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Halloween is just around the corner! Over the past few years I’ve played it pretty mellow, because I love handing out candy to the kiddos in my neighborhood. The reward of seeing their little faces light up when they grab two or three mini candy bars out of my bowl by far surpasses the feeling of dealing with crowds of drunk people and my own hangover. However this year, dare I say I might mix things up, and not only hand out candy before 8 p.m., but brave some Halloween parties and late night debauchery as well, all because I read our well-rounded list with a ton of fun things to do here in Sacramento on or around Oct. 31. You too can read more about The Nightmare Before Christmas screening and costume party, a Spooky Figure Drawing Studio, a costume party with the local band Mind X and many other Halloween events in our column “The Stream” on page 8. One of the things that stands out most on that list is seeing Odesza at Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo on Halloween night. Not only are they on that list, but we have an interview with them starting on page 14. We were able to get some time with them on the phone while they were overseas on tour, and it was just a couple days after the release of their new album, A Moment Apart. I have loved their sound ever since I discovered their first album, Summer’s Gone, which came out in 2012. I remember Brian McKenna of Abstract Entertainment booking them around that time at Blue Lamp on a Sunday or Monday night, and I wasn’t able to make it because we were on a deadline sending files to our printer. I remember hearing they played to like eight people. But since then they’ve headlined festivals like Snowglobe, played to a sold out crowd in early 2016 at McClellan Park here in Sacramento, and just before they come back to our town for Halloween, they have three sold out shows at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley! Now go read. Learn. Do rad stuff.

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Halloween might fall on a Tuesday this year, but that won’t stop us from having a good time! There is a lot going on around town, it can be tough to keep up with it all. So we compiled a list of some of the cooler sounding events happening on (or around) Halloween night. Whether you go out or stay in to hand out candy to kiddos, we hope you have fun and stay safe.

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Some of the biggest names in electronic dance music are playing Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo on Halloween night, including headliners Odesza (who are just on the heels of releasing their critically acclaimed new album A Moment Apart) with support from Illenium, SOFI TUKKER and Kasbo. 18-plus, 6 p.m., tickets start at $41. Odesza. com/shows for more info. Be sure to read our exclusive interview with Odesza also in this issue! They killed at Concerts in the Park in the summer of 2016, so we’re pumped to see Authority Zero is coming back to town to play the newly opened Holy Diver on Halloween night with support from Mouse Powell and Another Damn Disappointment. All ages, $13 in advance, 7 p.m. Holydiversac.com for more.

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Mind X

Marshall Park will host the popular annual Midtown Halloween Festival and Pooch Parade on Saturday, Oct. 28 from 1 - 3 p.m. Live music by The Hoots, food from local restaurants, face painting, bounce house, hands-on arts and crafts and much more. Free, all ages welcome.

Not in love with the idea of going out on a Tuesday night? Can’t blame you, mid-week hangovers are the worst! Check out The Torch Club for their Halloween Party on Saturday, Oct. 28. Local favorites Mind X will provide the tunes. $8 with costume, $10 without. 21-plus, 9 p.m.

Lite Brite Productions brings their 11th annual Halloween night party to Country Club Lanes. It’ll be a Beetlejuicethemed event featuring more than 20 DJs, four dance areas, crazy laser light shows, free bowling, movies and more. 18-plus, costume required, 8 p.m., $35 in advance. Facebook.com/beetlejuicer for more.

Midnite Events returns with Fright Night 2017, a massive party at Sacramento Convention Center on Friday, Oct. 27 featuring headliners Diplo along with Excision and more. 16-plus, 8 p.m., tickets start at $52. Midniteevents. com/frightnight2017 for more.

If you’re looking for something a little more mellow on Halloween night, hit up Two Rivers Cider Company for their Movie & Costume Night where they will be showing The Nightmare Before Christmas and giving out prizes for best costumes. Ride your bike and get $1 off your first cider! Family-friendly, entrance is free, starts at 7 p.m.

Verge Center for the Arts is hosting a “Spooky Figure Drawing Studio” on Halloween night from 6 - 8:30 p.m. They’ll start with short poses and then one long two-hour pose. $10 for members, $15 for non-members. Adults only.

If you’re looking for a barcrawl-meets-haunted-house, you’re in luck. The Crawl of Screams will invade multiple bars on Saturday, Oct. 28, including Mango’s, Republic Bar & Grill, University of Beer and Old Tavern. You’ll get a sweet color-changing cup, one free drink, special prices all night, candy and treats, plus more. Learn more at Facebook. com/crawlofscreams. The Ooley Theatre in Midtown is currently hosting a famous play written by Gardner McKay called Toyer: An Unavoidable Tragedy, which Variety has called, “A classic mystery that always keeps you guessing on the edge of your seat.” This is a great option for a spooky, fun night out that doesn’t involve a loud bar or nightclub. Shows are at 8 p.m. on Thursdays through Saturdays, now through Oct. 28, with a special showing on Halloween night as well. Tickets are $20. Emhpros. weebly.com for more info.

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THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST DYING THE AMERICAN WAY BOCEPHUS CHIGGER bocephus@submergemag.com We have a real problem with guns in this country, and it will not be fixed with thoughts and prayers alone. Nearly 600 people were injured and 59 killed in Las Vegas Sunday, Oct. 1, making it the largest mass shooting in America yet. One old white man with a 23-gun arsenal carefully selected his perch high up in a hotel across the street from a country music festival and murdered people in cold blood. So far, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why he did it, and chances are we never truly will. We wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find out the motive of this crime because the man who killed and hurt all those people also shot and killed himself. As we have seen before, this is usually how this goes; someone shows up with a lot of guns at a place with a lot of people, shoots as many people as they can and then shoots themselves before anyone can find out why they would do something this cruel and senseless. Then we cry, hug our loved ones, write our congressmen and two weeks later we move on until the next tragedy strikes. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing it like this since the Columbine massacre of 1999, but this time it must be different. This cannot be who we are. We have all fought for too much to let or world fall apart like this. We cannot sit silently by and let all these lives be lost for nothing. According to the Guardian, more than 1,700 people have been killed and over 6,500 people have been injured in mass shootings in the United States in just the last five years. The people killed were men, women and children, and they came from all ethnicities and backgrounds. Any one of us could be a victim, and that should scare you. Fear may be all we have left to make change. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried to reason our way through these events with stats and common sense regulations, but reason has not prevailed. Maybe fear will. Maybe we will all have to be too afraid to leave our homes before something actually happens. Maybe once we stop going to the mall, concerts, movies, work and school, the powers that be will start to listen. It seems that a total shutdown could be the only thing that makes Congress act. I say that because money is the only other way to get Congressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention, and the NRA already has more of that than you. According to the Pew Research Center, most Americans agree we need to prevent the mentally unstable and people on the no-fly SubmergeMag.com

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16 Performances, 4 Weeks, 1 Destination! Old Sacramento’s Live at 5 Music Series Heats Up Thursdays in October

We’ve often wondered why there aren’t more live music series that happen in the fall here in Sacramento. With those wretched 100-degree days behind us (thank the lord!), fall is arguably the best season weather wise in the Sacramento valley. Warm days, cool nights, it’s the perfect backdrop for some bar hopping and music watching. Enter Old Sacramento’s “Live at 5” concert series, a brand new Thursday night series that just launched last week and will continue through the end of October. From 5–7 p.m. every Thursday, some of Sacramento’s best musicians will play free shows at four participating Old Sacramento restaurants and bars: Fat City Bar and Cafe, Rio City Cafe, SacTown Sports Bar and Grill and Ten22. Just some of the acts organizers have lined up to play are Justin Farren, The Bumptet, Ross Hammond, Banjo Bones, Simple Creation, Alex Jenkins Trio and many others. Enjoy a good variety tunes, happy hour specials on food and drinks, walk around and then tell you friends about it, because Live at 5 ends on Oct. 26! To view the full lineup and see a breakdown of who is playing which venue on which days, visit Facebook.com/oldsacramento, Oldsacramento.com or follow them on Instagram (@OldSac). See you on Thursdays in Old Sacramento!

