you can get them in for a drink. I wanted people to know this was for fine art. It’s a gallery for artists who happen to do tattoos.” He also wanted a place to host local workshops, classes and artists who could teach painting, as a way to give back to the community that supported him. Currently, Bernhardt teaches figure drawing at University Art on Marconi Avenue. “I just want for people to be comfortable and talk about art and not be intimidated by that whole culture,” he says of the new gallery. Bernhardt is happy with the location of the gallery and shop because he doesn’t want to take away from the tattoo studios that have been established downtown, and because the gallery is in line with a few others in the immediate area. “We’re also across the street from the cemetery, which is kind of creepy but it’s beautiful,” he says, noting he thought the shop might be haunted but took care of any possible spirits before opening. Just another small scare along his path. No big deal.

You’ll be in good spirits if you visit Reclamare Gallery and Custom Tattoo on April 13 for its first gallery showing. It’s spring y’all, what better way to enjoy the weather than to get your art on for Second Saturday? For more info, visit Reclamare’s little corner of Facebook, Facebook. com/Reclamaretattoo.

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On the block of S and 10th in downtown Sacramento there is a hot spot for “regulars.” There is Old Ironsides, a bar that has been around for decades where people are likely to walk in and know the bartender’s name. Then across the street is Waffle Square, a breakfast joint that brings out the usual Sunday brunch crowd. And down the street is Beers Books, a bookstore that keeps the bookworms coming back for more pages to read. But there is one of the block’s regular spots that definitely goes under the radar. At 918 S Street there is a small restaurant that is easy to miss, most likely because it is someone’s house. The basement-turned-family owned Chinese restaurant, Gam Lei Sig, has been feeding Sacramento for the past 10 years and keeps its regulars coming back for more. The moment my roommate Brian and I walked up to the door of the restaurant, the server was outside and took one glance at Brian and said, “Chicken chow mein, chicken chow mein,” without hesitation. Although Brian has only recently started to eat his usual dinner at Gam Lei Sig, she knew his order even before he even walked through the door. But this time Brian decided to venture away from the usual and try something new. Every item on the menu is made family style. You will receive very generous portions that will most likely have you eating leftover Chinese food for the next few meals. Forget measuring the portions in terms of plate size; what you get is equivalent to a small mountain. Considering the bounty of food Gam Lei

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Sig serves, you’d be hard pressed not to feel (and eat) like a king. At first it was a bit overwhelming to choose an item on the menu. For being such a small restaurant, Gam Lei Sig menu has more than 100 items to offer. The menu is divided up into categories from chicken to seafood, and features all kinds of Chinese-American favorites such as chicken chow mein and sweet and sour pork, but they have a few surprises that you might not see anywhere else such as the appetizer called, ginger garlic fried chicken wing. Not only are the portion sizes giant, but the prices make you wonder how they have managed to stay in business for so long. The lunch combinations only cost $5.95, and the dinner combinations cost $7.25. But this isn’t only a one-shot meal; you can expect to take two or three meals back home. Most of the dishes range from $5 to $8, making it the perfect spot to grab a bite to eat and to save some for the next day. My feast for the evening included wanton soup, pot stickers, spicy chicken salad, seafood and cheese fried wonton, beef chow fun, asparagus beef and chicken chow mein. The meal started off with a giant bowl of wonton soup that only cost $5. It was hot, fresh and delicious with vegetables and broth. The pot stickers, which seemed to be very popular with everyone that came in for dinner that night, was an appetizer that was made fresh and was only $5.95 for eight pieces. And my personal favorite Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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Emotional Equilibrium Cove

Bows and Arrows, Sacramento | March 19, 2013 Words Brooke Dreyer • Photos Heather Loewe There is nothing more refreshing than a moment of clarity. Synonymous with a feeling of acceptance, when reality and emotion are finally on the same page and physically identical to the crisp-air-through-your-lungs-on-a-cool-morning sensation that Cove properly elicits from their audience. The intimacy of their music is best captured through headphones, but their upbeat tempos and vocal harmonies are perfect for any casual setting. However, their live performances surpass that of most new bands. Power trio Charlie Dale (keyboard), Steven Cranston (drums) and Scott Ferreter (lead vocals), Cove proved themselves to be excellent performers as well as talented musicians at their most recent show at Bows and Arrows. After monotonous sets from the openers, Gabe Mintz and Low Hums, Cove confidently walked onto the stage and properly transitioned the audience from light sleepers to eager observers by the end of their first song. Each of their songs was presented like a story with varying morals and moods, allowing Cove to develop connections with their listeners. Ferreter intensified this connection by staring at random members of the audience for moments at a time. Though it was intimidating at first, it allowed for those gathered to detach from their company and develop a personal bond with Cove and the depth of their lyrics. Cove’s writing strikes a perfect equilibrium between emotional, depressive and casual with lines such as, “But if I was the violent type I’d turn you into coffee grinds, I’d brew you in that French press you use and then I’d drink your soul.” Cove’s lyrics are blunt and carefully chosen; simplistically artistic as they take your hand and walk you through a nostalgic journey, reminding you of all the times you scrambled to rebuild your beliefs after reality demolished

