Submerge Magazine: Issue 165 (June 30 - July 14, 2014)

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Dive in The Stream The Optimistic Pessimist Submerge your senses sun and soil french horn rebellion pregnant matt sertich calendar the grindhouse

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All opinions expressed throughout Submerge are those of the author and do not necessarily mean we all share those opinions. Feel free to take a copy or two for free, but please don’t remove our papers or throw them away. Submerge welcomes letters of all kinds, whether they are full of love or hate. We want to know what is on your mind, so feel free to contact us via snail mail at 2308 J Street, Suite F Sacramento, Calif. 95816. Or you can e-mail us at info@submergemag.com. back Cover Photo of french horn rebellion by Haley Ballard

dive in Gems all around you Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com When it comes to music, it’s easy to get caught up in a routine: listen to the same ol’ artists over and over, listen to the radio because it’s convenient, or only focus on bigger national bands playing at Sleep Train Amphitheatre or Arena. But there are so many gems out there to discover that go slightly under the radar. It’s nice to remind yourself to go out to a local show, go see something you’ve never heard of—because when you do, you can discover something new.

Six or seven years ago, I did just that. I went to Bows and Arrows (back when it was near Crepeville on L St.) and came across a local band called Pregnant playing on Second Saturday. I’ll never forget the first time I heard it. It was as if all of the looping and layering of sounds made an oil painting or collage, creating this euphoric masterpiece. Plain and simple, Pregnant is “art” for the ears.

We’ve reviewed a few Pregnant live performances in the past, but it never worked out timing-wise to run a fullfledged feature. Finally, I’m excited to say the day has come.

And on page 18 you can find our writer Andrew Russell’s wonderful interview with Pregnant, aka Daniel Trudeau, and Molly Raney (who also currently contributes to this project).

Be prepared to learn about how Pregnant has changed over the past 10 years, the Your Song project—where Trudeau writes songs for individuals who’ve donated to the band— and what their latest album, Inconvenience, is all about.

If you’re looking to discover some pop music that takes you back to good ol’ emotional ballads (you know the kind that takes you back to the days of popping a Fleetwood Mac or Foreigner tape into your cassette player), then Matt Sertich’s new solo album, The Only Way Out is Through, is what you need to come up on. His release show was at Harlow’s a couple weeks ago, but if you’re like me and missed it because you were out of town (or you were just busy), you have another opportunity to see him—July 10 at Fremont Park for the Hot Lunch Concert Series—before he takes off to Los Angeles in pursuit of seeing where his music can take him. Check out our amazing feature on page 20 where writer Josh Fernandez describes the aforementioned release show, discusses Sertich’s past discouraging situations and talks about the upcoming move from his home town where he’s lived his whole life.

Another band that may or may not be on your radar is French Horn Rebellion. And while they are not from Sacramento (Brooklyn by the way of Milwaukee, to be exact) they sure do love it here. They played at LowBrau this past December, took part in a collaboration with Sacramento Ballet for a video called “Swing Into It” (Youtube it!), are coming back to play THIS Midtown on July 12 and are one of the many rad bands scheduled to play the TBD Fest in West Sacramento in October.

Robert Perlick-Molinari of the duo even raves to our writer Lovelle Harris in a phone interview about places like LowBrau and how in a local scene it just takes “a couple people to bring people together.” Check out page 14 to learn more about the brothers that make up this band, the French horn, and what is in the works for FHR. While it’s not music, another gem you might want to discover is the new juice cafe, Sun and Soil, that recently opened near 19th and P streets in Sacramento. They were one of my favorite ideas when they ran in the Calling All Dreamers competition last year. Unfortunately, they didn’t win; but thankfully for you and me, they moved forward with their business model nonetheless. On page 12 read up on this interesting juice and smoothie cafe in our feature by Steph Rodriguez.

Enjoy and discover the gems featured in issue 165, Melissa

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Major changes are in store for this year’s Launch Festival, which will now be known as TBD Fest.

The name swap is a reflection of a change in venues, as this year the fest will go down in West Sacramento in The Bridge District. The event grounds will be just over the Tower Bridge along the river (behind Raley Field) and will offer epic, sweeping views of downtown Sacramento’s skyline. Also different this year, the fest is now three days of music, not just two. One other difference from past years is that TBD Fest is now happening the weekend of Oct 3 to 5, a little later than Launch has been previously. What’s not different, you ask? The fact that the lineup, just announced last week, is mind-blowingly amazing!

A couple months ago Submerge was lucky enough to sit down with one of the festival’s founders, Michael Hargis (also co-owner of LowBrau and Block Butcher Bar along with his partner and fellow OG Clay Nutting), and he allowed us to sneak a peek at the level of talent they were aiming to land for TBD Fest. Let’s just say we walked out of the meeting scratching our heads thinking, “Can they really? Will they really? How in the world can they pull those bands?” Pretty much every act Hargis mentioned to us has now been confirmed and apparently some more announcements are still on the way.

Currently announced as headliners are the wildly popular French electronic/dance duo Justice and the influential new wave/punk group Blondie!

Also getting top billing is Australian electronic duo Empire of the Sun, Los Angeles-based producer Dillon Francis, and Austin, Texas-based post-rock/instrumental powerhouse Explosions in the Sky. It doesn’t stop there. Peep it, you’ve also got: MS MR, The War on Drugs, Gramatik, Kurt Vile and the Violators, RAC (DJ Set), Yacht, Deltron 3030, Blackalicious, Com Truise, Beach Fossils, Sister Crayon and too many other rad artists to list here. Three-day tickets are available now at Tbdfest.com for just $159 and VIP passes are $250. Keep turning to Submerge all summer for more TBD Fest news, announcements and interviews with performing artists.

Rocklin-based solo artist Brodi Nicholas is releasing his debut EP on July 12 at Harlow’s. Mix a little pop, some reggae, a touch of hip-hop and a side of acoustic guitar with smooth vocals, and you’ve got Brodi Nicholas. He’s young with plenty of talent and it doesn’t hurt he’s got the looks.

Brodi’s got a face like Bruno Mars and a voice like Aloe Blacc. Hit up his website Brodinicholas. com and check the slick video to his catchy new single “Sail Away.” We also dig the beach-y/ reggae vibes of the track “Sea Shore (Feat. D)” also available on his site. Also performing at Brodi’s release show will be Connor and Karlee and T.I.P. Vicious. Doors open early at 5:30 p.m., all ages are welcome and the cover is just $8.

Local folk/rock group Sea Legs are one of the newer bands on the scene that we here at Submerge have been particularly excited about. Three of the members used to be in local band The Inversions: Adam Varona (guitar/ vocals), Scott McConaha (drums/vocals) and Will Comstock (keys/bass/vocals). They are joined by fellow seasoned locals Blake Abbey of Musical Charis (guitar/vocals) and Todd Weber of Blame the Bishop (guitar). “Sea Legs came together lookin’ to do something completely different,” Varona wrote on the band’s Facebook (Facebook. com/sealegssac), saying that they mix “‘60s Brit-rock influenced melodies and riffs with a modern folk backdrop. Think The Kinks meet The Decemeberists at a Talking Heads concert.” Sea Legs are currently expediting the recording of their debut EP Slow & Steady so that it will be ready for their big July 18 gig at Concerts in the Park where they are opening for !!! (Chk Chk Chk). Later that same night starting at 10 p.m. they’ll host their free official release show at Pour House. Varona says they are making 100 copies that they’ll give out for free at the shows and are also debuting new merch at the gigs.

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The Optimistic Pessimist Freedom! Independence! It all came true on that fourth day of July, 1776, so long as you were a white male and/or wealthy. It was sort of a crapshoot in those days, I guess. Anyway, it was on that July 4 that our forefathers declared America’s independence from that pesky, old, dreadful King of England. I went to London and ordered a bacon cheeseburger, only to get Canadian “bacon.” That episode left me scarred for life, so, I can see why Thomas Jefferson wasn’t so hot on King George and started a revolution.

