Submerge Magazine: Issue 183 (March 16 - 30, 2015)

Dive into Sacramento & its Surrounding Areas

March 16 – 30, 2015

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Lavell Crawford Comedy Comes First

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Blossoming times, for the most part

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Spring. Ahhhh. Take it in. Besides the one month of perfect temperatures here in Sacramento (you know, for once it’s not too hot or not too cold), it means SXSW is happening, followed up by Coachella, on top of all the spring tours and spring album release shows (wow, this and next month have been insane for local releases, am I right?!). But really what that means for Sacramento music fans is we get the tours looping in after that crazy week-long festival in Austin, the one-off overflows from that two-weekend festival in Southern California, and great show after great show coming through our town. Let’s just say it's been really hard to pick and choose who to set up interviews with these days. We’ve been in the habit of featuring people early because we just can’t feature everyone who's playing this spring.

Hence why we chose to feature Trash Talk four weeks early in our last issue, which is also why we’re featuring both cover artists in this issue now: Black Milk (page 12) and Dance Gavin Dance (page 18), who both have shows in April (Black Milk plays Harlow’s April 12 and DGD plays Boardwalk two nights for their new album release—April 3 and 4).

In this issue we’re also featuring Male Gaze (page 14), who are playing The Hideaway Bar and Grill on March 29 for their album release and West Coast tour finale show along with Tiaras (who we interviewed this past February).

And like always, we here at Submerge are about more than just music. In this issue we have a great interview with comedian Lavell Crawford (page 10), who you might recognize as Huell (Saul Goodman’s personal bodyguard) on Breaking Bad. But first and foremost, he’s a comedian and has been around for 25 years.

He’s got a gig at Cache Creek Casino on March 21. Have you ever been out to the Capay Valley just west of Woodland? Let me tell you, it would make a beautiful spring drive, and it’s only about an hour from Sacramento. Do it and tie it in with his show! It will be worth it.

Our food feature in this issue is on an oldie but goodie, the Italian joint in East Sacramento called Mamma Susanna’s. It’s not an area I’d say a lot of people really know about since it’s tucked away in the River Park area. I didn’t have a clue about it until seven or so years ago when a Sacramento old schooler Stan Goman (former CFO of Tower Records) told me it was one of his favorite Italian places in Sacramento. With that in mind and knowing we haven’t featured Italian food in a long time (now that I think of it, possibly never), I sent a writer to give our readers the 4-1-1. Check it out on page 26.

And just because I don’t always mention them in my column, please don’t forget to enjoy our regular columns. They are awesome.

On another note: this past weekend I learned that a publication I spent many years at in my college years and beyond in Chico, California, is folding after 21 years in business. Nothing makes me more sad then when I hear about print media going under. It’s kind of taken over my thoughts on this deadline and really has me thinking about how fortunate I was to start as an intern and then spend eight years there during its heyday. I made the most amazing friends who I still am in touch with to this day, and had the ability to gain my knowledge of this crazy publishing world and the confidence to eventually go out on my own and start this lil’ publication, after I moved to Sacramento oh so many years ago.

So this is where I thank you for reading Submerge, whether you read us in print or online, locally or not. Thank you to our advertisers for supporting this arts and entertainment publication.

Thank you to our contributors and friends for all your hard work.

I’d also like to remind people to never ever take print publications for granted. You can support us by picking us up regularly or advertising your show, event or business in our magazine to keep this healthy publication going for many more years.

Enjoy issue #183! Long live Submerge. Long live print.

Cheers, Melissa

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Donate a Basket to Local Band White Knuckle Riot’s Easter Basket Drive for Kids • Through March 31

With a name like White Knuckle Riot and influences such as Pantera and Metallica, you might think the local heavy rock/metal band is made up of a bunch of middle-fingers-up-don’t-give-a-fuck hard-asses. To be fair, they are pretty hard-edged, but they’ve also got big hearts, as evidenced by the band’s current Easter Basket Drive to benefit kids at the St. John’s Shelter for Women & Children. Through the end of March, you are encouraged to drop off a new, pre-packaged and sealed Easter basket to a number of spots throughout the region, including any of the seven Dimple Records locations, On the Y (670 Fulton Avenue), Blue Lamp (1400 Alhambra Boulevard), and Mardi Gras Lanes (4800 Madison Avenue). “We know there are kids out there who do not always have the fortune of having parents who can provide for them, or in the case of the shelter, the ones who have been mistreated or misplaced by their parents not having the ability to celebrate events like Easter,” the band’s manager, Rob Snyder, recently told Submerge. “We hope these baskets will show these kids that there is always hope. That there are people out there who care, even when they think there isn’t.”

The group will be hosting meet and greets and will be taking donations personally at the Dimple location in Roseville on March 21, and again at the Dimple on Arden Way on March 29 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. If you make your donation at Blue Lamp, they’ll offer up a free brewski and if you drop off at Mardi Gras Lanes, you’ll get a little free bowling! Visit Facebook.com/whiteknuckleriot for more information on the band’s Easter Basket Drive and to keep an eye out for future area performances.

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Butch Vs Femme Reunited! Date Set for Album Release Party at Starlite • March 28 After forming in late 2003, releasing an EP in 2004, and touring the West Coast on and off for a few years after that, regional indie/punk/queercore duo Butch Vs Femme went on what they thought was going to be a permanent hiatus. Then in August 2014, drummer Kimberli Aparicio and keyboardist/ vocalist Chavez D’Augustine decided to get the ol’ band back together for some shows and even more exciting, to finally release a full-length album titled Eat Yr Heart Out. “It feels great to be back together,” the band recently told Submerge. “When we first started Butch Vs Femme we were both pretty young and probably didn’t make the best decisions for the band. We made some awesome music and knew that there was a strong connection between us. We always had a lot of fun playing together but we just kind of grew apart.”

Now that they are back together, the duo says they have a clear goal of what they want.

“Even though the songs for Eat Yr Heart Out were written eight to 13 years ago we still play them with the same amount of energy and passion. We love these songs and it’s about time they got recorded!”

Eat Yr Heart Out is 10 tracks total, one of which (“Down for Me”) is streaming for free on the band’s website Butchvsfemme. com. The album will be available for purchase on CD or by download card at the band’s Sacramento release party on Saturday, March 28 at Starlite Lounge (1517 21st Street). The show will also feature opening sets from two other solid local acts, PETS and Ghostplay.

Doors open at 8 p.m., cover is just $7, 21-andover only. Welcome back, Butch Vs Femme, the local scene has missed you!

48-Hour Comedy Marathon at Sac Comedy Spot March 27–29

The Sacramento Comedy Spot’s Third Annual 48-Hour Comedy Marathon is exactly what it sounds like, two straight days of comedy shows featuring some of the Spot’s most successful main stage shows along with cult favorites and even some brand new show formats that they’ll be testing out for the first time. This year the marathon kicks off at 8 p.m. on March 27 and doesn’t wrap up until 8 p.m. on March 29. You’ll see everything from Strip-prov (improv meets strip poker, anyone?), to Saturday Morning Cartoons (comedians providing voices for your favorite cartoons), to Gag Order (think Whose Line is it Anyway?), to The Top 10 List Podcast (live podcast taping where topics range from “People who Changed the World” to “Most Doable Hollywood Actors”), to Lady Business (all female improv troupe), to YOU! the Musical (like a Broadway Musical, but inspired by audience suggestions) and so much more! For a full rundown of events and to snag passes that are good for the whole marathon and/or individual show tickets, hit up 48hoursofcomedy.com.

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Arden Hills’ “Live With the Chef: Amazing Local Asparagus” Cooking Class • March 25 Asparagus is an amazing veggie, isn’t it? It’s low in calories, has many nutritional benefits and it’s so versatile.

Whether you grill it, steam it, puree it, bake it or heck, even microwave it, asparagus is delicious, healthy and luckily for us widely available in our agriculturally rich region. On Wednesday, March 25, Arden Hills’ head chef Lothar Wakefield invites you to their cooking class “Live With the Chef: Amazing Local Asparagus” to learn, watch and taste as he takes this veggie from farm to table in mouthwatering ways. “The focus of these informal and fun classes is on incorporating fresh ingredients designed for a healthy and well balanced diet,” states Ardenhills.net.

To reserve your spot in the class ($20 per person) call (916) 292-5781, but hurry, space is limited. Live With the Chef cooking classes happen every third Wednesday, so keep an eye out on their website for updates on featured dishes and upcoming events.

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Sac Go Home Fest Live Compilation Album, feat. 20 Local Bands, Gets Free Online Release

Issue 183 • March 16 – March 30, 2015

From 2006 to 2010, the regional folk/Americana band Silver Darling enchanted fans locally as well as up and down the West Coast via extensive touring, sharing the stage with such greats as Jason Isbell, Damien Jurado, The Cave Singers and others. Silver Darling released one full-length album (Your Ghost Fits My Skin) and an EP (Wrap Around My Heart) via Davis-based indie label Crossbill Records, and they even landed on one of the covers of issue No. 16 of Submerge! When the group ultimately disbanded, frontman Kevin Lee Florence, who now lives in Portland, Oregon, began focusing on his solo career. He has now released his first solo album Given on Fluff and Gravy Records and is preparing for his long-awaited return to Sacramento for an all-ages gig at Insight Coffee Roasters (1901 8th Street) with local guitarist Ross Hammond on Saturday, March 21. “Flecked with folk influences, finger-picked guitar lines and distinctive harmonies provided by his sister Kelly Florence, Given falls somewhere between Sam Beam’s hushed, vivid folk and [Paul] Simon’s own conversational, quirky lyrical genius,” his bio reads on Kevinleeflorence. com. The album was recorded almost entirely live in the hip and artistic Echo Park area of Los Angeles at Fivestar Studios, where artists like Father John Misty, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and the band Dawes and have also worked.