your front line. Yet, never neglecting the resolution of everyone’s respective downfalls, they drill the concept of positive perspective, “You systematically take all of the bad things and make them better.” Dissimilar to the openers, Cove played in quicker times and proved their talents through modest instrumentation and clever melodic phrases, similar to those of Built to Spill. Their style is distinctive and consistent, and it doesn’t weigh down the songs with repetitive tendencies. Deep breaths, sighs and even subtle moans add dramatic effects to their writing and the band experiments with harmonies, progressions and rhythmic facets within each individual song. Cove performed comfortably and consistently thanked the audience for their support and attention. That, in addition to Scott’s willingness to acknowledge and interact with the listeners, allowed the audience to separate Cove’s confidence from pretentiousness. Above all, their performance was inspiring. Cove did an excellent job catering to the entertainment needs of the audience while still maintaining the integrity of their music—proving that honest musicians still exist. Thank you, Cove, for contributing to the liveliness of the Sacramento music scene.

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Words James Barone With the end of The Twilight Saga in 2012, Hollywood said goodbye to a gargantuan and extremely lucrative film franchise. Luckily for them, Twilight author Stephenie Meyer wasn’t a one-trick pony. Enter The Host, which isn’t a part of a series of books (at least not yet), but will provide the equivalent of hair of the dog for fans with a Twilight hangover. This is, as you’d probably expect, another supernatural romance, but instead of turning ancient monsters into sparkly troubadours, this time around Meyer turns her focus to extra-terrestrials, who have been more or less cuddly since E.T. and the Ewoks. The Host film doesn’t waste any time getting the action started, which is a relief. We’re instantly transported into an Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style world where humans are on the brink of extinction after being infiltrated by a parasitic race known as Souls. Mel Stryder (Saorise Ronan) is one of the last humans left, and when we encounter her, she’s on the run from a group of Soul-possessed beings. The chase doesn’t turn out well for Mel, though, because once she gets cornered, she hurls herself out a window and crashes to the ground below. Still alive, she is taken by her pursuers, healed and her unconscious body is fitted with a Soul named Wanderer. But Mel is a willful girl, one who’s not content to let someone else inhabit her body, so the two personalities end up sharing space in the same being. Mel’s defiant nature is of interest to the Soul establishment. The Seeker (Diane Kruger) believes that Mel was involved with a human resistance faction and hopes Wanderer will be able to access Mel’s memories and divulge sensitive information about the rebellion. Wanderer is a kind soul, though, and she feels empathy for Mel’s situation. The two-asone embark on a journey to reunite Mel with her uncle (William Hurt), boyfriend Jared (Max Irons) and baby brother Jamie (Chandler Canterbury). A bizarre love quadrangle forms when Wanderer falls in love with Ian (Jake Abel), another member of the human resistance. Wanderer, with Mel in tow, joins up with the humans and tries to avoid capture as they rollick through the desert. It’s SubmergeMag.com

a sort of schizophrenic Thelma and Louise with an alien twist, but not nearly as interesting as that sounds. I assume that we, like Wanderer, are also supposed to empathize with the plight of the human characters in the film, but it’s kind of difficult to do. The Souls, other than the whole hopping from planet to planet and inhabiting other beings’ bodies thing, are actually pretty pleasant. They don’t lie. They trust one another. They don’t slap obnoxious advertising over everything, and you don’t have to pay for the groceries at the super market. You can just walk right in and take them. In one scene, Wanderer asks another Soul to borrow his Volvo station wagon. He readily agrees, no questions asked, and lets her know that it’s a very reliable model. Later, when The Seeker’s anti-human stance leads to death, another Soul politely tells her that maybe it’s time to leave the humans be to go extinct gracefully. Villains, maybe, but it’s kind of hard to hate them too much. They’re just so darn nice. Wanderer especially is a bona fide peach. She inhabits Mel’s body, sure, but she didn’t exactly possess her a la The Exorcist. It was more of a luck of the draw sort of thing. If anything, you might wish Mel would just stop whining and leave poor Wanderer alone. Her incessant, bratty voice-overs can be grating at times when they're not simply narrating what we’re watching on screen. It’s a toss-up as to which one is more annoying. The humans aren’t so warm and fuzzy. They were destroying the planet, as we are told, before the Souls showed up. The humans also treat Wanderer appallingly when they first meet her. Even our romantic heroes Jared and Ian rough her up a little—even though she bears the face of their beloved Mel. But I guess we’re supposed to like them because they’re human and we’re human, and we should have the freedom to be complete assholes if we so choose. Despite all that, The Host isn’t bad. Much like the film’s friendly conquerors, the story presented here is enjoyably innocuous. It’s mostly about kissing (and who doesn’t like kissing?)—as in who wants to kiss who and why people don’t like it when you inhabit their bodies and kiss someone they want to kiss, or someone they don’t want to kiss, because they want to kiss someone else. It may be about aliens, but there’s some real world drama there.

