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dive in I wish every week was beer week Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com Starting on Feb. 25 is the second annual Sacramento Beer Week! We here at Submerge couldn’t be more excited. To get you pumped for this glorious week, you will find a bit of beer-focused content in this issue. Just one of the many things that is special about Sacramento Beer Week this year is that some of our favorite breweries, Sierra Nevada, Lagunitas, and Sudwerk, are brewing beers exclusively for the occasion. Paradime Sac, Lagunitas’ brew, was crafted with input from several of our area’s local beer enthusiasts, such as Kimio Bazett and Jon Modrow (owners of Golden Bear), Micael Ng (GM of One Speed), Dylan Mauro (owner of Samuel Horne’s) and many more. On page 16 you can read about the process they went through to bring us their imperial rye style ale. On the other hand Sloughhouse Pale Ale, Sierra Nevada’s brew for Sacramento Beer Week, was the idea of just one Sacramento beer aficionado, Rick Sellers (of Pacific Brew News and co-founder of Odonata Beer Company). Having grown close with Sierra Nevada over the years, when Sellers approached them with his idea, they didn’t hesitate to brew a beer specifically for Sacramento. On page 17 you can read about this micro-brewery and how they are still making waves in how they approached Sloughhouse’s light yet full bodied, hop-y, complex taste. While our coverage is extensive on those two brews, we also included a small bit on Sudwerk’s Beer Week brew called Sacpiper Wee Heavy. After reading about these limited edition beers, be sure get yourself a pint (or three) at a bar around town that has them. Don’t miss out! Lockdown Brewing Company (located in Folsom) has a new taproom, which is actually located in a warehouse/garage-like structure in Rancho Cordova. With seven different beers on tap and an extremely affordable sampler, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t take the time to drive out there or hop on the light rail and get your taste buds soaring. Check out our writer’s experience on page 24. Also, this issue’s Submerge Your Senses section is dedicated to this fantastic week o’ beer. While there are over 200 events you can possibly go to (see Sacramentobeerweek.com), on page 7 we highlighted four of our favorite events. Taste, see, hear and touch all things beer related. Also in issue 79 we’ve got you covered with our array of music coverage. We have an interview with Bay Area rapper Mistah FAB (front cover). FAB is one of my favorite people to see on stage. He creates this amazing live energy that has me yearning to see him perform over and over again. He will be in Sacramento at the Colonial Theatre on March 2 headlining the Back to the Future Tour. Submerge spoke to FAB about how his style is maturing—which shows on his upcoming album titled Liberty Forever. He also speaks of his thoughts on Bay Area fans hating when an artist finally gets national recognition. Be sure to read everything he has to say on page 10. On the complete other end of the music genre spectrum we have an interview with metal, or to get all subgenre on you, deathcore band, Whitechapel. It amazes me (as well as the band itself) that their album A New Era of Corruption, despite being so heavy, charted in the Top 50 of the Billboard 200. In our interview on page 18 with guitarist Alex Wade you can read about his thoughts on metal’s subgenres, how they recorded a song with Chino Moreno of Deftones and how he even works for his band’s own management company, Sacramento-based Artery Foundation, managing I Declare War (from Seattle). Our other feature is about local skateboard clothing company Lurk Hard, their latest line and their new film Summer Boyz. Submerge also spoke with one of Lurk Hard’s team skaters Chuck Donnatin (back cover) to discuss his connection with the crew and how he’s keeping his body solid with such an intensive sport like skateboarding. This extensive feature starts on page 12. Also in issue 79 you’ll find reviews of the new movie Cedar Rapids and a show review of Lite Brite, Mondo Deco and The Babs Johnson Gang that took place on Feb. 11 at Luigi’s Fungarden. And be sure to check out all our other columns that I unfortunately have no more space to describe. Enjoy,
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This year’s Grammys were watched by more than 26 million people, its highest viewership in 11 years. But why did Justin Bieber’s performance feel like an 8th grade talent show with a $100,000 budget? And Bob Dylan should put down his harmonica and hang up the shoes. However, Mumford and Sons killed it and felt the biggest overnight boost in sales, despite not winning any awards. Eminem, per usual, raged through songs with Rihanna and Dr. Dre. All in all…8 out of 10 as far as Grammys are concerned. In other Grammy news, Arcade Fire took home one of the biggest awards of the night, and (second) biggest shocker, capturing Album of the Year honors. Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs was thought to be a longshot, but the band beat out some impressive contenders: Eminem, Lady Antebellum, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. The band delivered two Grammy night performances, including the final act. The Suburbs hit No. 1 on the charts in seven countries, including the band’s native Canada. As expected, the group also saw a spike in digital album sales immediately following its Grammy win.
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Death Cab for Cutie will release a new album, Codes and Keys, on Atlantic on May 31. Frontman Ben Gibbard has said that guitars will not be as prominent as they have been in past albums, noting the band has been experimenting with new methods of song development. Producer Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine) is working on the album, and the band will be playing shows in Canada and the Northwest United States leading up to the release.
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Radiohead fans who pre-ordered the band’s new album were treated with it in their inbox Feb. 18, a day earlier than promised. The band announced that its new album, The King of Limbs, would be available for download Feb. 19, can be purchased in stores March 28 and will be bundled in a collector’s package to be released May 9. The album is the group’s first since 2007’s In Rainbows, and fan anticipation for the release has been rabid. Radiohead fansite, Ateaseweb.com, crashed earlier in the week as visitors scoured the Internet for release info. Ditching their “paywhat-you-want” business model, Radiohead will offer the new album for sale as digital and physical releases, as well as the album on disc, vinyl and sheets of artwork.
James Murphy’s announcement that LCD Soundsystem’s April 2 show at Madison Square Garden would be its last certainly came as a shock to fans. LCD has produced three successful albums; the latest, last year’s This Is Happening, reached top 10 Billboard status. But Murphy says the band will be done in April. He appeared on The Colbert Report, explaining the decision to retire by saying, “It seemed like the right thing to do. I’m 41, and at a certain point, I think it gets embarrassing.” The band went on to play what could be its last television performance. Another Coachella reunion?
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Skinner unleashes ungoliant
Have you noticed how there is an abundance of dudes with really awesome (or creepy, depending on how you look at it) mustaches in Sacramento? Well, Sacto ‘stache sporters, it’s time to put that fuzzy upper lip to the test with Anthony’s Barber Shop’s third annual Mustache March competition. Here are the rules: You’ve got to be clean-shaven by March 1, then let that bad boy grow for one month, submit a picture to shop owner Anthony Giannotti by April 4. The submitted photos will be uploaded to the shop’s Facebook and Myspace pages, where you will have until April 9 to get your friends to vote for your ‘stache. The winners will be announced on April 10 and the top three ‘staches will get a free haircut and shave. For every participant that enters a picture, Anthony’s Barber Shop will donate a set amount of money to Locks of Love, a public nonprofit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. Grow that ‘stache for a good cause! On March 31 there will even be a Mustache Bash at Shady Lady where The Secretions will perform a special acoustic set along with a performance from The Nickel Slots. Party starts at 8:30 p.m. and it’s $5 to get in if you don’t have a ‘stache (fake or real). Local artist Skinner has a new musical project called Ungoliant that will debut on March 19 at Distillery alongside locals Cura Cochino and Rabbits from Oregon. The show is also a birthday celebration for Skinner! I contacted the man himself to pick his brain about the new project: “What we are playing now is super riff heavy, slowed down kind of Electric Wizard style, but the riffs are kind of classic rock, so it’s not like the same note over and over,” he said. “It’s got some faster parts, but for the most part it’s repetitive and layered. Letting the stank of the riff breathe.” The group is currently made up of Skinner on guitar/vocals, Hal Rotter (who used to be in Slaughter Box and Chronaexus) on drums and Sonny Iverson from KnifeThruHead and Barbarous Cock on bass. Skinner mentioned they are trying to add a fourth member, though. “We are going to try to get Danny from Barbarous Cock too,” he said. “Hal is a really good guitar player and doesn’t want to play drums as much as guitar.” Don’t miss this show, it’s sure to be heavy. Really heavy.
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Sacramento band Life in 24 Frames has wrapped up their newest fulllength, titled Time Trails. It’s ten tracks total and was produced/ engineered by Robert Cheek. Drums were tracked at The Hangar with all the other instruments being tracked at the band’s studio, “The Hatch” as they call it. Mixing went down back at Hangar. Kris Anaya of Doom Bird even lent a hand with some piano and keys parts. “I don’t think I’d ever do another record with anyone but Robert again,” said Kris Adams, vocalist/guitarist of Life in 24 Frames. “Dude is amazing.” They’re still figuring out when/how they are going to actually release the record, but they’ve got a live on-air TV performance lined up on the KCRA 3 morning show on March 25, as well as a Live from Studio A performance on KDVS in Davis on March 14. Of the band’s current state, Adams said, “We really are a different band at this point and have fallen into our own sound and are very comfortable with where we are as a band. I think it really shows on this record. We have spent a lot of time on it. We are all very proud of it, and it is above and beyond anything we’ve ever done.”
Two beloved Sacramento-native bands, Musical Charis and Blvd Park (who recently relocated to Seattle) are heading out on a two-month-long tour of the country together dubbed The New American Dream Tour. The plan is this: pack into a 35-foot 1977 Ford school bus, complete with homemade bunks in which they will sleep, “Partridge Family style,” says the tour’s official press release, and travel the country playing music together. As of press time for this issue though, the crew was having a hard time getting the bus to pass smog, among other problems. For an in-depth update written by Tekla J. Waterfield, singer and “band mom extraordinaire” for Blvd Park, hit up their blog at Blvdpark.wordpress.com. The tour kickoff show is going down at Beatnik Studios on March 1, so mark that on your calendar; in the meantime, send positive thoughts their way, or donate a buck or two if you can at Feedthemuse.net/ thenewamericandreamtour.
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B EER WEE K EDI T ION The second annual Sacramento Beer Week is going down Feb. 25 through March 6 at dozens of bars, restaurants and venues around town. If you’re like us here at Submerge, then beer is a big deal and your taste buds are going wild in anticipation. There are so many events going on that we don’t have enough space to write about all of them, so here are a few highlights that all take place on different day. You can actually make it to them all. For more information and a full schedule of events, hit up Sacramentobeerweek.com.