Given features a slew of world-class musicians, including Florence’s personal hero, Garth Hudson of the legendary Canadian-American roots rock group The Band, as well as bassist Jon Button (Sheryl Crow, Robben Ford), drummer James McAlister (Sufjan Stevens, Bill Frisell), and guitarist Danny Donnelly. Hit up Spotify or Florence’s website to hear a stream of Given.

We highly suggest taking in the whole thing; but if you’re in a hurry, make sure to at least check out the album’s ethereal opener, “Alone and Everything,” and the single (track 3 on the album) “Peace Like a River,” which has a really cool psychedelic Beatles-esque stomp to it. The March 21 show at Insight kicks off at 7 p.m. and is just $5 at the door.

When the beloved and much too-short-lived Midtown venue Witch Room (ex-Bows and Arrows) shut down late last year, they sure did go out with a bang! “Sac Go Home Fest” was an epic, two-day, mostly local music free-for-all, and if you were there for any of it, you know how special the vibe in the room was. It was a little bit celebratory, a little bit mournful, with a shit ton of great music and craft beer to wash down the bitter feelings. If you weren’t there for some dumb reason, the next best thing would be to listen to sound guy Drew Walker’s live compilation album that he recorded during the fest. The comp, which is available for free right now online at Sacgohomefest.bandcamp. com, features 20 live recordings from locally tied bands like The Kelps, Lite Brite, Honyock, Pregnant, Appetite, Dog Party, Instagon, Musical Charis, PETS, DoofyDoo (Walker’s project) and a bunch of others. If you’re a local music nerd like us here at Submerge, looking down the list of tracks might give you a little ADD, as we really just wanted to listen to all the damn songs at the same damn time. “I really appreciate every band that took part,” Walker (who also plays in the rad local band Gentleman Surfer) recently wrote on Facebook. “This is definitely one of my favorite projects ever.” We’d like to thank Walker for putting this thing together, because years from now we’ll still be able to listen back to this live album recorded at Witch Room and remember the days the venue was alive and well. RIP, Witch, you’ll always be missed!

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It’s like they want us to be confused. Sure they tell us ahead of time, but it’s not like we can really prepare for it. So we forget the warning and fall into our usual routines until, bam! It’s time to change the damn clocks again. And with that, everyone’s day is ruined.

The government calls it daylight savings time (or DST), but it doesn’t seem to be saving us much of anything.

So, what’s with this clock shuffling? I think DST is a big inside joke on all of us.

It’s like that time your friends changed your clocks and made you get up an hour earlier for work. That was funny once, but what if your friends kept doing it? And, what if, one day instead of setting it forward, they moved it back, instead? If that happened, I think we could all agree that your “friends” are assholes and they shouldn’t be allowed in the house anymore.

Our friends in Congress love this tired-ass joke and have strung us along for years with one bullshit excuse after another to keep daylight savings time going. When it first started, the government told the people that it was about war conservation. Congress decided that states could set their clocks forward in the summer months to (theoretically) reduce their consumption of resources that could otherwise be diverted to the war effort.

Basically, there weren't any yellow flag pin magnets to put on your car back then, so they messed with the clocks instead.

Of course, that is not what I heard when I was growing up. I was told that we observed daylight savings time for the sake of the farmers. I was led to believe that the entire nation was forced to get up an hour earlier in the spring for the planting season and got to come home in the dark in the fall for the harvest. This was supposed to maximize the amount of daylight hours the farmer could work and thus, maximize his output.

That seemed to almost make sense, but no one could explain to me why the rest of the country needed to run on farm time. Why don’t the farmers just get up earlier when they need to? Isn’t that what the rest of us do for work? I don’t see how my involvement in their schedule is necessary. If your products are good, I’ll buy them no matter what time of the day they were harvested. That’s how this SubmergeMag.com

is supposed to work; you are the farmer and I am the consumer.

Last time I checked, there were a lot more consumers than farmers, and yet, nothing has changed. We’ve even taught our computers to update their own clocks for us, allowing our own madness to become digitized. For the luddites out there who hurt their fingers winding fiddly old clocks back and forth every year, daylight savings time must be a nightmare. Does no one think of the humble clock store purveyors? Where is the government when they are forced to reset all of those clocks?

Some people have caught on to the DST bullshit and have opted out. According to Wikipedia, pretty places like Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands and somewhere called the Northern Mariana Islands naturally get more sunlight than their mainland counterparts. DST simply doesn’t have as much impact on their number of daylight hours. No one is looking at their watch in Hawaii, so who gives a shit what time the rest of the country thinks it is? That’s kinda why you are there.

Arizona is the only other state to currently opt out of daylight savings time, and that’s a scary thought. It’s scary because I actually agree with something Arizona did as a state and it kills me to admit it. We are talking about a state that didn’t celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day until 1992. It’s still a state where machine guns are legal, but Mexicans of any form are not. As if that weren’t enough, Arizona is also the state that gave us John McCain, who we can blame for unleashing Sarah Palin on the world. Despite all of these awful things, Arizona can still say that it is right about at least one thing, daylightfucking-savings time.

DST needs to be abolished, if for no other reason than to take that bragging right away from Arizona. Even if you don’t find Arizona to be a nuclear test gone wrong like I do, we can at least agree that we shouldn’t let Congress continue with these games. This time trickery must stop this instant, farmers and war effort be damned! This is America, Jack. We should have the freedom to experience time as it actually occurs. So quit fucking with my damn clocks already!

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Aren’t You That Guy from That Show?

You May Know Him Best as Huell in Breaking Bad, but Lavell Crawford Also Brings with Him an Impressive 25-year Resume in Comedy Words Justin Cox

W

hen Lavell Crawford saw the pilot for Breaking Bad, he thought to himself, “Damn, this is gonna be a great show if it takes off.”

But like much of America, he didn’t return to his couch on Sunday nights to witness as the pressure surrounding Walter White ratcheted up week by week. As the show struggled, he was busy making a living as a working comedian.

Little did he know, just a few seasons later, he would become a crucial part of that show just as it crept out of the underground and took its cultural grip on the American consciousness, resulting in one of the biggest TV dramas in history.

To many, Lavell Crawford is Huell, the sizable muscle behind Breaking Bad’s Saul Goodman. To others, he’s the runner up from Season 5 of Last Comic Standing. But above all else, he’s an entertainer with 25 years of comedy under his belt.

I spoke with Crawford last week by phone, while he was in Santa Fe, New Mexico, filming a new Adam Sandler movie called Ridiculous Six. Truthfully, he seemed a bit absent as we started the interview—barely interested in talking at all, let alone being funny.

I’ve heard this isn’t rare with comedians, who make an on-stage living drawing laughter out of audiences. The idea that they should have to extend that performance into every nook and cranny of their life is unreasonable. We don’t ask that of musicians and actors or accountants and bellhops, so I suppose we shouldn’t ask it of comedians.

But thoughtful responses are the foundation for any worthwhile article, so I hoped he would loosen up. I made a point to shift out of “interviewer” mode and just ride the flow of the conversation, picking my moments to probe. With quickness, he settled in and began to provide a thoughtful, authentic glimpse into his world. Not only did he have me laughing by the end, but he had himself bellowing as well.

Crawford was 22 when he got into comedy. He was living at his mom’s house in St. Louis at the time.

“My cousin’s boyfriend was a comedian and I had seen him on public access and I thought he was OK,” he said. “There were all kinds of little comedy shows out there and Comedy Central had really gotten started. It was just calling me.”

He knew growing up that he was a clever kid and that he enjoyed the feeling of drawing laughter out of others, but that didn’t crystallize until he got in front of an audience himself for the first time.

“Once I started getting on stage, then I got the bug,” he said. “I became a promoter as well as a comedian, so I started making a living at it.”

After years of that, his career got a kick in the ass when he advanced to the finals of Last Comic Standing. And then came Breaking Bad. Now he finds his IMDb page stacked with movie roles, TV appearances and comedy specials.

In our interview, we talked about his influences, his upcoming show at Cache Creek Casino on March 21 and the possibility that Huell could return to the small screen on Better Call Saul—the new Breaking Bad spinoff/prequel.

What was your financial situation like when you started?

I was living with my mama and I had a little part-time job, but I was cool. I always thought logically. I wasn’t out there just trying to do comedy and making that my sole means; that would be stupid.

Who were your main influences?

Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield, you know. Lots of good ones who got up there and told stories. George Carlin. They all were inspirations. Anybody who gets on that stage and makes somebody mad has always been impressive to me. It’s almost like a fighter in the fight game. It makes you think, “Man, I wanna fight.”

Have you played Cache Creek before?

Yeah, I played there with the Last Comic Standing tour, but this is the first time I’ll do it individually.

How much does your act change from one night to the next?

I dabble in new stuff, but I have specials out there that people have seen and I’m on YouTube, so they have their favorites. In the people-pleasing business, you can’t please everybody. But I don’t really like sticking to one routine. I’ve been doing this for 25 years, so I’ve got a lot of things I can talk about.

How long do reporters typically wait to ask you about Breaking Bad in interviews?

Well shit, usually the first question is Breaking Bad! The first thing that comes out is, “Sooooooo, Breaking Bad…”

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You joined the show in Season 4. Were you watching before you were cast as Huell?

