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dive in Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com Sacramento is loaded with so many good shows and things to do that I am forced to be super selective when it comes to figuring out interviews and/or things to feature in Submerge. We only have so many pages! When there are bands/artists that play in town often and are always doing something significant, I find myself being a bit harder on them when it comes to giving them coverage. Case in point is our two music features in this issue: National/touring act Reverend Horton Heat and local singer/songwriter Autumn Sky. I love Reverend Horton Heat. However, it seems like they tour through Sacramento at least once or twice a year for as long as I can remember. Every time they come to town I think, “God damn, that’d be a great interview to set up.” But I always seemed to allow myself to pass on the idea, just waiting for a better time and a more significant reason to feature them.

Submerge held out for a good reason over the past six years, because finally this past January they released their 11th studio album, Rev, and now this was the perfect time to not only feature them but to give them a cover. And in true James Barone fashion, our editor tackled another killer interview with none other than the Reverend himself, Jim Heath. (Fun fact: Barone informed me that Heath happened to be his second interview ever 12-or-so years ago for another music publication). On page 12 you can read our interview where Heath talks about the difference between 2009’s Laughing and Crying with the Reverend Horton Heat and 2014’s Rev, how the new album was recorded and what it is like unveiling new material to his audience.

Our other music feature in this issue is on Autumn Sky. Autumn Sky has come so far since the last time we did a major feature on her back in 2009, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for her now that she’s on track with her full band. I especially can’t wait for her full-length album, which will hopefully be out later this year.

Fingers crossed. For now, Scout, a three track EP, will be celebrating its release on March 29 at Assembly. The band consists of seven members these days, so I can’t wait to hear how full it will sound live.

Just so you know, if you can’t make it to the release show, you’ll be able to catch them at Concerts in the Park at Cesar Chavez Plaza on May 9. Read our interview by Joe Atkins on page 14 where you can get a feel for what it’s like for Sky being in a band versus being solo, as well as some other fun and refreshing interview questions.

You ever notice how many film festivals happen in the area?

Doesn’t it feel like a bunch? Trust me, I’m not complaining. I just want to point out one that I’m really excited for, which is BANFF Mountain Film Festival.

Combining some of my favorite things (outdoors, adventure and documentaries), the BANFF festival is touring through our region.

You’ll have two opportunities to catch it: On March 31 at Montbleu Theater in South Lake Tahoe or Davis’ Rocknasium on April 8 and 9. The festival hosts up to 30 films, some as short as 3 minutes and some that are as long as 56 minutes, and they all will leave you with an appreciation for our beautiful planet and have you amazed at what people are capable of pushing themselves to do these days.

Our feature starting on page 10 focuses on a few films that we think you might enjoy learning about and in turn we hope it inspires you to check the festival out for yourself or maybe even look the films up on the Internet in your spare time. I know I was able to watch a few online like FLOW: The Elements of Freeride and The Beauty of the Irrational, and it has me pumped to watch other movies that were selected to be involved in BANFF as well as get outdoors to enjoy this nice spring weather.

Once again, I’m out of space, but trust me and be sure to check out the other two other features that remain in this issue: Fieldhouse, a new sports bar, and artist Troy Mighty.

Reading about Niki Kangas’ experience and seeing Liz Simpson’s photos of Fieldhouse, I encourage you to try out a new bar, eat some food and possibly watch a basketball or baseball game off the grid.

Check out page 18 for more.

And on your way off the grid, be sure to stop by Troy Mighty’s art show at Sacramento State’s University Union (opening April 1 and on display until April 24). On page 22 read Andrew Scoggins’ feature on Troy and how his art can push you to think deeper, if you allow yourself to.

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Plank Grilling Book Launch and Benefit at Mulvaney’s B&L • April 6 On Sunday, April 6, Chef Patrick Mulvaney will be teaming up with local author Dina Guillen to vitalize a menu inspired from her third and most recent book, Plank Grilling: 75 Recipes for Infusing Food with Flavor Using Wood Planks. Guillen’s book divulges the flavorful secrets of wood plank cooking; starting from the basics of plank preparation and wood selection and advancing on to a variety of recipes complemented by color photography and an assortment of general cooking tips. The event will be held at Mulvaney’s B&L from 6 to 9 p.m., with ticket prices varying on the ticket type (can be purchased at Eventbrite.com). Spaces will no doubt fill up fast for this event, but the book can be bought through Amazon, Barnes and Noble or better yet, hit up a local book store like Time Tested Books or Beers Books, they’ll get it in for you if they don’t have it!

Walk the plank and experiment with alder, cedar, maple, hickory and so much more. -BD

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Rebelution at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium • March 29 Rebelution is notorious for giving their audiences incredible performances; even those who aren’t particularly assimilated into the reggae culture have enjoyed their blend of rock, California reggae and smooth groovin’. Known for their welcoming, soothing concert vibes, Rebelution has been holding their own in the reggae genre for almost 10 years now; their more recent albums experiment with a variety of rock, rock-dub and remix sounds without corrupting the initial sound that their fans know and love them for. On Saturday, March 29, Rebelution will be performing at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium (on 15th and J streets) at 8 p.m. The link to purchase tickets can be found at Rebelutionmusic.com for only $25! Capitalize on the ticket availability, it won’t be abundant at this price for long. -BD

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Red Bull Snow Warz at Heavenly Mountain Resort • April 4 – 6 The Winter X Games are in the books, and the Winter Olympics in Sochi are history. Ah yes, spring is officially here. But don’t bust out that bathing suit quite just yet, this time of year offers some of the best skiing and boarding Tahoe has to offer. Sunny skies, soft and slushy snow, epic terrain park setups, beers with pals and/or getting weird at casinos after a day of shredding… what’s not to love? If you’re heading to South Lake Tahoe this spring, mark down April 4 to 6 on your calendar because Heavenly Mountain Resort is hosting Red Bull Snow Warz, a super fun collegiate ski and snowboard battle full of fun days on the hill, slopestyle competitions, raging parties, Instagram challenges and all kinds of debauchery. Sacramento State, Chico State, UC Davis, UNR, UOP and all of the local community colleges have people currently registered to participate. There are even kids traveling from Washington, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado and Utah, so you know it’s going to be a weekend filled with progressive riding and impressive parties. To view more info and to sign up (they are still looking for people!) visit Redbull.com/snowwarz and be sure to follow @redbullTAHOE on Instagram for updates. -JC

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There is a very distinct difference between a pet owner and a pet lover; a pet owner is defined as it sounds, but a pet lover describes the unconditional, devoting and charmingly obsessive love certain people have for their furry companions. Pet lovers, here’s another opportunity to show your dog that he/she is the best thing to have ever existed. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 12, Wag Hotels will be hosting their Fifth Annual Easter Egg Hunt for Dogs at McKinley Park. As your dog uses his most evolved sensory organ to snuffle out the treat-filled eggs, you can enjoy the afternoon browsing local vendor stands and munching on appetizers! Check-in begins at 11 a.m. and the hunt will begin right at noon, ending with a raffle at 1 p.m. A professional photographer will be snapping photos of the event, but don’t forget to bring a camera of your own!

Go onto their Facebook event page (search “5th Annual Easter Egg Hunt for Dogs,” but make sure you check out the Sacramento event and not the San Francisco event) to RSVP and buy your tickets in advance; tickets are $15 until April 11 and $20 day-of.

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Are you a fan of heavy music? Do you live in or around the greater Sacramento area? If you answered yes to both of those questions, you need to drop everything you are doing and immediately snag tickets to see metal supergroup Devil You Know at Assembly (1000 K Street) on Sunday, April 13. Devil You Know features the long-awaited return of Howard Jones, the former Killswitch Engage vocalist and arguably one of the best metal singers in recent history; guitarist Francesco Artusato of All Shall Perish; and John Sankey, drummer for the Australian band Devolved, who has also worked with Fear Factory and Divine Heresy. On bass they’ve got Ryan Wombacher of Bleeding Through and their second guitarist is Roy Lev-Ari (we couldn’t find any bands that Lev-Ari has been affiliated with in the past, officially making him the most stoked dude ever for being in a band with such rock royalty).

Devil You Know’s debut album The Beauty of Destruction comes out on April 29 in the United States via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Metal Hammer Magazine has heard the full album and posted a track-by-track guide on their website, summing it up with, “It looks like Killswitch fans will find plenty to sink their teeth into, but there’s enough else going on here to prove that Howard et al aren’t content to simply tread familiar territory.” If you head to Facebook.com/ devilyouknowofficial you can check out two tracks: the official album version of “Seven Years Alone” and a demo of the track “Shut It Down” (which also appears in a finalized version on the full album). To get tickets to their April 13 show in Sacramento for just $15 in advance, visit Assemblymusichall.com. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and all ages are welcome.

Chuuwee, one of Sacramento’s most prolific MCs, has teamed up with a couple Southern California up-andcomers (rapper Trizz and producer AC3) to drop AmeriKKas Most Blunted, a solid fulllength album that is a stoner’s dream. AMB is available now through iTunes with physical copies available for order at Allchucaneat.com or Therealtrizz.com.

“Trizz is cool to work with because like me he’s just down to get work in,” Chuuwee recently told Submerge. “We came together with a few ideas and knocked ‘em out best we could, got all our resources together and things went smooth.”

Although Trizz had worked with beatmaker Ac3 many times in the past (Ac3 produced his last few projects and, fun fact, is also currently working on Brotha Lynch Hung’s upcoming album Shooters), Chuuwee had never worked with him.

“Ac3 has various types of sounds and none of them sound like he’s ‘trying to make this kind of sound,’” Chuuwee said. “He’s authentically a dope ass producer. He catered to whatever vibe we were feeling during the sessions, which is always best to have with a producer.”