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On Sunday, Feb. 27 Brew Ferment Distill, a great little home brew shop located at 3527 Broadway, invites you to learn how to home brew alongside the Greenbelt Brewers Association and the Elk Grove Brewers Guild. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to brew beer at home, what sort of equipment you’ll need, etc., then you’ve got to be here to see two local home brew clubs brew several different demonstration batches of beers, including “extract” beers (which is usually what beginners start with), as well as all grain beers. Sample home brewed beers and eat tasty food while chatting it up with seasoned and rookie brewers from the region. The event is free (food might not be though) and it kicks off at 10 a.m. For more information, call BFD owner Tim Clark at (916) 476-5034.
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Beer 101 with Kevin Pratt at River City Brewing Company On Tuesday, March 1 at 7 p.m., River City Brewing Company, located in the Downtown Plaza mall, will host certified Cicerone (the beer world’s version of a wine sommelier) Kevin Pratt as he leads an informative class about the range of flavors found in world beer styles. There will be tastings, food pairings and plenty of beer knowledge to soak up in time to enjoy the rest of Beer Week’s events! It’s only $30 to attend. Call River City Brewery at (916) 447-2739 to make reservations.
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On Sunday, March 6 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. the Gold Country Brewers Association and Rubicon Brewing Company are teaming up at Rubicon’s Capitol Avenue location in downtown Sacramento to show you the ins and outs of both home brewing and commercial brewing. Set up in the alley behind Rubicon will be GCBA’s “BOAT” (aka Brewery on a Trailer), a custom-built rig that you’ve got to see to believe. Inside, Rubicon Brewmaster Scott Cramlet will take your through the process of brewing one of their world famous ales on their system. You get to see it all, a unique home brewing process and a legit, real-deal brewery process.
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Peter Hoey Beer Dinner at Restaurant Thir13en On Friday, March 4, at the soon-to-open Restaurant Thir13een inside The Sterling Hotel, located at 1300 H Street, join chef Adam Pechal (Tuli Bistro) and local brewer Peter Hoey (Odonata Beer Company, Sacramento Brewing Company) for a truly special night of food and beer pairings. Hoey will be showcasing five of his new brews for Sutter Buttes Brewing, and each will be paired with a course from Pechal. Doors open at 6 p.m. and dinner is at 7 p.m. It’s $75, but if you consider how much delicious beer and food you’re going to get, it’s well worth it. For reservations call Tuli Bistro at (916) 451-8854.
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The Optimistic Pessimist License to Kill Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com Valentine’s Day is officially over, and it’s time to fill the hate vacuum it created. If you read this column every couple weeks, you probably think that I am basically an angry, raving lunatic, hell-bent on the annihilation of the imbecilic automatons that run this world. While that’s partially true, I try to keep a pretty cool head. Of course, even I have moments of weakness, usually when I’m behind the wheel of a car. It’s not all my fault though. In fact, most of it is yours. You people literally drive me crazy. I have issues with speeding. Mostly my issue is that you aren’t going fast enough. To me the speed limit is only a suggestion. I’m more of a “go with the flow of traffic” kind of guy, and I like to set the flow. All I ask is that you stay with me. The cops can’t give us all tickets, right? Some of you out there follow the posted limit religiously, and then there are those who can’t even hang with that. Some of you play it extra safe, which infuriates me and makes things extra dangerous. You hold me up to watch someone sitting in their car on the side of the road or perhaps because you smell something awful, like a cattle farm. One would think that people would want to get away from the smell of all that cow shit, but on highway 99 that’s not the case. Right now you might be thinking, “Why doesn’t he just go around all these slow people?” My answer to you is that I try… I try so hard, but these idiots won’t let it happen. They get in the fast lane to slow down or to talk on their phones. Maybe they match the speed of the car next to them and get their roadblock on. When there is room for them to get out of the way, they hold their ground, that is, until I try to pass, at which point they throw on their blinker too just to fuck it all up. Sometimes it’s the type of car that pisses me off. I’m all for saving the environment, but you Prius drivers out there are really testing my love of nature. Face facts, your car may
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be “environmentally good,” but it is seriously lacking in the balls department. No level of Truck Nuts are going to make that piece of shit sustain a speed above 65 for more than a few minutes, so stay in the slow lane where you can really enjoy the nature. A lot of people think they are driving highperformance whips. They think because their Corolla is the S model that it must be smashin’. Their Dodge Neon has racing stripes, so clearly it will tear up the road. You are wrong. And that huge spoiler on your otherwise stock 1999 Honda Civic ain’t doing shit for you. Your car is not tight and it definitely ain’t fast. On the flipside, I see plenty of legitimate sports cars going slower than an old woman in the diaper aisle at the grocery store. You blew all that dough on that car and empty your pockets on insurance and premium gas to do that? If you are going to buy a sports car, then drive it like one! Quit trying to prolong that midlife crisis and get on with it. It might be a cool car but you look like an ass going 50 mph in it. I’ve thought about buying a motorcycle with the idea that I could just weave in and out of traffic and avoid the whole mess, but I hate motorcycle riders for that very reason. Why should they get to slip between lanes while the rest of us are forced to wait? They look so smug in their helmets and their leather jackets. And when they start popping wheelies or pulling some sideshow shit, they really make me want to test the efficacy of all that protective gear. If the repairs weren’t so expensive, I’d be hitting them with my doors left and right. There are so many more types of drivers to hate. I could write a whole book on this, but it would probably lead to an aneurysm or heart attack, and if I died who would set these idiots straight? So if you think you are one of the aforementioned d-bags, look sharp… I’m coming for you!
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Capital Capture Birds of a Feather
Although feather headbands and hair accessories have forged a stronghold on the fashion front, feathers of a different form have caught wind of new niches. Streaming from ears like slender feather scarves, fastened to strands of hair
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in vibrant hues and positioned in hatbands, these fun accents have Sacramentans rustling feathers all around town. Captured here are only a few of the
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many ladies that can be spotted with long, thick feather earrings or malleable feather
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hair extensions tucked into manes, or packing a double punch with both. Many salons around Sacramento offer feather hair extensions starting at around $15 (depending on number of feathers). Likewise, the best boutiques have both long and short feather earrings in stock. Lads aren’t left out of this trend. For a dude with some lovely locks, a more natural colored feather extension could be not only manly, but rather stylish and confident. “If I could come back as anything, I’d be a bird first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.”
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Stepping Up
Mistah FAB breaks past ties and forges a new route Words Blake Gillespie Photo Phil Emerson
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n the heels of the hyphy movement of the mid-Aughts, Oakland rapper Mistah FAB struck gold with the single “Ghost Ride It” in 2006. With its lifted Ghostbusters theme synth line and instructions on how to “ghost ride the whip” (which is such a dangerous hobby that I’ll refrain from describing it for the kids’ sakes), “Ghost Ride It” earned Mistah FAB a contract on Atlantic Records. He inked the major label deal in 2007, but his anticipated album Da Yellow Bus Rydah never saw a release date. When I asked FAB whether he still ghost rides the whip for nostalgia’s sake, he said, “Naw, man. It’s too dangerous now. “I’m not trying to make it seem like I’m some old-ass critic,” he said. “I’m 28. My mind is just not there anymore. I don’t even like going out much. I’m an old-ass young man. Going out is boring to me now. I have a daughter, and my main thing is getting home to her.” Last month, FAB dropped his I Found My Back Pack mixtape, which was rooted in the traditional boom-bap hip-hop vibes, instead of the Bay-centric sonics synonymous with his style. With a new album title for his next official release, FAB talked about the changes in his style, his attitude toward music and the changes in Bay Area music.
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The I Found My Back Pack mixtape is neither a sound nor style typically associated with your music, but you’ve always had ties with the backpacker community. Why did you commit a mixtape-worth of material to that style? Even when hyphy was in its glory days, the albums I put out during those times still had songs that showed ability and a plethora of styles. Unfortunately, what was popular at the time took away from my ability to be creative and speak to the artier hip-hop fans. It’s been a while since I wanted to focus on that craft. Not only to display my ability, but to just prove to myself that I could still make music that doesn’t have to glorify diamonds, clothes, cars and materialistic items, nor do I have to be on the club scene. Have you paid much attention to reactions to the mixtape and this new direction? I’ve enjoyed it. I love the mixed emotions. I love that people are still shocked and say things like I didn’t expect you to do that, which is unfortunate. After all, what’s an artist if he’s not able to reinvent himself, be creative and give people something new to talk about? I love the fact that people are still able to have things to say about me. From researching the projects you’re working on with Alchemist and DJ Drama and listening to your recent interviews, it feels as though you’re in the middle of a significant change in your career. Especially since your next album will no longer be titled Yellow Bus Rydah, but Liberty Forever. Life is about growth. Life is about change. It’s about accepting some of the areas you indulged in and admitting faults… With the changes I’ve made musically, if I was to put the album out with the title Yellow Bus, before listening to it people would assume it would be on one of the previous styles I was on and wouldn’t give it its fair shot. The name of the album is actually the name of my daughter, Liberty Forever. But as for the direction I’m going in, I don’t feel like I’m at fault for it, but I definitely influenced some people to do some negative things. As well as some things I’m pretty sure they wish they didn’t do. It was a wonderful moment. We had fun. We enjoyed it. Some weren’t able to bounce out of it and grow out of it, but it’s like when you’re in college and you’re a wild party animal. Then you see some friends years later and they’re like, “What’s up, bro. Let’s go party.” But you’re like, “Naw, I’m a businessman now.” I’m not trying to say that I’m better, but this ain’t college no more. You know? That explains my growth; like a frat bother growing up. We had fun, the college days [the hyphy days] were great. Now we’re on the business route.