I knew about Breaking Bad because I had watched the pilot, but I was working comedy clubs and doing stand-up, so I didn’t get to watch it for a long time. But then when I got called for an audition, I was like alright.

My audition was at 6 in the evening and I had just gotten off the road. I was exhausted and I had moved my wife and my two step kids to Los Angeles. I really wanted to just go home and sit on the couch and let everything ooze out of my body, but they wanted me to come in. The manager was so hyped.

I read for Luscious the truck driver, and then they asked me to read for this other part. I was like, “OK, I didn’t know I was supposed to read for that part.” But I read for it and they were like, “When could you start?” and then Huell was on there for two seasons.

Had the show become a phenomenon yet?

It was a cult classic, but they weren’t making money. They hung in there, and then in Season 4 it became the monster it became. I think that was because it was on AMC. If it was on HBO, it would have been a monster from the get-go.

Could you tell it was a special show while you were shooting?

Honestly, they don’t really let you in on all of the info. They give you some of the pages from your script, but that’s it. But every episode we were doing was just so powerful. The fourth season was epic and the fifth season just caught on fire. It was another level of “Oh my goodness, what’s gonna happen? Am I gonna get shot today? What’s gonna go down?”

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How often do people recognize you from Breaking Bad? A lot, because I did make a big impact on the show. But I met this one chick on the plane last night coming here to Albuquerque and she was like, “I remember when I had ‘Mike’ from Breaking Bad on my plane. I’m always excited when Breaking Bad characters are on my plane.” [Breaking Bad was filmed in Albuquerque.] She was telling me this, looking me dead in my face. She fucking didn’t even get it that I was on the show. I had to show her ass a picture of me and Saul Goodman and she was like, “Aww shit.” I said, “Well damn, I don’t know if you’ve got selective memory, but did you really watch?”

You’re not particularly a forgettable looking guy.

That’s what I’m saying!

So you’ve acted, done stand-up, voiced animation. Do you still consider yourself a stand up comedian above all else?

Well, I’m a comedian first, actor second. You don’t have to put a bunch of titles on what you do, shit. Let everybody else do that.

That’s just a waste of time.

Did the Breaking Bad role open up a lot of acting opportunities for you?

Oh hell yeah, every step is gonna open doors. Last Comic Standing opened me up to the acting world and put more money in the clubs for me. And then Breaking Bad was like the key to the city, because everybody that was in Hollywood who had a part wanted to meet with me.

I got to do The Crazy Ones and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I just did a movie with Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg called American Ultra. Now I’m on set in Santa Fe for a movie with Adam Sandler called Ridiculous Six, so it’s opened up a lot for me.

Will we get to see Huell on Better Call Saul?

I’m sure we will. It’s a prequel, so I think they’re going to figure out a way to introduce me. They never show how we met in Breaking Bad. I think the fans want it, so I think they’re gonna figure out a way to get it going.

Not to change the subject, but do cougars’ vaginas bite?

[Laughter] I don’t know!

Context: Nearly all of Crawford’s tweets are short questions or comments like the one I just posed back to him. He follows them up with the word, “Discuss” For example: “Hard-ons and jogging pants. Discuss.”

They’re just random-ass thoughts I have, like, “If you eat Taco Bell, do your farts ring?” “Discuss.”

So that’s your approach to social media? If you have a fleeting thought, you fire it off?

Yeah, I put “discuss” at the end so people know I ain’t trying to be funny. Everybody’s trying to be funny or be a jerk. Thinking they always got to find a way to put somebody down. I just don’t believe in that. I’m 46 years old. I have children. I believe in God; I’m a church person. I just think the whole energy that social media brings is just something you shouldn’t allow inside you, man. It’s horrible. That’s why I say things like, “Women twerking to gospel music, are they Jesus freaks? Discuss.” Ya know, it’s funny, stupid stuff.

Have those ideas ever made it into your act?

Oh yeah, a lot of times I bring them on stage even though they’re stupid to me. And sometimes people really have jumped on it. Like one time I said, “Do squirrels have orgasms, or do they bust nuts?”

The people laughed because it’s silly. We’re just having fun.

Have fun with Lavell Crawford at Cache Creek in Brooks, California, on March 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $35 to $45 and can be purchased through Cachecreek.com.

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Detroit MC/Producer Black Milk Lands in Sacramento on Continent-Wide Tour Words Andrew C. Russell photo rick williams

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urtis Cross, aka Black Milk, is, if anything, a builder of worlds. Spin a copy of his latest album, If There’s a Hell Below, and you’ll find yourself in the heart of one: aural labyrinths of driving percussion and pulsating synths, stacked high with the choicest vinyl cuts from bygone eras. Black Milk’s visions of a Detroit upbringing come to life in hyper-stylized high definition, from the dirge-like guitar loops of “Leave the Bones Behind” to the Cybotron-influenced techno groove of “Detroit’s New Dance Show.”

Deft evocation of time and place through production is Black Milk’s natural state of being, and at the beginning of his career, technical wizardry had been his primary focus. Coming up during a transitional phase in his city’s musical scene and a sea-change in the world of hiphop at large, his dedication to the art of crate-digging and classic soul set him apart from his more trendy peers. In the long run, it has paid off immensely; after more than a decade of experimenting with different sound palettes (‘80s-style techno on 2008’s Gtronic, a full live-band orchestration on 2010’s Album of the Year), Black Milk has achieved a near-perfect recipe.

Nowhere is this more evident than on his back-to-back releases of 2013 and 2014, No Poison No Paradise and If There’s a Hell Below. These records are the soundtrack to a vision falling into place, complete with the flow to match. Although Black Milk’s commanding lyrics have always provided a potent complement to his unique beats, his latter work shows a deep trend toward the introspective. Here, his rhymes seem to uncover, once and for all, the magnetizing narrative lying at the core of his entire discography, one filled with despair as well as triumph.

This steady rise on a tide of personal growth could not have come at a better time: Black Milk is poised to attack in 2015 with an extensive North American tour beginning March 19, backed by live instrumentation from his band, Nat Turner.

In his spare moments, he puts the finishing touches on new material while setting up his record label, Computer Ugly. Having reached a new creative peak, he aims to make this year one of collaboration and exposure, adding to the swelling ranks of domestic fans and opening a new chapter in the Black Milk saga. On April 12, Sacramentans will get the chance to catch his show at Harlow’s, marking the first time he’s made a local appearance. In early March, we dropped him a line to catch up on the latest from this renaissance man from the Renaissance City.

So you’re gearing up for a huge North American tour right now. How do you get your head in the game?

I’m trying to get a lot of studio work done right now before we hit the road.

It’s pretty impossible for me to create when I’m on tour…so I have to get as much done as I can while I’m here at home. Probably a week out, we’re gonna get the band together and get rehearsals in. But right now I’m just trying to work, bang out as many beats as I can, and hopefully create a few singles that I can leak out there in the next couple months.

As far as tours go, is this the biggest undertaking for you so far?

You know, it is kinda big, but when I first started doing tours and shows in general, I was spending a lot of my time overseas, in Europe, and

different places. I actually just started touring heavily in the States, in the last three years. I’ve always done like the major cities—New York, L.A.—but these last three years, I’ve been trying to hit a lot of U.S. cities.

I’m hoping that this tour will be really successful, with how much music as I’ve dropped in the last couple years, you know, from the solo albums to the little projects that I’ve dropped in between, so yeah, I’m hoping people come out and support, have a good time. I know me and the band are gonna do our thing and put on as crazy a show as we possibly can. I think this will probably be my first time touring the States in the late winter/early spring, so when the weather finally breaks and it’s a little warmer, they’ll really want to come outside and see the show.

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“Growing up in the environment I did, it’s natural as an artist to have an interest in all of those different styles and genres of music, no matter what your core is, no matter what you do on the day-today, you will find that in Detroit, you’ll see people from the hip-hop scene mixed up with some of the artists in the electronic scene and vice-versa.

People in the rock scene get mixed up, too. It’s kind of just how it is.”

–Black Milk on his hometown scene

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Your past two records, track for track, seem like they have the most complex beats and lyrical delivery of all your work. Is it hard to translate that into a show with a live band?

Not really. The reason I say it’s not that hard is because, for one, I’ve been hitting the road for a good five or six years now. We’ve been building our chemistry up for a while, so we’re not brand new to hitting the stage or playing together.

And, you know, they know my ear, we all kind of have the same vibe.

It’s pretty easy to bring some new stuff to the table for the band, and everybody locks in. What’s more of a challenge is arranging the set; sometimes half of the songs we play in our set are played totally different than the actual studio recording. The audience might not even know what song we’re playing until we reach the hook, because we’re flipping totally different.

You used mostly live instrumentation on your 2010 album Album of the Year. Has there been more of that approach at all on your subsequent records?

Yeah, there’s a lot of musicianship present on the records. Album of the Year was definitely the most heavily live instrumentation-based out of all my albums. But yeah, I still keep a little bit of my musician friends involved with the production. On the last two projects, I actually wanted SubmergeMag.com

the production to feel more like a drum machine, somewhat more like my older work. I’m still incorporating a lot of instrumentation, but without it being as noticeable. Some stuff that might be being played live on the album is not as noticeable, either by the way I’ve mixed it or EQed it, because I wanted it to sound more like a sample.

There’s a lot of interesting samples on your last two records. I noticed stuff like Mort Garson and Gershon Kingsley, these experimental dudes from the early ‘70s, mixed alongside Curtis Mayfield and all these wonderful soul records. How did these influences come about?