What grew out of that conflict is a story about cheeseburgers and bacon (the real kind made from pork bellies, not some god damn little piece of ham!). Of course, it’s also a story about tea parties, westward expansion and slavery. It’s even about being No. 1 and chanting, “USA!” This is our story, and the Fourth of July is our day to celebrate and remember what this country has done over the past 238 years. It’s a time to reflect upon exactly what it is that defines us as Americans.

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With at least two full-time cooking channels and more food-focused TV shows than I care to remember, it’s clear that we like to eat. As the inventor of the hamburger, we obviously have burgers on the brain and in our guts. What’s a burger without a bucket of fries? Let’s add a half-gallon of soda to it and call it a meal! Maybe eating 60 hot dogs in 10 minutes is more your style; or perhaps you prefer sandwiches larger than your feet?

We enjoy all of these things, unabashedly.

America is hooked on fat.

When we aren’t filling ourselves with food, we are shopping; we do live in a capitalist society, after all. Fortunately for capitalism, Americans like to buy a lot of crap. It might be some shitty jewelry or a set of swords off QVC that we just have to have. We also love huge trucks that we have no use for and boats and RVs we can’t afford. There are plenty of us with house payments and bills we can’t pay, but that doesn’t seem to slow us down too much. In America, the perception of success is more important than the reality of it.

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Made in America Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com Not everything we do is for show, though.

Sometimes when Americans shop we buy a gun(s). There are some who would argue that America and guns are inseparable. Now, I’m not opposed to the idea of having them, but we seem to be obsessed with the damn things.

We shoot at cans, bottles, paper targets, clay pigeons, animals, fruit, cars, houses, buildings, the sky, people (both terrorists and the regular kind) and, sometimes, lots of people. Give an American a gun and a thing, and we will kill that thing or die trying.

I’m not sure if it’s an equal chance of death on either side, but then again, we like to use the word “equal” pretty loosely in America. Equality originally allowed for slavery, racism, sexism, classism and other miscellaneous discriminations to exist. Thankfully slavery has been abolished here, but we continue to struggle with the other inequalities. The people that believe otherwise are part of the problem. In America, things are only equal if you are getting what you want.

Our feigned equality only applies to other Americans. We have no qualms telling other

countries that we are better than them. We say that our military is stronger, our businesses are richer, our education system is better and both our old and new healthcare systems are the best! The list of ways in which we are great just doesn’t stop! That might be because we think we are good at math, but we aren’t. We also kind of suck at science now, too. Fortunately, studies show that Americans are the best at thinking we are better than everyone else, so there’s that.

USA! USA! USA! Eventually, and sometimes in a spectacular fashion, we find out we aren’t the best at something. It can really hurt when it happens, but hopefully, we can laugh about it afterward.

We might end up sucking at a lot of things, or being fat, materialistic, gun-crazed people, but at least Americans can laugh at themselves.

Americans are funny like that. Hopefully you get a chance to laugh with/at your friends and family while you celebrate your country’s birthday this July 4. It’s what Thomas Jefferson would have wanted, after all.

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A Celebration of Local Art and Music at Gina’s Super Sweet 30th B-Day Party • July 12 Supergiant Productions’ Gina Azzarello is celebrating her 30th birthday surrounding herself with what she loves most: local music and art. On Saturday, July 12, Azzarello is throwing a huge party at Starlite Lounge (1517 21st Street) that includes a Second Saturday art exhibit from 6 to 9 p.m. including work from artists Sarah Marie Hawkins, Kyle Mitzel, Lydia Gavin, Lucas Nissen, Sierra Mallo and others. DJ Blackheart will also be spinning jams during the art show. After 9 p.m., things get louder with live music from local acts Cemetery Sun, Hero’s Last Mission, Alex Vincent Band and other special guests. Admission is just $5 (or hook Gina up with a “present and/or lottery ticket”). On arrival you’ll receive a copy of a compilation CD that Supergiant just put out featuring 13 tracks from rad local bands like Joseph in the Well, Color the Sound, Life in 24 Frames, Broken Iris and others, as well as two drink tickets (limited supplies). “The purpose of the party is to celebrate Sacramento’s role in my life,” Azzarello tells Submerge. “I moved out when I was 15 and when I came to Sacramento I didn’t really have a stable environment, so the scene sort of raised me. I turned all of my important ages at different shows around Sacramento. I turned 16, 18, 21, all at local venues, and the music community became my family.” So there you have it, come on out and join the fam! Whether you know Gina or not, this will be a great summer Sacramento party for anyone and everyone who’s into quality music and art. Happy birthday, Gina. Thanks for your mega-support of Sacramento’s creative culture! To learn more visit Facebook.com/supergiantproductions.

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NOFX, DATSIK, Rebelution and More at the 2014 Outdoor Summer Concert Series at North Tahoe Regional Park July 17, July 19 and Aug. 13

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Three Breweries, One Day! Jump on the Sac Brew Bus • July 26 Join Sacramento beer enthusiast Tyson Herzog and friends on a tour of three of the region’s best breweries on Saturday, July 26. Jump on the Sac Brew Bus at 10 a.m. at Fahrenheit 250 BBQ (7042 Folsom Blvd.) where you’ll first cruise to Bike Dog Brewing Company in West Sacramento before heading all the way to Heretic Brewing Company in Fairfield. Then you’ll wind the day down at the third and final stop, Berryessa Brewing Company in Winters, where you will enjoy a big ol’ smoked barbecue lunch before the Brew Bus takes you back to the pick-up location in Sacramento. For $75 you get a pint at each stop, the BBQ lunch at the end, and best of all, your drunk ass gets bussed around all day! More information and a link to purchase tickets can be found at Sacbrewbus.com or by calling (916) 337-9443.

Lake Tahoe-area heavy hitters PR Entertainment, Inc., are taking their always popular outdoor summer concert series to the north side of the lake this year for three huge festival-style shows to take place at North Tahoe Regional Park in Tahoe Vista, Calif. First up is Slightly Stoopid, NOFX, Stephen Marley and Fishbone on Thursday, July 17; then the Bass Camp Festival featuring DJs/producers DATSIK, Infected Mushroom, Candyland, Kill Paris and many others on Saturday, July 19; and finally Rebelution, Iration, The Green, Stick Figure and DJ Mackle on Wednesday, Aug. 13. Pretty much these same lineups have all sold out in previous years in South Lake Tahoe, so don’t sleep on getting tickets to see these awesome shows in some of the most beautiful surroundings offered on planet Earth. Tahoe is magic, especially in the summer. Add in a big party, friends, live music, and bam! Lifetime memories are made.

Head to Northtahoeparks.com and click on “Summer Concerts” for information, links to buy tickets, FAQ’s about the events and much more.

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Run, Bike and Paddle at the 41st Annual Eppie’s Great Race • July 19 A 5.82 mile run, 12.5 mile bike ride and 6.35 mile paddle are all that stand between you and the finish line of Eppie’s Great Race, now in its 41st year, going down on Saturday, July 19 along the scenic American River Parkway in Rancho Cordova and Sacramento. Go it alone in the Ironperson division, or do it relaystyle with a crew of two or three. Either way, it’s not too late to register to race! You’ve got until July 16 to get your team together and register, then get in some last minute training. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of what is known as “The World’s Oldest Triathlon,” “The Great Race” and the “No Swim Triathlon.”

And hey, if not this time, there’s always next year! Visit Eppiesgreatrace.org for more information.

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Words Steph Rodriguez • photos Wesley davis Brought together by a common love for blown glass, metal sculptures and film, friends turned business partners Molly Brown and Tatiana Kaiser discovered yet another area to bond over: health as a lifestyle, not a trend.

The two women opened the Sun and Soil Juice Company in early June with only six part-time employees and a colorful menu of raw and organic juice and smoothie choices to offer Midtown Sacramento. In just one month, the Sun and Soil staff doubled and the demand for healthy and creative liquid nourishment is apparent in the company’s daily glass bottle returns, hundreds of pounds in weekly pulp weight, and its growing number of regular customers.