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You’ve reached a point where it’s no longer enough for people to associate you with a Bay sound or hyphy, but as an artist known nationally and not pigeonholed as a regional act, is what you’re saying? I’ve always had an ability to work with everyone. On my Son of a Pimp album I had a beat by Kanye West, but it stayed under the radar. I am known by the name. I might not be an in-house name to the fans and everyday people, but the landlords know me. It allows me to work with different artists. On my new album, whenever it does come out, cats like Lupe Fiasco, Rick Ross, Bun B, Snoop Dogg and Jadakiss are on there. I’m working with people’s favorites. It’s very humbling to grow up listening to these guys, wanting to be like some of these guys and now they view me as a peer. Are you still on Atlantic Records? I’m not. I’m going through the final stages of this release. But I’m able to make more moves this way. It’s no hard feelings. They gave me an opportunity I didn’t capitalize off of due to surrounding things going on in my life. There’s no excuse for it. Atlantic is a great label. It’s a growing step. I’ve graduated in my maturity to realize that some things I missed because I was immature, not ready for certain challenges—challenges that I am ready for now.
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You’ve always struck me as an artist that, despite your deal not working out with Atlantic, you could sustain purely on your live performances and self-released material. I’ve always thought that spoke volumes of your identity as a selfmade man. I appreciate that, man. That’s always been the most significant part of my career, my ability to do a live show as well as continue to create. Unfortunately a lot of artists get idle in their creative processes when they’re awaiting major albums or signed to labels. They just get lost in the sauce. Their relevance erodes. Fortunately for me, I’ve been able to stay relevant on pretty much all levels—the Internet, thank God for the Internet. Sites like Twitter and World Star Hip Hop allow artists free promotion. Shouts to all the blogs that post my new songs and continuously show me love. It’s my work habit too. I’m addicted to the music. I’m in the studio constantly. I have libraries of music. So it’s nothing for me to put a project together just to sell at shows. For this tour I’m about to be on, I put together a freestyle mixtape. I’ve been able to financially survive. I love my art, but love doesn’t pay bills. What pays bills is hard work and dedication to creating a product and selling yourself—not literally—to keep yourself relevant. How do you feel about the emergence of Lil’ B in the Bay Area and his elevation to the national spotlight? I love Lil’ B. When he was 13 or 14 years old, I first recorded a song with [The Pack] and I will always support Lil’ B. I feel that he’s a marketing genius. People are so judgmental on artists that they critique him without even meeting him. He’s established a lane for himself that no one else was covering, no one else was worried about, no one else had even thought about. I don’t see anyone giving him credit for reinventing himself. He turned himself into an entity and made a brand out of himself. The people are ignoring that. We’re in a game where marketing and strategizing of commerce is something that should be saluted, and no one is giving him credit. It just shows you how selfish people are. It’s just disgusting to look at the way people view him.
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My concern is it seems that every time an artist from the Bay gets the push into the national spotlight, there’s encouragement at first and then it gets cannibalized by backlash. I want to shout all the Bay area fans who are haters. They’re like a selfish kid. You know how a kid will have a lot of toys, but then there’s the one toy they never play with that strikes big? They want to say, “That’s my toy! That’s my toy! I had that toy first.” Then it becomes, “That toy’s old. Fuck that toy now. I hate that toy.” It’s like goddamn, bro, are you serious right now? The world finally gets a chance to see what we have and all of a sudden you want to start hating?
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Lurk Hard owner Geno Failla
Screen capture from Lurk Hard’s new film Summer Boyz
Creepin’ Up on Fame
Sacramento-based clothing company Lurk Hard turns heads with their designs and their skate team
Geno Failla,
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ver the years, the greater Sacramento area has bred or been home to some incredibly talented skateboarders: John Cardiel is quite literally a legend; ESPN called Matt Rodriguez “one of skateboarding’s unsung godfathers of style”; Brandon Biebel is a worldwide name; Omar Salazar and Stefan Janoski have their own Nike signature shoes, for crying out loud. This list could go on and on. There are a lot of rippers from around here making waves in the skate scene; currently, the Lurk Hard crew is a huge part of that. If you’re asking yourself, “What is this ‘Lurk Hard?’ And does it have anything to do with how much time I spend on Facebook creepily looking up people?” you’re wrong, sort of. Lurk Hard is a Sacramento-based clothing company that makes T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, beanies, etc. that was started by longtime skateboard enthusiast and Fresno, Calif., native Geno Failla. The company’s website, Lurkhard.com, offers up this description: “Lurk Hard offers an innovative style solution for your everyday lurker by offering affordable, quality clothing products that skateboarders can connect with to complement and enhance the lurker lifestyle.” Since the company’s 2008 inception, Failla has built a solid team of talent to rep his brand. The team’s second video, Summer Boyz, was recently uploaded online in its entirety to Lurk Hard’s site in a six-part series. In celebration of the film’s free digital release as well as Lurk Hard’s spring/summer 2011 collection being released soon, Submerge hooked up with Failla and team shredder Chuck Donnatin, arguably one of Sacramento’s biggest contenders to be “the next big thing,” for a couple separate interviews.
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How many stores can your stuff be found in now? You guys are all over, right? We’re in about 30 stores throughout the United States; our own online store, Shop.lurkhard.com; FTC in Barcelona, Spain; and Animism in Australia. How many skaters are a part of your team? The Lurk fam consist of Chuck Donnatin, Clyde Moore, Mark Dillon, Rob Mason, Nicholas Silva, Blue Turner, Aric Hondel, JR Dias and a few others on our flow program. How long have you known Jack Mansfield, the filmmaker who’s done both Lurk Hard videos? What draws you to his filming style? I met Jack shortly after moving to Sacramento in 2005 through Rob Mason at Flatspot skate shop one day. Jack’s whole entire creative process from
Summer Boyz is the second official Lurk Hard video. Why did you guys ultimately decide to upload it online instead of putting it out on DVD? Yes, Summer Boyz is the second video that we’ve done with Jack Mansfield. The first one was 19 Years Young. We decided to put it online for everyone because we wanted more people to see it worldwide. If we decided to sell it, there’s a lot more to deal with in getting the rights to music that we used as well. Can you hint at anything else exciting on the horizon for Lurk Hard? What about the next video project? Have you started thinking about that yet? We have our first part of our spring/summer 2011 line coming out in stores and online in about a week. I can’t say much about some of our upcoming collaborations with other brands, but I’m pretty excited about doing them. We’ll be working with new designers as well. Stay tuned for more on that. As for another video, we never stopped filming after we finished Summer Boyz. But I’m not sure when the next project will be out. We’ll always have short videos on our site; check it out at Lurkhard.com.
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When did you start Lurk Hard? What was your motivation behind starting your own clothing company? I started the brand in January 2008 with my ex-girlfriend Jeanie Sriboon. Shortly before the conception of a brand, I wanted to do something that involved skateboarding and have an outlet for my creative ideas. We made some stickers and a few shirts and things just started to develop from there.
start to finish with any project he does is amazing. It’s rad that he still uses Super 8 film nowadays, considering most people have moved on to using only HD cameras. I love the way Super 8 looks! I know that if Jack is going to do a video with us, it will be top quality. He doesn’t do anything half ass at all.
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How old are you? How long have you been skating? I am 21 years of age. I’ve been skating for about 11 years now, about half of my life. How long have you lived in Sacramento? What brought you here? I moved down here about eight or nine months ago. Skateboarding and filming out here, you know, I thought I’d cut out the two-hour drive from Gardnerville to Sacramento. You were making that commute a lot, huh? Dude, wintertime, summertime, all the time. So I moved out here with the boys, and I’m just going to school out here and working. How did you connect with the Lurk Hard crew? Well I’d been skating with a few of the guys, Rob Mason and Mark Dillon. They are good friends with Geno. I’d just come down here and film and just meet up with the guys. It was before my first knee surgery, right when I got out of it I was down in Sac, and Geno had heard about me through word of mouth and he was like, “You know what, I’m starting up this company called Lurk Hard and you’ve been shredding, so…”
So when you first met him you weren’t even skating because you were hurt? I forgot exactly when it was. It was before my surgery or right afterwards, but I wasn’t skating for like a year, because that’s how long it takes. He was like, “When you get back at it, let’s do it.” It’s been good since then. He’s been good to me. What happened with your knee? In Summer Boyz you’re wearing a gnarly brace. Originally I tore my ACL skating, which was about three years ago, right around the beginnings of Lurk Hard. Yeah, I’m just misfortunate, you know? I’ve been through multiple knee surgeries now. The reason I was wearing that knee brace was because I had my second surgery about a year-and-a-half ago, and it’s just to be supportive of the knee. But just jumping down all that crap, you know? I don’t wear that now, though. Oh, so you’re out of the brace now? Yeah, I’ve been working it out, building up that muscle. Got to keep on doing that, it’s crucial. But I feel comfortable to not wear it now, so we’ll see how it goes. Lets talk about the Summer Boyz video, the most recent Lurk Hard flick. Are you stoked on how your part came out? Not really [laughs], to tell you the truth. I could have done a lot better. I came out of that surgery and it was right when I moved down to Sac, that’s when I started getting back into filming and pushing it… And that damn knee brace looks so goofy.
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Well I thought your part was sick. And just in general the whole film is really well shot and edited and everybody’s parts are pretty rad. How long have you known Jack Mansfield? Mark Dillon pretty much introduced me to Jack and his work and that was about three years ago, it was a while ago. Ever since then I’ve loved his work. He’s an amazing filmmaker. He’s got his shit down. Who are your sponsors right now? Who is hooking you up with gear? Lurk Hard, The Company Skateboards, American Icon Wheels out of Stockton, those are good wheels. They are killing it. And Converse, I’m getting some shoes from them. It’s just team manager type shit, but you know, I’m getting some shoes from them. Trying to build on that is another thing that’s on my plate. That’s a legit connection; do you think it will lead to a full-fledged sponsorship? We’ll have to see. How did you get hooked up with them? There’s a rep up in Seattle I believe it is, he’s been shooting me the shoes. He knows Eddy at FTC and Darnell with The Company, they are his homies and were like, “This kid is skating hard and likes Converse, so shoot him some shoes.” So it sounds like you’re definitely on their radar? Kind of, yeah, not big time.