Growing up in the environment I did, it’s natural as an artist to have an interest in all of those different styles and genres of music, no matter what your core is, no matter what you do on the day-to-day, you will find that in Detroit, you’ll see people from the hip-hop scene mixed up with some of the artists in the electronic scene and viceversa. People in the rock scene get mixed up, too. It’s kind of just how it is. It’s a musical city with a rich history—the techno scene, Motown, the stuff we’ve done in hip-hop music. I’m from the generation of Detroit artists that’s like late ‘90s, early ‘00s. I was soaking up all of the history that happened before my era.

You recorded your latest work while you were living in Texas. Do you find it easier to reflect on your life growing up in Detroit when you’re far away?

Maybe. Before I moved, I was already working on No Poison No Paradise, so I was already kind of in that mindset before I left Detroit, but I don’t know if me leaving amplified it [laughs]. It was just a natural progression, taking the way I write songs and making it a little more personal, versus just rapping about rapping.

How do you feel about your first mixtape/album Sounds of the City turning 10 this year?

It’s funny, because in 2005, I really didn’t intend on doing a project. I was more focused on beats at that time, even though I rapped. But people around me were saying, “Yo, man, why not just do a solo project— brush it up, put it out, and just see what happens.” So I just kinda got in the basement and started banging out beats, calling up a few of the homies and put it out. Then it caught a lot of fire, and caused a lot of attention in the underground world.

A little bit of the momentum started happening, and next thing I know, I was getting calls from indie labels to put out more music. I kinda had to be a rapper from that point on. So that’s where my mind was. I wasn’t trying to hustle on the rap-end of things, I just fell into it. But I’m glad I did. I’m glad it happened; it’s been a journey.

Do you see If There’s a Hell Below as a spiritual sequel to No Poison No Paradise?

Yeah man, definitely. I know a few people heard the new album and they might have felt some of the energy coming from the earlier one.

Clearly, they came out nearly back to back, so my vibe didn’t change that much during that period of time. I was pretty much still on the same wavelength in terms of still wanting to make it conceptual. No Poison was just straight dark, a very dark album, very conceptual, telling a story from front to back. Hell Below wasn’t as conceptual. Although Hell Below still has its dark moments, I feel like it was more about coming up out of that darkness. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s THE END of what I’m doing as a rapper. I don’t know if I should say it’s the end of a chapter, or a new beginning. You never know where you’re gonna go creatively as an artist years from the point you’re at. I’m just kinda going with the flow; wherever I go creatively is just a natural progression.

I heard that you wanted to focus solely on production for a while.

Does that mean another Black Milk album is a long way off?

I do want to focus more on production and produce for other artists these next couple years, so there’s definitely not going to be a new album this year, probably not

next year either. I have a label now, Computer Ugly, and I want to focus more on finding some talent that I could work with and put out their work, take a more behind-the-scenes, executive position versus being the artist in the spotlight. I’ve already been sending out beats to people, going to a few different studios, a few different up-and-coming artists and a few well-known established ones.

What kind of show is Sacramento going to get?

This will be my first time in Sacramento. I’m going to try and pack in as many songs from my catalog, old and new songs. You can also expect a lot of high energy; my band is pretty seasoned, and our chemistry is great, so they can expect some dope musicianship. My show is not just straight-up hiphop. Of course, the core of it is, but we try to take different turns and experiment with different things— uptempo electronic influences, some jazzier influences, and even some R&B soul influences at times; it depends. So yeah, they can expect a little bit of everything.

You can catch Black Milk live with Nat Turner (and another special guest) on April 12 at Harlow’s.

Tickets can be purchased now at Harlows.com.

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espite the fact that Male Gaze is essentially a brand new band, their collective pedigree has afforded the group the opportunity for larger shows and bigger stages nearly right out of the gate.

“We’ve all been around and we know everybody so it hasn’t been too tough to pull off,” says bassist Mark Kaiser.

His matter-of-factness isn’t meant to come off sounding boastful; it just so happens that the folks who make up Male Gaze have logged time in some of Northern California’s more ballyhooed underground garage bands, including Blasted Canyons (guitarist/vocalist Matt Jones), the notoriously anti-Internet Sacramento crew Mayyors (where Kaiser manned bass) and The Mall (drummer Adam Cimino).

The question could remain whether or not that makes the sum of their parts something to write home about. And while it’s tough to get anyone anywhere to write anything down anymore at all, you’ll probably want to at least mention Male Gaze to someone sooner than later. With the release of their sevensong debut album, Gale Maze, on John

Dwyer’s Castle Face Records, the band’s relative secrecy is slowly fading.

Before the band recruited second guitarist Adam Finken (also formerly of Blasted Canyons and currently in Tiaras), Gale Maze was recorded in a flurry by the core trio, Frankensteining tones and mixing approaches from their previous projects—if perhaps unwittingly—into a bewitching, fuzzy brew, rich in homage to the likes of Joy Division (Jones’ vocals practically exhume the flat bellowing of Ian Curtis) and a cornucopia of postpunk tinkerers.

The cold truth is that Male Gaze falls into that awkward category of too-soon-to-be-written about, although they did release a 7-inch in July 2014, a precursor to Gale Maze featuring the fantastic tracks “Cliffs of Madness” and “Think Twice” via Kaiser’s Mt. St. Mtn. label. They’ve played a handful of shows between San Francisco (where Cimino and Finken reside), Sacramento (where Kaiser lives) and Los Angeles (where Jones lives). And they have a lot of touring on the horizon, including a set at Boise, Idaho’s Treefort Music Fest this spring.

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Even amidst their fledgling nature, the fact that their album resonates so completely forces the hand a bit.

Gale Maze unfolds organically, slowly and somewhat curious of its sonic surroundings on the lead track “Smog Dawn,” unfurling washes of crunchy noise atop otherwise darkly plotted garagepsych. Careful consideration is given to the balance of melody and grime, and to riding hazy waves of echo-delay vocals on tinny wormholes of hallucinogenic rock. It’s a trippy ride, to be certain, and one not altogether uncommon, it must be said, especially for alumnus of the vaunted Castle Face. Where Male Gaze separates itself, however, is in their ability to revel in space-dark choruses and not always disappear into the groove of a 12-minutelong freakout jam cycle. That crevice of psych has its place, it just doesn’t fit within Male Gaze’s current oeuvre.

And while Kaiser’s aware of the band’s past being a talking point for its future, he doesn’t seem concerned with talking much about how it affects how people will perceive his new project. In the interests of articulating the building blocks of Male Gaze, though, he did spend time chatting with Submerge about some of it.

“Trying to describe music is a painful process. Then it kind of falls into, ‘well, we sound like these bands’ and then everyone names the same bands and we all kind of come from the same punk place of all the music from up here. There are no surprises here.

We just wanted to keep things short and sweet. Let the music writers write about us.”

–Mark Kaiser, Male Gaze SubmergeMag.com

What can you tell me about how the band formed and what each of you were hoping to focus on with this project?

Basically, I was in the process of moving back from L.A. and I was talking with an old friend who was in one of the first Mt. St. Mtn. bands, The Mall [Adam Cimino]. He said he had a practice space and thought it would be awesome if we could jam there; he hadn’t been in a band in a while and was just kind of jumping in on people’s projects or recording with people or playing live here and there. We were just trying to get together and jam to see if we could come up with a concept. Once it started to solidify into feeling like we could totally play together—we had the space and kind of a loose idea of what we wanted to do—we started trying to bring people in. Blasted Canyons had broken up and Matt [Jones] didn’t have anything going on, so I reached out to him. He was someone I knew on the periphery because of Castle Face, who I know as business partners, and I was gonna put out a Blasted Canyons record a ways back, which ended up coming out on Castle Face. He came in and it sort of clicked.

There’s not a lot of material out there about your band, save for the mention of where the three of you came from, band-wise. I do know that the album sounds great though. Do you think it’s probably better that people take your band for what it is now and not for where it came from?

I don’t know. That’s what we’ve been mentioning

too, because that just helps people put a face to the name. All those bands were pretty wellknown at their time, so obviously we wanted to let people know who liked those bands that we’ve got a new thing going. With the Internet, we can get music out to everybody really quick.

We had a single up online for a long time and it circulated a lot. Bios always drive me crazy.

Trying to describe music is a painful process.

Then it kind of falls into, “well, we sound like these bands” and then everyone names the same bands and we all kind of come from the same punk place of all the music from up here. There are no surprises here. We just wanted to keep things short and sweet. Let the music writers write about us.

Music-wise, do you feel like there are real strong links between some of your past projects?

Yes and no. We weren’t fumbling through those previous projects; they were pretty well thoughtout and we were seasoned musicians and we’re older. I feel like those bands all had a bit of... we jelled into each of our own style of playing.

We each have our own style of playing, style of writing, so naturally we just kind of shuffle the deck and sometimes there are elements that sound like Blasted Canyons, or sometimes mildly Mayyors-ish. It’s more in sounds and tones as opposed to how we’re writing, and certainly there’s Matt’s voice, which was all over Blasted Canyons. I feel like it’s a pretty radical departure from what we were doing before.

When you first got together and cemented the trio, you had a single up really quickly. That’s in pretty stark contrast to your previous band, Mayyors.