“We had 75 bottles returned yesterday,” says Brown with a smile. “People are on board for recycling, reusing and cutting down on waste, which is good.”

Sun and Soil operates as a zero-waste business. For every glass bottle returned, customers receive either $2 cash or two bucks off their next visit. Brown, Kaiser and their staff also use a limited number of plastic products, recycle all cardboard and even built a relationship with ReSoil Sacramento, a company that distributes

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Sun and Soil pulp to community gardens.

Despite diet trends like the Paleo “caveman” challenge, the Atkins “no-tolow-carb” regimen, or even something called the “Beyoncé cleanse” with its strict conditions of cayenne, honey and water (seriously) recipe, Brown and Kaiser simply aim to provide customers with choices, rather than restrictions.

“Health is not a fad. It’s your health,” says Kaiser. “Everybody is dealing with different situations all the time. You should do your own diet, as in the food that you eat, and listen to your body.”

For Kaiser, organic juice is an essential part of her daily diet because it directly improved her overall health and quality of life. She lives with colitis, a digestive disease that makes it difficult to eat a variety of solid foods and absorb essential nutrients.

Brown, with her longtime taste for raw and organic sustenance, met her new friend and future business partner in a glass-blowing class. It wasn’t long before she gifted Kaiser a juicer and the seed was planted.

“At first, I was just making green sludge,” jokes Kaiser. “It was just to get nutrients down. With colitis, it makes it almost impossible to eat anything or even digest it because it’s incredibly painful.

Juicing really helped.”

In 2012, she found this liquid daily routine helped her condition tremendously.

She not only started to feel better and heal, but at the time of the interview, was slowly weaning herself off of Prednisone.

For customers interested in giving their own digestive systems a little breather, Sun and Soil offers a juice cleanse. Still, Brown and Kaiser encourage each customer to decide what their body craves, whether it be juice, smoothie or a one-day cleanse.

“We didn’t want to start out with a cleanse because it did become a fad, but that’s not what it’s about for us,” explains Kaiser. “It gives your digestive system a break because we understand it’s not always convenient to eat healthy.”

Sun and Soil offers its customers organic, cold-pressed, raw fruits and veggies blended, spiced and sweetened naturally without processed sugars. The store is located a few doors down from the corner dive bar, Zebra Club (an almost satirical comparison), but once inside, it’s easy to forget. High ceilings, lively succulents and earthy colors decorate the space. A low volume of music paired with a steady rhythm of blenders gives the room its café-like vibe. Customers order at the counter, where a chunky, antique register painted gold conceals a much more modern system.

A glass case displays dozens of multicolored bottles that read, “pure, organic, love” in white. Each container holds a variety of juice recipes that naturally emit light shades of yellow, pink

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and green. Recommended from the menu

by Brown, The Iron Giant is a $7 smoothie blended with spinach, almond milk, banana, mango, almond butter, honey, cinnamon and ice. Its green color, sweet taste and creamy texture, not to mention protein content from the almond milk, make this a great breakfast choice.

Beet Lemonade, a 16-ounce juice fusion priced at $8, includes apple, beet, filtered water and lemon. Deep purple in color with a bold beet flavor, this drink is immediately tempered by the tart lemon notes and provides a full-bodied mouthful.

Both the recipes and drink titles reflect Brown and Kaiser’s personalities and interests. For example, Kaiser’s background in film and animation inspired The Royal Turmeric Bomb and V for Vanilla.

“Molly loves spice, and I love tangy and tart,” says Kaiser.

Brown agrees.

“We thrive in creating all the new flavors,” says Brown. “We’re trying to take ingredients that have health benefits so people don’t mind drinking a cinnamon, spinach and honey-flavored drink.”

It all begins with the ingredients. Brown and Kaiser buy seasonal, organic fruits and veggies from local companies like Full Belly, Watanabe and Riverdog farms. They then use the cold-press method to juice the produce and also hydraulically press its pulp to gain up to 30 percent more juice.

Zero waste.

“The cold-press method is awesome because it uses a slower rpm blade. So, it doesn’t heat up the produce as much as a regular juicer would,” explains Kaiser. “It also reduces oxidation, which means you retain more of the nutrients in the process.

That allows us to be able to bottle [the juice] for three to five days.”

Sun and Soil also provides its customers with access to the store’s “Ingredient Profile” that conveniently sits at the juice bar, which lists the reasons and health benefits behind each fruit, vegetable and spice blended into a juice or smoothie combination.

“We just want to help people feel good, and show that it’s not unattainable. It’s not a crazy, Sun & Soil is open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 drastic process,” says Kaiser. p.m. Tuesday—Saturday, “We’re not a program. We’re and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. just a different option for Sunday and Monday.

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The Perlick-Molinari Brothers Break the Boundaries of the Horn Section with French Horn Rebellion

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hat happens when you cross a classically trained French horn player with a dude who knows how to drop mad hot beats? Band geeks gone wild, of course!

The self-proclaimed “geeks,” brothers Robert and David PerlickMolinari, founded French Horn Rebellion in 2007. The duo was inspired to explore their musical yearnings with a brand of plucky, ’80s-inspired electro-pop after producing MGMT’s “Time to Pretend.”

Yes, that MGMT hit that reached No. 3 on Rolling Stone’s Best Songs of 2008.

And while FHR is a Brooklyn-based outfit by way of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they’ve spent plenty of time in Sacramento: last December they rocked the house at LowBrau, they recently wrapped up a collaboration with the Sacramento Ballet and current indie-rock darlings HAERTS for the video “Swing Into It” and in July they’ll make an appearance at THIS, the MARRS Building corridor’s Second Saturday street party.

Suffice to say, FHR’s got nothing but love for Sacramento.

“Well, I think it’s just the scene that’s going on in Sacramento, and from what I’ve noticed around the country, it really just takes a couple people to bring people together,” Robert, the younger Perlick-Molinari brother, explained to Submerge in a recent phone interview.

“There’s a trend across the United States, which I’ve noticed, that a lot of towns are going local, getting local food, local restaurants, not chains—chains aren’t valued as much as they used to be, and places like LowBrau are kind of like the trend of the future, so to speak.”

Robert received an early education in music at the age of seven when his older brother TJ, now a lawyer for the family custom beer tap business in Wisconsin, thrust the French horn upon him, which he embraced feverishly. By the time he was in college he was a full-on musical impresario. But it was when he spent the summer interning at his brother David’s music studio in New York that he realized he wanted to rebel against the notion that classical musicians were bound to the orchestra pit.

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“Rebellion is to say, that hey, French horn players around the world, you don’t have to sit in an orchestra, in the horn section and play music that’s on the page in front of you,” Robert explains. “We can do anything—we have way more power than we think. [So, I thought] yeah, I don’t really want to play Mahler anymore. I don’t want to listen to a conductor. I’m just gonna go make dance beats with my friends, and that’s French Horn Rebellion.”

A mix of driving, electronic beats and a hefty serving of camp and wry humor, FHR’s music isn’t your garden variety dance music. The brothers have dubbed their evolving sound as Next Jack Swing—funky with a classical music twist. Because when you’ve played the French horn since you were 7 years old, ascended the ranks in the pit to first chair French horn player as a sophomore in the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and have had the honor of fisting your horn (yes, a common term for achieving certain notes by inserting your fist into the bottom of the horn’s shaft) next to some of the best in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, it’s not something that is easily forsaken for pop-music notoriety.

“I still play in some community groups, for sure, to feed the urge,” Robert explains. “But, at least playing at a high level, I guess I do miss that—that was pretty amazing, like playing with the Chicago Civic Orchestra was a real experience. But what you trade off for that is, [for instance], I was deejaying in Washington, D.C. and I’m playing my French horn and like 300 people are losing their minds on dance music; dancing and having fun. I think that’s so much more visceral and more fun than classical music, which is usually older people in a quiet room watching some guys in a tuxedo.”