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Chuck D • Photo: Wes Davis When we were trying to set up this interview you mentioned something about how you have to go to a yoga class. How long have you been doing that and does it play into your skating at all? It’s new. My body is toast, you know? Between skating, working, just getting after it, I don’t like resting. Plus since I went through the knee surgeries and all that stuff, I feel like I need to be flexible on my skateboard with my balance and all that. I’ve been getting really into skating, my body and taking care of myself. I’ve been doing it for about two months now. It just feels like I’m more limber. I drink a lot, you know [laughs], and drinking is terrible for your muscles. It’s terrible for the day after as far as being one with your board. Yoga is a good way to just keep limber and, well, the girls are gorgeous in there too. Do you ever think about your goals for your skateboarding career? Oh God yes, all the time. That’s pretty much what keeps me going. I always got the plan on the calendar, what’s going down. Omar [Salazar] was telling me before he did it big, he had this plan of what he was going to do and when he was going to do it. I think you need that. Because whenever I step on a skateboard, I’m having the most fun I’ve ever had, so I might as well take that and make a plan with it—you know, organize it. Everybody Check out Lurkhard.com is like, “Oh, I just skate to view Donnatin and the Lurk Hard crew in Summer for fun,” and I’m like, Boyz, a Super 8 film by Jack “Every time I step on my Mansfield. To grab some skateboard I’m having Lurk Hard gear locally, hit fun so I might as well up FTC, Nine16 Skate Shop, make a business out Getta Clue or any Ground Zero location. of it.”
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This Beer’s For You
OUR Region’s Top Breweries Make Beers Exclusively for Sacramento Beer Week Words Adam Saake
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Paradime Sac There’s an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer meets his halfbrother Herb whose existence he had no knowledge of. Turns out the guy owns a successful car company and subsequently, Homer is given the opportunity to design his very own car for the company. Problem is Homer’s an idiot, not a designer, and really only good at drinking Duff. The car ends up being a monstrosity that sinks Herb’s company, and he never speaks to the family again. Classic television of our childhoods becomes the perfect anecdote for Lagunitas’ limited-run Sacramento beer that they are brewing for our upcoming Beer Week. Now imagine for a second that Lagunitas is Herb’s car company— successful and pumping out great product. Easy, right? But instead of Homer’s Duff palate and moronic sensibility, you have a lineup of Sacramento-area beer aficionados that include Kimio Bazett and Jon Modrow, owners of the Golden Bear; Michael Ng, general manager of One Speed; Gary Sleppy, owner of The Shack; Dylan Mauro, owner of Samuel Horne’s in Folsom; Rick Sellers of Pacific Brew News; and others whose names were drawn from a hat (seriously). The amount of Lagunitas accounts around Sacramento that have so loyally supported the company over the years were too high in number, and so a democratic process was necessary to select the intimate group that would travel to the brewery and participate in the process of brewing one very limited edition Lagunitas beer just for Sacramento. A 10-person van full of Freeport Bakery pastries and the Sacramento bunch arrived at the brewery in Petaluma, Calif., where a day of beer tasting and brewing, most importantly, was ahead of them. “Say: LAH-GOO-KNEE-TUSS” is written on the label of the Hop Stoopid Ale in front of me while I write (research). A picture of the owner’s dog is on the cap of every bottle, along with a frantic story on the label that attempts to explain the beer you will be enjoying. With playful names like the aforementioned and others like Brown Shugga’, Little Sumpin’ Wild and Gnarly Wine, it’s clear that Lagunitas, the brewery with a tumultuous past of a shut-down and humorous run-ins with the ABC, doesn’t take certain aspects of their business too seriously. “It was cool how casual, yet precise the brew master was,” recalled Bazett. If what’s inside the bottle is carefully crafted and has years of trial and error to back up its progress, the rest is about having fun and enjoying making the beer. The guys at Lagunitas are very good at making beer and making fun. Part of that process is experimenting with different concoctions and seeing what kind of beers they can come up with. Often these are very limited runs and may not even see a life outside of the tap house at the brewery. You’re lucky if you get your lips on one of them because you may never drink it again as they may never make it again. That’s why when Lagunitas proposed the idea of a limited run beer specially brewed for Sacramento Beer Week, many were excited at the idea. “Justin Seybold, our regional Lagunitas rep, had approached me a while back about having a bunch of us out to develop a beer for Sacramento Beer Week,” recalls Modrow. “I was freaking out over it.” Although everyone at the brewery that day agreed on crafting a beer that was unique for Sacramento, naturally, opinions varied on what exactly the beer should taste like. “We really tried to think of what the Sacramento customer base would like,” says Mauro.
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Each had their say by filling out a survey that was given to them in advance. Questions about the flavor profile were on the survey, asking about hops and malts and light and dark and all the elements that make up the DNA of beer. This would help Lagunitas interpret the flavor profile that was collectively on all of their minds. “Although I love a big hop-y beer, which is what a lot of beer snobs are into, we can’t forget what Sacramento is into,” Modrow told Submerge. “Blue Moon is one of the biggest selling brands in Sacramento and we’re the fifth biggest [Miller] Highlife account in the country. So, something that’s lighter and more on the malt end and a little less hop-y probably suits Sacramento a little bit more.” Bazett’s opinion leaned more toward something that was “kind of hop-y and malty and bittery.” He feels that the winter seasonal beers come and go too quickly and likened his ideal profile to something more like Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale. Both Bazett and Modrow ended up getting a little of what they wanted and it seems that according to the surveys, the varying opinions all came together in a very harmonious compromise as well. Seven different malts were chosen for the beer and the head brewer brought out six different kinds of hops for everyone to try. “We all tasted the hops and discussed them and decided to do a real malt-based light beer,” said Seybold. The day was a real hands-on experience for all those involved. The brew master brought out 10 oz. cups with not only the hops but all kinds of malts and ryes and grains and they snacked on the ingredients and got a taste for some of the flavors that could potentially go into their beer. One of the more unique grains used for the beer was the inclusion of rye. Although rye isn’t a new ingredient, Mauro explained from his alehouse in Folsom, it’s still “not widely used.” In fact, Seybold says that this is the first batch of beer with rye in it that Lagunitas has produced on their new brewing system and they haven’t made a beer with rye, period, in over 13 years. The rye will give the beer a little spice and play well off all the different malts. “The style is an imperial rye ale, and it’s going be super dark and super dry and have about 77 IBUs,” said Seybold. IBU stands for International Bittering Unit and is basically a scale for how bitter a beer is. Typically the more malt that is used in a beer (usually darker beers like porters or stouts) the more IBUs as this helps balance out the beer. “We talked about it and we ended up with seven different malts and we didn’t want it to be super hop-y since it was going to be so malty. We just wanted a lingering bitterness,” said Seybold. And in case you’re wondering, the alcohol will come out to about 7 percent, making that all sevens, something that was not planned. Lagunitas decided to call the beer Paradime Sac and about 80 kegs will be made and distributed to the various proprietors’ locations who participated as well as those that were not selected to participate in the brewing process. Lagunitas has planned a synchronized tapping of all the kegs at 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1. This idea, originally done for Chicago’s beer week (where Lagunitas first brewed a special batch), was a huge success. Seybold anticipates that Sacramento’s Beer Week will enjoy the same success. Look out for information regarding the location of these limited edition kegs during Beer Week so you too can try a pint or two of Lagunitas’ Paradigm Sac. Who knows, maybe we’ll see it on shelves. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
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At the end of 2010, the EPA awarded Sierra Nevada Brewing Company with “Green Business of the Year,” a huge achievement that put the brewery back in the spotlight as one of the leaders in micro-brewing. From renewable energy to water conservation, to a zero-waste program, it’s good to feel good about drinking their beer. And, well, it’s really good beer. I can’t recall meeting a Sierra Nevada I didn’t enjoy, and that’s why I’m most excited to taste their Sacramento beer they are making special for Beer Week. That’s right, not one but two of California’s leading micro-breweries are busy concocting something just for us. This time, instead of the usual cast of characters behind the helm of the flavor profile, there’s just one very involved Rick Sellers. He’s the founder of Pacific Brew News, a Wordpress site with all things beer, the former editor for Draft magazine, co-founder of Odonata Beer Company with Peter Hoey and an avid home brewer himself and most recently one of the faces behind Sacramento Beer Week. The guy knows beer, to say the least. He also got to know the brewers at Sierra Nevada well enough to pitch them an idea for a beer. “Sierra Nevada does something called beer camp where they invite restaurant owners or people of the industry to come to brewery for a few days and make a beer of their own,” explained Sellers. “I did a little beer camp of my own where I did a black IPA and so I knew the process and I knew their brewery and the brewers.” And as simple as that, Sellers approached the brewing company a few months back about them brewing the Sacramento Beer Week beer and they were excited at the idea. “When I approached Sierra Nevada, they didn’t blink,” says Sellers. “Their mentality was Sacramento has been so good to us for so many years. There was no negotiating; I asked them and they immediately said yes.” The concept of the beer was to have a low alcohol, very hop-y beer with complex flavors; something light but with body. It’s sort of like a guilty pleasure with a conscious.
“It’s something that people can enjoy more than a pint of without being in danger of DUI.” This is a departure from what most beer drinkers geek out on and what a lot of pubs and bars are serving. The popularity right now lies in the high alcohol Belgian beers that carry intense flavors and aromas. Two of those and you’re lit. Sellers says that making a beer that is low in alcohol yet very tasty is something a “little uncommon in these parts.” The way to achieve the hoppiness and aroma, Sellers explained, was by adding a lot of hops late in the brewing process. So with this idea in mind he headed to the brewery and while there, he was able to play around with the hops that he wanted to use for the beer as well as the IBUs (Remember those? Think bitterness). “We used a hop called Citra, which is what they use in their beer called Torpedo,” explains Sellers. “And we also used a hop called Strissel Spelt, which to be honest with you I’ve never heard of. It’s a nice European hop that has some peppery, sort of floral notes to it.” There are many different kinds of hops to choose from like Cascade, Centennial, Willamette; the list goes on. Choosing the hops for your beer is like spices in your cooking; they determine a lot of the flavor, coupled with the malts and grains. And one ingredient that the Sierra Nevada beer will have in common with the Lagunitas is that coincidentally, they both will have rye. “They added some rye to it to round out the edges with a little peppery, almost chewy texture to it,” says Sellers. “It’s going to play with people’s palates a little bit.” The beer, which Sellers suggested be called Highway 16, is in reference to the highway that runs through Sloughhouse, Calif. Ultimately, the beer was named Sloughhouse Pale Ale. “At one point, Sloughhouse was one of the biggest hop growing areas in the country,” says Sellers. “I wanted to pay tribute to Sacramento’s history of hop growing.” Sellers spoke fondly of Sacramento’s beer history, citing letters written by Mark Twain who stepped off the train to a town full of saloons. His beer collaboration with Sierra Nevada will help those memories live on and hopefully inspire new generations of beer makers to keep pushing the envelope of fermentation sciences with nods to the past. Here’s to Sloughhouse Pale Ale, and I’ll see you at Beer Week!