AmeriKKas Most Blunted is NSFW (unless you work in a cool ass office like we do!) and as the album cover suggests, contains explicit content, but that’s one reason why we like it so damn much. It’s some straight up classic West Coast stoner rap shit. “We wanted the vibe of straight up smoked out, chilling in the whip or at home, just feeling good and enjoying music.

We wanted musically a good vibe for good weed,” Chuuwee said.

As of press time Chuuwee didn’t have any upcoming shows in the Sacramento area confirmed, but mentioned he was working on a couple. He does, however, have a ridiculous amount of new music coming out in 2014. “I think I’m finally ready to give the people a studio album,” he said. “But for the most part I’m dropping Cool World, The Chuuwee Channel, The South Sac Mack, 3rd Coastin and Be Cool 2.”

In what might be the weirdest tour of the summer, Sacramento’s rap/punk group Death Grips will be opening for Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden. NIN frontman Trent Reznor has been outspoken in the past about his dislike of Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, so the two musical powerhouses combining to co-headline a tour together is a bit of a surprise. Not only that, can you even imagine the looks on the faces of typical old-school Soundgarden fans as Death Grips takes to the stage with their ferocious, in-your-face, this-soundslike-the-end-of-the-world type shit? It’s going to be hilarious. Someone should film their reactions and make a funny montage video for the Interwebz! Anyways, in typical Death Grips fashion, the tour does not come to Sacramento (I know it’s not their fault the tour doesn’t come here, but I’m going to blame them anyway since they haven’t played a show in Sacramento since 2011, and I’m still bitter about them flaking on Sacramento Electronic Music Festival in 2012!). Instead, you’ll have to make the trek to Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 24. By the time you read this, tickets will be available. For more on Death Grips, visit Thirdworlds.net.

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The Optimistic Pessimist Neil deGrasse Tyson is the man. There aren’t many scientists that become pop culture phenomena as he has managed to do over the last few years. Now he is taking that celebrity and turning it into something few others have: a TV show about something.

The show is called Cosmos and it’s fresh.

If you want to learn about how the universe works, without being told “because God says so,” this is the show for you. You may have heard the name before as the show originally aired in 1980 on PBS as a 13-part miniseries helmed by the late, great Carl Sagan (tip your 40 for this man). Tyson is doing his best to recapture the spirit of the original and show Americans that science can actually be cool.

The goal of Cosmos is to explain real science to any couch-warming sack of human meat who loses the remote and gets stuck watching Fox on Sundays at 9 p.m. or NatGeo on Mondays at 10 p.m. That sounds like a very different audience base at each showing, but that’s a good thing. This country has been on a downward swing toward stupidity for too long.

Meanwhile, the world has gone and made itself very complicated; and if we don’t learn

now, we may find ourselves doomed one day.

As Tyson explained on the first episode of Cosmos, there are hella planets in the known universe. Some of these planets even fall within similar conditions to our own, such that life, as we know it, may be possible. That means aliens to you and me, and depending on who you ask, we may or may not have already been visited. While that debate rages on, what I can say is, from watching movies, these aliens are clearly out to kill us and must be stopped.

I thought about what Tyson would do in such a situation and I knew he would first look to science for a solution. I decided to see what was already killing Americans at an alarming rate and that’s when I found diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is already offing people in droves; we just need to harness that killing power into something good. But how do we give aliens diabetes? We need to try and make them fat and lazy somehow, like we’ve become, but how do we do that, science?

I pondered that question for weeks. My research funding dwindled to nothing as did my personal bank account. I was depressed

You’re Gonna Lose That Foot, Ya Alien Bastard! and began eating fast food to comfort myself and save money. I began gaining weight quite easily. I was on the short path to diabetes and all it took was some triple cheeseburgers with bacon. That’s when it hit me: McDonald’s can kill these assholes in an instant.

Morgan Spurlock had done the research in Supersize Me; all we need to kill our alien intruders is cheeseburgers, fries and Diet Cokes.

It’s ingenious really. We already know that aliens like beef. Why else would they be mutilating all those cows? Spurlock also showed us that McDonald’s cheeseburgers and fries appear to last indefinitely, making them excellent for space travel. We could install a burger cannon on the side of the International Space Station and just fire off them suckers toward any nearby potentially inhabited planets.

McDonald’s should be on board; that’s a lot of space beef, after all. They might even need to hire more low-wage workers, which makes politicians happy because Democrats can brag about job numbers and Republicans can tell the country that corporations are helping us. I think the only ones who lose out in this scenario are the aliens and possibly the people who get hired by McDonald’s

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to help send them slow, greasy death.

In the future, if space-time allows, we could send an actual McDonald’s franchise to a nearby inhabited planet. Let the aliens drink from the tap of insulin dependence and lose their feet/ flippers/tentacles/hooves/claws as we have lost ours to Type 2 diabetes. We could also introduce the McDonald’s business model into their economy and set it ablaze in the process. It’s really a scorched earth tactic, which is great because they won’t even know what “scorched earth” means.

The aliens will never see it coming unless they are reading Submerge.

You better not be reading this you damn, dirty aliens! Don’t go ruining my amazing plan! The science and math behind it are all rock solid; this is going to work. Probably. If not, blame Morgan Spurlock. Science is but a mere hobby of mine, and I don’t pretend to know how all of this works.

I’ve only seen one episode of Cosmos so far, so what do you want from me? I bet Neil deGrasse Tyson has a pretty good idea of what we should do about our impending alien invasion. I guess we all better tune in to the next episode of Cosmos to find out.

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Outdoor Insanity At Its Finest

BANFF Mountain Film Festival comes to Davis and Tahoe Words Jenn Walker

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red dot of a human is dropped off by helicopter at the top of a mountain. The dot then flies at an almost perfectly vertical angle down the side of the mountain on two skis, propelling over cliffs and leaving clouds of snow racing behind. Heli-skiers, paragliders, whitewater kayakers, mountain bikers—one could simply dismiss these people as nut jobs with a death wish. Or, one could argue that these are some of the most vibrant people walking the face of the planet.

Perhaps Ryan Sandes, featured in the short documentary that follows his solo race across a Namibian canyon, The Beauty of the Irrational, says it best: “I think pushing out of that comfort zone makes you realize how lucky and how fortunate we are.”

Whether you’re an adrenaline fiend looking for a quick visual fix to hold you over until your next big adventure, or someone who prefers to live vicariously through others, the BANFF Mountain Film and Book Festival is a not-to-miss.

On April 8 and 9, BANFF will take over Davis’ Rocknasium as well as Montbleu Theater in South Lake Tahoe on March 31. The majority of the films document individuals’ journeys in extreme sports, in addition to a few environmental documentaries and comedic shorts. A film festival that sprouted from small beginnings in the late ‘70s in Banff, Alberta, BANFF now boasts a collection of more than 5,000 of the world’s best outdoor films and hosts more than 500 screenings worldwide.

The festival features a total of 30 films. Take a look at a few of our summaries below to get a feel for what to expect.

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North of the Sun (Nord for Sola)

4 6 minut e s

Like all good adventures, this one started with a crazy idea. Two young Norwegian guys, Inge Wegge, 25, and Jørn Ranum, 22, decided on a whim that they wanted to build a cabin on an isolated island near the coast of northern Norway and the Arctic Circle, allowing them to spend the nine months of the Norwegian winter skiing and surfing there. They built their tiny hobbit-like cabin out of driftwood and whatever debris they could find on the shore.

They got by on little more than expired foods they managed to scrounge up. All of this was worthwhile, though, because on the island, they had access to some of the best waves in the world. Fortunately for us, they decided to document the rich experience. In just under 50 minutes, this film will take you to a cold, cold paradise.

Initially released on film in 2012, this documentary won 37 awards.

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Imagine lugging a pack full of climbing gear to a canyon with a descent that is blocked from view, and trusting gravity to take you down without being able to see the bottom. Unlike climbing, canyoneering mostly means a downward descent, starting from the top of a canyon and using climbing gear to rappel down the sides of its walls. In the first film produced by adventure photographer FrancoisXavier De Ruydts, a crew of canyoneering enthusiasts makes its way along Box Canyon Creek in Vancouver.

They stumble upon perfect slot canyons, which then lead them to the “mother of all canyons.” “You can creep up to the edge of that and look in, but all you can see is a narrow canyon twisting and turning out of sight,” explains one of the main characters. In roughly 20 minutes, this video will take you through some of Vancouver’s most spectacular slot canyons and waterfalls, which, until this film, had not been captured on film.

It seems there is no escape from tar sands these days, even on remote islands. The Haida Gwaii, the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of Alaska, have made news before, including when loggerturned-environmentalist Grant Hadwin cut down the Golden Spruce in 1997 to make a political statement.

Sixteen years later, the same region is again in the spotlight in this surf and standup paddleboarding documentary. The film shows what’s at stake if a Calgarybased oil and gas company successfully constructs a 1,170-kilometer tar sands pipeline from Alberta to the west coast of British Columbia, and transports the crude across the ocean to Asia.

The crude tankers, carrying approximately 2 million barrels of oil each, would have to pass through the inlets of the Great Bear Rainforest. Should an oil spill occur, these waters and all of their riches would be doomed.

It’s obnoxious that the summary for this film introduces its leading character, Hazel Findlay, as a “nice little blonde girl putting all the lads to shame.” If a woman attempts something usually only pursued by men, why can’t she simply be acknowledged for her accomplishment without the stupid commentary?