Yeah, I put it out on Mt. St. Mtn. originally, and then we debated. I’d just come from a band who was off of the Internet and really very wellhidden, but that’s not how these guys wanted to play. So we ended up putting the single up on Soundcloud, and I was gonna do that for the label anyway. We had that up and kept recording; it was still really early on. We took what we learned from that and started applying it to recording the whole set and finding out through mixing what we wanted to sound like. It took some time; we recorded and re-recorded a few times figuring out what we wanted to do, and we definitely mixed that record about 10 times. So there was a lot of fine-tuning; we were still pretty new and the set was pretty fresh and we’d only played a few shows. We were just figuring out how we wanted to sound. It’s more of a first attempt than anything, but we’re real happy with how it turned out. It was a good starting point Male Gaze will be joined by to continuously Tiaras and Vasas on Sunday, March 29 at the Hideaway evolve.

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ance Gavin Dance, whose quirky and genre-defying sound fits somewhere between post-hardcore, progressive rock and screamo, isn’t worried that fans might not like their new album. Right now, they’re just pumped that they’ve found their groove, both creatively and within the band’s dynamic itself.

Since the band’s formation in Sacramento in 2005, DGD has gone through its share of rough patches. Despite a constant flux in band members, DGD now has a solid group of core members with a shared goal: making music they love, and being open to whatever form that comes in. Today, DGD consists of Tilian Pearson (vocals), Jon Mess (vocals/ screams), Will Swan (guitar/vocals), Tim Feerick (bass) and Matt Mingus (drums).

Their sixth studio album, Instant Gratification, showcases the energy, enthusiasm and eclectic influences that hooked fans from day one—with a good dose of sarcasm and some dirty rapping sprinkled throughout. The album blends elements from throughout their many eras, offering a little something for everybody—although pleasing such a diverse and divided fan base will be a difficult feat. It is slated for release through Rise Records on April 14, which is also the day they kick off their Instant Gratification Tour. Leading up to their big record release show, DGD is currently touring with Memphis May Fire, Crown the Empire and Palisades on the Take Action Tour, which wraps up in the beginning of April.

Submerge caught up with Tilian and Will at Kupros Craft House to chat about their upcoming album and tour, as well as what fans can expect to hear on their newest compilation.

What are you most excited about on the new album?

Will Swan: I really like the rap I laid down on it…it’s really sarcastic and dirty and messed up, but it’s funny in the DGD rap style that I created for myself.

You created a new persona for yourself?

WS: Every time I do a rap it’s from a new persona or perspective that’s not mine.

How would you describe this one?

WS: The song is kind of about being drunk and messed up, just a crazy night. My rap is from the “douchebag misogynist in the club” perspective.

What about you, Tilian? What are you excited about?

Tilian Pearson: It wasn’t necessarily as stressful as the last one, but there was more work involved. It’s definitely my favorite album that I’ve ever been a part of making.

Tell me about the writing and recording process on this one. It probably wasn’t actually "instant."

WS: It was pretty instant…I don’t like to spend more than a day in practice getting the song down. I’ll usually come to practice with the skeleton and the parts and know what I want to do and then teach everyone and flush it out with Matt and Tim and by the end of the practice it’s done. And I don’t like revisiting my own shit.

How long do you think the whole process took?

WS: We didn’t spend more than a day on each song, so with all the practices together it was like 11 days.

TP: But that’s instrumentally.

WS: Once the music is down it goes to Tilian and Jon and they do their thing.

TP: The vocals take a little bit more time…the producer had a nice big backyard and it was raining the majority of the time. I could kind of pace around in the rain, listen to the stuff, and figure it out.

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So all the instrumentals are ready and you’re just listening to it and writing over it?

TP: All the instrumentals are written first to a point where I think they’d be cool songs as-is and you would be able to just listen to the album as instrumentals and enjoy it. I feel like the vocals on this one—and I don’t think it was meant to be this way—wind up being more important than some of the past DGD stuff.

WS: Whatever it was instrumentally, once the vocals got put on it, the songs sounded completely different. It was like I was hearing it again for the first time. This record I felt even more of a transformation than usual from instrumental to vocals.

“Whatever it was instrumentally, once the vocals got put on it, the songs sounded completely different. It was like I was hearing it again for the first time. This record I felt even more of a transformation than usual from instrumental to vocals.”

–Will Swan, Dance Gavin Dance How have you guys managed to keep the same sound enough to keep a steady fan base when you’ve had, what, eight past members now?

WS: I have a very particular sound, and it comes out in what I write, and Matt has a very particular drumming style, and when he puts his drums to my guitar it makes a DGD sound. Everybody else adds their flavors too but the core of the song writing, of the instrumentals, still has that same sound and progression.

I’ve seen a lot of words used to describe your sound…hardcore, jazzy, progressive rock…how do you guys like being described?

WS: I don’t like having to confine things to genres…I have so many influences and listen to so much different music and like to try

and put tidbits of it all into the songs. So of course it kind of has a heavier tinge to it but there’s all kinds of stuff going on.

TP: It also depends who you are talking to. If I’m talking to someone 60 years old, I’ll just say it’s punk rock. If I’m talking to a teenager, I’ll say it’s post-hardcore, funky, with a little bit of screamo influences.

WS: And if I’m talking to one of my religious aunts, it’s devil music.

What do you think the fans will think of the new album?

WS: I feel like this album covers the most ground. It’s got probably the heaviest song we ever did, called “Shark Dad,” and some of the softest stuff, like “Death of the Strawberry,” and “Legend,” one of the catchiest songs we have ever done, and also the heavy, spook-style, epic screamo stuff. It goes all over the place in a way that none of our other records ever have.

Do you have very specific fan groups?

WS: There are definitely cliques. But as much shit as they talk, they’ll still like the new stuff…they’ll say things like, “this just doesn’t sound like my favorite album. But I’m still probably going to pre-order it.”

TP: It’s interesting when people say, "I miss a certain album. Don’t you have it? Can't you play it?"

Are people hard to please, just in general?

WS: I don’t think too much about pleasing the people as much as I do utilizing the people in the band to make the best album we can.

What would you like to see as the next evolution of the band?

WS: We’re still waiting for this album to come out to see what people think of what we just did.

But you said you don’t care what they think anyway, right?

TP: I want to hear it, and read it, and be like, I don’t care.

WS: It’s like comedy for me. I’ll go through and just see some of the mean things people say and it’s so shocking it’s almost like hearing a joke.

TP: Like when people actually speak to you directly on Twitter, or write a message like, I hope you actually choke on your food tomorrow and die, because you’ve ruined my favorite band.

[Laughs] What is one thing you think your WS: I would like to be in the Illuminati, and if any fans have any connections that could get me in…

TP: When we play live, I don’t actually sing. I’m actually only here for my looks. So I’m basically a pretty boy lip syncher for the band.

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The Boxing Donkey Total Recall, The Cash Tribute, Bobby and the Kennedys, 12 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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Fox & Goose The Pikeys, Bobby & The Kennedys, 5 p.m.

Harlow’s Kool Keith, Who Cares, DJ Whores, 7 p.m.

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

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

Starlite Lounge Implore, Plague Widow, Dissidence, 8 p.m.

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

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Dive Bar Todd Morgan, 8 p.m.

Fox & Goose British Pop Wednesdays w/ DJ Roger Carpio, 8 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe Tahoe Rustlers Heat, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Kyle Kinane, 7 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts The Count Basie Orchestra w/ Carmen Bradford, 7 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 7 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Lockdown Brewing Co. Open Mic Night feat. Erik Childs, 7 p.m.

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

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Skyler’s Sky, Blood Red Sky, 8 p.m.

Press Club The Vidos, The Baddest Beams, Rich Corporation, 9 p.m.

Sacramento State: University Union Redwood Room Nooner w/ Surviving the Era, 12 p.m.

Shine Midtown Out Loud Open Mic, 8 p.m.

Third Space Naomi Punk, PC Worship, Dad?, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Peter Petty & His Dubble P Revue, 9 p.m.

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The Blue Lamp The Grind Hip Hop Show, 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 Myon & Shane 54, 10 p.m.

Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose The Mike Justis Band, 8 p.m.

G Street WunderBar The Bumptet, 10 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe Tahoe Jelly Bread, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Moon Hooch, Scott Pemberton Trio, 7 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts The Count Basie Orchestra w/ Carmen Bradford, 7 p.m.

The Hideaway Bar & Grill Trash Rock Thursdays, 9 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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Powerhouse Pub Whiskey Maiden, 10 p.m.

Press Club Free Dance Party w/ DJ Whores and Friends, 9:30 p.m.

Shine Creative’s Night for “Charity: Water” feat. Open Mic/Jam, 6 p.m.

Sleep Train Arena The Rock & Worship Roadshow 2015 w/ MercyMe, Crowder, Matt Maher, Jamie Grace, Tedashii, Group 1 Crew and more, 4 p.m.

Starlite Lounge James Hunnicutt, The Hangdog Hearts, HonkyDonky & Heartbreaker, Swillin N’ Unwillin, 8 p.m.

The Stoney Inn Jackson Michelson, 9 p.m.

Third Space Broken Water, Deface Man, Cherry Pitt, Badlands, 8:30 p.m.

Torch Club Mind X Quartet, 5 p.m.; Red’s Blues feat. Derek Irving, 9 p.m.

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Back 9 Bar & Grill Denver J Band, Face 4 Radio, LP Sessions, 8 p.m.

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Berryessa Brewing Co. The West Nile Ramblers, 5 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Julie’A, Tom Slick, Sofa Kin Tight, 6 p.m.; Free Up Fridays w/ DJ Wokstar & guests, 10 p.m.

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The Colony Gehenna, Rat Damage, Augurs, Deathgrave, Xtom hanX, 8 p.m.

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Fox & Goose Massive Delicious, RGB (Album Release), Strawberry Girls, 9 p.m.