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The Oak Park Fix-it Cafe Returns to Help Neighbors Repair Bicycles, Household Items, Clothing and More • Oct. 21 Got a busted lamp at home? Flat tire on your bike? Big rip in your favorite sweater? Rather than buying replacements or paying someone else to fix them, grab all your broken ass stuff and head down to meet up with the amazing folks at The Oak Park Fix-it Cafe on Saturday, Oct. 21 at Oak Park United Methodist Church (3600 Broadway, Sacramento). “The Oak Park Fix-It Cafe is a new community collaboration intended to help build and empower our community by connecting neighbors to repair and maintain bicycles, clothing, household items, and more,” organizers wrote on their Facebook page (which you can find at Facebook.com/ oakparkfixitcafe). This month’s meetup will be the fifth gathering so far and will have all the usual repair/advice stations along with a strong focus on preparing for winter weather (repairing coats, re-waterproofing clothing, gathering donated winter wear to hand out to the homeless, etc.). The event is free and open to everyone from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you can’t make this one, mark your calendars in advance for the next, because The Oak Park Fix-it Cafe is scheduled to happen the third Saturday of each month. More of this sort of thing, please, Sacramento! Be good to each other.

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Watch the 18-Member Calidanza Dance Company Dazzle Under the Stars in Crocker’s Courtyard • Oct. 19 Looking for a family-friendly Day of the Dead celebration like no other? Leave it to Sacramento’s first professional Mexican folk dance company, Calidanza. On Thursday, Oct. 19, this 18-member dance troupe will bring high-energy performances to Crocker Art Museum’s outdoor courtyard for Noche de Muertos! Organizers promise a “complete, immersive experience” with not only jaw-dropping dance routines, but also “fantastical costumes” on display by designer Rory Castillo and his Catrina Catwalk Fashion Show. Plus, enjoy a light show by George Holden (who has worked with everyone from Santana, to Jefferson Airplane, to Van Morrison, no big deal!) and live music from San Francisco’s Vinic-Kay, an experimental group of Folkloric musicians. For more information and to snag tickets ahead of time (which we strongly suggest), visit Crockerart.org or Calidanza.org. Students and youth are just $14, Crocker members are $16, and general admission tickets are $20.

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Brats & Beats! Sausage Fest 2017 to Take Over Midtown’s MARRS Building Block Oct. 21 Eleven of Sacramento’s best chefs are taking it to the streets for LowBrau and THIS Is Midtown’s first-ever “Sausage Fest,” a block party featuring music, dancing, a hot dog eating contest, a beer garden, cocktails and, yes, many delicious sausages. It’s going down Saturday, Oct. 21 starting at 5 p.m. outside the MARRS Building on 20th Street between J and K. It’s free to attend the event, but tickets to taste a sausage from each participating chef are $25, which also includes a free beer and swag bag. Chefs like Mike Thiemann from Empress Tavern, Oliver Ridgeway from Grange, Tyler Bond from Kru and Matt Masera from Hook and Ladder will all be on hand, plus many others. Enjoy all your favorite dance hits with a performance from One More Time: A Tribute to Daft Punk, as well as local DJs Roger Carpio, Adam Jay, and Shaun Slaughter. To get your sausage tasting tickets ahead of time, visit Eventbrite.com and search for “SausageFest.”

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NOT ANOTHER REPLICANT BLADE RUNNER 2049

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WORDS RICHARD ST. OFLE Reboots and sequels, amiright? We’re gonna be seeing a lot of them in the next few years. Dirty Dancing, Drop Dead Fred, Pet Sematary, The NeverEnding Story, Clue, The Birds, Police Academy, Scarface and Gremlins are all either in preproduction or production. Twenty first century America is a manifestation of half-ironic boyhood nostalgia. In Portland, there’s an army of mustachioed train conductors and chimney-sweeps; in Detroit they’re building giant toys that bear the names of our dads’ favorite muscle cars; in San Francisco there’s a Street Fighter-themed bar in the Mission, where you can spend $60 for the right to spend $15 on a drink; and in Hollywood, executives unimaginatively dust the cobwebs off of your favorite childhood films and repackage them. It’s the world we live in right now, and it fucking sucks, folks. As a screenwriter, I see this bullshit as the cancer that’ll eventually kill the industry (and the reason it’s so hard to get steady work). As a cinephile, I see it as the unravelling of the seams of our culture. But this one is different. Written by screenwriting legend Hamptn Fancher (whose credits include the original Blade Runner), and executive produced by (Blade Runner director) Ridley Scott, Blade Runner 2049 builds on the original and adds something new SubmergeMag.com

to the conversation. In fact, my problem with reboots and sequels isn’t that I’m inherently against a part two, it’s that so often, the second telling is so boring, bloated and safe. Blade Runner 2049 is none of that. Just as 1982’s Blade Runner was about body politics, and was born into a world of cutting edge artificial hearts and “testtube babies,” Blade Runner 2049 is about identity politics, born into a world of non-binary gender, intersectional feminis and the dismantling of gender roles. The film challenges us with the definition of humanity, and puts forth a handful of characters, each with both a viable claim to humanity, and a notable piece missing. Does loving make us human? Does being born make us human? Does being recognized as human by other humans make us human? Do our memories make us human? Interestingly, the film asks each of these questions in the form of a character, struggling to lay claim to their humanity. Perhaps most interestingly, the film doesn’t answer the question for us, which is the catalyst for an even bigger question: What the fuck is a human in the first place? Why are we even bothered with who does and doesn’t belong in that category? The film follows the blade runner (in the future, that’s what we call the cops who hunt down and “retire” the “replicants”: robot slaves who are nearly indistinguishable from humans) called K (Ryan Gosling) as he bumbles into a conspiracy that fractures the fragile wall dividing human and non-human, discovering that one of the replicants had somehow given birth to a “human” (excuse

the quotes, but for the sake of this review, we’re still asking what the fuck that word means). This conspiracy, of course, was desperately kept secret by those in charge so as not to disrupt the power dynamic. K pulls on the thread, following it all the way through the strange world of manufactured dreams, implanted memories, fabricated bodies and beings (tangible and intangible) who walk the fine line between human and non. K falls in love with a sentient hologram, and with her help, sets out to find (and “retire”) the baby who was born to a replicant. Along the way, Fancher and director Denis Villeneuve lay the groundwork for what seems to be a really lame twist, something you can see coming from a mile away. Brilliantly - and I don’t want to ruin it here for you - it was all a red herring, and the twist that you think is gonna be a twist, isn’t a twist at all, which springs open a new and truly magical twist that, well, you’ll have to see to believe. In all, Blade Runner 2049 is less interested in rendering homage to its predecessor and snacking on the nostalgia the film conjures, and is more interested in building on the legacy it left behind, picking at the wounds it left, and exploring the questions it didn’t answer. It would have been really easy to make this into a boring Hollywood sequel and make some cash, and it would have been incredibly easy to fuck it up. Fancher and Villeneuve took the road less traveled, though, and use the film to do something truly special. This is not just a replicant, it’s the real thing. Let’s hope Hitchcock’s The Birds fares as well.