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Robert is getting used to this gig— spinning records to a heaving crowd of dance freaks, busting out his French horn periodically to ignite the crowd into a music-induced frenzy. But these days it’s largely a one-Perlick-Molinari operation.

“We don’t actually go on tour together anymore,” Robert explains of his brother’s absence from the live shows. “He’s a full-on studio man now.

So, he…makes the beats with me, but he doesn’t actually participate in the live shows anymore.”

In between running a studio and a record label, managing the band business, preparing for a 26-date tour of North America and recording a new single with Spencer Ludwig, the trumpet player in the group Capital Cities who also frequently plays alongside DJs, the brothers PerlickMolinari are gearing up to record a compilation album while hashing out all of those details around a musical war room table involving the brothers and a new management company.

“We’re in a little bit of a strategic war zone, of how we’re going to release this music at this point,” Robert explains sheepishly. “I can’t give any specific dates, but we will have dates soon.”

FHR is slated to play THIS Second Saturday Block Party on July 12 with Goldroom, Sunmonks, Gentleman Surfer, Be Calm Honcho, DJ Shaun Slaughter and Adam Jay. For more info, visit Facebook.com/frenchhornrebellion or Facebook.com/thismidtown.

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Pop alchemist Daniel Trudeau of Pregnant caps first decade with UK Tour and new album, Inconvenience Words Andrew C. Russell • photo liz simpson

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hether by prophecy or design, Placerville’s Pregnant has managed to craft a body of work that lives up to its name. Its songs are openended pop symphonies captured in utero, without true beginnings or ends—kicking, stirring, filled with ideas that promise to crystallize at any moment. This isn’t to say at all that the music is incomplete; rather, it’s a living thing, dynamic.

For a good metaphor, picture this: dozens of musical motifs swimming along together, like a school of fish in a stream. Listening to a Pregnant record drops you right in the center. It’s a refreshing and bewildering experience; even if one is disoriented at first, one eventually slips into the current, finding the principle groove that propels the songs forward with a remarkably unconventional pop sensibility. You almost get the feeling that the music keeps changing every time you play it, the brilliant hooks and melodies blooming over multiple listens, as if they’re gestating in your mind.

There is a clear pattern of this growth throughout Pregnant’s discography, up to and including this year’s short-but-sweet LP, Inconvenience. The new work is as much of a headphone trip as ever—awash in sampladelic production, overlapping motifs and reverberant vocals that sit low in the mix—but somehow more assured, contented. Some of that is owed to the smart usage of samples, jazzy saxophone flourishes and piano riffs that hook the listener and provide structure to traverse the various soundscapes; and some of it is brought on by unavoidable changes in the artist’s life.

Between 2004 and the present, lead musician and project mastermind Daniel Trudeau has gone through coming-of-age, expectant fatherhood, divorce and single fatherhood, with countless bursts of professional and artistic development in between. Since last year’s release, Pottery Mills, was recorded in the midst of a breakup, Trudeau has taken up the mantle of artiston-commission, honing his songwriting chops with an ongoing project he calls Your Song, in which he writes and records personalized tracks for individuals willing to donate at least $5. So far, he’s racked up a whopping 65 tracks, putting Inconvenience almost six albums ahead of Mills in terms of output.

Content-wise, Trudeau has also moved forward. With the help of a fresh lineup, he’s evaluating the things that matter most: family, friendship and the freedom that can only come with self-knowledge. “Lyrically, [Inconvenience] is about knowing who you are by yourself,” says Trudeau. This focus on personal reflection may have paid off in the form of his project’s most realized work to date. As of now, the project is fronted by Trudeau, with additional instrumentation and vocals by hometown buddy Daniel Ramirez and Davis native Molly Raney, who is a talent in her own right as Poppet, an electronic pop artist and one-woman show.

As a live act, the trio become a kind of living sound exhibit, committing all their energy into the array of samplers, drum pads, effects pedals, MIDI-loops and microphones at their disposal. It’s not a rock show, but there’s something quite rewarding in hearing the lush, complex sound of their records reproduced seemingly out of thin air, filling the corners of any living room, stage venue or theater with music that’s as much visual as aural.

I met Trudeau and Raney at a quiet cafe across from The Witch Room, a venue they’ll be filling with sound next week alongside fellow pop explorers TV Girl and Brothertiger. They seem like kind, earnest people who prefer their art complicated and their friendships easygoing. They graciously offered some time to speak about their lives, their art, the boundaries of pop and the business of making their dreams move forward.

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The Pregnant project has now been around 10 years. What was its inception? What ideas or hopes did you have for it at the time? How’d you come up with the name, again?

Danniel Trudeau: It was originally just me, making electronic beats and finding how pleasantly simple it was to make it sound like something other than electronic music.

I always wanted it to be a bunch of people collaborating—that’s what it was going to be initially—Pregnant as a project “conceiving” with a bunch of different people. By now, there’s been a revolving cast of other people coming in and helping with it. Some of the members have been more entitled to it, some of them more under my guidance.

Pregnant is the most adequate name for this project. I’m constantly changing and giving birth to new ideas. Of course, I get all the “pregnant” jokes too, like “When are you expecting?”

Since Pregnant has been around for such a huge portion of your life, do you think that it’s come to have a life of its own? Do you think before recording, “What is going to make this a Pregnant album”?

DT: Now I tend to think that Pregnant just means anything put out. Although it does have a distinct sound, I’m trying to keep it changing. Genreflipping is really important to me, because I hate when things get stagnant and don’t go anywhere.

This one’s for Molly: How long have you been involved with Pregnant?

Molly Raney: Since last November, pretty much.

It hasn’t been long, but I’ve known Dan for five years, and I’ve always been a fan of Pregnant.

It’s one of the projects that I’m most excited about participating in. I feel like it’s the future of music.

DT: Aww...and since she’s joined it’s been super good, too. She’s bumped it up a notch! As far as live performances go, it’s been so much better.

Could you tell us about the Your Song project?

Has that changed your songwriting process?

DT: People donate to Pregnant, about $7 or more, and I’ll write them their own song. It sucks, because it’s not that much money in the long run, but it’s been really good practice with sample-oriented music, and writing lyrics for people I don’t even know sometimes. It’s been fun, and the thing about that project is that it’s not songs about how I’m feeling, it’s songs about other people. So it detaches the ego from the songs, and it’s made it a lot easier to understand how to write songs that don’t have that imposing ego that a lot of songs have when you’re a solo artist. I do a new Your Song every two weeks if I have the time. There’s 65 now, so I’ve spent a lot of time just zoning in on those.

It represents what I’m trying to put out there about myself: “Hey! I make music! I’ll be doing this no matter what!” Plus, I’ve made some mad friendships from doing them.

You’ve said before that Inconvenience is about relationships and working through the inconveniences of daily life. How would you explain that?

DT: The album is just about how inconvenient everything is, literally every single thing. It’s hard to live, it’s hard to do anything really, but it’s also a tool for being able to understand yourself, how to rise above the normal things that stress us out in life. I went through a really powerful breakup where I had to figure out who I was, and that’s been the major theme for much of my work lately.

So if we match up the chronology of your work with that of your personal life, when did this major change take place?

DT: Definitely around the last album, Pottery Mills.

MR: That’s like the break-up album, isn’t it?

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before my breakup, and it wasn’t just a breakup, it was a breakup with a child, so it’s been a real crazy, “Holy Shit!” scenario. Pottery Mills was all about sinking into depression over that, and I feel like Inconvenience is all about becoming comfortable in life after the fact.

Is there anything about living in the foothills that does something for your music versus, say, living in Sacramento or Oakland or San Francisco?

DT: No. It’s not like I’m making music out in the woods, I’m just in a room for the most part, and the room could be in L.A. just as well as it could be in Placerville. But as far as being more healthy-minded, I like living there, because it’s more eclectic. The people there are more eclectic. I mean, I hang out with everyone from 60-year-olds to 19-year-olds. There’s no age bias.