Nonetheless, it’s refreshing that Reel Rock 8 decided to make a film about Findlay, a climber who immerses herself in the United Kingdom's climbing scene, which is supposedly dominated by machismo. She is the first woman to climb the British grade of E9. The 20-somethingyear-old learned to rock climb with her father on the sea cliffs of South Wales at age 7, and went on to claim the title of British junior champion six times in indoor competitions. In 2012, she was the first woman to free climb up PreMuir, a route on El Capitan in Yosemite. In this film, she travels with fellow climber Emily Harrington to Morocco to climb some of the best walls it has to offer at the Taghia Gorge.

Despite the lame PR, this film has a lot of promise.

The Beauty of the Irrational 6 minut e s

This six-minute short follows Ryan Sandes, a South African ultrarunner, as he makes another attempt to beat the fastest record time running the Fish River Canyon Hiking Trail in Namibia. It is an 84-kilometer (roughly 52-mile) journey, which typically takes five days for hikers to complete. Aside from a desire to beat the record time, Sandes’ motives are simple: “Generally we always question ourselves, we feel like we always gotta be rational about things instead of actually just doing it for pure enjoyment,” he says. Trailed by a small crew of people who assist him, Sandes beats the 10-hour, 54-minute record with a six-hour, 57-minute finish. As it follows Sandes shuffling down rocks and scaling edges of cliffs at full-speed, the camera drags along, capturing spectacular panoramas of the Namibian landscape.

These are sights you will want to see on a big screen.

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Heaven’s Gate

4 8 minut e s

Carved into the side of Tianmen Mountain, located in China’s Hunan Province, is an approximately 100-foot-wide natural arch. The Chinese believe that the arch is a gateway from Earth to Heaven.

Naturally, then, it makes sense to throw on a wingsuit and hurl yourself from a helicopter at 6,000 feet toward the arch, hoping to make it through the hole instead of smashing into the side of the 4,265-foot mountain. In September 2011, professional skydiver, BASE jumper and wingsuit pilot Jeb Corliss did just that. This 48-minute film recaptures Corliss’ experience, from the preflight anticipation—including an interview with Conan O’Brien— to the internationally-televised event that took place in front of a captive audience of nearly 50 billion people.

Most importantly, it includes first-person views from the crown of Corliss’ Red Bullsponsored helmet.

FLOW: The Elements of Freeride

3 minut e s

Though this film only spans three minutes, who doesn’t want to watch a geophysicist in a button-down shirt fly through the Cascade Mountains on a mountain bike? Meanwhile, small white text identifies everything Rex Flake passes along the way, from sage and ponderosa pines to ants and the surrounding geology, as well as the different velocities he hits. Instead of accompanying each jump with predictable heavy metal or electro music, the soundtrack includes nothing more than Flake’s wheels against the trail, his ticking bike gears and chirping birds.

In the words of FLOW Mountain Bikes, “To absorb the rhythm of nature is the universal ride. A synthesis of rider and mountain, forest and air. Pure style of human exertion through technology within an ancient landscape carpeted with diverse organic life. Freeriding is the differential perception of a rider in flowing symbiosis of these elements.” Ultimately, this short captures the euphoria of descending trails from 3,000 feet on two wheels, in the best way possible.

Ready to Fly

5 6 minut e s

Women competed in ski jumping for the first time in history at this year’s 2014 Winter Olympics, largely thanks to Lindsey Van. This film tells the story of the 2009 World Champion, along with the Women’s Ski Jumping USA team. The film traces the obstacles Van faced throughout her career, beginning with being told “fat don’t fly” at age 8 by her coaches, followed by a 15year battle that resulted in a lawsuit against the organizers of the 2010 Olympics, when Van claimed that her rights had been violated because female ski jumpers were not allowed to compete.

“It’s like my future is in the hands of a bunch of old dudes,” she bluntly observed. Then, when the International Olympic Committee reconsidered whether or not women would jump in the 2014 Winter Olympics, Van got word that she was the bone marrow match for a cancer patient.

She would have to consider what was more important to her—competing or saving a life. Expect this film to take you on an emotional journey through Van’s experiences as she fights to do what she loves most.

You'll have two chances to check out the BANFF Mountain Film and Book Festival. First, you can head on up to an actual mountain on March 31 to the Montbleu Theater at 6 p.m. But if you'd rather stay put in the valley, head to Rocknasium on April 8 and 9. You can purchase tickets to the Rocknasium event by calling (530) 757-2902.

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Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

Reverend Horton Heat’s Jim Heath sounds off on life as a career artist Words James Barone • Photos Gene Ambo

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opened my interview with Jim Heath—better known as the Reverend Horton Heat—the same way I do every interview with a simple question.

“What are you up to today?”

It’s more of a question for me than it is for them. It gets me settled—because long phone conversations with rock stars make me nervous—and on some occasions, when they’re not just doing laundry or mired in a long press day, they’re up to something cool that we can go off-script and talk about.

But Heath isn’t a spring chicken. He’s been doing this rock ‘n’ roll business—and all the sundry things that go along with it—for almost 30 years now. He no doubt sniffed out my stalling tactic right away.

“I’m deep-sea fishing off the coast of Morocco,” he shot back without pause. “And if it’s nice, I’m going to go night-skiing on a moonlit mountain in Switzerland.”

He was joking, of course. In truth he was a bit under the weather at the time of our interview and just relaxing at home in Texas, but given Heath’s fiery music and onstage persona, you’d almost be inclined to believe that wild overseas excursions are par for the course.

“It’s a normal day for me,” he said with a laugh.

Night-skiing may not have been on the docket for that evening, but that doesn’t diminish the fact that Heath remains one of the coolest, most high-octane personalities in rock ‘n’ roll. And even though he’s a veteran on the scene, he and his band mates (Jimbo Wallace on stand-up bass and Scott Churilla on drums) seem to be turning back the clock on their latest album, Rev, which was released on Victory Records on Jan. 21, 2014.

His 11th studio album, Rev marks the glorious return of the Reverend Horton Heat you fell in love with in the mid-‘90s. Pedal-to-the-metal riffs mark the straightforward, brawny rocker “Smell of Gasoline,” whereas the album’s first single, “Let Me Teach You How to Eat,” rips and roars with more of a sly smile, bouncy rhythm and innuendo-laden lyrics.

Rev is sort of an oddity for a band that has so much history: it’s an album that will appeal to longtime fans of the band, and certainly open the door to new ones. In fact, it’s the highest charting album of the band’s career, having reached No. 111 on the Billboard Top 200.

In the following interview, Heath filled Submerge in on Rev’s intentionally long recording process and reflected on what got him started down the path of a rebel rock ‘n’ roll icon in the first place.

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Did you ever expect to have this long of a career in music?

On one hand, yeah, I never expected it, but on the other hand, when I was a kid…I was a rock ‘n’ roll kid. I would listen to Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper or whatever, but then all of a sudden this blues thing hit me and I started to realize all of those guys were career artists. The more I got into roots music and country, I saw people like Willie Nelson who even then—this is going back to the ‘70s—my assessment of Willie Nelson was that he had a long, lifetime career… and the thing is, he’s still going! And the same with B.B. King…that was my assessment of him back then, that he was a career artist. And B.B. King is still out there. In that respect, it kind of makes sense, but to actually have it work out this way is a real blessing.

Congratulations are in order. I read that Rev is your highest charting album of your career.

Well, I appreciate that and Victory is going to be a good thing for us, because they’re doing a really good job, but looking at the numbers isn’t something that’s a good thing for a person like me to do. I’ve gotta focus on writing songs and playing guitar. Starting to look at those types of numbers forces my music into areas that it shouldn’t be.

I could completely go and make some kind of an album that would be bigger than any of my other stuff, but it would be real schmaltzy and full of a lot of cover songs and over-

produced and all that stuff. I want to stick with what Reverend Horton Heat does. We’ve got something more important than us going out and having some hit songs.

Your last studio release was in 2009. Can you talk a little bit about how Rev came together and the writing process behind it?

Our last album was called Laughing and Crying with the Reverend Horton Heat. It was supposed to be a straight country album. It leaned really country, but that was on purpose. In Texas we get called to play these well-paying gigs to play the country side of Reverend Horton Heat, and that was kind of a nod to those gigs we were getting.

But we’re a rock ‘n’ roll band, and we just wanted to get back to faster, uptempo, rock ‘n’ roll stuff and rockabilly-influenced rock ‘n’ roll stuff that we did in the mid-‘90s.

We got to a juncture there where we didn’t know what label [we’d end up on]. We were on Yep Roc, but they weren’t offering much money, because the way things are going now, all these great bands are able to record themselves and get great results. We got some equipment to record ourselves…we were already starting the album anyway, then we all of a sudden started talking to Tony [Brummel, founder and CEO] from Victory, and it we got on [the label]. So we had a little more money to play with. There’s a few songs and segments of songs that we did in a commercial studio, but by and large, most of that album was recorded in our rehearsal space.

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Rev really captures what it’s like to experience On a big budget, when you’re locking out a big the band live. Did that come from recording studio, you don’t have time to do stuff like that. most of it in your rehearsal space?

In a way, low budget for us gave us more of a I think it has to do with I’ve been recording chance to create, so we could get it right. When a long time, and I basically know it should you’re in a studio, you have one chance to get be a good representation of my vocal part, it right. Being able to redo something four or my guitar part, and Scott and Jimbo’s parts five times was really cool. and their background vocals. As long as it’s a good representation of that, we can add Are you the kind of person who goes back some little things here and there, but not too over your older work and wish you’d done it a much, because that’s not really being true to different way? our sound. Of course, I’m a rockabilly so I like Oh yeah, I’m totally like that. But in all honesty, my slap-back echo and my reverb. That’s very when I go back and listen to our old albums, much a ‘50s and ‘60s kind of vibe. We don’t it’s kind of better than I remember. I’m like, necessarily go for “Oh wow, we were pretty that, but that reverb good.” But then I still hear “I could completely go and echo is kind of the certain mistakes that and make some kind of authentic as a live are still there. sound a little bit. an album that would be When you unveil new bigger than any of my Do you enjoy the material to an audience, is other stuff, but it would recording process? it still exciting for you or be real schmaltzy and full does it make you anxious?