Issue 250 • October 9 – October 23, 2017

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ODESZA GIVES THEIR INTIMATE NEW ALBUM AN EPIC MAKEOVER IN THE LIVE SETTING WORDS ANDREW SCOGGINS • PHOTO TONJE THILESEN

desza has been headlining festivals, selling out arenas and topping the electronic charts for months and it’s easy to see why. Their shows are roiling waves of glittering twenty-somethings, smiling, bouncing and grooving in multilayered seas of synth ecstasy. Slap a pair of headphones on and you begin to feel the scope of the music, the infinite slow building area of sound that stops somewhere on the moon. These are the soundtracks to smoke filled late-party chill-outs, red-eyed flights and nighttime pool lounging. With the incorporation of a full brass band to their live sets, Odesza manages to feel like someone packed New Orleans into an underground warehouse party—just the right mix of close intimacy and blown out confetti celebration. It’s easy to see how the music became popular; it’s simply jarring to trace the explosion all the way back to two fresh-faced boys out of college trying to make music before they were forced to get “real jobs.” Speaking with Harrison Mills by telephone while he’s walking around under a bridge in London, it’s refreshing to hear his rationale on music making. Mills is intent on smashing together influences that range from trap and hip-hop all the way to Bossa Nova, in order to sneak these deeper genres into tasty jams for the

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more casual listener. And it’s clear that the band isn’t interested in pursuing clubby bangers, they’re searching for the deeper, larger sound that transports the listener. Odesza’s latest album, A Moment Apart, released in September 2017, opens with a woman speaking about a Russian cosmonaut peering out of the view hole of a spaceship looking at the curvature of the Earth with a small knocking rhythm as his only company. The knocking builds into the first track and by the second, “Higher Ground,” the listener is already there in the space ship. Naomi Wild’s achingly sweet voice strikes the perfect balance between a lonely longing for home and a feeling of already being there with trailing fingers, wrapped in soft sheets. You see it in the faces of the revelers moving to the rhythm cascading through the speakers, eyes closed, lips moving to the words, millions of miles outside of their bodies on songs like the swaggering “Late Night,” or their international smash “Say My Name.” Blending the deep waves of synth, into the throbbing, pulsating bass lines creates a tightrope walk for the audience and they’re either swaying with their eyes closed or shuffling in time with their hands up. It’s a delicate balance to create and Submerge spoke with Mills about the process of crafting it while shuttered in during the dark Seattle winter.

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Can you speak a little bit about the formation of the project and how it has changed since then? I mean, we were just two kids in a basement right out of college making music before we had to get real jobs. So I’m not sure if there was a real goal in mind. I think we were inspired by a bunch of different kinds of music, and we were trying to find a way to use production as a way to genre blend. We wanted to make headphone music that still translated to the dance floor and still play out live. Is that still the goal? Well, when we make our live show we treat it as a totally different medium. We make a lot of new versions of our songs, so in some ways we’ve built things more for the medium that they’re presented in. So our albums have become more intimate and in our live shows have become bigger and more epic I guess? How’d you set about making your live show bigger? I mean we have a drum line that comes out; we have horns. I have a guitarist that sometimes plays bass for songs. Me and Clay are doing drumming, triggering stuff. We try to treat it as a really theatrical piece, try to make it more fun. We try to jump through a lot of musical styles throughout, so there’s a dance section, a heavy section, an intimate section; we try to make it really feel like a show. We’ve

spent a lot of time building it that way. It’s just something we’ve always loved so we try to incorporate a lot of things in our live show and our albums in that way. Because your music feels so cinematic what kind of movie would you want to score? I’m a big fan of science fiction, so like Blade Runner maybe. That soundtrack is amazing. But I love a lot of different artists who’ve done scores before. I’d be up for anything; I think I’d jump at the opportunity to do it. Can you talk about how you guys came to the sound of Odesza? How would you define it? That’s kind of a tough question. We do a lot of different styles of music, I mean from something like “Bloom” to something like the Regina Spektor song [“Just a Memory”] are just so different. One is very personal and almost minimal, and the other is big and has horns with a trap influence. So it’s tough to define exactly what we do … I think we build in a lot of different sounds. I think there’s a bit of a hip-hop influence that doesn’t get recognized as often. I grew up on really loving hip-hop production, that’s where I started. Loving electronic music, and just trying to trick people into hearing a bunch of different genres and wanting to make it feel cohesive, that’s always a fun project.

So you’d say the hip-hop element is the thing that pulls it together? There’s that and there’s this youthful element of euphoria that we’re always grasping at. It has a driving background from the hip-hop production and more focus on the drums from kinda the hiphop world. But then again in the new album, there’s a lot of Brazilian influence and Bossa Nova, and all these other percussion elements. And there’s all these little elements that trickle into each song. What’s your songwriting process like and was it different from your new record? I think in a lot of ways we’ve grown a lot as artists and as people. We’d been on the road for three and a half years touring our first and second albums. And so we had stopped touring and it was the first time being home and actually having silence for a moment. And I think it gave us a moment of reflection and perspective through it all, and I think the growth and maturity from that has added depth to the new album. Would you say recording this in Washington has shaped the record in some way? I think coming back to our roots, in the harsh winter, it really bred creativity. Then again, when you’re shut in for so long you can kinda lose your mind. We just had a lot of time to reflect on the album we really wanted to make. So that’s what it ended up being.

Would you say that ended up making your album a little bit darker? I think our previous work had so many positive overtones because we had longed for summer and hadn’t gotten it very often. So that light and sunshine was the inspiration for what we were doing. But for this album, this was the first time we tried to make a full spectrum and sound … We had never delved into the darker and more melancholic kind of sounds we liked. We were just touching these things we had always enjoyed in music. And with darker, people sometimes interpret that as sad, but I think there’s a beauty in melancholic melodies and this was the first time we really embraced it. Can you talk a little bit about the collaboration on the new album? Well this is the first time we were the most involved in every piece of the process instead of writing it over email. We would go to a lot of studios, and we’d sit down with a lot of singers and they wrote it either with us or next to us. It felt more collaborative in that way. What would you bring into the studios? We’d come in with really simple ideas, maybe like a loop that maybe had a chord change into a chorus style beat. But we really wanted whatever they chose was something that really resonated with them. Because everyone we worked with, we believed in their voice, their lyricism,

the things they do well. Sometimes studios really feel like doctor’s offices and they don’t really breed creativity in a lot of ways. So we wanted to make something really laid back and have them choose something that they were drawn to. We’d start small with something small and then build all the pieces. Then we’d take it home and work it through from scratch with the vocals we had recorded. What would you say is the best way to experience your music out of the live setting? The albums I’ve really loved are sometimes like background music to the things I’m doing. Like, I’d put an album on before I’d taken off in a plane and I would listen to the whole thing from start to finish and then I’d want to hear it again. I think it’s an intimate album and should be heard with headphones. Maybe when you’re doing something where you can get lost in it. Personally I would say, taking off in a plane with headphones on, but it’s subjective. People should experience it in their own way, whatever makes sense for them.

See Odesza live when they play Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo in Sacramento on Oct. 31 (aka Halloween). Also performing will be Illenium, SOFI TUKKER and Kasbo. Tickets can be purchased at Odesza.com/shows. This is an 18-andover concert.

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DOUGLAS PRYOR BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO AN ANCIENT ART WORDS ANDY J. GARCIA

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ou probably don’t know too many blacksmiths. I don’t. I don’t know any. But now I know Douglas Pryor, because he’s the shit at fucking with metal. He’s more metal than a rare Venom cassette at that thrift store in Orinda. He is a Sacramento guy you may not have heard of … yet. Metallurgy and blacksmithing are something

orcs in your head. I got a younger brother and dragged him everywhere and that sort of thing, and found some martial arts teachers that would teach us how to sword fight. That was OK, but I couldn’t afford my armor or anything, so I started learning how to make it, and that was one of the big reasons for getting into smithing at all, so I could sword

people can generally assume is done by a robot or a marginally paid worker in a place with chains and sparks flying everywhere to the glowing backdrop of molten metal pouring from a massive chalice. “As I got into metal work, I was cutting grass as a kid, for a neighbor, and he had a coal forge in his backyard,” Pryor recalls. “I bought my first coal forge, bought my first shitty anvil when I was 16. I mean I didn’t have much, I had a ball peen hammer and a garage to use it in.” So, a young Pryor peened away at his steel. Perhaps not surprisingly, it was the realms of fantasy that got Pryor first interested in metalworking. “When I was in high school, a lot of medieval movies were coming out,” Pryor says. “I think the first Lord of the Rings movie came out, and you know as kid, you’re all about it. You are slaying

fight competitively.” As the appeal of clashing steel and honor lost its luster, he wanted to learn how to make his own armor; art born of necessity. “But after the testosterone balanced out a little bit and that wasn’t so important, but I was still fervent about the metal work, because it turns everything into a blank canvas,” Pryor says. “So, I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but got hooked up at Sierra College. They’ve got an amazing welding program through the school, and I pretty much ran through all the programs, kept taking all their metal arts courses until I couldn’t take anymore. Learned enough to find out what I wanted to do next.” So Pryor decided to delve deeper into his craft. He learned more about welding and found inspiration in the art world.