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the shallow end Last week was certainly a banner time for civil rights in America. On March 26 and 27, The U.S. Supreme Court conducted two days of hearings in regards to same-sex marriage, specifically California’s Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriages, and the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which limits federal benefits and interstate marriage recognition to heterosexual couples. Clearly, both of these things are highly discriminatory. The Supreme Court’s decisions on these matters, however, were slightly murkier. I’m not sure how anyone can look at either Prop 8 or DOMA and not say, “OK, that’s kind of fucked.” I’m not an alarmist, but if you can’t see that either is no different than saying African Americans have to use a separate bathroom from whites, there must be something wrong with you. If you believe either of these should exist in the world’s shining example of a democratic society, how can you even exist in a cultural melting pot such as this? Maybe we can find you a country that’s more homogenous. I’m sorry to offend

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you (OK, I’m not), but it’s true. It’s tough love, dude. And please don’t quote the Bible to me. I’ve read the Bible. I know all about that little chapter all the way back in Leviticus where God’s all, hey, dudes, don’t sleep with dudes. I promise I won’t point to the part where it also says you shouldn’t wear clothing woven of two different materials. Shit was rough back when the Old Testament was written. Having a bunch of ridiculous rules was most likely a necessity for the survival of the species. People didn’t have the life expectancies that we have now. There weren’t doctors or over-the-counter cold remedies. Our ancestors were wandering the desert, dying of flesh-eating plagues and probably getting mauled to death by sabertooth tigers or pterodactyls or whatever was alive back then. We have Burger Kings now. I’m not sure all those rules really apply any more. So, God said so just doesn’t seem to hold water any more, especially considering Jesus came along later and said, “Bro, love your neighbors” (paraphrasing). If you take religion

James Barone jb@submergemag.com out of the equation, what’s really the problem? I don’t see why it matters who marries who. It’s marriage; half of them don’t last anyway. OK, wait, I’m not a cynic. I believe in love (or whatever). I’m sure it happens to people all the time. I’d bet it could last, too, regardless of whether it’s between two men, women or a woman and a man. I’ve seen the Twilight movies. I’m a romantic. I guess that’s why this whole thing bothers me so much. It was a pretty big deal that the Supreme Court would hear these cases, and really it’s about time. A solid majority of Americans support samesex marriages and 80 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29. Clearly, it’s a matter of time. For two days, the highest court in the land heard all kinds of arguments on both sides and fired back quips and questions to attorneys and to one another. In the end, not much really happened, other than a lot of people changing their profile pictures on Facebook (it was really confusing for me). The Supreme Court didn’t really weigh in on whether same-sex marriage was legal or illegal. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, believed to be the

swing vote between the liberal and conservative factions of the Supreme Court, admitted that he was worried about the court being asked to wade in “uncharted waters.” Change is difficult. It takes time, but clearly it will get there. Just the fact that cases like these made it to such a high court indicate that, eventually, marriage will be the equal right for all Americans, as it should be. And hey, since we’re on the topic of marriage, as it turns out, I’m a registered minister and would love to officiate your ceremony. Gay or straight, Pastor Jimmy B. does not discriminate (it took me days to come up with that slogan). The best part is, I work cheap, as long as you have an open bar at the reception. Just throwing that out there. So be emboldened, people, and be happy that a day of marriage equality is not too far off. In the meantime, please, do me a favor. Change your profile pictures back to normal. You made your point and I support you 100 percent, but I have a hard enough time remembering who’s who without everyone sporting the same profile picture. It’s one of the drawbacks of my advanced age.

Annual 4th Gainsbourg Tribute Party Saturday, April 13, 2013 Verge Center for the Arts Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Short Films 8 p.m. Live Music by Afternoon Teacup Collection & Peter Petty IS Dirge Gainsbourg 9 p.m. French Pop Dance Party w/ DJ Christophe & Roger Carpio 10 p.m.

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