G Street WunderBar DJ Mouf, 10 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.

Goldfield Northern Traditionz, 9 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe Tahoe The Blues Monsters, 9 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Dogfish, 9 p.m.

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Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Mau, The Verge, Southlot, 9 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Pour House Manzanita, 10 p.m.

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Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Decades, 4 p.m.; Summer of Love, 9:30 p.m.

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Shine The Kally O’Mally Band, Cloudship, Seth A. Elsom, 8 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Proxy Moon, Mandolin Avenue, The Mollyhawks, 8 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Clean Slate, 9:30 p.m.

Tommy T’s Kenny Frye Band, 9 p.m.

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

3.21 Saturday

Ace of Spades Rebel Souljahz, Tribal Theory, CRSB, Eli Mac, 6:30 p.m.

Back 9 Bar & Grill Kaustik, Blaquelisted, Dr. Edrum, CaliG, Brutha Smith and More, 8:30 p.m.

Bar 101 Kingsborough, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Element Brass Band, 3 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Brubaker, Black Cat Grave, Hellbender, 8 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Denver J Saunders, 9 p.m.

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

District 30 Panic City, 10 p.m.

Fox & Goose Custom Debris, Red Union Blue, Five Three Oh, 9 p.m.

G Street WunderBar Skunk Funk, 10 p.m.

Goldfield Country DJ Dancing, 9 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe Tahoe Rusty Anderson Afternoon, 9 p.m.

KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Blame the Bishop, 9 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Pocket People, The Lily Project, Orange Morning, 8 p.m.

Midtown BarFly Throwdown w/ Lane 8, Jody Wisternoff, 10 p.m.

Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.; Brian & Friends Variety Show, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Benefit for the Mustard Seed School w/ Majickat (Cat Stevens tribute), Joe Kye, Adrian Bellue, 6:30 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Spider, DJ Ivan Guerrero, 10 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Pour House Ryan Hernandez, 10 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Zen Arcadia (Album Release), Some Fear None, Hero’s Last Mission, Roswell, 9 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

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Red Hawk Casino Maxx Cabello Jr., 10 p.m.

Rock Band University Stalking Distance, Strange Party, Removed, Cherry Pit, 8 p.m.

Shine Cosmopolitan Pirates, Miros, 8 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Bass-Sick Junglist 2: R3m Vs Autopsy, Fylosofee, Subliminal, Handsome Dodger, Critical Conflict, Intalekt MC, L-Ski, 8 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Hella Good Party Band, 9:30 p.m.

Torch Club The Count, 5:30 p.m.; Lara Price Blues Band, 9 p.m.

UC Davis: Jackson Hall London Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m.

3.22 sunday

Ace of Spades The Devil Wears Prada, Born of Osiris, The Word Alive, 6 p.m.

Bar 101 Dylan Crawford, 2 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Red’s Blues, 3 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Tim Barry, Jenny Owen Youngs, Cory Branan, 7 p.m.

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

Cache Creek Casino Marie Osmond & Friends, 4 p.m.

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

Crest Theatre Colin Hay, Chris Trapper, 6:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Dive Bar One Dollar Check, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Honey Honey, Cove, 7 p.m.

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

Powerhouse Pub Cafe’ R&B, 3 p.m.

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

Red Hawk Casino Westbound 50, 1 p.m.

Third Space Hounds of Hate, Busted Outlook, Torso, Rat Damage, Cross Class, 6:30 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

3.23 monday

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

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

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.

Goldfield Open Mic Night hosted

by James Cavern, 9 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m.

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

Press Club DJ Chrispy Tofu, 9 p.m.

3.24 Tuesday

Ace of Spades Dan+Shay, Canaan Smith, 6:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp The Draft Music Competition, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Mod Sun, Dillon Cooper, Blackbear, KR, Karizma, DJ Gnash, 6:30 p.m.

Crest Theatre Jonny Lang, Runaway Saints, 6:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Dive Bar Billy Manzik, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Danny Offer, 7 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 9 p.m.

LowBrau Le Twist Tuesdays w/ Sam I Jam, Roger Carpio, Adam J, 9 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.

Press Club L.A. Witch, Monster Treasure, Vasas, Death Party at the Beach, Radiator King, 8 p.m.

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

Torch Club Chris Twomey, Joseph Carroll, 5:30 p.m.; Ranell Carpenter, 9 p.m.

3.25 wednesday

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

The Blue Lamp The Precipice, Charlie Muscle, Boney-Jay, Brutha Smith, Chara Charis, DJ Whops, 8 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Like Vultures, End the Fight, Ballistic Burnout, 8 p.m.

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

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Dive Bar Brian Rogers, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose British Pop w/ DJ Roger Carpio, 8 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe Tahoe Asphalt Cowboys, 9 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 7 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Lockdown Brewing Co. Open Mic Night feat. Worthy Goat, 7 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Irish/Celtic Music Nite hosted by The Glens of Smow of Sambandha, 7 p.m.

Mix Fread Matters, 9 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Street Urchins, 8 p.m.

Press Club Astral Cult, Mos Generator, Lament Cityscape, Sol, Venetian Veil, 8 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Crude Studs, RAD, Cross Class, Dead Dads, The Strange Party, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Drunken Kung Fu, 9 p.m.

UC Davis: Corin Courtyard Classical Revolution Sacramento, 6:30 p.m.

UC Davis: Jackson Hall Lang Lang, 8 p.m.

UC Davis: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Donny McCaslin Group, 8 p.m.

3.26 Thursday

Ace of Spades SAMMIES w/ Stevie Nader, James Cavern, Century Got Bars, World Hood, The Westwards, Musical Charis and More, 6:30 p.m.

Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp The Moans, The Enlows, The Croissants, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Allegaeon, Product of Hate, Up In Smoke, Mechanizm, Sight Over Creation, 6:30 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Mothers Whiskey, Crimson Eye, Battle Hag, 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.

Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Chicken & Dumplings, 8 p.m.

G Street WunderBar Rock On! Live Band Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe Tahoe Alkadelics, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Tyrone Wells, Dominic Balli, Emily Hearn, 6 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts René Marie, 7:30 p.m.

The Hideaway Bar & Grill Trash Rock Thursdays, 9 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Main Stage Theater (Grass Valley) The Pimps of Joytime, Lafa Taylor, 8 p.m.

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Unconditional Arms Reptoid, Grill Cloth, Brave Season Cafe Colonial 8 p.m.

Midtown BarFly Still Dreamin w/ AMB, Lyfe, Head Soar, Scotty(Trees), Old Griff, 9 p.m.

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

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Dan Frechette, 2 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Brodie Stewart, 10 p.m.

Shine Doofy Doo, The Inner Ear Brigade, Nick Parker, 8 p.m.

Tommy T’s The Darling Clementines, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Mind X Quartet, 5 p.m.; Dippin’ Sauce, 9 p.m.

UC Davis: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Donny McCaslin Group, 8 p.m.

3.27 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Adrian Marcel, Ray Dogg, Netta Brielle, DJ Eddie Z, 7 p.m.

Back 9 Bar & Grill Nova Sutro, Shattered Fortress, Resurrection Of Ruin, 7 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Them Travelin’ Birds, 5 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Boondock, PhD. Musick, Mile High, Megapowers, M_i, 6 p.m.; Free Up Fridays w/ DJ Wokstar & special guests, 10 p.m.

The Boardwalk Have Mercy, Weatherbox, You Me and Everyone We Know, Head North, Zach Van Dyck, 6:30 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Adam Donald, 9 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Unconditional Arms, Reptoid, Grill Cloth, Brave Season, 8 p.m.

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

The Colony Vice, Swamps, SSA, Dive, Earth Down, 7 p.m.

District 30 Manufactured Superstars, 10 p.m.

Fox & Goose Peekablue, 9 p.m.

G Street WunderBar DJ Adrian G, 10 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.

Goldfield Michael Beck Band, 9 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe Tahoe Night Ranger, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Ewan Dobson, Adrian Bellue, 5:30 p.m.; Mustache Harbor (Yacht Rock Explosion), 9:30 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts René Marie, 7:30 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Trio Las Cruces, 9 p.m.

Lockdown Brewing Co. Chris Rallens Band, 7:30 p.m.

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Luna’s Cafe John Gruber & James Israel, The Signifiers, Audry Edde, 8 p.m.

Main Stage Theater (Grass Valley) Everyone Orchestra, 8 p.m.

Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino The Beach Boys, 8 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Odame Sucks, 9 p.m.

On The Y Blasphemous Creation, Beyond the Cemetery, Calluseyed, 30 Cent Solution, 9 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Pour House Denver J, 10 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub 8 Track Massacre, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Ryan Hernandez, 4 p.m.; Jackson Michelson, 9:30 p.m.

Shine Miss Mouthpeace, Zoey B, 8 p.m.

Sleep Train Arena Garth Brooks, 7 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Dire Peril, Helion Prime, Our Endless Obsession, Hammershot, Chaos In Mind, 7 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Audioboxx, 9:30 p.m.

Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; The Twilight Drifters, Kay Marie, 9 p.m.

UC Davis: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Donny McCaslin Group, 8 p.m.

3.28 Saturday

Ace of Spades Chelsea Grin, Carnifex, Sworn In, The Family Ruin, 6 p.m.

Back 9 Bar & Grill One Sharp Mind, Braden Scott Band, 7 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. The Bathtub Gins, 3 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Lef Deppard (Def Leppard tribute), Lovedrive (Scorpion tribute), 8 p.m.

Cafe Colonial The Lymbs, The Three Way, Embryo, The Magic Bullets, 8 p.m.