That, and I’ve lived there for a long time. The only thing that would be beneficial to living in the foothills in terms of actual music would be, I guess you feel more entitled to be making music.

It’s different than Oakland or San Francisco or L.A., where you’re overrun by art, everywhere.

What fuels you both in terms of influences? Do you put any of them into your work?

MR: Kate Bush is probably my number-one favorite artist. I have a radio show at KDVS that’s actually named after one of her songs, “This Woman’s Work.” It’s mostly solo female artists of all different genres, but a lot of electronic.

DT: So much stuff, man. For samples, I’ve been using a lot of the same stuff for the past year.

Cocteau Twins, Prince, classical composers like Stravinsky, Debussy... MF Doom, Moondog, Miles Davis, Fleetwood Mac, anything, really. Anything that’s legitimate, to me. But when it comes to sampling, it doesn’t really have to be legit. If there’s a good drum or bass that I need in a Weird Al Yankovic song, then I have to use it.

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Has having a daughter or raising a child changed the way you approach the creative process?

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MR: I did a cover of that one as Poppet. I love that song so much!

DT: She’s a very inspiring little baby, for sure.

She’s a toddler at this point, and she’s like a mini-me, with endless funny, weird things to say. She’s definitely made things more lighthearted as far as life goes, but the music has always remained its own thing for the most part.

She’s there, and she’s my babe. She might be recording her own album soon.

So what’s going on in terms of the different releases you have out?

DT: Inconvenience is available on Porch Party records, which is a fresh new label out of Long Beach. We have another tape release of the Your Song donations that I mentioned earlier. It’s the first 35 tracks, which will be released on four different tapes. You can pick and choose, or buy all four. Also, all the remixes I’ve done over the last three years have been released on tape by Quantum Wampum records out of Providence, Rhode Island. Finally we have a 12-inch release coming out on Mush Records that I can’t say that much about. It’s been a two-year-long media project that took a long time to create, and will be coming out in fall or winter of this year. That one’s hyper-weird and secret.

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The Only Way Out is Through

After a lifetime in Sacramento, Matt Sertich is taking his solo act to L.A. Words Josh Fernandez

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healthy crowd gathers in Midtown for an early show in celebration of Matt Sertich’s first solo record, The Only Way Out is Through, a collection of stripped down, powerful pop songs that speak to love, pain, loss and all the other weird shit that creates the human experience. The vibe is mellow in Harlow’s, a room that can transform from an intimate singersongwriter cave into a Latin dance extravaganza in the blink of an eye. The bartender is nowhere to be seen. Security guards stand leisurely, making jokes. Toward the back of the club, a table full of dedicated fans who have been following Sertich for decades, from his time in the pop-punk outfit Pocket Change to his 10-year stint in The Generals (with drummer/ keyboardist/programmer Kirk Janowiak) to his present day solo career, let out a collective scream when the 37-year-old musician finally sits at the piano.

Sertich wastes no time. He breaks into “I Won’t Let You Down”—a strong, earnest ballad with an atmospheric background—and the room falls silent. His voice is loud and confident, with a thin string of pain that runs deep through his soaring melodies. Sertich is an interesting musician in that the songs he crafts are not exactly what count as popular today. In an era when singers either emulate rustic Americana or stare at the ground feigning disinterest in the world, Sertich chooses to face emotion head-on and write songs that celebrate life’s loftiest themes—pop-y ballads about love and hope. And what he creates comes from an almost childlike approach to music. “As a kid your dream is to write stuff like U2 or Whitney Houston … or what makes you feel so good inside,” he explains. “And as you get older you start getting into scenes and you start reverting backwards, kind of.”

After some soul searching, Sertich realized that he doesn’t have to cater to a scene or a trend. He’s going to make the kind of music that he wanted to make as a kid. And he does it well

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up there on that stage, singing like he’s trying to win back the girl of his dreams. The crowd, of course, is transfixed.

But Sertich hasn’t always had such good fortune with his music. In fact, much of what he’s faced is enough to make a weaker-willed musician smash his guitar, get a state job, crank out a litter of children and exit without so much as a whimper into the eternal bucket of KFC in the sky. But some of the stories he tells of his frustrating misfortunes are actually pretty funny.

You know, once the heartbreak settles in.

For instance, there was a run-in with a Sacramento radio guy a few years back after he wrote “Keep the City Alive,” an ode to the the Sacramento Kings. Naturally, Sertich was excited about debuting his song on-air, but the radio guy played the song and immediately said it was horrible, that it sounded like Say

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Anything or Peter Gabriel. For Sertich, it was a confusing put down. After all, in his mind, a Peter Gabriel comparison isn’t quite the end of the world. But, still, it was a slight. And it was meant to be harsh.

Or there was one time he went to Los Angeles to be on the popular Heidi and Frank Show (95.5 KLOS). He was super excited about the appearance. That is until he arrived at the studio and found out he was booked for

a “love it or hate it” episode, where the hosts would play your song and critique it (along with random callers) live on the air. They played The Generals’ “Just Because,” a fast-paced pop ballad about hope in the midst of darkness. The calls came in. One-after-another. Heidi hated it. Mike said it sounded like a Cure cover band.

The song played through and Sertich sat through scathing, seemingly endless criticism. “It was so painful,” he says. “They were just ripping it.”

“I’m going to be full of fear because I’ve lived here all my life.

There’s a lot of ups and downs. I get it, but it’s just going out there focused,” he says. “I’m not going out there because I’m trying to run away from anything, I’m going out there because I want to make it happen. It’s what I want to do.

I don’t have a choice in the matter anymore.”

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Anyway, Sertich somehow ended up garnering six votes, enough to sit for the rest of the show. Still, he was discouraged. But that situation—the uncomfortable, nearly unbearable awkwardness—made him stronger, more determined than ever to succeed.

“But I never want to play ‘Just Because’ again,” he admits. “I hate that song.”

Finally, after a weird run-in with The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, where he was promised thousands of dollars to go on tour, which turned out to be a scam, The Generals decided to amicably call it quits, and Sertich decided to get his solo career off the ground. “I think with Kirk that was the last straw,” Sertich says. “It just depleted him.”

So, as The Generals winded down, Sertich worked as hard as he could on music in between his full-time job waiting tables at Tower Café. He practiced literally every day for a year—no matter how tired he was or how uninspired he felt—and came up with six tracks of piano-based ballads that became The Only Way Out is Through that he performs by himself with a synthesizer and drum machine. In the spirit of The Generals, Sertich’s solo songs are powerful, ’80s-tinged melodies that stand out, especially in 2014’s musical landscape of throwaway pop songs that rely more on tricky production than emotion.

“I grew up loving ballad singers,” Sertich says.

“Like cheesy love songs that people make fun of.”

But oftentimes, people make fun of things that are memorable. And popular. Sertich’s obsession for ballads and his ear for powerful, larger-than-life arrangement results in a cinematic vibe, songs you might hear at the end of a movie where the protagonist screams triumphantly in the rain, even though all his friends are dead.

Since Sacramento might not be the best place for an artist like Sertich, he’s packing up his belongings, leaving Sacramento, the only home he’s known for the past 37 years, and taking his movie-ready songs down to Los Angeles, just to see what happens.

When I ask what he’s going to do down there, Sertich points to his CD. “There’s my business card,” he says. “There’s a lot of stuff going on out there. Just to reach out to as many avenues as I can when I’m out there, whether it’s playing as much as possible, networking, going to see a show.”

It’s not going to be an easy road. Sertich knows that. He’ll probably rent a room in Silver Lake, work as a parking valet and do his best to get his music into the hands of the right people.

A scary prospect, but for someone who obsesses over melodies and arrangements, it makes perfect sense.

“I’m going to be full of fear because I’ve lived here all my life. There’s a lot of ups and downs. I get it, but it’s just going out there focused,” he says. “I’m not going out there because I’m trying to run away from anything, I’m going out there because I want to make it happen. It’s what I want to do. I don’t have a choice in the matter anymore.”