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“You look at these museum pieces, and they didn’t have a Miller Multimatic [welding

steel. In the future, Pryor says that there may be even more impressive works on the way.

system] around,” Pryor says. “How did they accomplish better sculpture than we are doing today? “You learn all the answers to these questions and they leave you with more questions,” he goes on to say. “Where do you go when there’s no institution to teach these things? You’ve got to leave the institution and find people who know.” That’s exactly what Pryor did. Founded in 1977, the California Blacksmithing Association has more than 600 members statewide. They offer resources such as job placement and classes, from level one, to certified instructor. “I got hooked up with the California Blacksmithing Association,” he says. “A ton of the old guard is starting to go out, so they need new blood … it’s just like anything. If you don’t keep it alive and there’s no need to keep it alive … we’ll lose it.” Pryor says he’s been fashioning armor for “10-plus years.” A quick perusal of his website will reveal that he’s achieved a high level of skill at his craft. Lion Head, with its fantastically flowing mane and rich oil patina, looks more like the work of some longforgotten deity than a mere mortal. His equally awe-inspiring The Elephant, which Pryor has been working on through the mid-summer and early fall, is a mammoth piece (pun intended) fabricated out of a 6-foot-tall hunk of plate

“I worked with Tony Swatton,” he says. “He’s made all these swords for Pirates of the Caribbean, he made the hook from Hook. We worked on some stuff that will come out in 2019.” Sculpting with metal is a skill that has been passed down through the ages, and Pryor does his part to keep the craft alive by offering classes. Working with steel may seem like a daunting task for the uninitiated (and it most likely is), but as Pryor puts it, it’s really just like any other art when you get right down to it. All you need is a willingness to work and a lot of imagination. “Metals turn into blank canvases,” Pryor says. “And all your chisels become paint brushes, if you can draw you can chase.”

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Heterogenous, a show featuring Douglas Pryor, Emerald Barkley, Elena Botts, Ivan Farmer and Bruce Gossett, will have its opening reception at FE Gallery (1100 65th St., Sacramento) on Oct. 14. Pryor will be performing a live blacksmithing demo at the reception. The show will run through November. If you’re interested in taking one of Pryor’s classes, check out his website Douglaspryor.com, or you can also follow him on Facebook @DouglasAPryor.

Issue 250 • October 9 – October 23, 2017

THE NEVERENDING STORY

BRENDAN STONE ADDS A NEW CHAPTER TO HIS EVER-EVOLVING SONGBOOK WITH HIS LATEST BLUE OAKS ALBUM WORDS DANIEL ROMANDIA

olk singers are the novelists of the music world. Each song they write is a different chapter that ultimately creates the story that they wish to tell. Brendan Stone, lead singer and founder of Sacramento outfit Blue Oaks, makes more than folk music, but the music he makes follows the folk tradition in that it tells a story—one that he’s been wanting to tell for nearly a decade. Stone doesn’t make simple folk. His music is often darker than not and takes inspiration from genres across the board. He might end up making a psych record if that’s the music he’s gravitating toward when he’s writing. Genre isn’t so cut and dry for Stone. A Blue Oaks tune may start with some guitar plucking that comes straight from the mountains, but quickly turns into a track that will remind you more of Kurt Cobain than Woodie Guthrie. Adhering to genre just isn’t Stone’s thing. He expresses a deep love of all music and wanted to contribute more than what Blue Oaks puts out into the world. So, he opened Stone Vintage Music Boutique (1409 R St. Ste. 103) just a few doors down from Ace of Spades to create a space for Sacramento’s music community. The shop will be closing for a time, however, while Stone heads out on tour, and he has plans to eventually relocate to a new location so he can add a full-fledged venue to the space. We recently visited Stone’s shop to talk to him about Blue Oaks’ new album To Be Kind is Sin, religion and letting go of perfection. Blue Oaks will release its new LP on Oct. 13 with the full band, including longtime drummer Cody Walker, with a seven-deadly-sins-themed album release show Monday, Oct. 30 at the Clara Auditorium (1425 24th St.).

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How long ago did you start Blue Oaks? It started with me solo, playing acoustic, and that went from when I was 12 with another name but the same songs. From when I was 15 until now, it’s gone by Blue Oaks. From when I was 15 until 21, I played solo. It was the same songs, but not a lot of them were written yet from the album. Then I got Cody on drums when I was around 21 and he wasn’t a drummer. You got him to do it anyway? That works out better because there’s no competitive nature. It’s just primal instinct, which sounds better in my opinion. I feel like that’s part of what made the White Stripes' dynamic work— that Meg was kind of a terrible drummer but she could play with feeling. It’s just you two? We went from solo to two-piece to three-piece to two-piece to four musicians, and I think last time we played Harlow’s we had five. Then it

went back to a full-band setup again. The record release we’re doing on the 30th will have bass, drums, guitars, keys, violin—the full shebang of instruments. It’s really cool because that’s always how the songs sounded in my head when I wrote them, but it’s not always possible to do [what you want] live. You can’t copy yourself and play all the parts. Yeah, that’s true. Once you’re live, you have to compromise sometimes. In the studio you can, which is cool, but not in real life. The To Be Kind is Sin album is interesting because a lot of the songs, the folk songs from the record, were back from when I was 17 through 19. It’s funny because I was more of a folk singer-songwriter playing open mics and kind of built an audience, then started writing. I was really getting into Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Nick Drake at the time, so it was kind of just happening subconsciously. You’re just listening to so much of that, it comes off on your music. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

What was it like once Blue Oaks stopped being a solo project? I met Cody and we started playing live and it just gets louder and louder as you play with a drummer. We started creating builds. Like the song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nicotine,â&#x20AC;? it builds up from this John Lee Hooker shuffle and keeps getting heavier. It has very strong dynamicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it goes quiet, loud. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the things that good rock music is known for doing, like the Pixies and Nirvana. All that early â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s stuff. To be able to go down quiet and kick up, and we started doing that, which really derived from getting sick of people talking over you.

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You seem like a nice guy. Why is being kind sin? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to tell what it means because I want to leave it up to interpretation, but it did come from a feeling I had growing up. The record embodies the human state, the good and evil within people and the eternal battles we have on a daily basis. I think that everyone has that, whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re religious or not. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a moral compass in everybody. One thing I noticed growing up is that a lot of the most righteous people were the most judgmental, hateful, negative people. A lot of the bohemian, hippie, goth, alternative kids were the most welcoming, open-minded, beautiful people. You have these judgmental people who claim to be of Christ-like descent, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy to me that they are the ones that are seen as the non-sinners. So, the title derives from something along the lines of that. Asking â&#x20AC;&#x153;is to be kind sin if this is how the world is?â&#x20AC;? No amount of religion is going to tell you about someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life experience. The songs actually have a lot to do with that if you listen to the record. I try to leave it up to interpretation. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a religious person. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think so. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t judge those who are. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no opinion of mine to do so. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really appreciate being criticized for my personal beliefs either. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that light is cast upon the things that people are too scared to talk about and the album has to do with that. I figured thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no better title to call it because it encapsulates that feeling.