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Sacpiper Wee Heavy
Sudwerk is in on the Beer Week brews too with a specially crafted ale that’s done in a Scottish-style. What’s extra cool about this darker, high alcohol beer is that the hops used were sourced locally from Penryn, Calif. at Jordan Family Farms, which is also known for growing mandarin oranges and wine grapes. Appropriately named Sacpiper Wee Heavy, this Scotch ale goes through a long boil process, which produces a sweet carmelization. This will be a big boy, so save room for dessert. You can try Sudwerk’s Sacpiper along with the other specialty brews at the Sacramento Brewers Showcase at the new Crocker Art Museum. SubmergeMag.com
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From the Pit
Whitechapel is a metal band on the rise Words James Barone
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t was an unseasonably warm February evening in the Northeast as Knoxville, Tenn. deathcore goliath Whitechapel prepared for its show at The Starland Ballroom in New Jersey. For his part, Whitechapel guitarist Alex Wade was preparing to slay the Garden State’s metal faithful in his usual manner. No, not bathing in the blood of virgins or devouring souls of the innocent—though considering Whitechapel’s aural assault, you wouldn’t be completely off base for thinking so—instead, Wade was taking a page out of the Zombieland survival handbook and limbering up. “I definitely like to stretch,” Wade says. “I’m not that old. I’m 24, but not only is it a good habit to get into, but it definitely saves my body for when I get older. I like to stretch, warm up, get the blood pumping, because you can’t just go up on stage and just start going crazy and head banging and running all over the place. It puts a hard toll on your body.” For Wade, the type of music he plays necessitates his desire to keep in sound physical condition. “If you’re a band like Muse or something like that, you can stand up there and chill while the lights move around and stuff like that,” he explains. “When you play loud and aggressive music, you have to put on a stage performance that portrays the music as well, so you’ve got to be moving around and jumping all over the place and fucking cussing and spitting and all that crazy shit.” It’s clear that Wade has a good head on his shoulders; he certainly needs it, considering Whitechapel’s fast rise through the metal ranks. Having just formed in 2006, the band already has three albums under its belt, each one more successful than its predecessor. A couple years after its inception, Whitechapel was already drawing a bidding war from interested labels and soon landed with venerable Metal Blade Records, which has been home to Slayer, King Diamond and Cannibal Corpse (and, strangely enough, Goo Goo Dolls). Whitechapel’s most recent album, A New Era of Corruption, was released in June 2010 and has propelled the band to its greatest heights to date. As a result, the band finds itself headlining a juggernautsized tour (The Welcome to Hell Tour) that includes some of the modern American metal scene’s most intriguing and brutal bands, such as The Acacia Strain, Veil of Maya, Chelsea Grin and I Declare War. Wade says Whitechapel is excited to front a group of such heavy hitting bands, singling out The Acacia Strain as a group that really gets him and his band mates amped up to play. “There’s something about that band that people just turn into animals and rip each other apart,” Wade says. “It definitely makes us want to up the ante and make our show that much better, because they’re putting on amazing shows as well.” Wade took the time to speak with Submerge just about an hour before doors opened at the Starland. In the following interview, we discussed the stratification of metal genres and the band’s Sacramento ties as well as staying on top of the business of being a band on the rise.
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How did you get into managing bands? I’ve always been kind of like the brains behind Whitechapel. Everybody says there’s a brains and a brawn to everything, and I would say I’m the brains. I managed Whitechapel up until the time when we decided, like, “Hey, this is getting to a level where I can’t really do much for us anymore. We need to hire somebody who’s going to take us to the next level.” I’ve always had my hand in developing bands and stuff like that. Our manager, Shawn Carrano, who works with Artery Foundation, which is located in Sacramento, I’ve always expressed to him that I like the music business. I like watching bands develop and grow. He was like, “I think you’d be a good manager. You did a good job with Whitechapel before I took over. Would you be interested in taking on some of our smaller bands? I’ll still help you with stuff, but you can handle the bulk of the material.” I knew I Declare War, because we’d met them on tour, and I knew they were looking for a record deal. Artery Recordings had just started, and I showed I Declare War to them and they were like, “Ask them if they want to be signed,” so we got them signed. I kind of took over the band, and it’s been great ever since.
Your most recent album, which came out last year, charted pretty high… Yeah, we broke into the top 50 of the Billboard 200. That’s high for a pop band, let alone a metal band. Yeah, exactly. It’s crazy that you see bands like us breaking into the Top 50 in Billboard. Probably five years ago, bands that heavy weren’t getting into those slots unless you were like Slipknot or something, but obviously they’re on a whole other level. Why do you think that is? Do you see a shift in fans in general or just the climate toward heavy music? I don’t know man. The music business, and what’s cool and what’s not, all kinds of genres are fading in and out. This whole deathcore thing or whatever you want to call it has been getting big for the past three years or so, and just recently this dubstep thing has been getting really big. People have been going crazy over it, but to me, isn’t that just techno? That’s been around forever. Why is it just now getting big? I guess a lot of people feel the same way about metal. Metal has been around forever. Why is it just now getting big? I can’t really answer that question, but we’re glad it is, because our shows and CD sales are obviously reflecting it. You mentioned the deathcore genre, and I think more than any other kind of music, metal is broken down to such specific subgenres… Totally. There’s a difference between black metal and blackened death metal. Like, black metal is Emperor and blackened death metal is Behemoth. If you know metal, you know the difference. Obviously, Behemoth has more death metal influence. It’s heavier and not as shrill as true black metal, but it’s really funny how metal has its mini subgenres, and no other kind of music has that. Your band’s lineup has three guitar players. When you get into the studio, how does it work out with you guys? Do you all trade off a lot of riffs when you get ready to write? All three of us collaboratively write for the album. I’ll give credit where credit is due: Ben [Savage], our lead guitar player, definitely writes the most. We all have different things going on. I manage bands on the side and work for the company that manages us. I work for them managing smaller bands. I manage I Declare War, who are on the tour with us. Ben puts in the most effort and writes the most stuff, but Zach [Householder] and I do contribute. I would definitely say it’s a collaborative effort, though. It’s not just one or two people.
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Since you mentioned your Sacramento connection through Artery, I saw that Chino Moreno from Deftones had a guest appearance on A New Era of Corruption. Did you hook up with him through Artery? Yeah, Shawn had been friends with Deftones and Chino for like 10 years or something like that. Our manager used to manage Chino’s side project Team Sleep. He’s gotten Chino guest appearances on the Norma Jean record and the one on the Dance Gavin Dance record. He’s always helped Chino out with that—getting guest appearances with young, hot bands. It helps out the band to have a big name on the record, and maybe it will help out Chino because it shows him to a younger crowd who hasn’t grown up listening to Deftones like I have. He hit up Chino and said, “My biggest band is heading into the studio to record. They’re all Deftones fans and they have this part on one song that they’d love for you to do.” He checked it out and liked it a lot and decided to do it, and that’s about it. So you had Chino in mind from the beginning? Yeah, totally. It was a riff that I had written, and I’m a huge Deftones fan. It definitely has a huge Deftones vibe to it. Stephen Carpenter is one of my main influences playing guitar. I was like, “Dude, if Shawn can hook up Chino as guest on that riff, it would be so sick.” And it actually came together, so I was really stoked on that. I read a quote from Phil Bozeman [vocals] where he mentioned that you guys were trying to have more of a versechorus structure on your latest album. Was that something you’d all gotten together to discuss? Oh totally, that was the whole point of A New Era… When it’s just riffing the whole time—when it’s just riff, riff, riff, riff, riff— there’s nothing that people can catch on to. There’s no hooks. There’s nothing catchy about it. But when you try to implement verses and choruses—you know, we’re not trying to be radio rock, where we have three parts to one song and just repeat them over and over again—but when you bring parts back that definitely gives the fans something to latch on to. Before you mentioned you were amazed to be a part of a band that has reached this level of success, and it happened for you pretty fast. Within a couple of years after you formed, you were signed to Metal Blade, which is a really well established metal label. Have you had a chance to take stock of the whole situation? It’s one of those things that the band has progressed so fast. If you’re outside of the band, it looks fast, but if you’re inside the band, it feels like it’s been forever. The life of a musician is repetitive. People have been like, “Things have changed so Whitechapel and the Welcome to Hell Tour will hit Sacramento on much for you in the past four March 11. The show will take place years,” and I’m like, “Really?” at Ace of Spades. VIP tickets sold Aside from the fact that we get on the band’s website will allow fans early admission to the show paid more and we do bigger to view sound check, have a meet tours, it doesn’t feel all that and greet with the band and other much different from when we goodies. For more information on first started touring. these and general admission tickets, go to Thediseased.com.