I really enjoyed this of a lot of cover songs last one because it was Yeah, it’s pretty all me. I would go up nervewracking. A band and over-produced and there at all hours of the like us that’s had a lot of all that stuff. I want to night and the morning CDs, our fans who paid stick with what Reverend and all sorts of times the ticket price want to Horton Heat does. and noodle around and hear the songs that made We’ve got something write. The guys would them like us when they more important than us come in and we’d play. saw us live 20 or 25 years That process went on ago. We try to play a little going out and having for about a year—or six bit of songs off of each some hit songs.” months—I kind of liked – Jim Heath, album, but it gets harder that, because even if Reverend Horton Heat and harder. Then you we’ve got a big budget throw in the new stuff… and went into a studio, there’s still a limited that’s the good news for us right now. Our new time you’re able to do that. If you’re on a really stuff is getting accepted better than it has since big budget, you might be able to lock out a the mid-‘90s. It’s got to be really frustrating for studio for a month. That’s really expensive… some of these older artists—older than us, like especially a really high-profile one. Locking out the Stones—who’ll spend a lot of money and a studio in Los Angeles for a month and staying time to record a new album and go on tour and out there and all that, it’s very, very expensive. only be able to play one song or the max two And it’s still limited time. A month isn’t off the new album. Of course, we’re not in that really that long, because you’ll go in there and position…but work on your 15 songs, and you may have two that’s one of Get ready to get your faces days or a day for each song, and so that’s not the challenges melted as the Reverend Horton Heat is coming to town on really that good. On this album, there were for a career March 30 at Ace of Spades. several songs that we recorded, we cut and artist, getting Nekromantix, Deke Dickerson then we’d listen to them for four weeks and say, that new stuff and Infamous Swanks will take the stage in support. Tickets “We’re doing that song too fast. It needs to be in there. are $20 and can be purchased a little bit more heavy,” or something like that. at Aceofspadessac.com.

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New Band, New EP: Autumn Sky Releases Scout Words Joe Atkins • photo daniel dare

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’ m impervious to danger,” jokes Autumn Sky, recalling a sketchy gig she played once at a dive bar in Oakland.

Sky recalls embracing the back-and-forth of the audience and meeting a homosexual couple who continue to attend her shows today. Meanwhile, Barry Crider, her roommate and guitarist, remembers it slightly differently. He doesn’t remember the personal stories of the patrons; instead, he recalls fox-guarding the equipment while Autumn used yet another mediocre gig to propel her name and band recognition forward, and then leaving after a short conversation with the German Shepherd-wielding bar owner.

That name recognition is working. Sky, who began gigging solo, has always envisioned her music with a full band accompaniment. After some 11 years, this desire is finally being fulfilled; at the end of the month, Autumn Sky, along with her current lineup of bandmates, will release the Scout EP. The EP is a quick glimpse at the depth and potential that Sky and her band embody. The songs have precursors and references, some of which include Death Cab for Cutie, Florence and the Machine and bits and pieces of singer-songwriters far and wide. At its best, Scout contains a layered dynamism which is both lush and cathartic; at its worst, it’s too short.

Sky, guitarist Crider, and bassist Anthony Medina sat down with Submerge to discuss the release, the worst gigs ever, LSD, “bad” hippies, death and philosophy—not necessarily in that order.

You’ve been playing solo for a long time, why the shift to a band?

Autumn Sky: The songs are always meant for a band. I don’t want to use anybody. I don’t think it’s appropriate to ask my friends to give their time or their music to me, when they have good music of their own, unless I can get a guarantee. So I focused on building my fan base and my reach. Then I was eventually able to start trying out musicians. That took a long time. I think I went through four bassists and five drummers, and they were always in other bands.

I would often try to make up for the fact that there wasn’t a band with enthusiasm, or I’d play my guitar really hard. I’ve known this entire time this is what I’ve wanted. It’s great to have friends who want to support your music. It feels exhilarating.

What’s the worst part about playing with a band?

AS: I had a really hard time adjusting to learning and knowing how to talk to people, to give any criticism. I had this thing where I didn’t want to be mean to people. There’s gonna be a point, if you’re a band leader, where you’re going to have to fire someone.

Anthony Medina: Just getting everyone together is hard, especially with seven people. When we’re getting ready for a big show, trying to get in just two practices a week is almost impossible.

Barry Crider: Some of us are in other projects as well.

“I had a really hard time adjusting to learning and knowing how to talk to people, to give any criticism. I had this thing where I didn’t want to be mean to people. There’s gonna be a point, if you’re a band leader, where you’re going to have to fire someone.”

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You have a lot of songs. Why do you write so much?

AS: Other people have ADHD, and my tick is that I have to keep writing music. I’m always singing to myself. I’ve been writing songs since I was 6. I used to sing to myself when we were doing chores in my house. We were homeschooled according to the theory of Romantic Naturalism; we were really bad hippies. Every time I had this ear worm stuck in my head, I’d write it down. My parents encouraged me.

For the band: does Autumn have Lead Singer Disease (LSD)?

BC: When it’s practice time or show time or anything where gear has to be loaded, Autumn is always getting ready doing her makeup, and I’m hefting the PA speakers down the stairs, loading the guitar amps. She finishes and comes out of the bathroom, and says, “Can I help you bring anything to the car?”

AM: I see this at the end of practices. She’ll be chit-chatting, and we’ll be tearing everything down.

BC: Then she puts her acoustic guitar in the case.

AM: One time we had loaded everything, and we started talking.

Then Autumn was like, “OK let’s go.”

As a female singer-songwriter, what are some of your horror stories?

AS: When I first started playing I got asked to play a lot of women’s shows. They’re like, “We have Women’s Night on Wednesdays!”

BC: It sounds like the suffrage era of music nights.

AS: I get a lot of people who think that I just play ukulele because there’s a picture of me holding one on the Internet. I get a ton of people who list me as Autumn Sky, ukulele player.

If you could kill a rock star, who would it be? You can end a career or legitimate it here.

AS: Miley needs read some books on feminism, but— BC: Insane Clown Posse.

AM: Careful…

AS: You know what? Selena Gomez. It’s like her management is like, “Hey, Britney Spears would be a good path for you.” Come and get it: way to stir on your stalkers. I’d kill Selena Gomez for her own safety.”

If the band were the cast of Lost, who would each person be?

AS: I want to be Hurley. Everyone loves Hurley. He was the only one who was always nice to people, consistently nice.

OK, but who would the band describe you as?

BC: The Matthew Fox guy, Jack. The survivalist guy, [John Locke] I might have some personality traits like him.

Which philosopher would you rather read: Hegel, Marx or Mary Wollstonecraft?

AS: Hegel and Marx.

How will the revolution happen in the United States?

AS: The poor will get so fed up with the huge gap between the rich and the poor that we will eventually have to restart ourselves.

AM: The rich will get pissed off at the poor people complaining.

BC: The doomsday militia, all the gun hoarders will start factions, some rebel uprisings—not like Star Wars.

Since musicians are poor, what’s your richest moment?

AS: We’re like Little Women; we value our friendships because we have no money. Once, I showed up to this gig. I thought I had a $300 guarantee; they said they didn’t know I was coming. They weren’t set up. So they said I could eat for free from their four star restaurant. I thought, “I am gonna eat for free.” So I sat there and ate lamb racks, their barbecue, their best wine, all their truffle macaroni and cheese—they put truffle on everything, truffle this, truffle that, truffle popcorn.

Will your upcoming full length include completed music videos and be released inconspicuously on iTunes?

AS: I am Sacramento’s Beyonce, so…

Catch the release show for Autumn Sky’s EP Scout on March 29 at Assembly, along with Cold Eskimo, Contra and Life in 24 Frames. The all-ages show starts at 7 p.m.; tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Visit Facebook.com/autumnskyofficial for more info.

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Sacramento’s New Classic Sports Bar, Fieldhouse Words Niki Kangas • Photos Liz Simpson

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y homegirl Liz Simpson and I stepped outside of our Midtown comfort zone to check out and document a new sports bar that had recently opened in the Arden-Arcade area, Fieldhouse. I grumbled about the name— doesn’t it seem like every new place opening up lately uses the trendy formula “Prefix-house?”

I later learned that Fieldhouse owners weren’t using some hack formula to name the restaurant, but that a field house is the structure at a ball field that houses all of the equipment and maintenance supplies for the venue. Shows how much my smug ass knows.

Fieldhouse is set in a strip mall on Fulton Avenue with a 24 Hour Fitness and other boring chains, but at least this means that the parking is a-plenty. It is decorated with sports memorabilia, old-timey sports photographs, a barrage of mounted flatscreen TVs blaring every kind of sporting event wherever one casts an eye and antique sports equipment. Fieldhouse is modern and comfortable, with understated furniture, dark wood accents, a welcoming

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bar at the center of the space, gray and brick walls, a shuffleboard table and darts.

The restaurant opened on March 5 by the elbow grease of Shady Lady owners (who act as consultants for Fieldhouse) Jason Boggs, Alex Origoni and Garrett Van Vleck, and owners Amir Daliri, Steve Squaglia and Mike Doherty.