Blue Oaks' new album To Be Kind is Sin comes out Oct. 13, 2017. Watch them play the new album live in its entirety on Monday, Oct. 30 at CLARA Auditorium, located at 1425 24th Street. Doors open at 7 p.m., a $5 minimum donation is suggested, 21-and-over only. Learn more at Blueoaksmusic. com or Facebook.com/blueoaksmusic.

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They just played it the way itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to be played. Yeah, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing against them, but their job is to just come in and play the music. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the same as you vibing with someone. Cody and I vibe together really well, always have. It sucks because the songs were finally recorded, a lot of them sounded amazing and I paid a lot of money to be there. I could tell that Cody wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happy with it and it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t what the record was supposed to sound like. I ended up flying home after recording the whole album.

We recorded the whole album again in Placerville. We scrapped that, too. It sounded pretty close to what I thought it should sound like, but the quality wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there. Then Cody and I thought we would go with a minimal approach and just recorded it with two mics in a room. Almost like the early Black Keys record where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just raw. It sounded really good, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the same. So, we ended up going into Gold Standard Sounds. It sounds exactly how it was supposed to sound in my imagination, which is a good feeling as a musician or as any artist. Like I [would] guess if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a painter and it comes out exactly how you want it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never going to be perfect, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just letting go of the idea of perfection and knowing that letting go is what makes it good.

I can believe that. When you play open mics, a lot of the people are very attentive and want to hear every verse. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll notice if you annunciate weird. Then once rock guitar comes into it, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really hear annunciations at all. So, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this weird beauty, in that folk is so pure. When you end up on rock shows playing folk music, people just talk over you. It just gets really negative. It got to this point where I feltâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not disconnected from the Sacramento music sceneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but I felt we could do everything we could do at the time. I was putting in so much effort at the time. We had played most of the venues. We had done most of the interviews. We had gone out of the city and realized that playing out of the city was more fruitful than playing in our hometown, which was upsetting. I ended up moving to Austin. Living there and seeing a real music city thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fully developed and has been for a long time, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing. When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there, you start to realize how oversaturated those cities are and how everyone is trying to â&#x20AC;&#x153;make it.â&#x20AC;? It overshadows people who are doing it honestly. I ended up spending most of my time working, not doing music and it was really isolating. I ended up missing my bandmate, Cody. I ended up going into the studio and hiring session players. We did all the songs. Going in with the session players, [the music] just kind of molded itself, but they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play it how I wanted it.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The record embodies the human state, the good and evil within people and the eternal battles we have on a daily basis.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Brenden Stone on his new album To Be Kind is Sin

I got a decent following from that, and I probably could have recorded a folk record. Then I got into Delta blues and started realizing thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a genre thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like folk-blues. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of where Bob Dylan was going. It worked out in a way, getting into Delta blues, then I started writing songs like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nicotineâ&#x20AC;? thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the record and â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Be Kind is Sinâ&#x20AC;? and I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Woah, this feels much more like what I want to be doing.â&#x20AC;? I still hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recorded the folk record, and I had all these new songs and I felt like those [folk songs] werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t who I was anymore. They were just, like, diary entries.

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10.09 MONDAY

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s JD McPherson, Nikki Lane, 5:30 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. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club Skeleton Hands, Statiqbloom, Crimes AM, 8 p.m.

10.10 TUESDAY

Blue Lamp Rosetta, North, Kyntallah, Saint Apostate, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre The Mavericks, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Crystal Garden feat. Boyd Tinsley, Brian Rogers, 7 p.m. Holy Diver MAX, Rozes, 7 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe West Coast Songwriters Competition, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Torch Club Bill Mylar, 5:30 p.m.; Michael Ray Trio, 8 p.m.

10.11 WEDNESDAY

Ace of Spades Cafe Tacvba, Mariachi Flor De Toloache, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Open Mic, 6:30 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Midnight Ghost Train, Shotgun Sawyer, Gnargoyle, 8 p.m. Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Sarah Jarosz, 7:30 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Nashville Nite w/ Side Wheeler, 8 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Golden 1 Center The Weeknd, Gucci Mane, Nav, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Marc Broussard, Carsie Blanton, 7 p.m. Holy Diver Barb Wire Dolls, Svetlanas, 57, 7 p.m.

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Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Press Club Teenage Dirtbag! ‘90s Alt Rock House Party, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase in the Round w/ Gavin Caanan, Alex Walker, 5:30 p.m.; Jonny Mojo, 9 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Hambone Slim and Blues Dues, 6 p.m.

10.12 THURSDAY

Ace of Spades Cafe Tacvba, Mariachi Flor De Toloache, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Doc Tari, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp Skelator, Niviane, Hellfire, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. The Colony Worthy Goat, Call Me James, Floral Jacket, Stereo Sound, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Fat City Bar & Cafe Live at 5: Scott Ferreter, 5 p.m. Fox & Goose Michael B. Justis, 8 p.m. Harlow’s TAUK, Klozd Sirkut, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Charlie Musselwhite, Bobby Rush, William Bell, 7:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Drab Majesty, Creux Lies, Some Ember, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides The Easy Chairs, Emoji Kingdom, 8 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 10 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Placerville Public House Sloth & Turtle, Pterodaniel, Benjamin Hecht, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Moonshine Crazy, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Brodequin, Euphoric Defilement, Cartilage, Forced Feed, 8 p.m. Rio City Cafe Live at 5: Mic Smith, 5 p.m. Sacramento State: University Union Ballroom IAMSU!, Daghe, DJ Rated R, 7:30 p.m. SacTown Sports Bar & Grill Live at 5: Banjo Bones, 5 p.m. Shady Lady Dbaba, 9 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Ten22 Live at 5: Justin Farren, 5 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; City of Trees Brass Band, Smokey & The Groove, 9 p.m.

10.13 FRIDAY

The Acoustic Den Cafe Anna Tival, Wolf Creek Boys, Matt Bradford, 6:30 p.m. Babe’s Lounge (Elk Grove) Stevie Mello, 8:30 p.m.

Bar 101 Broken & Mended, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. A Thousand Years at Sea, 5 p.m. The Boardwalk Ride for Reason PreParty feat. The Greg Golden Band w/ Jeff Keith (of Tesla), 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Peter Cetera, 8 p.m. Cafe Colonial Spanish Love Songs, Tightrope, Reverse The Knife, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Club Car The Steven Menconi Band, 9 p.m. The Colony Without Hope, Shorelines, Kincade, Atomic Flounder, Zephira, Hatteras, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Rolling Heads, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Back Alley Buzzards, True Margrit, Blame the Bishop, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Christian Scott, 8 p.m. Holy Diver Among the First (Album Release), Restrayned, Control, 6:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Mason Durst, Tyler Mehlbaff, Swan Baby, 8 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Galantis, CID, 9 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall The Gloaming, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Jon Stickley Trio, 8 p.m. On The Y Exodus: Gothic Industrial Nightclub w/ DJ Nachtdoom, A Death in Bloom, 9 p.m. Opera House Saloon Billion Dollar Nightmare, 8 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Eddie Edul, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Pop Rocks, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. The Purple Place (El Dorado Hills) The Pressure Lounge, 8:30 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Audioboxx, 9:30 p.m. Shady Lady Zorelli, 9 p.m. Shine Spangler, Native Harrow, The Meadows, 8 p.m. Torch Club Empty Wagon, 5:30 p.m.; Niki J. Crawford, 9 p.m. Toyota Amphitheatre Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge, Granger Smith, 7 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Lucy’s Bones, 6 p.m.