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

District 30 Helena, JDG, 10 p.m.

Fox & Goose Arts & Leisure, Vasas, Ancient Sons, 9 p.m.

G Street WunderBar Big Sticky Mess, 10 p.m.

Goldfield Country DJ Dancing, 9 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe Tahoe Night Ranger, 9 p.m.

King Woman Pregnant, Casey Chisholm Press Club 8 p.m.

Harlow’s Stillwood Sages, Hans! and the Hot Mess, 5:30 p.m.; Mahtie Bush, DLRN, Doey Rock, C-Plus, N8 The Great, Maryann Baegod, DJ Rip One, 9:30 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Punch Brothers, 8 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts René Marie, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m.

Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m.

Lockdown Brewing Co. Arrow Heart, 4 p.m.

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

Main Stage Theater (Grass Valley) Junior Brown, 8 p.m.

Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.; James Meder, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Sicfus, Sexrat, 9 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Pour House Matt Matheny, 10 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Boom Box, 10 p.m.

Press Club Dead Volts, Fernando, American Dirt, Jack Parker, 5 p.m.; DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino The Spazmatics, 10 p.m.

Shine The Ariel Jean Band, Andra Taylor and Nate Dodge, Macey Lynn, 8 p.m.

Sleep Train Arena Garth Brooks, 7 & 10:30 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Butch vs Femme (Album Release), PETS, Ghostplay, 8 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Moonwalker (Michael Jackson tribute), 7:30 p.m.; Rebel Yell, 9:30 p.m.

Torch Club Jesse Abbey, 5:30 p.m.; Daniel Castro, 9 p.m.

UC Davis: Corin Courtyard Peter Petty & his Titans of Terpsichore, 6:30 p.m.

UC Davis: Jackson Hall Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes, Anna Bass, 8 p.m.

UC Davis: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Donny McCaslin Group, 8 p.m.

3.29 Sunday

Ace of Spades Tierra, Malo, Dinorah & Crosswinds, 6 p.m.

Bar 101 Rich Krieger, 2 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Ground Score Willie, 3 p.m.

The Blue Lamp OnOff, The Shift, 3SD, Axiom, 8 p.m.

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

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

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Felipe Esparza Harlow’s 7 & 10 p.m.

The Colony PSO, Icko Sicko, The Blackheads, BackXburner, Dying Youth, 7 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Dive Bar Reggae Lou, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Metalachi, 7 p.m.

The Hideaway Bar & Grill Male Gaze, Tiaras, Vasas, 5 p.m.

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

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Awholelottabass & Alittlebitoffiddle Bluegrass Bands, 12 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Jeramy Norris, 3 p.m.

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

Red Hawk Casino Dave Russell, 1 p.m.

Sleep Train Arena Garth Brooks, 7:30 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Royal Jelly, Rubbidy Bubbidy, Honyock, 8 p.m.

3.30 Monday

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

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

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.

Goldfield Open Mic Night hosted

by James Cavern, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Pete Rock, Slum Village, Hanif, 8 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m.

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

Press Club King Woman, Pregnant, Casey Chisholm, 8 p.m.

Sleep Train Arena Garth Brooks, 7:30 p.m.

Starlite Lounge Weedeater, King Parrot, Badr Vogu, Cura Cochino, 8 p.m.

Comedy ComedySportz Sacramento “The Set” Sketch Comedy Group, March 26, 8 p.m.; March 28, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Kyle Kinane, Johnny Taylor, March 18, 8 p.m.

Felipe Esparza, March 21, 7 & 10 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Ladies of Laughter feat. Robin Fox, Dana Eagle, Alycia Cooper, March 20, 7:30 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Best of Open Mic Showcase, March 17, 8 p.m.

Say It Out Loud Comedy w/ Ricco da Great, Shelby Taylor, Trevor Joyner, Sean McKenzie, Shaun Grady, hosted by Michael Calvin Jr., March 19, 8 p.m.

Ace Guillen, Ryan Noack, March 20 22, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Luke Ashlocke, Kristen Frisk, March 27 - 29, 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.

Comedy Showcase hosted by Jaime Fernandez, March 18, 8 p.m.

Punchline Comedy Club DTF Presents: Hot Five, March 18, 8 p.m.

Cameron Esposito, Sean Keane, Lydia Popovich, March 19 - 21, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.

Lance Wood & Friends, March 22, 7 p.m.

Mick Foley, Brendon Burns, March 25, 8 p.m.

Ari Shaffir, Dean Delray, Joe Gorman, March 26 - 28, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.

Will Durst, March 29, 8 p.m.

Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 8 p.m.

Cage Match, Tuesday’s, 9 p.m.

Improv Lab, Harold Night & Gordon Teams, Wednesday’s, 7 - 10 p.m.

Gag Order & Improv Jam, Thursday’s, 8 - 10 p.m.

Top 10 Podcast, Friday’s, 7 p.m.

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

48 Hour Comedy Marathon, March 27 - 29 Tommy T’s Shane Murphy & 2 Leprechauns, March 19 - 22, 7 p.m.

Daryl Wright, March 27 - 29, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

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20th Street (Between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, every Saturday, 8 a.m.

Arden Hills Live With the Chef: Amazing Local Asparagus, March 25, 6 p.m.

Axis Gallery What Weighs the Iron?

by Benjamin Alexy & Justin Marsh, through March 29 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.

Brickhouse Gallery Connections by Daphne Burgess, through March 28

Capitol Garage Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m.

Crocker Art Museum ToulouseLautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880–1910, through - Apr. 26 Crocker Park Girls on the Go Half Marathon, 10K, and 5K Run-Walk, March 29, 8 a.m.

Elliott Fouts Gallery The Landscape feat. Joevic Yeban, Michael Chamberlain, Laurie Winthers and More, through April 2 Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m.

Goldfield Free Line Dance Lessons, Tuesday’s, 8:30 p.m.

Bar Games Night: Beer Pong, Corn Hole and More, Wednesday’s, 8 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts The Sacramento Master Singers: Celtic Journeys with Men of Worth, March 17, 7 p.m.

El Dorado Musical Theatre’s High Voltage Unplugged, March 21, 2 & 7 p.m.

It’s Magic!, March 29, 2 & 6 p.m.

Historic Old Folsom Farmers’ Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m.

John Natsoulas Gallery Philippe Gandiol Solo Exhibition, through April 11 Liaison Lounge & Restaurant Crafter and Artist Faire Food and Clothing Drive, March 22, 12 p.m.

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

Red Dot Gallery Common Threads feat. Linda Welch, Melanie Brown, Stephen Schumm, through March 28 Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center Camellia International Folk Dance Concert, March 28, 3 p.m.

Sacramento Raceway Park The Dirty Girl Mud Run, March 28, 9 a.m.

Sacramento State: University Union Ballroom Lecture w/ Dr. Vandana Shiva: Cultivating Diversity, Freedom, and Hope, March 19, 3 p.m.

Time Tested Books Book Signing w/ Author Daniel Arnold, March 19, 7 p.m.

White Buffalo Gallery Bodily Disfuctions feat. Jonathan Buck, Shaun Burner, Vivan Freeland, Waylan Horner, Daniel Meidinger, Jared Tharp Various Restaurants, Bars & Eateries Sacramento Food Film Festival, March 19 - 29 Verge Center for the Arts Spring Art Class: Pysanky 2.0, March 28, 11 a.m.

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If I were feeling particularly lazy and succinct, I could sum up my recent experience at East Sacramento Italian restaurant Mamma Susanna’s in a two-word review: FUCK YEAH. But, I’ll elaborate, as I’ve been revived from the lovely Italian food coma into which I slipped after devouring quite the spread at this hidden local establishment. And I’m assuming you’d like some details before deciding to go check it out.

First, has anyone else noticed that there are a bajillion Thai, sushi, pizza and barbecue joints in this town, but hardly any full-blown Italian restaurants? Buca di Beppo and Il Fornaio are both chains, and Biba is freaking expensive, although I’ve heard it’s awesome; Michelangelo’s, my locally owned Italian go-to, closed. Newly opened Adamo’s is good, but doesn’t have that family dining setting or romantic, European atmosphere that strikes me as Italian; it’s more in the vein of an Italian-inspired menu in a no-frills modern setting.

I’m forever on this tirade that that’s what Sacramento could use: not another restaurant of the abovementioned types, but a good, affordable, Sacramento-grown Italian place.

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We were rolling nine-deep when we showed up at Mamma Susanna’s, with a common goal to each order something different, and all share everything. So we sat down at a long booth with a plastic red and white gingham tablecloth and ordered what can only be described as a ton of food.

At Mamma Susanna’s, while you wait for your grub to arrive, they bring you this killer rosemary focaccia bread to dip in olive oil and balsamic vinegar. By the time the food came, I was already getting full.

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The Fettucini Milanese was a seafood lover’s slice of heaven, with scallops, mussels, clams and prawns on a bed of noodles, swimming in a slightly spicy saffron and white wine sauce. The Risotto Oceanica was a spicy wine marinara arborio rice dish laden with salmon, prawns and scallops.

“One of the No. 1 entrées on the menu is our Penne Norcina,” says Michelle Gully, who owns the restaurant with her husband, Bob. “It’s a penne pasta with a creamy marinara, Italian sausage and red peppers.” I agreed that this was one of my favorite dishes I tried, although to be honest, it was all kind of a blur with the abundance of wonderful food, wine and conversation being passed around the table. The Penne Rustica was topped with grilled chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts and a white wine sauce, and also stood out as a particularly palatable plating.