Says Origoni, “Fieldhouse is a throwback inspired sports bar that pays homage to all sports, popular and obscure, throughout all eras… The menu consists of classic American pub fare with great care taken in sourcing the highest quality raw ingredients and the bar program is anchored by a large selection of high quality draft and bottled beers, as well as carefully constructed craft cocktails. All of these features combine to make Fieldhouse a casual, comfortable sports pub set in a classic environment with outstanding food and beverages.”

I was totally OK with all of those things, and by now the thirst and hunger were getting real.

We posted up at the bar and were immediately greeted by a cute, freckled

redhead with bangs named Kristin, who quickly and skillfully procured our drinks that Midtowners will recognize from the Shady Lady cocktail menu: a Jameson and the Giant Peach and a Paloma. Beyond the signature cocktail list borrowed from Shady, Fieldhouse offers an expansive list of draught microbrews and cheap domestic beers one would expect of an upscale sports bar.

Although I sucked mine down fast, having had a rough week, I was impressed by the Paloma’s methodical distribution of tequila and grapefruit. The cocktails here are also easy on the eyes.

While we bullshitted with the bartender and whetted our whistles, we made a game plan for grub, ordered, and were soon served a smorgasbord of radness. We learned that the head chef is shared with the Shady Lady—Kevin Ritchie. His culinary background includes Executive Sous Chef at Michael Mina in San Francisco, Sous Chef at Fog City Diner in San Francisco and Line Cook at Waterboy.

The Rally Nachos are not the throwntogether pile of low-grade Sysco ingredients you’ve become accustomed to expect from a traditional sports bar. Rather, they are a thoughtful and picture-perfect assemblage of top quality elements. The fresh tortilla chips are carefully topped with roasted green chilies, Cotija cheese, fresh cilantro, black beans, red jalapenos and drizzled

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with a cumin-lime crema. They are nearly too pretty to eat, but after a first bite of these slightly spicy beauties, Liz and I had no problem destroying them.

Another dish we ordered with the intention of warding off gut brick and keeping things moving through was the Oregon Bay Shrimp Louie Salad.

Also a meticulous plating, it was a bed of lemon cabbage slaw and cucumber slices, upon which was stacked avocado, Vega Farms hardboiled egg, tomato horseradish cocktail vinaigrette and, of course, Oregon Bay shrimps, which were tossed in a mustard seed dressing. At the apex of the salad, two sprigs of chives were crisscrossed. The salad was a lovely balance of textures and flavors—crisp, creamy, saucy, savory, sweet, tart and awesome.

For a little Southern comfort, we requested the Fried Green Tomatoes, a dish I was fuzzily familiar with from late nights at Shady Lady. Green heirloom tomatoes are encased in a homemade breadcrumb batter and flawlessly fried crunchy but not overdone, with the edges a slightly darker shade of brown from the overall golden color. They float above a thick, sour, yet sweet tarragon remoulade below a crown of fresh-as-a-daisy microgreens.

When Boggs became aware of the purpose of our visit (to review the menu offerings), he generously engaged his head chef to bring from the kitchen a couple of additional dishes. To get a feel for their take on sports bar grub, they recommended the Whiskey Burger and the Vietnamese wings.

So there we sat, happy campers, with a fiveplate spread before us, showcasing every color of the rainbow and bestowing a wealth of amazing flavors on our eager taste buds. Those sitting at the bar SubmergeMag.com

around us had to ask why two svelte women such as ourselves were so damn hungry.

The half-pound Whiskey Burger elicited an, “Oh dang.” This is quite possibly one of the best burgers in Sacramento. Served on newsprint food service paper with black peppercorn fries, the Whiskey Burger comes on a toasted bun with spicy, bitter arugula; bacon on point in the shape of a stiff ‘X’; a whiskey-soaked patty of local ground beef; and cheddar cheese that melts and flows like lava over the whole masterpiece.

I’m not usually a fan of wings, as I find them fatty and gristly, and feel too animal-like gnawing flesh from bone with fingers covered in hot sauce.

But with the Vietnamese wings, I took no issue with picking them bones clean with my teeth. The skin is sticky, spicy and sweet, and the crisply fried exterior gives way to juicy meat marinated with cilantro, mint and Serrano chilies, with chips of fried garlic.

Stuffed to the gills and smiling, I noticed that in spite of the recent opening, the place was already beginning to fill up with patrons. Origoni gratefully explains, “We have been warmly received by the community since opening and are continuing to see more new faces as word spreads.”

Looks like Fieldhouse is located at 1310 another home Fulton Ave. in Sacramento.

Open Monday - Thursday and run for the team Sunday from 11 a.m. - 12 a.m. at Shady Lady and Friday and Saturday from and their new 11 a.m. - 2 a.m. Check them out at Facebook.com/fieldhousesac partners. for more details.

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The Edge of Oblivion

Talking with Artist/Musician Troy Mighty About the End of the World Words Andrew Scoggins

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n case you were unaware, there is a general sinking feeling permeating every aspect of our glitzy, plastic 21st century pop culture. Whether this feeling stems from the quickly escalating confrontation between Russia and the United States over Crimea, the slow leak of nuclear radiation from the Fukushima disaster, droughts, floods or even that fucking “#selfie” song, it feels as though our culture may be rapidly approaching the end times; and a local Sacramento musician and artist by the name of Troy Mighty can’t help but be absorbed in it as well.

“Evolution and the end of things; these are the things I think about. With the art and the music, there is just so much dark shit going on. We all justify these tiny little parts we have and don’t want to allow ourselves to think of the bigger picture,” said Troy.

For more than a decade, Troy has been making music, most recently under the title of Dead Western. The music he makes is difficult to describe to anyone who hasn’t heard it. Molasses-slow minimalist compositions crawl in and between Troy’s unfathomably low baritone timbre as he drones carefully through dark lyrical voyages of the psyche. And now that same front man, with the deep brass vocal harmonies and taste for vaudevillian manifestos, is putting on an art show, God’s Eye, at the Sacramento State University Union Gallery from April 1 to 24—displaying what Troy refers to as “cartoons.” And while this might seem like a departure from his normal theatrical and bombastic aesthetic, the similarities to his music are buried deeper in the artwork, just as Troy meant it to be.

“I’m a slower person and I think through things at a slower pace. I try and appreciate the deeper things and pay more attention to the detail,” said Troy. “I appreciate people having to look. More and more you don’t have to look, don’t

have to think, don’t have to wait more than a second, and I’m not about that.”

Because of Troy’s insistence upon people scouring for the deeper meaning in his work, it seems at times that some of his pieces are purposely obstinate and seemingly simple upon first glance. The baritone nature of his singing voice will undoubtedly turn some people off, just as his deliberately simple, cartoonish illustrations may be written off as kitsch.

And this is entirely by design.

While those who are distracted by the modern lifestyle may end up walking out of Troy’s gallery scratching their heads at all the fuss, those who stay and puzzle out the meanings tucked away in the illustrations will ultimately find their pursuit rewarded with a rare gift: hope.

Troy’s artwork is framed in an easily digestible palette of psychedelic colors and an eye-catching composition, but the work also delves into some darker themes and subjects. Get Me the Hell Out of Here shows a fish, eyes wide and terrified, at the top of a roiling sea as pink and orange clouds converge upon it. The meaning is simple but the more one looks at it, the more haunting and ominous it becomes until the imagery somehow sticks. I’m not exactly sure who would hang something like that on their wall, but it’s definitely thought-provoking and gut-wrenching.

And even though there are some of his pieces that probe into that distinctly 21st century paranoia and fear, the other side of the artwork shows figures in blissful harmony together.

“The coupling, the sharing between people is a beautiful thing. I’m a very literal person and sometimes that comes out through my artwork,” said Troy.

Many of the drawings show fanciful beings binding to each other through an illustrated connection, while others seem content to strum guitars and enjoy the other odd-looking beings company.

There’s an emotion through the work that’s palpable without the simple delivery, much of the effect would be lost.

When prompted to talk about the seemingly simplistic nature of his artwork, Troy laughed and said with his trademark deadpan, “I hate painting. It always feels like I’m using the wrong brush or need to be clued into the technique or something.”

“I hate painting. It always feels like I’m using the wrong brush or need to be clued into the technique or something.”

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music, comedy & misc. Calendar

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3.24 Monday

Ace of Spades Bun B, Kirko Bangz, 7 p.m.

Assembly Being As An Ocean, A Lot Like Birds, My Iron Lung, Idle Hands, This Wild Life, 6:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Acoustic & Spoken Open Mic, 8 p.m.

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

The Colony Braveyoung, Mercy Ties, Battle Hag, Black Majik Acid, 7 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

Luigi’s Fungarden PETS, Daydream Machine, Drive-Thru Mystics, 7 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

Marilyn’s Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5 p.m.

Press Club Kevin Seconds, John Moreland, Brent Loveday, Joseph Kojima Gray, 8 p.m.

3.26 Wednesday

Ace of Spades Moonshine Bandits, The Lacs, Dry County Drinkers, Colonel Jimmy & The Blackfish, 6:30 p.m.

Assembly Carnifex, I Declare War, Here Comes The Kraken, Assassins, Lorna Shore, Despite All The Misery, 6 p.m.

Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Tune-Up Songwriters Showcase hosted by Kevin Seconds and David Houston, 8 p.m.

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

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Showcase, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Northern Soul, 8 p.m.

G Street WunderBar Funk Night w/ DJ Larry, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Toubab Krewe, Mark Sexton Band, 7 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Nine Past Nine, 9 p.m.

Mix DJ Shift, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Self Proclaimed, The Hybrid Creeps, BrokeNote UnderTone, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Jeramy Norris and the Dangerous Mood, 9 p.m.

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Tuesday

Assembly Black Lips, The Coathangers, 7 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Adam France (Burn Burn Burn), Old Growth, Tomfool, Ben Abel, 8 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Dive Bar Mac Russ & Sean Fleming, 9 p.m.