10.14 SATURDAY

The Acoustic Den Cafe Dakota Sid & Travers Clifford, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Adrian Bellue, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. The Todd Gardner Band, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp The Kennedy Veil (Album Release), Solanum, The Odious Construct, Cyborg Octopus, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Ride for Reason AfterParty feat. Savannah Blue w/ Jeff Keith, 1 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Peter Cetera, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage The Corner w/ DJ Veyn & Guests, 10 p.m. The Center at Twenty-Three Hundred Sacramento Women’s Chorus Birthday Bash, 7 p.m.

Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Makana, 8 p.m. Club Car Big Iron, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Unlicensed Therapy, 9:30 p.m. Harlow’s Tera Melos, Speedy Ortiz, Gentleman Surfer, 6 p.m. Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Los Lonely Boys, 7:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Cantare Chorale, 7 p.m.; Folsom Lake Symphony, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Jordan Blake, Pretty Handsome, Misha Allure, Chelsea Hughes, Ally Gold, 6 p.m. John Natsoulas Center for the Arts 10th Annual Jazz and Beat Festival, 1 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Yo & The Electric, KaiLord and More, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Amrinder Gill, 8 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Elvin Bishop, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.; Hill Country Band, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Triple 7’s, Trim, 9 p.m. On The Y Veio, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon Branded, 9:30 p.m. Palms Playhouse (Winters) Ray Bonneville feat. Richie Lawrence, 8 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Peeti V, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub 8 Track, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. The Purple Place (El Dorado Hills) Revolution Beat (Beatles tribute), 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Audioboxx, 10 p.m. Sacramento Bike Kitchen Desario, Soft Science, Electro Group, 7 p.m. Sacramento Community Center Theater Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, 8 p.m. Sauced BBQ & Spirits The Corduroys, 9:30 p.m. Shady Lady Ross Hammond, 1 p.m.; Element Brass Band, 9 p.m. Shine Blurred Out, Short Trip, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Anna Tivel, Justin Farren, 9:30 p.m. Swabbies on the River Fryed Bros, 2 p.m Thunder Valley Casino Resort The Lettermen, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Natalie Cortez, 5:30 p.m.; Earles of Newtown, 9 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. According to Bazooka (Album Release), 6 p.m.

10.15 SUNDAY

The Acoustic Den Cafe Ukulele Jam and Singalong, 11 a.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. The Sensations, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Nik Turner’s Hawkwind, Hedersleben, Art Lessing and the Flower Vato, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Lil Debbie, Salsalino, DJ Eddie Z, 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Ms. Tung Yao, Mr. Raymond Cho, 1 & 4 p.m. Capitol Mall Greens Downtown Chowdown 2017 w/ Salt-N-Pepa, Phillip Phillips, Chase Bryant, 11 a.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Jessica Malone (EP Release), Manzanita, Xochitl, 5 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Susan Lamb Cook and Friends, 2 p.m.; ABBA Fab (ABBA tribute), 2 p.m.; IntiIllimani, 8 p.m.

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Holy Diver Corey Feldman and the Angels, Creux Lies, Free Candy, Killer Couture, 6:30 p.m. La Sierra Community Center Carmichael Community Dance feat. The John Skinner Band, 2 p.m. LowBrau Throwback Jams w/ DJ Epik & Special Guests, 9:30 p.m. Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Alexander String Quartet: Schumann, Brahms and the Curse, 2 & 7 p.m. Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo Punk in Drublic w/ NOFX, Goldfinger, Less than Jake, Flogging Molly, Bad Cop/ Bad Cop, Get Dead, 1 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Vall Starr, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Shady Lady Alex Jenkins, 9 p.m. Sutter Creek Provisions Darin Sexton & Hwy 49 Band, 3 p.m. Swabbies on the River Rachel Steele, Road 88, 2 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Julie and the Jukes, 3 p.m.

10.16 MONDAY

Blue Lamp Sutekh Hexen, Hissing, Abstracter, Defecrator, 8 p.m. Cafe Colonial War Curse, Dismantle, Incredulous, X-Method, 7 p.m. Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Rising Appalachia, Gill Landry, 7 p.m. CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) Noel Jewkes Quintet, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Jr Jr, Hembree, 6 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Boz Scaggs, 7:30 p.m. (Sold Out) Holy Diver Emarosa, Subtlety, A Lot Like Birds, Jule Vera, 6:30 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. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club Sun Valley Gun Club, Hard Girls, Vvomen, 8 p.m.

10.17 TUESDAY

Blue Lamp Onry Ozzborn, 2 Mex, Early Adopted, 9 p.m. Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Rising Appalachia, Gill Landry, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Goldfield Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Tim Reynolds and TR3, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Boz Scaggs, 7:30 p.m. (Sold Out); Folsom Lake College Music Department Preview Concert, 7:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Beginning Bluegrass Club, 6:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall Sacramento State Symphony Orchestra Concert, 8 p.m.

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10.18 WEDNESDAY

Ace of Spades George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Open Mic, 6:30 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp G Val and friends, 8 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Nashville Nite w/ Mike’s Lost & Found, 8 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Jay Som, Palehound, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Robben Ford, 7:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Joe Bonamassa, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall Sacramento State Concert Band, 7 p.m. Sacramento State: University Union Plaza Nooner w/ Jette, 12 p.m. Shine Speak Out Sacramento Open Mic, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase in the Round w/ Jeffery Felsher, Joe Lev, 5:30 p.m.; Matt Rainey, 9 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Hambone Slim and Blues Dues, 6 p.m.