Perfectly chewy yet yielding, the expertly cooked Potato Gnocchi Sorrento, in a delectable pesto sauce, seemed almost to top one of my all-time favorite comfort foods, spaghetti and meatballs.

And on that note, Mamma Susanna’s meatballs were dauntingly large, good and garlicky—and on top of the spaghetti, they didn’t skimp on the hearty marinara sauce and grated parmesan cheese.

With a different take on a spaghetti dish, the Affumicato relied on

smoked chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, feta cheese and a tangy and smoky wine sauce to set it apart from the classic spaghetti dish.

Lastly, on a plate that seemed to weigh about 18 pounds when handed from one happy homie to the next, was the Bronx Calzone, stuffed to blimp status with pepperoni, ricotta, mozzarella, garlic, mushrooms, marinara and pomodoro sauces.

As you can imagine, by now, we were all ready to be rolled out on stretchers, and my son had fallen asleep with his head on the table, his little dome dwarfed by the mountain of food in front of him. Nary a frown was to be seen throughout the restaurant, for as the sign hanging over our table reminded us, “The fondest memories are made when gathered around the table.” (Well, many of the fondest memories anyway.)

The restaurant has always been, since its beginning, a gathering place for friends and family. Recently purchased by the Gullys, it has long maintained its reputation among those who are aware of its existence as a feel-good, family-oriented haunt. “That’s why I purchased Mamma’s—the relationships I’ve built with some of the amazing people that continue to return,” explains Michelle. “I started there as a server a few years ago, then became the manager,

then had the opportunity to purchase… my husband and three kids work here, as well as the great staff that stayed on with me.”

She’s kept the menu and prices intact, a wise move considering the restaurant’s renowned Italian classics are set at a reasonable price point. The only change she’s considering is adding some less calorie-rich options to the menu, and if so, I hope the additions are with Italy’s simple recipes—comprised of fresh, quality ingredients— in mind.

The following morning, I had trouble zipping up my pants, but as they say in Italy, “Chi mangia bene, vive bene”—he who eats well, lives well. I ran it off later that day. It’s possible that the decline in Italian restaurants has something to do with Americans’ trendy low-carb diets in response to our cultural obsession with being skinny to an extreme. However, Mamma Susanna’s is located in when I went to Italy, everyone the River Park Shopping Center was fit, beautiful and exuded at 5487 Carlson Drive in East Sacramento. For hours, more calm and happiness, in spite of info or to make a reservation eating a lot of pasta. call (916) 452-7465 or visit Everything in moderation—a Mammasusannas.com. little starch will make you smile.

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Run All Night Rated R Words Jacob Sprecher The honeymoon is over, and it lasted seven years longer than you probably ever imagined. I’m not referring to Liam Neeson’s tenure as a respectable actor—no, not in the slightest. I’m referring to his tenure as a respectable action hero. It all started back in 2008 with the surprising success of the first film in the Taken franchise. Neeson, 56 at the time, suddenly and seamlessly transitioned from esteemed Hollywood heavy to esteemed heavy-hitter. He had always been gruff, sullen and steeled, even brutally violent (Gangs of New York), but it wasn’t until Taken that he became a full-blown hard-ass. And that’s a damn rare thing for an actor pushing 60, perhaps even unheralded. It seems that in feature films, you’re either doing that stuff by your 30s or 40s, or you’re not really doing it at all (at least not successfully). Harrison Ford toyed with it in the ‘90s, but he never really broached the straight tough-guy shit like Neeson has. With Ford, there was always a hint of duty, or civic importance (i.e. Air Force One, The Fugitive, or the Jack Ryan character). Neeson is just Joe Blow with a past, buzzing around beating the piss out of people.

And, for the record, he’s good at it. He’s big and brooding and kinda scary, and possesses an on-screen physicality that lends itself as naturally as natural can be for a man now in his early 60s. But in the last three years alone we’ve seen Neeson take the lead in two more Takens, Non-Stop and A Walk Among the Tombstones, all of which are lock-and-load action flicks, the latter being one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

His latest starring role comes in the form of Run All Night, a lackluster mob thriller featuring Ed Harris in the two slot. The basic gist is that longtime hitman Jimmy Conlon (Neeson) runs afoul of his boss, Shawn Maguire (Harris), after killing his son

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out of the necessity to protect his own estranged kin. I could fill you in on all the details, describing the tenuous balance between Maguire and his hamfisted, I-got-ideas-of-my-ownDad! offspring (Boyd Holbrook), or the terribly tragic you’re-ahitman-Dad-so-I-hate you! relationship between the Conlons, but that would imply the story was worth caring about, which it isn’t. Run All Night is basically 112 minutes of mindless action cliches: hard-drinking Irish mobsters; crooked cops; honest detectives; professional killers that won’t stop until the job is done; and so on and so forth.

Oh yes, Run All Night has it all, up to and including action sequences that suspend disbelief even in the scope of bad action movies, and that oddly typical character arc where the serial-killer-for-hire reflects with remorse on a life misspent and therefore becomes honorable.

But you probably could have guessed all that on your own.

The real question is where does Liam Neeson go from here?

The shtick is clearing wearing thin, and after Run All Night flops, the next stop for his action hero career is straight-tovideo, a place that the likes of Bruce Willis and Nicolas Cage currently reside. But if we’re lucky—and I have a feeling we are—Neeson will get back to that place that his inner Oskar Schindler calls home, or his Michael Collins, or his Priest Vallon, or Valjean, or Alfred Kinsey, or any one of the many, many excellent dramatic roles imparted over the last 25 years. And while this movie certainly reeks, it’s not as if his time spent as an action star has been devoid of merit: Liam Neeson is a certifiable Hollywood tough guy, in my book, and somehow more relevant than most brawny stars half his age.

But the jig is up. It’s time to move on. I see that he’s got a comedy (Ted 2), a dramatic fantasy (A Monster Calls) and a historical drama (Silence; Scorsese) all in the can through 2016, and that’s fabulous. So I’d like to recant my earlier testimony, and say that Liam Neeson will only “officially stink” if he continues uninhibited down this same path. Take a few years off from ripping throats, and then get all Clint about it around 70 and start crowing about the sanctitude of your lawn. That’s my plan, at least.

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We got the short end of the stick here in America as far as our leaders in politics go.

Sure, our president—and you’re free to debate whether he’s an effective one or not (if there’s even such a thing as an effective president nowadays) —is an extremely charismatic public figure; and sure, all the bickering within both houses of Congress is more akin to the rantings and ravings of a Jerry Springer audience than actual governance, but there’s a dearth of the wacky and unexplainable. Sure, there are those in Congress who refuse to believe, despite heaps of scientific evidence, that evolution is a thing (let’s not even go as far as climate change…one thing at a time here), but that’s easily explained with a simple, “Well, they’re idiots.” Done and done. In other parts of the world, their leaders are way more enigmatic and totally bonkers.

Vladimir Putin is challenging Kim Jong-un for the top of that list. As February turned to March, Putin, who seems to absorb the spotlight much in the same way as the cast of The Jersey Shore soaked up fake tans, mysteriously stopped making public appearances. The rumor mill started flying about what could have happened to him, and some of the shit people were saying was absolutely awesome.

The first was that his disappearance was linked to a botched Botox injection. I started with this one because it was my least favorite of the rumors. I mean, it’s really funny, but if life were a movie and Putin was, like, the evil mad scientist or something that you eagerly wanted the hero to defeat, and said hero vanquished him with a single injection of Botox, you’d be pretty disappointed. But I guess for someone who portrays himself as so macho, the irony of being undone by such a wimpy medical procedure is pretty awesome.

Another rumor was that he was in Switzerland to witness the birth of his love child. This is the most National Enquirer of the Putin rumors. I guess it’s OK, because it kind of reminds me of something James Bond would do—the problem being, I like James Bond and Putin is more of a power-hungry, homophobic dick. It was being reported by various sources

that Putin’s perhaps-girlfriend Alina Kabaeva, a medal-winning Russian rhythmic gymnast (i.e. someone James Bond would totally have sex with) gave birth to a baby boy (or girl?) in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino. However, it’s unclear whether or not this birth ever really happened (I couldn’t find confirmation one way or the other). The Kremlin denied this was the cause of Putin’s absence from the public eye. I just don’t know what to believe anymore. Is life even real, bro?

My favorite rumor involved a coup. A coup!

Could you imagine such a thing? Could you imagine if our populace cared enough about where their government was steering the country to pull their heads out of their smart phones and actually throw a coup? It’s like a fantasy. Coups happen all the time all over the world, just not here. I guess if you have three SUVs in your driveway, whether you’re pissed off about the government “trying to take your guns away” or not, coup-ing is near the bottom of your to-do list. We’ve just got it too good over here. Reuters was reporting that the killing of opposition party leader Boris Nemtsov had stirred the pot within Putin’s palace, causing a divide among his allies.

Of course there were rumors that he was seriously ill or even dead, but, no, as far as we can tell now, the dude’s still kicking.

In actuality, he was probably just under the weather—maybe? TV Rain, Russia’s independent news network, reported that he had the flu; however, an Austrian news outlet said Putin was dealing with back problems. Uh… wait. So, like, maybe the flu is in his back? Oh OK, there’s an official statement that probably cleared everything up. When asked about Putin’s health and whereabouts, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, “The topic is closed.”

OH! Oh. Well I guess there’s nothing more to write about.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mourn the passing of one of my all-time favorite writers, Sir Terry Pratchett. Thank you for the Good Omens. Rest in peace.

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