LowBrau Le Twist Tuesdays feat.

Jon Reyes of DLRN, Sam I Jam, Adam J, Roger Carpio, 9 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Sun Valley Gun Club, The Hague, Ancient Astronaut, The Evocateurs, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Oogee Wawa, 8 p.m.

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Rock On Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Shine Open Jazz Jam hosted by Jason Galbraith, 8 p.m.

Toby Keith’s Open Mic Night, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Dippin Sauce, 5:30 p.m.; Island of Black and White, 8 p.m.

Witch Room Wax Idols, Wreck and Reference, Hollow Sunshine, Darling Chemicalia, So Stressed, 8 p.m.

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Assembly Animals As Leaders, After The Burial, Navene - K, Chon, Salythia, 6:30 p.m.

Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Happy Hour Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Open Mike Eagle, Kurt Hustle, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Anarchy Lace, Long in the Tooth, Wild Throne, Infinite Vastness, The Clutter Family Singers, Nine Past Nine, Abby Normal, 7 p.m.

Café Colonial Dead Dads, Western Settings, Not Yet, 8 p.m.

Center for the Arts Experimental Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

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

Crest Theatre The Outlaws, 6:30 p.m.

Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose The (Celtic) Method, 8 p.m.

Harlow’s Zepparella, 7 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Clarice Assad, 7 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden The Speed of Sound in Seawater, Confluence, Light Thieves, Le Wolves, 7:30 p.m.

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

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Brody Stewart, 10 p.m.

Shine Blue Thursday w/ Dr. Rock & The Stuff, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Mind X Quartet, 5 p.m.; The 44’s feat. Kirk Fletcher, 9 p.m.

UC Davis Mondavi Center Peter Petty and His Titans of Terpsichore, 6:30 p.m.

3.28 Friday

Back 9 Bar & Grill Jet West, Street Urchinz, Tha Dirt Feelin, ReLion, 8 p.m.

Bar 101 Island of Black and White, 9:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Whiskey & Stitches, One Eyed Rileys, Pikeys, 8 p.m.

Blue Line Arts Gallery Ricky Berger, 7 p.m.

The Boardwalk A.Steuber, Kid Fresh, ianC, SNFC, D-Wreck, 7 p.m.

Capitol Garage Dub Culture w/ DK Wokstar, DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m.

Club Car The Halie O’Ryan Band, 9 p.m.

Club Retro Electric Friday, 8 p.m.

District 30 Champagne Sounds w/ DJ Oasis, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Local Band Showcase w/ Host Zac Rome (of Sweet Revenge), 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose The Uncovered, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Adrian Bellue, Awkward Lemon, 5:30 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe DJ Romeo Reyes, 10 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Clarice Assad, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Cemetery Sun, The Denver J Band, Alex Vincent Band, The Stand Out State, Dylan Jakobsen, 7: 30 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Sara Lynn, Emily O’Neill, Dani Ukulele, Hannah Kile, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Long Time (Boston tribute), 9 p.m.

Midtown BarFly Throwdown: Attack of the Party Monster! feat. Vena Cava, D.A.M.B. (Shaun Slaughter), Kracento Box, Druskee, Tripz, Pyramid Scheme, Jon Reyes and more, 9 p.m.

Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino The Straits, 8 p.m.

Old Ironsides William Mylar, 5 p.m.; Storytellers, FUDI, Forever We Are, 9 p.m.

On The Y Total Chaos, Avenue Saints, Sad Boy Sinister, The Left Hand, The Crunchees, 8 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Tainted Love, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Brodie Stewart Band, 9:30 p.m.

Rock Band University So Stressed, Dad Punch, 9 p.m.

Sacramento Convention Center Celtic Woman, 7:30 p.m.

Shine Duplx, Xochitl, Vanessa O’Connell, 8 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Jim Kelly Kung Fu Orchestra, No Fucks Given, Bleed

by Example, System Assault, Kushgrinder, 8 p.m.

Third Space Art Collective Meat Market, Sad Bitch, UNITY, 8 p.m.

Toby Keith’s Lace & Lead, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Con Brio, 9 p.m.

Witch Room Tel Cairo, DLRN, 8 p.m.

3.29 Saturday

Assembly Autumn Sky (EP Release), Life In 24 Frames, Contra, Cold Eskimo, 7 p.m.

Back 9 Bar & Grill Top Shelf, Simple Creation, A’ La Lune, 8 p.m.

Bar 101 J*Ras, Massive Delicious, 9:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Lonely Kings, Dr Luna, Ottos Daughter, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk J. Stalin, DayOnTay, 7 p.m.

Café Colonial He Who Cannot Be Named, Bite, Moans, Ballistic Burnout, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage Feel Good Saturday’s w/ DJ Epik, 10 p.m.

Center for the Arts Paige Anderson and the Fearless Kin, Raina Rose, Jeffery Wanzer Dupra, 8 p.m.

Club Car PointDexter, 9 p.m.

District 30 All Red Party w/ DJ Jules, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon The Prohibition Band, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Wanted Exotic, Punch-Out!, The Punknecks, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Travis Garland, Jasmine Nichol, 6 p.m.; The Old Screen Door, The Kelps, Said the Shotgun, 9 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Folsom Symphony Presents: The Celebration of Spring, 7:30 p.m.

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Ghostplay A Happy Death, Millburray Starlite Lounge 8 p.m.

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First three from the series Planned and Unplanned Connections • 2012

Troy is completely self-taught as both a musician and artist. And while at times he laments not taking the chance to study either discipline in a formal setting, he also acknowledges certain advantages to working in a vacuum.

“I’m a person who is very influenced by things so it’s nice to get away from it. I used to be very into old ‘60s sax players who said if you want to play music, you shouldn’t listen to music,” Troy said.

This is not to say Troy has not had any influences on his work—underground comic book artists such as Julie Doucet, Chester Brown and Daniel Clowes were what originally drove Troy seriously into illustrating—but it has allowed him to strip down his work to the bare essentials, in his artwork and his music.

“I just present what needs to be there, not overworking it. My music as a solo musician

where it’s just me and a guitar—it’s a skeleton but that’s all it needs to be,” Troy said.

In his artist statement he says: “It is necessary to seek our own story, moving through obstacles and intimidations as they appear, in order to confront the subtleties of difference in each other, and ultimately have our own tale told.”

In this summary seems to be the crux of Troy’s artistic ethos. He writes songs about the collapse of the human race, illustrates disturbing scenes that people shy away from in their daily lives, but ultimately he finds solace in the fact that there are other people in the world, like him, who are still striving to create an impact and a small bit of hope in the world.

“I used to have a roommate who traveled all throughout Eastern Europe during some really tumultuous times, and I remember him telling me about how all these different

punk bands started," Troy said. "There were all these shows happening and people were trying to have the times of their lives and dance in the rubble. I think that same type of thing is going on now. It gets me down but I can’t let it. What can I do but push through and make some light of it?”

Through the illustrated bonds that exist between his fantastical figures and characters, Troy mirrors a true connection with the viewer that is hard to find in the modern world but he strives for it regardless.

Troy’s Bandcamp states that Troy Mighty “demands to live” and creates music for people to “hide within and brave the world outside.” His art is simply another vehicle for that human-to-human connection that all artists strive for, that all people need if we are to truly brave the world outside in the coming future.

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Check out God’s Eye at the Sacramento State University Union Gallery from April 1 to 24. A reception will be held on April 3 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Prints of Troy’s work can be bought at Troymighty. com. For more info on other upcoming University Union events, go to Union.csus.edu.

A blowout celebration of the arts, the third annual U-Nite will showcase original works from the nationally celebrated faculty of Sacramento State’s College of Arts and Letters.

Collaborations designed to provoke dialogue and unity will fill the galleries with music, dance, theater, photography, design, film, poetry, and prose.

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Down North Torch Club 9 p.m.

KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Briefcase Full of Blues, 4:30 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Desario, All About Rockets, Gladnesss, 8:30 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe David Houston & String Theory, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Revolver (Rage Against the Machine tribute), Foresocks (Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute), 9 p.m.

Memorial Auditorium Rebelution, Common Kings, 8 p.m.

Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides Funk.Defied, The Dirt Feelin’, 9 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Mr. December, 3 p.m.; Midnight Players, 10 p.m.

Press Club Grill Cloth, Useless Eaters, So Stressed, 5 p.m.; DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino The Spazmatics, 10 p.m.

Shine Hair of the Dog, The Sad Juicees, Coldair, 8 p.m.

Sidetrax WHIP! A Booty Bass/ Bounce Party w/ Shaun Slaughter & Adam Jay, 10 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort G. Love and Special Sauce, 8:30 p.m.

Toby Keith’s Big Trouble, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Val Starr & the Blues Rocket (CD Release), 4 p.m.; Black Market III, 9 p.m.

Mather Lake Regional Park SunBeat 3 feat. Kosplay & Salvie, Simon Apex & Micah J, Sychosis & Prime Balance and more, 12 p.m.

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

Powerhouse Pub Shane Dwight, 3 p.m.

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

Red Hawk Casino Lace & Lead, 1 p.m.

The Stag The Punknecks, Hell Rooster, Mason Rex, 7 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Ghostplay, A Happy Death, Millburray, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Big Sticky Mess, 8 p.m.

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Monday

Ace of Spades Blue October, 7 p.m.

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

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

Marilyn’s Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5 p.m.

3.30 4.01 Sunday

Ace of Spades Reverend Horton Heat, Nekromantix, Deke Dickerson, Infamous Swanks, 6:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ ESEF, Juan Love, Ras Matthew and Guests, 9 p.m.