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2.22 Tuesday
The Blue Lamp The Coronas, Jamestown Revival, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Open Jazz Session, 9 p.m. Delta of Venus Tokyo Rosenthal, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Traditional Irish Jam Session, 7 p.m. Harlow’s Young the Giant, Kitten, Ume, 6:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Acoustic Open Mic w/ Sandra Delores and Friends, 7 p.m. Luigi’s Fun Garden Hunter Vallentine, Vanity Theft, Dog Party, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Wires & Wood, 8 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall (Davis) Telekinesis, The Love Language, Jake Mann & The Upper Hand, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides The 2nd to Last Lipstick Ever w/ DJs Shaun Slaghter, Roger Carpio, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub DJs Rigatony, Alazzawi, 9 p.m. Press Club Jazz Night w/ the Joe Carlson Trio, The Afterlife, 9 p.m. Shady Lady Chub City w/ The Flower Vato, 10 p.m. T2 Nightclub & Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Quinn Hedges, 5:30 p.m.; Dippin’ Sauce, 9 p.m. Townhouse Monsters of Bass Tour w/ Freq Nasty, Marty Party, Opiuo, T Dub, DJ Whores, Jay Two, Crescendo, Fancy Up Top, Spire, 9:30 p.m. Tropicana Club Designer Drugs, Mustard Pimp, G.A.M.M.A. vs ATOM O.N.E., Mike Diamond, Switchblade, My Cousin Vinny, 8 p.m.
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Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 DJ Spinbad, 10 p.m. The Fire Escape Bar and Grill Symbol Six, Soul Trash, Off By An Inch, Ventura, 6 p.m. Fox & Goose Steve McLane, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Todd Snider, Elizabeth Cook, 7:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 7 p.m. Mix DJ Tina T, DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m. Naked Lounge Downtown Live Garage Jazz Architects, Chikading, 14Ft Cl, 8:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic w/ host Lare Crawley, 8:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub The Stone Foxes, The Ruin, Fight Inside, 9 p.m. Press Club HUMP w/ DJ Whores, 9 p.m. Shady Lady Straight, No Chaser w/ CrookOne, 10 p.m. Shenanigans InnerSoul, DJ Rock Bottom, Ava Lemert, 6 p.m. Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Jimmy Pailer, 9 p.m. University Union Redwood Room, CSUS Justin Farren, 12 p.m.
2.24 thursday
The Blue Lamp Nevada Backwards, Hellbound Glory, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Death Angel, Lazarus A.D., Bonded By Blood, Damage Over Time, Twitch Angry, 7 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Club Retro Ember Beside Us, In Oceans, We Aren’t Friends Anymore, Galatia, Anima Fracture, Behold the Device, 6 p.m. The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. District 30 I Love House w/ Ron Reeser, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Duel Thursdays w/ Todd D & Greg, 9 p.m. The Fire Escape Bar and Grill The Scarlet Crusade, Awaiting The Apocalypse, Strait Up Grizzly, Early On The Morrow, Our Endless Obsession, 6 p.m. Fox & Goose Nine-8ths Irish, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Miguel, 10 p.m. Liquid Nightclub DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fun Garden Muckie the Duckie, Silje Nes, Alak, Odowas, 8 p.m.
Marilyn’s RockOn Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mix AC Slater, DJ Whores, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Tornado Rider, The Ben Steinert Assault, Matt White, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Whiskey Dawn, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Breaking Glass, The Generals, 9 p.m. Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; Trampled Under Foot, 9 p.m. University Union Ballroom, CSUS Cap City Culture: Break Dancing, DJs, MC Battles, 7 p.m. Vega’s Blues Jam, 7 p.m.
use a qr scanner on your smart phone to view calendar online Shenanigans The Kimberly Trip, Larisa Bryski, Smirker, 8 p.m. Sol Collective Art of the DJ Hosted by Rated R & Sunny, 9 p.m. Sugar Plum Vegan Cafe Musical Charis, Blvd Park T2 Nightclub & Lounge DJs & Dancing, 9 p.m. Torch Club Jimmy Pailer & Lew Fratis, 5 p.m.; Mercy Me, 9 p.m. Townhouse Rough House w/ DJs Shaun Slaughter, Adam J, Taylor Cho; Record Club w/ Roger Carpio, 9 p.m. Vega’s Mortal Atrocity, Avenue Saints, Death and Discord, 8 p.m.
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Ace of Spades Papa Roach, Will Haven, Track Fighter, 7 p.m. Beatnik Studios Last Friday w/ Four Guys From Reno, Random Abiladeze, 6 p.m. Blue Cue Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Blue Lamp The Nibblers, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Nam Classic, Color the Sound, James Cavern, The Bell Boys, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound 5 Year Anniversary w/ Junior X (from Jamaica), Capitol City Rockas, Hi-Power Sound, DJ Juan Love, DJ ESEF, Selector KDK, Ras Matthew, 10 p.m. Delta of Venus Laser Funk w/ DJs LeBaron, Doggtones, Megatron Man, 9 p.m. Distillery Hoods, Havenside, Give ‘em Hell, No Bragging Rights, 10 p.m. District 30 DJ Slick D, 10 p.m. Fox & Goose Trout and Parrot, Ryan Forrester, 9 p.m. Golden Bear Crucial Fix w/ CrookOne (Decibel Devils/Team Sleep), 10 p.m. Harlow’s Tainted Love, 10 p.m. Luigi’s Fun Garden Evan Bailey (CD Release), Favors, The Hot Break, Boy In the Bubble, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe The Behaviors, Orange Morning, 7 p.m. Mix DJ Riz, 9 p.m. Naked Lounge Downtown Live Stop Motion Poetry, Casey Wickstrom, With the Dead Girls, 8:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Last Watch, The Kelps, Fierce Creatures, 9 p.m. On The Y Neptunes Folly, Yes, Sir!, Zero for Zero, Support the Rabid, 9 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge Seeing Sounds w/ DJ Elements, Nick Willrich, Justin Barnes, DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub The Zeps (Led Zeppelin tribute), 10 p.m. Press Club College Night w/ DJ Rue, 9 p.m.
Ace of Spades Papa Roach, MC Rut, Lonely Kings, 7 p.m. The Blue Lamp Andy Clockwise, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Full Blown Stone, Simple Creation, Eazy Dub, Official Response, Laced, 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Jonny Lang, 8 p.m. Club Retro Autumn Sky, Musical Charis, Blvd Park, Stop Motion Poetry, Almost Honest, Sean Martin, 6 p.m. Distillery Red Velvet Kiss, O Street Dub, Street Urchinz, 10 p.m. District 30 DJ Este, 10 p.m. The Fire Escape Bar and Grill Black Eyed Dempseys, Stout Rebellion, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Gene Smith, Greenhouse, Neil Irani, 9 p.m. Golden Bear Sweaty w/ DJ Whores, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Tainted Love, 10 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Keys, Strings and Brass, 4 p.m. Luigi’s Fun Garden G. Green, Darling Chemicalia, Ellie Fortune, Appetite, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe David Houston & the Strings, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s The China Cats (Grateful Dead tribute), 8 p.m. Mix Wonderland w/ DJ Mike Moss, 9 p.m. Naked Lounge Downtown Live Kooch, Resurrection Men, Josh Howell, 8:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Nicki Bluhm, Honyock, 9 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge Mr. Mauricio, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Phono Select Pets, The Dreaded Diamond, 6 p.m. Powerhouse Pub The Hits, 10 p.m. Press Club Top 40 Dance w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Shine Jennifer Lang, 7:30 p.m. Sudwerk Restaurant & Brewery (Davis) Blvd Park Jam Session, 3 p.m. T2 Nightclub & Lounge DJs & Dancing, 9 p.m. Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5 p.m.; Tracorum, 9 p.m.
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The Blue Lamp Reggae Bashment w/ DJ Wokstar!, 9:30 p.m. The Boardwalk Watch Out! There’s Ghosts, Electric Valentine, Ultra Violet Sound, Sierra Skyline, 6:30 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Rocio y Su Sonora, 5 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Dive Bar Clash of the iPods, 9 p.m. The Fire Escape Bar and Grill Battle of the Bands w/ Vesuvius, Perception, Escalon, Extirpate, Geranimo, 6 p.m. Harlow’s Jaguar Wright, 10 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Liquorsick, 3 p.m. Luigi’s Fun Garden Now Now, Picture Atlantic, Creature Colony, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Billy Lane, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Shane Dwight, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Bone MacDonald, 8 p.m.
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Arco Arena Eric Clapton, Los Lobos, 7:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp The Concretes, Million Young, 9 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. District 30 Mardi Gras w/ Bad Boy Bill, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Duel Thursdays, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Sizzling Sirens, 9 p.m. Liquid Nightclub DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s RockOn Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mix Mardi Gras Party w/ Doc Martin, 9 p.m. Naked Lounge Downtown Live Model A, Taven Dennis, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Chikading, Race!!!, DJ Mike Rodriguez, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Courtney Lynn, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Bright Faces, The Foxtails, 9 p.m. Sol Collective Scratchpad, 7 p.m. Torch Club Mind X Quartet, 5 p.m.; Aaron King Band, 9 p.m. Vega’s Blues Jam, 7 p.m.
Ace of Spades The Dirty Heads, New Politics, Pacific Dub, 6:30 p.m. Blue Cue Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Blue Lamp Chop Tops, Joe Buck Yourself (Hank III), Hooten Holler, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Lynch Mob, Bell Tower Sniper, The Scott Allen Project, Restrayned, 7 p.m. Callison’s Bar & Grill EDHD, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ ESEF & Selector KDK, 10 p.m. Delta of Venus Soul N’ Bass feat. Mr. Glass & The Krust Bros, 9 p.m. Distillery The Rocketz, The Pyronauts, The Jetsinns, 10 p.m. District 30 Mardi Gras w/ DJ Cam, 10 p.m. The Fire Escape Bar and Grill Midway, Death Valley High, UN-ID, Solanum, 9 p.m. Golden Bear Crucial Fix w/ CrookOne (Decibel Devils/Team Sleep), 10 p.m. Harlow’s Reminiscene, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fun Garden Red River, Archaeology, New Heirlooms, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Doug Stanhope, 7 p.m. Naked Lounge Downtown Live Whiskey and Stitches, Stout Rebellion, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides The Pink Snowflakes, The Small Dinosaurs, The Brothers Nunez, 9 p.m.