At Harlow’s, Sertich sits at the piano in the middle of the dark stage, red lights casting an eerie glow against his pale skin. He plays the song “In the End,” written as a letter from his father who passed away in 2005. It begins, “Son, I’m leaving now/ My time has come/ to say goodbye/ Son, I hope you know/ I’ve done the best/ that I could. I never meant to do you wrong/ Never meant to leave you there/ Leave you all alone.”

When Sertich sings, it’s not just the voice.

It’s every atom in his body. In his muscles. His skin. Emotions stir in an aura that surrounds him, both joyful and dark. “And I only meant to be your friend,” he sings. “Hope you knew me better in … better in the end.”

Catch Matt Sertich on Thursday, July 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the Hot Lunch Concert Series at Fremont Park: 16th and Q Streets, across from Hot Italian. To buy The Only Way Out is Through, go to Mattsertich.bandcamp.com.

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

Cafe Colonial Elizabeth Merlot, Maxi Wild, Valiant Steed, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage Open Mic Night hosted by Musical Charis, 9 p.m.

The Colony Drunks Go Acoustic feat. Dead Frets (Jared Stinson of Sick Waiting), Matt Salkeld (Black Sails Western Shores), Jan Drees (of The Shell Corporation), 7:30 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.

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

Press Club Fuzz Cuffs (formerly Der Spazm), New Lungs, Monster Treasure, 9 p.m.

Third Space The Memories, The Lemons, Sneeze Attack, Monster Treasure, 8 p.m.

Witch Room Clipping., Vankmen, Senior Benedick the Moor, 8 p.m.

Ace of Spades Future, Que, Rico Love, 7 p.m.

Assembly Touché Amoré, Tigers Jaw, Dads, 6:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Mic Hogg & Cool Handz Luke, 3 The Hard Way, Mr Hooper, M Theory, BP & Praduh, 8 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

LowBrau Le Twist Tuesdays w/ High Functioning Flesh, Sam I Jam, Adam J, Roger Carpio, 9 p.m.

Marilyn’s Nautical Nation, Marry Me, 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.

Starlite Lounge The J Band, Hans & the Hot Mess, 7 p.m.

Torch Club The J’s, 5:30 p.m.; Lew Fratis, 9 p.m.

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Assembly Axe Murder Boyz, Pray, Om3n, Drunkfunk, 420DarkSideBoyz, 2HKTinted Light, J. Terrible, 6:30 p.m.

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

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

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Dive Bar Summer Block Party w/ Wrings, 10 p.m.

Fox & Goose Northern Soul!, 8 p.m.

G Street WunderBar DJ Larry Rodriguez, 10 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Cloudship, Amanda (of Braata), Athena McIntyre, 7 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Snow White Smile, Origin Alive, Spine, 8 p.m.

Press Club Armed for Apocalypse, Skrunt, MDL, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Black Star Safari & Hot City Jazz, 9 p.m.

Witch Room The Trashies, Life Stinks, Rad, Satan Wriders, 8 p.m.

Assembly DJ Gio, 10 p.m.

Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Storytellers, Necktie Killers, Funicellos, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m.

Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

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

District 30 Red, White & Bass feat. Luigi, Chase Me, Bphree, 10 p.m.

Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

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

Fremont Park Hot Lunch Concert Series w/ Musical Charis, 11:30 a.m.

Harlow’s So You Think You Got Bars? A Freestyle MC Competition, 5 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Marilyn’s B&B Music Factory, Sea Legs, Cedric (of Kiss the Sky), 8 p.m.

Midtown BarFly New Jack Swing w/ Hi Scores, CrookOne, DJ Epik, Ben Johnson, 9:30 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Brodie Stewart, 10 p.m.

Shine Chikading, SHOI, Reconnaissance Fly, 8 p.m.

Sleep Train Amphitheatre Def Leppard, Kiss, Kobra and the Lotus, 7 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen S. Carey (of Bon Iver), The Pines, 9 p.m.

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Starlite Lounge #FILTH, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Mind X Quartet, 5 p.m.; Marc Delgado Bumptet, 8:30 p.m.

Witch Room Eli and the Sound Cult, Be Calm Honcho, Sunmonks, 8 p.m.

7.04 Friday

Community Park (Davis) 4th of July Celebration feat. Diego’s Umbrella, The Bottom Dwellers, Sunmonks, 5:30 p.m.

District 30 Julian Pierce, 10 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.

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

Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino Louie Giovanni, DJ JB, DJ Elements, DJ A-One, 10 p.m.

Old Ironsides William Mylar, 5 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Nathan Owens Band, 9:30 p.m.

Rock Band University King Nine, Criminal Instinct, Gods Hate, Plead the Fifth, Vitality, 7 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Independence Bass, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Mark Sexton Band, 9 p.m.

7.05 Saturday

Assembly Kumandae, 8 p.m.

Back 9 Bar & Grill Paul Rocker’s 40th B-Day Bash feat. Sammy Karlin (FallRise), Nathan Giguere (Some Fear None), Alex Vincent, Race to the Bottom, Highway 12, and many more, 6 p.m.

The Blue Lamp HD (of Bear Face), Kutt E, JP, Yung Droopy feat Hunnidd, PK Woods, Young K, Penny, 8 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Lani Misalucha, 8 p.m.

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

Cesar Chavez Plaza Sacred Fire, Rey Y Kaye, Calendaria, 5 p.m.

District 30 Amy Robbins, 10 p.m.

Fox & Goose The Steady Ups, The Afterlife, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Midnight Players, 9 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Abbacadabra (ABBA Tribute), 7:30 p.m.

KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m.

Marilyn’s Swahili Passion, Veins the Wires, Ruby Jaye Fradkin, 8 p.m.

Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino DJ Chris English, DJ David Aaron, 10 p.m.

Old Ironsides The Lipstick Weekender! w/ Shaun Slaughter & Roger Carpio, 10 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Nunchuck Taylor, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Nathan Owens Band, 10 p.m.

Shine Instagon, EGG, Booker Long Duo, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5:30 p.m.; Harrison B, 9 p.m.

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Cache Creek Casino Nuch Welawan, 6 p.m.

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The Colony Pathos Mathos, Fissure, Khaos Assault, 8 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Harlow’s The Reunion (Beatles tribute), 6 p.m.

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

MontBleu Resort Casino DJ Skribble, DJ David Aarons, 10 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Jeramy Norris, 3 p.m.

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

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

Shady Lady On The Corner w/ DJs CrookOne & Ben Johnson, 9 p.m.

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

Torch Club Bill Mylar, 5 p.m.; Debut Tuesdays w/ Emily Kollars, Rob Hill Band, Sofa Kings, 9 p.m.

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The Boardwalk Rings of Saturn, Arsonists Get All the Girls, Auras, Aenimus, Flub, Our Endless Obsession, The Brotherhood of Ellipsis, 6 p.m.

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

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

District 30 Summer Block Party w/ Kennedy Jones, 10 p.m.

Dive Bar Summer Block Party w/ IdeaTeam, 10 p.m.

Fox & Goose Northern Soul!, 8 p.m.

G Street WunderBar DJ Larry Rodriguez, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Black Pussy, Mothership, Horseneck, 7 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Bump Day feat.

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

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub The Soul Shine Band, LP Sessions, Roswell, 8 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Sargeist, Valdur, Pale Chalice, Killgasm, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Brian Rogers, 9 p.m.

Witch Room Milo, Stevie Nader and Special Guests, Safari Al, Nedarb Nagrom, 8 p.m.

7.10 Thursday

Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Funktion w/ DJs Step Rock & b. Vega, 9 p.m.

Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m.

Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

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

Crocker Art Museum Art Mix/Hip-Hop feat. Flow Sacramento, Element Brass Band and more, 5 p.m.

District 30 Reno Summer Invasion w/ Kronyak, Bphree, Vice Versa, 10 p.m.

Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Steve McLane, 8 p.m.