Broderick Roadhouse Karaoke w/ DJ Jazcat, 9 p.m.

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

Club Car The June Williams Duo, 9 p.m.

The Colony Hammerfist, Murderlicious, 8 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

District 30 Trill Sundays, 9 p.m.

Dive Bar Miss Maddy’s F Street Stompers, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Tyrone Wells, 5:30 p.m.

Marilyn’s Showcase Sundays Open Mic, 9 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Beats Antique, Sean Hayes, Horsehead McGee, 6:30 p.m.

Back 9 Bar & Grill Project Out of Bounds, 8 p.m.

Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m.

Café Colonial Neighborhood Brats, Bad Daddies, Venkman, Herd Mindset, 7 p.m.

Center for the Arts Simon Phillips’ Protocol II, 7:30 p.m.

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

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Showcase, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Northern Soul, 8 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino Emancipator Ensemble, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Highway 12, S.W.I.M., Zen Arcadia, 8 p.m.

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Marilyn’s GSET: Classic Rock & Blues Review, 8 p.m.

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Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Rock On Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Shine Open Jazz Jam hosted by Jason Galbraith, 8 p.m.

Toby Keith’s Open Mic Night, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Dippin Sauce, 5 p.m.; Lew Fratis Band, 8 p.m.

Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Blues Jam, 4 p.m.

Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

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

Crest Theatre Classic Albums Live: Led Zeppelin II, 6:30 p.m.

Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Marty Cohen & The Sidekicks, 8 p.m.

Harlow’s Branches, The Show Ponies, The Westwards, 7 p.m.

The Hideaway Bar & Grill Trash Rock Thursdays w/ DJ Larry Flower Vato, 8 p.m.

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Backseat Lovers Hot Hands, Once An Empire Luigi’s Fungarden 8 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Bob Wayne, Spillit Quikkers, Dry County Drinkers, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Undertow, The Soul Shine Band, King Never, No Where But Up, 7 p.m.

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Capitol Garage Dub Culture w/ DK Wokstar, DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m.

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Davis Art Center Classical Guitar Series feat. Arina Burcéva, 8 p.m.

District 30 Back to the 90’s Party w/ DJ Louie Giovanni, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Dead Man’s Hand, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Golden Cadillacs, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Xochitl, Lumohs, 8:30 p.m.

Marilyn’s You Front the Band Live Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Midtown BarFly Urple Eeple, Atom One, Tzolkeen, Nikolai, Head Soar, 9 p.m.

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Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Race to the Bottom (CD Release), Hero’s Last Mission, Once An Empire, 8 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Clean Slate, 9:30 p.m.

Rock Band University Soul Search, Disgrace, Pressure Point, Gods Hate, Violent Situation, Forced Order, 7 p.m.

Shine Be Brave Bold Robot, Bellygunner, 8 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Hans & the Hot Mess, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Quinn Hedges Band, 9 p.m.

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Assembly Headbang For The Hwy: Kingdom of Giants, Before You Fall, Awoken Shadows, With Wolves, Ellipsis, Dead In Seconds, Flub, Shorelines, 4:30 p.m.

Back 9 Bar & Grill Maka Roots, The Green Machine, 8 p.m.

Bar 101 Pine Street Ramblers, 9:30 p.m.

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Capitol Garage Feel Good Saturday’s w/ DJ Epik, 10 p.m.

Center for the Arts Nirvana Tribute Show feat. The Soft Bombs, Achilles Wheel, The Bleach Boys, Rat Stomp and more, 8 p.m.

The Colony The Yes-Go’s, TheFerments, Kreatures of the Basement, The Boos, 7:30 p.m.

Community Center Theater Sacramento Philharmonic Presents: Violin Magic w/ Rachel Barton Pine, 8 p.m.

District 30 Panic City, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Island of Black & White, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Infinite Vastness, Hans & the Hot Mess, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Chuck Ragan, The White Buffalo, Johnny Two Bags, 8 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe ZZ Ward, 7:30 p.m.

KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m.

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Luigi’s Fungarden Backseat Lovers, Hot Hands, Once an Empire, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Bonnie and the Bang Gang, 9 p.m.

Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides Go National, Go, Dog, Go, I Love Ethyl, 8 p.m.

On The Y Benefit for Matt of Embodied Torment w/ Bleed by Example, Wurm Flesh, Solitary Priapism, Solanum, Logistic Slaughter, Cerebral Engorgement and more, 2 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Superlicious, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Clean Slate, 10 p.m.

Rounders Sports Bar & Grill Local Licks Acoustic Series show w/ Jonah Matranga, Sac Open Mic All-Stars, 8 p.m.

Shine Of Us Giants, 8 p.m. a The Stag Secretions, O Mulligans, Hybrid Creeps, The Barfly Effect, 9 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Screature, Razorblade Monalisa, DJ Chattnoir, DJ Jules, 8 p.m.

Torch Club The Stuff, 5:30 p.m.; Steven Roth Band, 9 p.m.

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Assembly CunninLynguists, J Live, Sadistik, Nemo Achida, M-Theory, 7 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ ESEF, Juan Love, Ras Matthew and Guests, 9 p.m.

Broderick Roadhouse Karaoke w/ DJ Jazcat, 9 p.m.

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

Club Car The June Williams Duo, 6 p.m.

Club Retro Ali K (CD Release), Joshua Lane, Hannah Porter, 7:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

District 30 Trill Sundays, 9 p.m.

Dive Bar Brian Rogers, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s DYLAN ‘64: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Bob Dylan’s Pre-Electric Period feat.

Alex Nelson (of Walking Spanish), Dog Party, Cory Barringer (of The Kelps), Jonah Matranga, Parie Wood and more, 5 p.m.

Marilyn’s Showcase Sundays Open Mic, 9 p.m.

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

Powerhouse Pub Lane Baldwin, 3 p.m.

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

Red Hawk Casino Michael Beck, 2 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Scott Pemberton Trio, 8 p.m.

4.07 Monday

The Blue Lamp Acoustic/Spoken Open Mic, 8 p.m.

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

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

Marilyn’s Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5 p.m.

Comedy Center for Spiritual Awareness Last Sacramento Comic Standing Competition, March 28, 7 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Manny Maldonado, D Tyler, March 28 - 30, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Open Mic Comedy hosted by Anthony K, April 1, 8 p.m.

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Carlos Rodriguez, Cheryl “the Soccer Mom,” Jimmy Earl, Eric Murphy, hosted by Michael Calvin Jr., April 2, 7 p.m.

D’Lai, Dennis Martinez, April 4 - 6, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy, every Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

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

Punchline Comedy Club The Real (Funny) Housewives of Rio Linda, March 26, 8 p.m.

Julian McCullough, Chris Storin, John Ross, March 27 - 30, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Sacramento Comedy Showcase, April 2, 8 p.m.

Nikki Glaser, Forrest Shaw, Casey Ley, April 3 - 6, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Sacramento Comedy Spot Will Fisher’s Open Mic, Monday’s, 8 p.m.

Spot-On Trivia: The Comedy Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 8 p.m.

Gag Order, Thursday’s, 8 p.m.

Improv Jam, Thursday’s, 9 p.m.

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

Test Kitchen, Saturday’s, 10:30 p.m.

Sleep Train Arena Jeff Dunham: Disorderly Conduct, March 30, 3 p.m.

Misc.

2020 J Street Midtown Farmers Market, every Saturday, 8 a.m.

Blue Cue Bar Bingo, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Naughty Trivia!, every Wednesday, 8 p.m.

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

Cal Expo Crossroads of the West Gun Show, March 29 - 30 Community Center Theater Sacramento Ballet Presents: Carmina Burana, March 27 - 30 Community Learning Center & Cooking School Sacramento Food Film Festival: Cafeteria Man, March 26, 6:30 p.m.

Crest Theatre Sheer Talent Dance Competition, April 5, 10 a.m.

Crocker Art Museum Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections, through Apr. 20 Jules Tavernier: Artist and Adventurer, through May 11 Fairytale Town Sutter Children’s Center Wellness Festival, April 5, 11 a.m.

Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m.

Grange Performing Arts Center Verte Fee Cabaret, April 4 - 5, 8 p.m.

Guild Theater Sacramento Food Film Festival: The Slow Food Story, March 29, 5 p.m.

Lucca Restaurant and Bar Sacramento Food Film Festival: Bottle Shock, March 25, 7 p.m.

Luigi’s A Slice of Trivia w/ the Bruce Twins, Monday’s, 8 p.m.

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

Masonic Temple California Spirit Festival, March 29 - 30 McKinley Park Sacramento Food Film Festival: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, March 28, 6 p.m.

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

Pine Cove Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m.

Press Club Flex Your Head Trivia, Tuesday’s, 8 p.m.

Revolution Wines Wine Trivia Night!, April 2, 6:30 p.m.

Shine Red Alice’s Poetry Emporium hosted by Bill Gainer, March 26, 7:30 p.m.

Sunh Fish Company Sacramento Food Film Festival: Sweet, Sexy Ocean, March 30, 4 p.m.

Tahoe Park District 6 Food Truck Mania, March 28, 5 p.m.

UC Davis Mondavi Center Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, March 27, 8 p.m.

Circa S, March 30, 3 p.m.

University Union Ballroom, CSUS Sister Spit: All-Female Spoken Word Troupe, April 3, 7:30 p.m.

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Anderson’s work is quick to make an impression this way, so my best advice at the outset is to dig in with relish, or seek refreshment elsewhere. That being said, I’d hope that some of his detractors give the filmmaker a fresh try for this one, for they might appreciate the darker, more wicked and even more dreamlike turn his style has taken. Never has it seemed less out of place than here, and much of this is owed to the film’s setting—a darker, more wicked, and more dreamlike continent—Europe.