2.01 Tuesday
Beatnik Studios Musical Charis, Blvd Park, Hot Tar Roofers, 7 p.m. The Boardwalk Robin Trower, Frank Hannon (Tesla), 6:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Open Jazz Session, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Traditional Irish Jam Session, 7 p.m. Marilyn’s Wires & Wood, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides The Last Lipstick Ever w/ DJs Shaun Slaghter, Roger Carpio, Special Guests 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub DJs Rigatony, Alazzawi, 9 p.m. Press Club 321 Comic w/ The Crazy Harris Band, DJ Alki, comedian Ray Molina, 9 p.m. T2 Nightclub & Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Wednesday
Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Colonial Theatre Back to the Future Tour w/ Mistah Fab, Eligh (of Living Legends), Opio (of Hieroglyphics), The Bayliens, Xienhow, Canibal Lecture, DJ Lex, DJ True Justice, Flossafee, 6:30 p.m. Community Center Theater Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Tour, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Mardi Gras w/ Sky Blue (of LMFAO), Nate D, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Laura Meyer, 7 p.m. Marilyn’s Greensky Bluegrass, Snap Jackson & the Knock On Wood Players, 9 p.m. Mix Mardi Gras Party w/ DJ Solomon, DJ Gabe Xavier 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic w/ host Lare Crawley, 8:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Kaero, Verbatim, Early States, 9 p.m. Press Club Kill the Precedent, Psychosomatic, Keloid, 9 p.m. Shady Lady Straight, No Chaser w/ CrookOne, 10 p.m. Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Golden Cadillacs, 9 p.m. Townhouse Local Bands, Local Brews w/ The Red Knots, Hot Tar Roofers, Justin Farren, Musical Charis, Blvd Park, 7 p.m. University Union Redwood Room, CSUS Steel Toed Slippers, 12 p.m.
Plea for Peace Center (Stockton) The Secretions, Ashtray, The Left Hand, Drastic Actions, 7 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Cheeseballs, 10 p.m. Press Club College Night w/ DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Shenanigans Represa, Secure Sounds, Wings Of Innocence, 8 p.m. T2 Nightclub & Lounge DJs & Dancing, 9 p.m. Torch Club Tony Magee (Owner of Lagunitas Brewery), 5 p.m.; John Lee Hooker Jr, 9 p.m. Townhouse Rough House w/ DJs Shaun Slaughter, Adam J, Taylor Cho; Record Club w/ Roger Carpio, 9 p.m.
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Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
Delta of Venus Free Jazz w/ Margriet Naber (keyboards) & Tony Passarell (saxophones), 7 p.m. Distillery The Graves Brother Deluxe, Instagon, Step Jayne, Xiaver, 10 p.m. District 30 Mardi Gras w/ DJ Scotty Boy, 10 p.m. The Fire Escape Bar and Grill LD/50, Mind Furnace, Serpent & Seraph, Prylosis, Pain Clinic, 9 p.m. Golden Bear Sweaty w/ DJ Whores, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Arden Park Roots, 10 p.m. Luigi’s Fun Garden Adrian Bourgeois, Ricky Berger, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Mother Hips, Floating Action, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides The Secret Life Of Squirrels, Jem & Scout, 8 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge Mardi Gras Party w/ DJ Spider, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Mercy Me Band, 10 p.m. Press Club Top 40 Dance w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. T2 Nightclub & Lounge DJs & Dancing, 9 p.m. Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5 p.m.; Volker Strifler, 9 p.m. Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds St Patty’s Brewfest 2011 w/ Whiskey and Stitches, 6 p.m.
2.06 Sunday
Ace of Spades Escape the Fate, Alesana, Motionless In White, Get Scared, Drive A, 6 p.m. The Blue Lamp The Legendary Hugh Cornwell (former frontman of The Stranglers), Kevin Seconds, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre Snatam Kaur, 6:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Dive Bar Clash of the iPods, 9 p.m. The Fire Escape Bar and Grill Battle of the Bands w/ Ember Beside Us, Our Endless Obsession, Malevolent, Reverse Order, 6 p.m. Harlow’s Kaki King, Washington, 7:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Zedeco On My Mind, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Aaron King & Friends, 8 p.m.
Comedy 24th Street Theater Jack Gallagher’s The Joke’s on Me... Again, Feb. 26, 5 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. Ace of Spades Pauly Shore w/ special guests, March 2, 8 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Steve Brewer, Jon Ueberroth, Feb. 19 - 20, Saturday, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m. Sean Kent, Aida Rodriguez, Feb. 24 - 27, Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m. Comedy Open Mic Showcase, March 1, 8 p.m. Balut Comedy Jam w/ Joey Guila, Sean Peabody, Emmanuel Baja, Jimmy Earll, March 2, 8 p.m. Cash Levy, Drake Witham, March 3 - 6, Thursday, 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Keith Lowell Jensen’s Wednesday Night Comedy, Wedesday’s, 8 p.m. Naked Lounge Downtown Live Worlds Worst Doctor Comedy Improv, Feb. 24, 8 p.m. Punchline Comedy Club American Me Comedy w/ Johnny Ray, Jason Rogers, Liz Grant, Wiley Roberts, Feb. 24, 8 p.m. Baron Vaughn, Feb. 25 - 27, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sunday, 8 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Showcase, March 2, 8 p.m. Felipe Esparza, March 3 - 6, Thursday & Sunday, 8 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Sportz Mayhem!, every Thursday, 9 p.m. ComedySportz, every Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot Feb. 23 & March 2, Improv 1 Continuous, 7 p.m.; Harold Night, 9 p.m. Feb. 24, Improv 1 Continuous, 7 p.m.; Cage Match, 9 p.m. Feb. 25, In Your Facebook, 8 p.m.; Mortal Komedy, 9 p.m. Feb. 26, Spotlight Improv Showcase, 8 p.m.; Anti Cooperation League, 9 p.m.; High vs Drunk Improv, 11 p.m. Feb. 27, Open Mic Scramble, 7 p.m.
March 4, Brian Knows Funny People, 9 p.m. March 5, Spotlight Improv Showcase, 8 p.m. Tommy T’s Rex Navarrete, Feb. 19 - 20, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Rodney Perry, March 4 - 6, Friday, 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
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In the early 1980’s, two home brewers, Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi, started a craft brewery called Sierra Nevada Brewing in Northern California. Their goal: make better ales and lagers than were on the American market. Not only are they credited with starting the West Coast micro-brewing revolution, they took Sierra Nevada from brewing a single keg in a two-car garage to brewing 700,000 barrels a year in one of the most state-of-the-art breweries in the country. Sierra Nevada has had a particularly large impact on our very own Lockdown Brewing Company. In fact, the Folsom brewers credit their interest in wanting to start home brewing with the time they spent at Chico State indulging in Sierra Nevada’s fine beers. In late 1995 that interest in home brewing actually came to life with a home brewing kit as a Christmas present. Early the next year, they dialed in a drinkable beer for friends and family. After enduring a few hundred brew, bottle, rinse and repeat sessions, they decided demand had grown too big for them to keep brewing at home. So they went looking for a contract brewer, a larger brewery that usually has more production capability and will brew and bottle your recipes for you. They settled on Jack Russell Brewing Company in the small town of Camino, which is not far from Folsom. With a larger production facility, Lockdown has been steadily growing and in the beginning of this year they were able to open a small taproom in Rancho Cordova. I had a chance to visit the newly developed taproom recently, but let me tell you, this is not an easy spot to find. Here are the directions, and trust me, these are better than Google. Take the South Sunrise Boulevard Exit off of U.S. Highway 50, turn left on Trade Center Drive, go past the Showgirls strip club, turn left at the orange U-Store It sign, drive down the alley between the rows of warehouses, turn left when you run into the light rail tracks, and that should put you smack dab in front of the taproom rollup door. Or for downtown folks, take light rail to the Sunrise Boulevard stop, walk across the tracks and enjoy.
For most people, walking through an empty warehouse district to drink beer in a garage is a little sketchy, but I know from watching Sierra Nevada come up where these humble beginnings can lead. After ducking under the rollup door and dodging the streetlight-style propane heating lamps, I bellied up to the smooth-finish concrete bar. As I inspected the rest of the room, I noticed a small office and lounge to my left with a loft on top that had band equipment set up. Our bartender Matt handed me a beer list and told me a Pearl Jam cover band called Better Man (because what else would you call a Pearl Jam cover band?) practices up there when they are closed. Around the corner from the bar there is a Foosball table and a few extra seats. They artfully cover up the bare drywall with their own beer labels and sixpack carrying cases. Lockdown has seven different beers on tap: Emma Blonde Ale, Sutter Street Common, Powerhouse Pale Ale, Powerhouse India Pale Ale, Represa Red Ale, Stoney Bar Scotch Ale and Folsom Breakout Stout. I ordered a sampler of all seven beers; four ounces for only a buck! I did not particularly care for the blonde, pale and red ales. They are not bad beers just not my thing. However, I did enjoy the common, IPA, and Scotch ale. The common had a nice crisp, slightly hop-y flavor, not too bitter but enough to show that it is a craft beer—very similar to an Anchor Steam. Since I grew up in Chico, Sierra Nevada’s extremely hop-y pale ale is what I judge all other pale ales against. I thought Lockdown’s pale ale was lacking in the hop department, but their IPA brought the flavor. It delivered a solid hop, barley taste and a smooth, almost sweet finish. I really liked the Scotch ale; Matt told me it’s the most popular beer by his count. It has a big, smoky, bittersweet flavor, like a stout but not as inky. I’m not going to lie, by the time I got to the stout my taste buds were shot. It all tasted like beer at that point, but I do remember I liked it. The taproom is only open Wednesday through Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. Even though they have only been open a little over a month, they are already building a loyal following. I’d say it is well worth the journey out there, because Lockdown makes some fantastic craft brews, but next time I’m taking the light rail.