Fremont Park Hot Lunch Concert Series w/ Matt Sertich, 11:30 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Marilyn’s Rubbidy Buppidy, Pressure Lounge, Peter Holden, 8 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Living Room Sessions, 8 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Vintage Vandals, 10 p.m.

Press Club Heckarap! w/ MC Ham, DJ Gourmet, 10 p.m.

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The Stoney Inn Lace & Lead, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Mind X Quartet, 5 p.m.; Mia Dyson, 9 p.m.

Witch Room Before the Brave, The Westwards, 6:30 p.m.

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The Blue Lamp Chernobog, Mind Furnace, Disorder, Irritant, White Knuckle Riot, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Flotsam & Jetsam, Exmortus, Hatchet, Conceived in Chaos, No Beatings from Holly, Graveshadow, 7 p.m.

Cal Expo California State Fair Concert Series feat.

John Kay & Steppenwolf, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m.

Cesar Chavez Plaza Concerts in the Park w/ Arden Park Roots, Young Aundee, The Denver J Band, Blaquelisted, Zephyr, 5 p.m.

Club Car The Mark Sexton Band, 9 p.m.

District 30 Summer of ‘69 Party, 10 p.m.

Fox & Goose Mike Blanchard & the Californios, The F Street Stompers, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Robert Francis & The Night Tide, 6 p.m.; Fever the Ghost, Morgan Delt, 9:30 p.m.

Marilyn’s CIP Afterparty w/ Stellar (Incubus tribute), Element of Soul, 8:30 p.m.

Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides William Mylar, 5 p.m.; The Bye Bye Blackbirds, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Cigarette Machine, Blame the Bishop, 9 p.m.

On The Y Stages of Decomposition, Abhorration, Splattered, Leprous Divinity, Solitary Priapism, 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 Chris Gardner Band, 9:30 p.m.

Shine Hans & the Hot Mess, Them Kids, The Heartbreak Time Machine, 8 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Head on High Presents: Pericles, Megowan and Devin Kroes, Tzolkeen, Father Time and more, 8 p.m.

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

7.12 Saturday

Ace of Spades NWA Resurrection, Cali Bear Gang, Cherry Red, Weddojanson, 7 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Little Joe Y La Familia, 8 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Hormones, The Moans, 9 p.m.

Cal Expo California State Fair Concert Series feat.

Macy Gray, 8 p.m.

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

Cesar Chavez Plaza Jambalaya, Latin Touch, The Bell, 5 p.m.

Club Car Tiffany Lorraine, 9 p.m.

District 30 Just Dance w/ DJ Billy Lane, 10 p.m.

Fox & Goose City of Trees Brass Band, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Brodi Nicholas (EP Release), Karlee and Connor, Tip Vicious, 5:30 p.m.; Joy & Madness, Afrofunk Experience, 9:30 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Spyro Gyra, 7:30 p.m.

KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m.

Marilyn’s Jukebox Johnny, 9 p.m.

Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5 p.m.; Race to the Bottom, S.W.I.M., Bri Fly Effect, 9 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub HAPA, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Brodie Stewart, 10 p.m.

Shine Spangler, Steve Kotarek, Joshua Whalen, 8 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Gina’s 30th B-Day Party feat. Alex Vincent Band, Hero’s Last Mission, Cemetery Sun, The Jet Skis, I Am Strikes, 9 p.m.

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Cache Creek Casino La Nueva Mentalidad, 5 p.m.

Cal Expo California State Fair Concert Series feat.

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

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

Red Hawk Casino Lace & Lead, 2 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Dippin Sauce, 8 p.m.

Witch Room TV Girl, BrotherTiger, Pregnant, 8 p.m.

7.14 Monday

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

Cafe Colonial Bastard Feast, Plague Widow, Augurs, Summit, 8 p.m.

Cal Expo California State Fair Concert Series feat.

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Capitol Garage Open Mic Night hosted by Musical Charis, 9 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

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Crest Theatre Christopher Titus: The Angry Pursuit of Happiness, July 11, 7 p.m.

Harlow’s Esau Mcgraw, Sheryl “The Soccer Mom,” Tristan Johnson, hosted by Doboy, July 3, 9:30 p.m.

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An Evening with Rex Navarrete, July 3, 8 p.m.

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It takes Bay and company nearly three hours to deliver an answer.

I’m not one to harp on movie lengths, but Transformers: Age of Extinction clocks in at 165 minutes. To put that in perspective, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey runs slightly shorter (159 minutes). However, the latter attempts to draw a timeline from the dawn of man to the exploration of space and grapples with humanity’s purpose and place in the universe, whereas the former is about talking robots that can change into fancy-ass cars and stuff. Maybe I’m just bitter, because halfway through, I really had to pee.

Age of Extinction is certainly the biggest installment of Bay’s Transformers movies, and not just because of its ponderous (and I mean really ponderous) run-time. For the first time, Bay has a legitimate action hero-type leading man. Scrawny weirdo Shia LeBeouf is out, and in his place is hunky everyman Mark Wahlberg, perhaps the only actor in Hollywood cool enough to grab drinks with Optimus Prime after a long day of shooting.

Here, Wahlberg stars as Cade Yeager, a quintessential lovable loser. He’s an “inventor” who lives on some out-of-the-way Texas ranch with his scantily clad/smoking hot daughter Tessa (Nicola Peltz) and, when he’s not trying to micromanage every aspect of her teenage life, spends most of his time tinkering with electronic gadgets in hopes that he’ll stumble upon the one golden gizmo that will help him turn his shitty luck around. One day he finds an old, beat-up semi truck in an old, beat-up movie theater (still not sure how it got in there) and brings it home, only to discover that it’s no ordinary semi.

It’s Optimus Prime, of course, voiced by Peter Cullen. Prime is in hiding because of some crazy shit that went down in Chicago in the previous film that left the Windy City all sorts of fucked up.

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The fallout from that incident has changed the public’s opinion of the Transformers, even the heroic Autobots, who are now being hunted by relentless CIA agent Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer) and his clandestine cohort Lockdown, a vicious robotic bounty hunter who can transform into a sweet Lamborghini Diablo.

Lockdown a total badass. He’s got a giant space ship, a cruel mind and ferocity in combat, but he’s not even close to being the most frightening enemy here. What the Autobots really have to combat is human greed, which seems endless in Age of Extinction.

Governments and entrepreneurs are in a race to crack the Transformers’ code and to exploit it for technological and financial gain. Stanley Tucci plays Joshua Joyce, the Steve Jobs-esque mastermind of KSI, a corporation that is close to mapping the Transformers’ genome. Using scraps from deceased Autobots and evil Decepticons, KSI has mined a metal they’ve dubbed “Transformium” (no, seriously), and if they’re able to harness it properly, it will, of course, change the world. Joyce makes a deal with the devil, forging an alliance with Lockdown and Attinger, and seems pretty hell-bent on stopping at nothing to achieve his goals (and rake in the profits while he’s at it).

All this just makes Optimums Prime sick.

He’s a good guy, probably the most heroic, altruistic character of my childhood, but how can he still fight for what’s right when the humans have turned their backs on him and melted down his fallen comrades into ore? He struggles with whether or not he even wants to save humans from apocalyptic threats anymore. Even after a rousing bro-to-bro pep talk from Cade, Optimus is still not sure. Has his indomitable spirit finally been crushed?

I found it helpful to think about these things while watching Age of Extinction, because it was probably the most mind-numbingly dumb movie I’ve ever seen. It’s like one long commercial for General Motors’ new line of cars, set to tunes by Imagine Dragons, with some attractive people bickering at one another, robots and explosions tossed in as a garnish. Normally, dumb wouldn’t be a problem, but I feared nearly three hours of thoughtlessness at my advanced age could lead to permanent brain damage. I mean, you should probably go see it because everyone else will, and you don’t want to be left out. Chicago gets blown up again. You’ll love it.