Welcome to Zubrowka, a fictional country named for the national liquor of Poland, home to cozy pastry shops, inaccessible mountaintop monasteries, corrupt aristocrats and a rising undercurrent of militant brutality. There’s no point in looking for commentary on Nazism, Balkanization or the World Wars here, because the whole thing is plainly meant to be cooked up. This is the old-fashioned Hollywood backlot version of Europe, a glamorous transatlantic perspective that sees both the allure and the ugliness of the old world, and also the element of farce in its convoluted history.

The most convoluted element of the plot itself is its temporal arrangement: A present-day Zubrowkian girl sits down to read a novel titled The Grand Budapest Hotel, written by an author (Tom Wilkinson, in 1985), recalling a time in his youth (1968, when he is played by Jude Law) in which he meets a sad, wealthy man named Zero Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham) at said hotel. The two men meet in the sparse dining room of the complex, now renovated in mid-century Soviet style, and Zero recounts to the young writer his adventures as lobby boy for the hotel during the ‘30s, when the Grand Budapest was the picture of continental opulence. While I found these roundabout sequences amusing enough, they exacted a certain drain on the central plot, which unfolds on its own quite nicely as a self-contained, Depressionera screwball comedy.

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In 1932, Zero (here played by Tony Revolori) is eager to make an impression as the newest employee of the Grand Budapest.

His model for excellence is M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), a “liberally perfumed” concierge who has a habit of “going to bed with all his friends,” most of whom are wealthy, elderly blondes.

One such escapade (with Tilda Swinton, aged beyond recognition) leaves Gustave as the inheritor for a priceless painting, Boy with Apple, infuriating the madame’s son, Dmitri (Adrien Brody), who sets out to destroy Gustave and anyone who gets in his way.

Dmitri is aided by his corpselike right-hand man, Jopling (Willem Dafoe, in a mostly non-speaking role) who always pops up in the right place to kill an important ally or witness.

Zero follows his hero Gustave into many tight spots, including a prison break, an escape by rail, a downhill sled chase and finally a shootout in the atrium of the Grand Hotel. Each set piece is executed with the elaborate, to-scale model whimsy we’ve come to expect of Anderson, but they are by no means less exciting because of it.

A crowd of minor characters and delightful cameos enhance the star-studded, studio-era quality of the picture: there’s Saoirse Ronan’s resourceful pastry chef Agatha, Jeff Goldblum’s terse lawyer Kovacs, Harvey Keitel’s tattooed convict Ludwig and Anderson regular Bill Murray as a fellow member of a secret society of hotel concierges. The list goes on, and there is a general feeling that the filmmaker has outdone himself and let his cast have freedom to explore their roles in the playgroundlike sets. One bit of evidence that points to this is every actor speaking in their native accent, in spite of the supposed variety of nationalities they’re portraying.

Ultimately, and for all of it’s recognizable traits as part of the Anderson canon, The Grand Budapest Hotel speaks for an older, more classic style of movie making. It echoes a time when life was hard, and the movies allowed an escape into wild (and sometimes irreverent) whimsy. I recommend heavily for viewers to hunt down some of the movies that inspired this one, such as To Be or Not to Be (1942) or The Good Fairy (1935). In light of this tradition, it doesn’t make sense for critics to decry the “lack of raw emotion” or the “detached bemusement” of the characters.

This is a dream land, a story-book world. If you want reality, go find a gritty, handheld-camera docu-drama. But some of us still want to break free from overly political, overly earnest, overly real situations from time to time, and indulge in confection. It doesn’t hurt that this one is well-written, great looking and filled with imagination.

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I should probably confess I think Lady Gaga is pretty cool. I’m not sure how much this will affect your opinion of me, positively or negatively, but I think it’s important that we get that piece of information out of the way before we continue. I don’t own any of her albums, nor have I ever sung any of her songs at karaoke, but I really get a kick out of her wacky/artsy persona. She also has a killer booty. I don’t think she gets enough credit for that, and it’s a shame.

She’s more than a firm butt and a smile, though. She’s got chops as a musician and a songwriter. I caught a few minutes of her live concert special on HBO a few years back and was really impressed, especially since most artists of her ilk opt to “sing” or lip-sync to a track when performing live. I find it difficult to praise a singer for actually singing live, since that’s their job. It’s like praising a parent for taking care of their child. That’s what they’re supposed to do, but this is the world we live in: parents don’t parent and singers don’t sing.

Both, I believe, are contributing to the downfall of society, but I’m getting on a tangent here.

Let’s bring it back to the topic at hand.

Gaga. Right. So she decided to premier her new video, “G.U.Y.,” on NBC’s news magazine show Dateline, of all places, this past Saturday.

Sure, it was a curious choice, but really where else on TV does one premier a video nowadays?

MTV? Ha! They’re too busy corrupting young minds with awful reality shows. Back in my day, they were corrupting young minds with music videos. This is another thing that’s destroying society: No videos on MTV. Sorry.

So the fucking fuckface who started the Westboro Baptist Church dies, evidence has surfaced that may prove The Big Bang Theory and tensions in the Ukraine are reaching a fever pitch, leaving the whole world to wonder if the long-awaited World War showdown between the United States and Russia may finally happen, but a news show figured Lady Gaga’s new video is also worthy of a segment. Maybe society should be destroyed.

I mean, at least it’s a really good video.

If you haven’t seen it, here’s a brief synopsis/review:

The seven-and-a-half minute mini opus (directed by the lady herself) opens in a barren field filled with men in suits warring with each other over dollar bills that are billowing all about them. But where is the good lady Gaga in all this? She’s lying in a ditch, wounded, dressed as some sort of bird woman.

As the men depart, bird woman Gaga rises out of the ditch and frees an arrow from her chest. The warring businessmen appeared to be unarmed, so I’m not sure where this arrow came from, but I didn’t let this glaring plot hole ruin my enjoyment of the video.

Gaga then stumbles to, and collapses at the gate of, an opulent castle in the hills (the famous Hearst Castle, in fact). There, two men wearing hoodies made from what seems to be contractor-grade garbage bags scoop up the fallen bird woman and usher her inside, where she is taken through a large host of vinyl-clad dancers and sassy swimsuit models to the waiting arms of bare-chested men in white leather vests who baptize her in a pool. During her rebirthing, she has visions of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which I hear is a common occurrence when rebirthing.

Gaga emerges from her baptism as sexy nymph Gaga, who begins to rally the castle’s inhabitants around her by employing many racy costume changes and engaging them in numerous dance numbers. Eventually, the good vibes created by all the dancing and kibbutzing imbues sexy nymph Gaga with enough science magic to resurrect Jesus, Ghandi and Michael Jackson (who else), who she then clones into an army of militant male models.

Sexy nymph Gaga morphs once more into feathered ninja Gaga. With her army of militant male models and two sassy assassins (sassassins?), she storms an office building—we can assume the same one the businessmen from the beginning of the video came from (see how all this shit comes full circle, bro?) —and takes over…making the world a better place, or at least a more dangerously attired one.

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H a r l o w ’ s • 2 7 0 8 J s t r e e t • s a c r a m e n t o • 21 & o v e r • 9 : 0 0 p m

THe revivalisTs [new orleans funk]

H a r l o w ’ s • 2 7 0 8 J s t r e e t • s a c r a m e n t o • 21 & o v e r • 9 : 0 0 p m

pimps of joyTime

sacramenTo memorial audiTorium 1515 J Street • Sacramento • all ageS • 8:00pm

abstract entertainment SubmergeMag.com

TickeTs available aT: TickeTs.com or communiTy TheaTre box office (13Th & l sTreeT)

jelly bread

H a r l o w ’ s • 2 7 0 8 J s t r e e t • s a c r a m e n t o • 21 & o v e r • 9 : 0 0 p m

abstract entertainment

apr 24 friday

shovels & rope

(drive-by truckers pre/post sHow party)

apr 20 thursday

drive-by Truckers

Saturday, March 29

apr 17 sunday

jusTin ancHeTa

• sacramento •

apr 14 thursday

fever THe gHosT

ace of spades • 1417 r street

apr 13 monday

NiGht terrors of 1927 • the WiNd & the WAve

THe warlocks

apr 11 sunday

big sTicky mess

ay!

apr 8 friday

H a r l o w ’ s • 2 7 0 8 J s t r e e t • s a c r a m e n t o • 21 & o v e r • 9 : 0 0 p m

saturd

apr 4 tuesday

Grizfolk • o’my

rome

this

mar 29 friday

[singer of sublime witH rome]

EAT. DRINK. LISTEN.

mar 26 thursday

THe broTHers comaTose

HAPPY HOUR 7 DAYS A WEEK: 3pm-6pm

mar 23

apr 25 friday

apr 25 friday

may 9 saturday

may 10 friday

may 16 thursday

may 22 friday

may 30

TickeTs available aT: TickeTfly.com

TickeTs for Harlow’s sHows also available aT Harlows.com TickeTs for assembly music Hall available aT assemblysacramenTo.com TickeTs for ace of spades also available aT aceofspades.com and 916.443.9202 memorial audiTorium TickeTs aT www.TickeTs.com and comm. THeaTer box office.

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Dive into Sacramento & its Surrounding Areas March 24 – april 7, 2014

#158

music + art + lifestYle

Banff Mountain Film Festival Beyond Limits

Mighty A Sports Fieldhouse Autumn Sky Reverend Troy Dancing in the Rubble Bar with Sophistication Reaching for the Stars Horton Heat Death Grips to Hit the Road Chuuwee Gets Blunted THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Turning Back

free

the Clock

with Alt Rock Heavyweights

with Ac3 and Trizz

Wes Anderson's Dream Within a Dream