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Rebirth of a Salesman Cedar Rapids Fox Searchlight
Words James Barone Naïveté is an endearing quality. The world can be such a shitty place, it’s easy to cheer for the person who seems to be immune—the person who still believes in things like honesty, decency and love. Of course, as we all know, the world is a shitty place and usually eats people who believe in such things for breakfast. The Office alum Ed Helms steps out from his usual role as a supporting actor and into the spotlight as Tim Lippe in the new comedy Cedar Rapids. Lippe, a stereotypical rube from a small town in rural Wisconsin, is somewhat blind to the dangers of the big, bad world, but he learns about them quick when his career takes him to “the big city” and lands him in serious moral and occupational dilemma. Lippe is just a regular Joe working for Brown Star Insurance, a highly decorated insurance company. He loves his job and even sees his profession—insurance agent—as a noble pursuit. However, things aren’t as typical as they appear. He’s in a relationship with his middle school teacher (Sigourney Weaver), who, though very fond of Lippe’s wide-eyed optimism, isn’t interested in settling down with her younger lover, or anyone else for that matter. When Lippe’s agency’s top agent (Reno 911’s Thomas Lennon) dies from an injury that apparently occurred during a sexual escapade, Lippe is charged with representing Brown Star at a big insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. At the convention, he works to secure Brown Star yet another Two Diamonds Award, which is given to the insurance company that not only exhibits success in the field but also the highest moral fiber. Lippe, as innocent a soul as one can imagine for someone in his thirties, seems perfect for the task, but the trials of life outside of his friendly hometown prove to be quite daunting.
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At the convention, Lippe meets up with the well-meaning and honest Ronald Wilkes (The Wire’s Isiah Whitlock Jr.), the hard-drinking Dean Ziegler (John C. Reilly) and the alluring Joan Ostrowski-Fox (Anne Heche). The three team up to jostle Lippe out of his shell. Lippe, who had never even been on a plane before, is intrigued and overwhelmed by his new companions, but as the pressures of the convention mount, they do their part to keep the compassionate insurance agent grounded—more or less. Cedar Rapids is a classic coming of age story, but instead of teenagers throwing that one last party of the summer before heading off to college, this film gives a thumbs-up to the thirtysomethings. And if it’s true that 30 is the new 20, then Cedar Rapids couldn’t come at a better time. Unlike the characters of, say, American Pie, those in Cedar Rapids have a lot more to lose. They have careers, husbands/ wives and children. They most likely have mortgages. Their whole lives aren’t ahead of them; they’re in the thick of theirs. In that regard, the subtle dramatic undertones to the at times over-the-top laughs give Cedar Rapids a heartwarmingly human element. Make no mistake, though; this is first and foremost a comedy, and a very good one at that. Reilly plays the drunk with chronic foot-inmouth disease to a T, and Whitlock is fantastic as Reilly’s straight-laced counterpoint. In fact, fans of The Wire (and you all should be) will get a kick out of his few nods to the now-canceled HBO crime drama. Heche seems to come out of nowhere with a great performance as a woman who perhaps married and had children too young and lives for her time on the road where she can be a different person. Helms, however, steals the show. While his character isn’t too dissimilar from the role that made him famous on The Office, he doesn’t buckle under the pressure of top billing. As Lippe, he excels as the bungling hero, the underdog you can’t help but root for. This could be Helms’ fast track to notoriety in the world outside of the Scranton branch of DunderMifflin; but even if it’s not, Cedar Rapids is still the first must-see film of 2011.
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Bless This Mess Lite Brite, Mondo Deco, The Babs Johnson Gang Friday, Feb. 11 • Luigi’s Fungarden • Sacramento Words Jenn walker • Photos Dennis Scott Thirty minutes into watching a live band, the singer tells you, an audience member, to waddle. If you’ve ever seen local duo The Babs Johnson Gang play, you’re already prepared to start shaking your ass, because if you’re the best waddler during the “Waddle” song, you are finely rewarded. This time, the band offered up a tiny trophy, which was immediately swiped by a middle-aged woman who stepped onto the stage and started swinging her hips. The Babs Johnson Gang opened Friday night’s show at Luigi’s Fungarden with Mondo Deco and Lite Brite, a local lineup that brought a night of ass-shaking rock ‘n’ roll to the cramped all-ages music venue. The Babs duo play music that is both grungy and honky-tonk, rock ‘n’ roll and punk at the same time, using little more than distorted guitar coupled with crashing drums. Ten or so people were standing in front of the stage at the start of their first song. The two band members exchanged messy vocals that began in rants and would crescendo into shrieking howls over the drums and guitar, and then abruptly alternate into psychedelic, reverb-rich melody. Drummer Cory Gorey piped viciously into his harmonica between singing and drumming. More people filed in to watch. Smashing away intensely at the drums, Gorey tipped over his tom and later shoulderbumped his mic into an obnoxious swivel around his head. Unaffected, he kicked the tom away and the two carried on, rarely pausing between songs. Midway through, guitarist Tim Pronovost stepped into the crowd, beating one of Gorey’s toms and handing it off to an audience member to play before returning to the stage. By the time they started playing “Waddle,” the crowd reached to the back of the room. The Babs Johnson Gang was followed by Mondo Deco, one of Sacramento’s newer rock acts. The six-piece band stepped on stage looking like they walked out of a ‘60s film, sporting black and white pants, button-down shirts, suit jackets
and bowties. In addition to two guitarists, a bassist and a drummer, the band featured two shimmying back-up singers/dancers in sparkling attire and boots. Singer/guitarist Jeremy Green, who also fronts local band Goodness Gracious Me, has the voice of a quintessential rock vocalist, hitting shrill, high-pitched screams and low notes, too. Guitarist Kolton James’ fingers glided along the neck of his guitar, delivering smooth solos and progressions with ease. Green counted in the last song, “Mouth Without a Muzzle.” At this point the crowd was thick and the room was hot. The band delivered one more dose of heavy guitars joined with a danceable beat, riling up the crowd to clap and sing along. Then the drums and bass slowed, the dancers slowed to a sway, and the crowd sang with Green until the song came to a harmonious halt. Enter Lite Brite. Frontman Eddie Underwood kicked off the set with a power-driven guitar riff, summoning the start of the three-piece band’s hit “Big City.” Underwood’s gritty, reverb-filled screams matched with surging guitar distortion and grinding bass conjured up an amphitheaterstyle performance. The Led Zeppelin influence is apparent. Underwood leapt in the air, shredded his guitar and thrashed about his mane of curls simultaneously, pausing ever so often to thrust his guitar high above his head. Sweat dripping from his chin, he turned to jam his quivering guitar up against the face of his amp, delivering pulsing feedback throughout the room. Heads were rolling in the front row by the time they played their final song, “Space Shuttle.” The guitars shot off like sirens and the massive drums rolled in. By the end of the song, Underwood was on his knees face-down on the stage, moaning into the drum mic cupped in his hands. At the end of the show, Submerge asked Babs Johnson Gang for their set list. Gorey answered, “We never use set lists. Stick that in your Submerge.” Then he offered us a free CD.
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For the second year in a row, I took the online Jeopardy! test. If you’re a regular reader of this space (there’s got to be at least one of you out there), you’ll remember that last year’s attempt was a very humbling experience. I’m happy to say that this time around, I was a lot better prepared for what the test entailed, and I think I did very well. Well enough to get an audition or whatever? Eh, probably not, but I did do well enough that I am once again comfortable with my level of know-it-all-itude. Don’t watch Jeopardy! with me, because I will slay you. Unfortunately, even if I’d aced the test—as with most things in my life—I’m a day late and a dollar short (Common Sayings for $800, Alex). There’s a new sheriff in town (same category for $1,000), and its name is Watson. I watched Jeopardy! tonight, as I normally do around dinner time in an often fruitful attempt to feel better about myself. It was the third night of a special exhibition match-up between two Jeopardy! champions (Brad Rutter and the myth, the legend, 74-time winner Ken Jennings) and Watson, a computer created by IBM. The results of night one had Watson in a tie with Rutter, with Jennings close behind in third. After the second night, Watson widened its lead to more than $25,000 over the second place Rutter. But you know, this is Jeopardy!, as the saying goes. Anything can happen. Watson got off to another fast start, but after hitting a Daily Double, Jennings took the lead. With a flurry at the end of the first round, however, Watson had nudged just ahead of its human competitors. Double Jeopardy saw Jennings surge forward; but Watson, hitting both Daily Doubles, soon forged ahead once more, both leaving Rutter in the dust. All three answered the Final Jeopardy question correctly, and with little fanfare, the humans had fallen. In the final tally of the three-day event, Watson defeated Jennings, its closest challenger, by a margin of nearly $50,000. In his answer that he scrawled to the Final Jeopardy clue, Jennings wrote in parenthesis for comedic effect “I for one welcome our new computer overlords,” a line from The Simpsons. The rest of us may as well do the same. IBM created Watson to answer questions. According to an article on Nytimes.com,
“Watson, specifically, is a ‘question answering machine’ of a type that artificial intelligence researchers have struggled with for decades—a computer akin to the one on Star Trek that can understand questions posed in natural language and answer them.” It uses thousands of POWER7 core processors that work together in a “massively parallel system,” according to IBM. Watson can recognize speech and make informed, and extremely fast judgments based on what it hears. In short, it’s a system created specifically for whooping ass at Jeopardy!, and if that were the goal of the developers, it would seem that they did an excellent job. In an Internet video about the Watson project, IBM’s CEO and Chairman of the Board Samuel J. Palmisano said that a possible future use for the intelligent computer could lie in the field of medicine where it would aid doctors in diagnosing patients. It wasn’t a total cakewalk for Watson. On Tuesday, the computer, unable to come up with an answer to the Final Jeopardy clue, guessed that Toronto was a U.S. city (it’s not, actually). It also made some peculiar wagers. Regardless, it still won and proved that machines are soon going to surpass their human masters and, in the grand tradition of HAL 9000 and the Terminator, rise up and enslave us with ease in the near future, perhaps leading to the nuclear holocaust we were promised but were never delivered in the 1980s. Right? Well, maybe not. Maybe this is a good thing that a computer whooped some dudes’ butts in a televised quiz show. Perhaps it illustrates, since a large team of people from engineers to programmers were needed to construct this sci-fi nightmare, that a lot of us are smarter than just one of us. That’s a nice thought, isn’t it? That if we all just band together, who knows what we can accomplish? It is a nice thought, but I won’t hold my breath either. I will say this, though, if we follow Jennings’ lead in embracing our new computer overlords, we may be doing ourselves a favor. If Watson’s any indication, they’re awfully charitable. IBM donated 100 percent of its $1 million winnings to two very worthy charities, whereas Jennings and Rutter only donated half of theirs. Hmm… Inhuman kindness? I’ll take puns for $400. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
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