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Concerts in the Park, Cesar Chavez Plaza, Sacramento Friday, June 20, 2014

Words Fabian Garcia • Photos nicholas wray In this era of music when so many genres are constantly being mixed and mashed, and then remixed and re-mashed, it’s refreshing to hear a throwback artist every now and then who embodies a pure, timeless sound without all the distracting fluff and noise prevalent in today’s mainstream.

Sacramento fortunately has such an artist to call its own: the afro-rocking Prince protégé Andy Allo who is one-part funk, one-part acoustic, but all soul.

Raised in Citrus Heights and attending college-prep schools near the ArdenArcade area through her teenage years, Allo got her start by forming a band in town called Andy Allo and the Traffic Jam and eventually played a solo gig at an open mic at Fox and Goose on R Street.

Since then her career has been spiraling upward after putting out two independent albums, making appearances on talk shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Good Day Sacramento, and touring with Prince’s band, The New Power Generation, as one of his singers and guitarists. Allo collaborated on a few songs with the pop icon as well, some of which appear on her second album Superconductor, released in 2012.

The co-produced album by Prince, prompted a European tour with an extra stop in Japan—a trip Allo just got back from the day before her recent arrival to Sacramento.

Allo came home Friday, June 20, to headline a live show as part of Downtown Sacramento Partnership’s Concerts in the Park 2014 season—a series of free weekly concerts of local bands and musicians held annually from early May to late July at Cesar Chavez Plaza.

Three bands opened for Allo with DJ Sam I Jam spinning records in between performances.

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The other bands included the Delta City Ramblers, the Harbor and Contra, who each brought eclectic elements to the table—and subsequently to the show as a whole— according to Play Big Sacramento booking committee member Danny Secretion.

Allo said she tries to come back to Sacramento as often as she can for her hometown fans, having just been in the area in November for an acoustic show at Assembly Music Hall on K Street.

“I’ve been traveling a lot,” she says. “But yeah when I have downtime, I try to get shows like this and come back and show some love. This is where it all started.”

After about five or six songs in, Contra’s set came to an end with a respectful applause from the audience who were dispersed throughout the plaza. Once Allo was announced to come on next, however, a modest wave of people migrated to the front, making the area a bit more congested than it had been for Contra.

While the three opening acts were comprised of four to six members at a time, Allo pieced a smaller band together— one drummer playing bongos and a bass drum, and one electric guitarist—for a much more scaled-down, intimate show.

She took center stage with her acoustic guitar in one hand and gripped the microphone with the other, receiving a warm welcome from the crowd as she introduced herself in a brief prologue to her set.

Then, she dove head-first right into the music.

Opening with the short but catchy interlude “Sometimes” from her first album UnFresh, Allo immediately had the crowd’s attention as she glided on the bouncy rhythm with her sweet, gentle voice.

She followed up with “When Stars Collide,” a song similar in tone and energy, but coming off her second album Superconductor. During the bridge, Allo weaved in the hook from Drakes’ “Hold on We’re Going Home” perfectly to fit her melody and then transitioned right back into her original lyrics without missing a beat.

The rest of the show pretty much followed that format the rest of the way, jumping from album to album with a couple of Bob Marley and Doobie Brothers covers in between. Her set consisted of tracks such as “I Want Love,” “If I Was King,"“Hooked,” “People Pleaser” and perhaps her biggest hit, “Yellow Gold.”

Allo consistently demonstrated her showmanship onstage with callbacks, clap-alongs, and even some prewritten/ freestyle bars sprinkled into some of the more boom-bap songs, like “I Want Love” and “Hooked.”

Although Allo’s set was super upclose-and personal, which I loved, I couldn’t help but feel she didn’t do some of her bigger songs justice with such a small band.

The album versions of “Yellow Gold” and “People Pleaser” sound rich in production with a variety of instruments bringing these tracks completely to life.

The live versions that night, while still good, were lacking the extra punch from the album—almost like they were stripped of their full musical power.

At the end of the day though, her performances made for a solid, all-around feel good show, and you could tell the audience was vibing with the ever-graceful Allo every step of the way.

Ms. Allo left the stage around a quarter to 9 p.m. to a very pleased crowd who sent her off with a long round of applause.

People began to disperse from Cesar Chavez Plaza shortly after and seemed glad to have caught a free glimpse of the soulful Sacramento native right before her career truly takes off to a whole new level.

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James Barone jb@submergemag.com Dude, did you hear that Facebook might have used you as part of a psychological experiment?

Like, without your permission? DUDE! It’s true.

Back in 2012, which seems like the distant past now, Facebook conducted a week-long study on more than 689,000 users without their knowledge. What they did was introduce more positive or negative posts to the feeds of those “involved” with the study and tracked whether or not it influenced those users to post more positive or negative items. What they found was a correlation: Those who were exposed to more sad stuff posted sad stuff, and vice versa (maybe this explains why that one sad panda friend of yours is so morose all the damn time, and you want to be all, dude, the barista at Starbucks gave you one too many Splendas… it’s just a coffee, dude, it’s not the end of the fucking world!).

The study was authored by three scientists (Adam Kramer, Jamie Guillory and Jeffrey Hancock) who were looking for evidence of “massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks,” according to the title of the study posted on PNAS.org.

“This work also suggests that, in contrast to prevailing assumptions, in-person interaction and nonverbal cues are not strictly necessary for emotional contagion, and that the observation of others’ positive experiences constitutes a positive experience for people,” the authors wrote in the abstract for the article.

This seems all well and good. Nothing was really gathered or stolen from these nearly 700,000 Facebook users without their knowledge. The researchers were merely manipulating them to see if they were on to something with their hypothesis. What’s the big deal?

Well, you should know by now that everything nowadays is a big deal. This past weekend, news spread that this study had taken place and people were pissed.

“What is the point of this research?

Why is it being conducted? Is it purely an academic exercise, or could it be used by some unscrupulous party to mess with people’s feeds and moods on a regular basis?” Mark Sullivan wrote on June 28 for Venturebeat.com, which included an image of Alex (played by Malcolm McDowell) from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange enduring The Ludovico Technique to accompany the article.

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In their own article on the story, Financialtimes.com included a tweet from Brightwork CoResearch founder Jacob Shiach, which read “Facebook manipulated the emotions of its users. Unethical? Yes. 1984?

Yes.” Referencing, of course, the classic George Orwell novel 1984.

I suppose this whole thing does have a hint of an Orwellian nightmare to it. Big Brother watching over you and all that…manipulating what you do and say without your knowledge.

Yeah, Ok. I guess it does. But Facebook isn’t an oppressive government that you can’t avoid or are powerless to act against. It’s a fucking website where you post pictures of your cat (or in many cases other people’s cats) doing zany-ass shit. It’s where your mom leaves you indecipherable messages because she’s really bad at typing on her new iPad. It’s the place where a shitty concert photo can get more than 100 likes from your friends because you can almost kinda sorta see Damon Albarn on stage if you squint real hard.

And while those involved in the study were unaware that they were a part of a psychological experiment, they weren’t involved without their permission. Kramer, Guillory and Hancock’s paper points out that all Facebook users consented to the possibility of being used in studies when they agreed to the site’s Data Usage Policy, according to the Venturebeat.com article.

If it really bothers you that your emotions were being toyed with you could always just delete your profile, you know. It’s not that difficult (actually, it is pretty difficult because Facebook asks you at least a million times if you’re sure you want to delete it, but you know what I mean). You shouldn’t agree to things you don’t agree with no matter how much peer pressure is involved.

That’s what being a grown up is about, dude…or at least that’s what I’ve heard.

I’m not denying that Facebook doesn’t have influence. It has a population more or less equivalent to that of China, and we know how powerful they are. But at the end of the day, Facebook is just a product that you choose to partake in. Go on. Leave if you don’t like it. It’d be social suicide, but you know, your choice.

Honestly, though, I would like to know if I was one of the people involved. And if not, why not? People like my posts, I have 500-something friends, I’m easily manipulated. I matter, damn it! That’s why I post shit online!

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