10.19 THURSDAY

Ace of Spades Bebe Rexha, Marc E. Bassy, 6:30 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Doc Tari, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp Slow Season, Cloud Catcher, Peace Killers, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Face Your Maker, Hive, Visions of Ire, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9 p.m. Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Simply Three, 8 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Davis Odd Fellows Hall Sarah Potenza, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Island of Black and White, 9:30 p.m. Fat City Bar & Cafe Live at 5: Ross Hammond, 5 p.m. Fox & Goose Chicken & Dumpling, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Las Migas, 5:30 p.m.; Red Fang, Once & Future Band, 9:45 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Janis Joplin tribute, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Armor-G, Kidd Doxx, Koolaid, Santi Jayy, Grammar, James Knight, Newskii, Kflex, DKSpitta, Bsuavee, Discrete, 6:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Acoustic Jam, 7 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 10 p.m. Palms Playhouse (Winters) Cassie and Maggie, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Acoustic Den Cafe The Bag Men, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Dave & The Box, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. The Big Poppies, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Ladies Rock Camp Fall Showcase, The Rip-Offs, 5 p.m. The Boardwalk Tonic Zephyr (Album Release), Aaron Taylor, 2 p.m.; Nef the Pharoah, Fast Life Meech, 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Los Huracanes Del Norte, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage The Corner w/ DJ Veyn & Guests, 10 p.m. Club Car Beyond the Rails, 9 p.m. The Colony Sloome, Nezumi Onna, Slug Muffin, Jacob From Twilight, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. FRIDAY El Dorado Saloon Big Trouble, 9:30 Armadillo Music Floral Jacket, Your p.m. Local Cemetery, Planet Pedestrian, Fox & Goose Spangler (Album 5:30 p.m. Release), Dante Romandia, 9 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Toney Rocks, Harlow’s House of Floyd (The Pink 7 p.m. Floyd tribute), 7 p.m. Ace of Spades Paul Weller, Lucy Rose, Harris Center for the Arts Janis Joplin 7 p.m. tribute, 2 & 7:30 p.m. Bar 101 Jason Weeks, 9:30 p.m. Holy Diver Emo Night Brooklyn, 10 Benvenuti Performing Arts Center p.m. Jazz At The Ben, 7 p.m. Jean Henderson Performing Arts Berryessa Brewing Co. The Casual Center It’s About Time Jazz Concert, Coalition, 5 p.m. 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Dev, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Trio Nomas Tres, Bill Meyer, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. MARRS Building Block Sausage Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Jack Fest w/ One More Time (Daft Punk Wright (Neil Diamond tribute), 8 p.m. tribute), DJs Shaun Slaughter, Adam Jay, Roger Carpio, 5 p.m. Club Car Stegall and Lambeth, 9 p.m. The Colony American Discord, Dead is Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Hudson (Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, Better, Danger Inc., 7 p.m. John Medeski and John Scofield), 8 Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Rockology, 9 MontBleu Resort Casino Grand Funk p.m. Railroad, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Honey B & the Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Cultivation, Pacific Roots, 9 p.m. Class, 1 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, Old Ironsides Lipstick w/ DJs Shaun 10 p.m. Slaughter & Roger Carpio, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Together Pangea, Tall On The Y Graybar Hotel, 7 p.m.; Juan, The Side Eyes, 5:30 p.m.; Karaoke, 9 p.m. Wonderbread 5, 9:30 p.m. Opera House Saloon BlackWater, 9:30 Harris Center for the Arts Janis Joplin p.m. tribute, 7:30 p.m. Palms Playhouse (Winters) The Holy Diver Bulletboys, 7 p.m. Steepwater Band, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Danny 6 p.m. Mijangos, 9:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Cherry Pocket Jones, Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Hans & The Hot Mess, Spacewalker, PJ’s Roadhouse The Convalescence, 9 p.m. Wings Denied, Shaping The Legacy, On The Y Jack Ketch, The Odious Death Rattle, Wastewalker, Wandern, Construct, Zephira, Wolfhouse, 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Opera House Saloon Remix, 9:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Cheeseballs, 10 p.m. Palms Playhouse (Winters) Jonatha Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Brooke, 8 p.m. The Purple Place (El Dorado Hills) The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Eddie Edul, One Sharp Mind, 9 p.m. 9:30 p.m. Red Hawk Casino The Wiz Kid, 10 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Sauced BBQ & Spirits Gotcha Covered, Powerhouse Pub Thunder Cover, 10 9:30 p.m. p.m. Shady Lady Current Personae, 9 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Shine Stig, Bad Mother Nature, 8 p.m. The Purple Place (El Dorado Hills) The Silver Orange Crooked Teeth, Some Fear None, 8:30 p.m. Sincerely Me, Welcome Home, Red Hawk Casino Superbad, 9:30 p.m. Average League, 6 p.m. Red Museum So Much Light, Hobo Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Michael Nau, Johnson, Doofy Doo, 8 p.m. Skyway Man, 9:30 p.m. Shady Lady Switch Blade Trio, 9 p.m. Swabbies on the River Caravanserai (Santana Tribute), 2 p.m. Shine Pregnant, Imelda Marcos, 8 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Sutter Creek Provisions Abalone Grey, Puddles Pity Party, 7:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Torch Club Loose Engines, 5:30 p.m.; The Nickel Slots, Jeff Crosby, 9 p.m. Swabbies on the River PlayBack (Sublime Tribute), 6 p.m. Torch Club Midtown Creepers, 5:30 p.m.; Shaky Feelin’, Tony Glaser Band, 9 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. South Sac Jooks, 6 SUNDAY p.m. Ace of Spades The Jesus and Mary Chain, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Ukulele Jam and Singalong, 11 a.m.; The Singer & The Songwriter, 1:30 p.m. SATURDAY Berryessa Brewing Co. Sourdough Ace of Spades Brujeria, Piñata Protest, Slim and Robert Armstrong, 3 p.m. 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Avance, 1 p.m. Press Club Paul Collins, Plastic Shoelaces, Boy Romeo, 8 p.m. Rio City Cafe Live at 5: Love and Honey, 5 p.m. SacTown Sports Bar & Grill Live at 5: The Bumptet, 5 p.m. Shady Lady Harley White Jr. Orchestra, 9 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Ten22 Live at 5: Jessica Malone, 5 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; The Storytellers, The Scouse Gits, The Gargoyles, 9 p.m.

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Cafe Colonial Wurm Flesh, The Last Titan, Set Trip, Zephira, xTom Hanx Vs. BARC (Battle set!), 7 p.m. The Colony Slutzville, Killer Couture, Rebel Holocrons, Lightweight, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Harlow’s The Trashcan Sinatras, 6 p.m. Holy Diver Ohmme, Petaluma, Write Or Die, Dahlia Fiend, 7 p.m. LowBrau Throwback Jams w/ DJ Epik & Special Guests, 9:30 p.m. Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Andrew Bird, 7 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Daniel Castro, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Shady Lady Groove Project, 9 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Alex Trujillo, 2 p.m.

10.23 MONDAY

Ace of Spades Issues, Volumes, Sylar, Too Close To Touch, 6 p.m. Blue Lamp Author & Punisher, Mood Swings, 5 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Mario Spinetti, 5:30 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.

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Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Mad Libs w/ Host Allie Yada, Oct. 11, 8 p.m. On the Y Open Mic Comedy w/ Host Robert Berry, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. Punch Line Comedy New Material Night w/ Mike E. Claimstake Brewing Comedy At The Winfield, Oct. 11, 8 p.m. Claim w/ Johnny Taylor Jr., Keith Sarah Tiana, Johnny Taylor, Hosted Lowell Jensen, Hosted by Kim Martel, by Jill Maragos, Oct. 12 - 14, Thurs., 8 Oct. 14, 5:30 p.m. p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m. Crest Theatre Margaret Cho: Fresh Off Johnny Taylor, Daniel Hamburger, the Bloat, Oct. 19, 6:30 p.m. Hosted by Irene Tu, Oct. 15, 7 p.m. The Pump and Dump “Band of The Mexico Earthquake Relief Mothers” National Tour, Oct. 20, 8 Comedy Show w/ Saul Trujillo, p.m. Alfonso Portela, Rhoda Ramone, Fox & Goose Fem Dom Com (Female Hosted by Morgan Lujan, Oct. 18, 8 Dominated Comedy) feat. Aviva Segal, p.m. Becky Lynn, Amy Estes and More, Oct. Josh Wolf, Jason Resler, Hosted by 14, 9 p.m. Chazz Hawkins, Oct. 19 - 21, Thurs., 8 Laughs Unlimited p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m. Coming to the Stage Comedy Kabir “Kabeezy” Singh, Armando Competition: Allison Hooker, AJ DeMello, Joseph Lopez, Regina Givens, Placencia, JC Currais and More, Oct. 22, 7 p.m. Reggie Rahming and More, Oct. 11, 8 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot Kirk McHenry feat. Anderi Bailey, Oct. Open Mic, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 8 p.m. 13 - 15, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Improv Taste Test and Harold Night, Sun., 7 p.m. Wednesday’s, 7 - 10 p.m. All Ages Family Comedy Show w/ Cage Match and Improv Jam, Justin Rivera, Oct. 15, 1 p.m. Thursday’s, 8 - 10 p.m. Best of Open Mic Showcase w/ Ellis Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, Rodriguez, Shane Murphy, Kul Black, 9 p.m. Oct. 17, 8 p.m. Tommy T’s Mic Check feat. Jack Assadourian, DL Hughley, Oct. 13 - 15, Fri., 7:30 & Travis Frazee, TaVi, Regina Givens, 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., Nick Josten, Gloria Magana, Gabe Martinez, Hosted by Carlos Rodriguez, 7 p.m. Oct. 18, 8 p.m. Dominique, Oct. 20 - 22, Fri., 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., Michael Calvin Jr.’s Say it Loud Comedy w/ Tobe Hixx, Aja Glasco, Ato 7 p.m. Walker, Jose Contreras and More, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. Misc. Manny Maldonado feat. Rachel McDowell, Oct. 20 - 22, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 8th and W Streets Certified Farmers Market, Sunday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. 20th Street (Between J and K) Luna’s Cafe Midtown Farmers Market, Saturday’s, Open Mic Comedy w/ Host Jaime 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Fernandez, Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Arden-Dimick Library Make Your Own Bath and Body Blends w/ Prairie Godmothers, Oct. 21, 2 p.m. B Street Theatre Mainstage Series: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Through Oct. 29 Blue Cue Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, Tuesday’s, 8 p.m. Brickhouse Gallery Poetry Cake feat. Prentice Powell, Oct. 14, 7 p.m. Cal Expo Sacramento Auto Show, Oct. 20 - 22, 10 a.m. California Automobile Museum 5th Annual Paws to Party: A Benefit for Front Street Animal Shelter, Oct. 13, 6 p.m. California Museum Día de Los Muertos Fiesta, Oct. 13, 6 p.m. Capitol Mall Certified Farmers Market, Thursday’s, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Central Library The Civil War in Poetry and Music, Oct. 15, 1 p.m. Cesar Chavez Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Wednesday’s, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) Sacramento Ballet Presents: Beer and Ballet, Oct. 13 - 29 Community Center Theater Aventurera, Oct. 21, 7 p.m. Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Crest Theatre Sacramento International LGBTQ Film Festival, Oct. 13 - 15 Sacramento French Film Festival Mini Fest, Oct. 21, 11 a.m. Crocker Art Museum Art Exhibit: Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942-1955, Now through Jan. 7 ArtMix: Dark Cabaret feat. Kat Robichaud’s Misfit Cabaret, Cult Film Screenings, Bizarre Bazaar, Live Music and More, Oct. 12, 6 p.m.

Calidanza: “Noches de Muertos,” Oct. 19, 7 p.m. UC Davis Human Rights Film Festival Presents: They Call Us Monsters, Oct. 22, 2 p.m. Elk Grove Regional Park Stay Alive: Elk Grove Zombie Tag, Oct. 13, 5 p.m. Florin Road & 65th Street Certified Farmers Market, Thursday’s, 8 a.m. 12 p.m. Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m. Greek Hellenic Center and Hall 70th Annual Armenian Food Festival, Oct. 21, 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. The Handle District Deschutes Brewery Street Pub Sacramento, Oct. 14, 2 - 10 p.m. Highwater The Trivia Factory, Monday’s, 7 p.m. Historic Oak Park Gather: Oak Park, Oct. 12, 5 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 8 a.m. Hook and Ladder Manufacturing Co. Cocktail Academy: The Water of Life, Oct. 14, 2 p.m. Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sunday’s, 7:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, Thursday’s, 8 p.m. McClatchy Park Oak Park Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesday’s, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Trivia Night, Monday’s, 7 p.m. Oak Park Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Sunday’s, 8 p.m. On The Y Movie Night w/ Jandy Barwench, Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Our Lady of the Rosary Sacramento American Lebanese and Middle Eastern Festival, Oct. 14 - 15, 11 a.m. The Rink Sac City Rollers Double Header, Oct. 21, 6:15 p.m.

Roosevelt Park Certified Farmers Market, Tuesday’s, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Sacramento State Martin Luther King Jr. 50th Anniversary Celebration w/ Keynote Speaker Tavis Smiley, Oct. 16, 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sacramento Turn Verein 50th Annual Sacramento Turn Verein Oktoberfest, Oct. 13 - 14 Scottish Rite Center Soul Vibe Lounge: A Night of Live Comedy and Music, Oct. 20, 8 p.m. Shine Questionable Trivia, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Pub Trivia, Sunday’s, 8 p.m. Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) Let’s Get Quzzical: Trivia Game Show Experience, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m. Township 9 Bike Park Rio Velo: A Sacramento Bicycle Festival, Oct. 14, 10 a.m. Trinity Cathedral Conversations on Race by Dr. Joseph E. Marshall Jr., Oct. 13, 6:30 p.m. Verge Center for the Arts Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Art World and Beyond, Through Oct. 22 Vernon Street Town Square Roseville Oktoberfest, Oct. 21, 1 - 5 p.m. VFW Center Township Post Sacramento Witches’ Ball, Oct. 13, 8 p.m. WildHawk Golf Club Bogies and Brew Oktoberfest, Oct. 14, 3 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Tuesday’s, 6 p.m.

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As a classically trained musician, do you have to consciously tell that part of your mind to back off when improvising? Where does it separate? I never let that classical mindset get a foothold. I learned classical music by sheer exposure; I was not a particularly model student. I was always coming from the intuitive approach. I barely learned to read music, and once I did, I didn’t need to because my ear could learn it faster than I could sight read. I was playing in bands from 18, 19 [years old]; playing in punk bands, ska bands; playing Irish music where you have to break up the phrase and be your own drummer. So it was never such a stretch for me.

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ANDREW BIRD BRINGS ECHOLOCATIONS TO THE MONDAVI CENTER WORDS JACOB SPRECHER • PHOTO ABOVE ADDIE JUELL

he first time I saw Andrew Bird live onstage was at the debut Wanderlust Festival up in Squaw Valley, 2009. He’d flown in for the gig from Detroit or Milwaukee, or some damned place, and the airline had lost his luggage, which of course included all of his gear aside from the trusty violin.

Borrowing a loop pedal from another band, he proceeded to put on a virtuosic display of contemplative

musical brilliance, bowing, plucking, lilting and whistling his way to the ultimate sonic setting amid a backdrop of cascading summertime peaks and valleys. It was at that moment I concluded that Andrew Bird was, in fact, a wizard. And the contents of his lengthy discography will attest to as much. Be it the amalgamated beauty of Weather Systems or the poetic instrumental scores of his latest endeavor, the Echolocations series, Andrew Wegman Bird has a musicality flowing through him that few contemporary artists of any ilk can match. In 2015, Bird released Echolocations: Canyon, the first of five instrumental, improvisational, location-based recording sessions, with River, the second in the series, and City, Lake and Forest planned to follow. And where Canyon found Bird in Coyote Gulch, Utah, River, released Oct. 6 on Wegawam Music, now finds him literally wading in the quasi-trickle of the Los Angeles River. But madness to some is method to others, and in the case of Andrew Bird, it’s yet another wondrous waving of his wizardly wand.

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“I learned classical music by sheer exposure; I was not a particularly model student. I was always coming from the intuitive approach. I barely learned to read music, and once I did, I didn’t need to because my ear could learn it faster than I could sight read.” – Andrew Bird

The new record is beautiful, and I’m fascinated by your choosing the L.A.

for the slight rushing of water, and the walls were incredibly high and sort

River under the Hyperion Bridge of all things. It’s something I’ve always kind of thought of as environmentally gross. And now you’ve set this score to it. What was it that drew you to strike that type of juxtaposition? It was somewhat a matter of proximity and convenience … I ride my bike down there a lot. I was noticing that the river has actually gotten a lot nicer and cleaner; there are tons of unusual birds down there, and it’s not the post-apocalyptic nightmare that it’s known to be.

of leaning in, almost cathedral-like. The first thing I had [to find out] was which note gave me the most, and that was C sharp. So I kept playing that note and letting it ring, and that became the tonal center of a lot of the recordings. In the L.A. River, there’s a lot of white noise. So [I was] fighting to find what frequencies were getting around that white noise. The real challenge is to stop playing for a minute and let the notes ring out until they’re done, and that determines phrasing, in the temporal sense. But

So it’s not the Terminator 2 motorcycle scene. It still has a faint smell of ammonia, but other than that the water is actually pretty clean. There’s fish and all these wetlands they put in there. But it is a very odd mix of urban and imposed natural environment. What was interesting to me was the architecture of those two bridges at slightly different angles right next to each other. They have these arches, these ellipses that are somewhat random, and the randomness of nature tends to be good for acoustics. Symmetry—two hard flat walls opposite each other—creates this unnatural, kind of springy sound. But there’s these soaring arches, and I’m standing ankle deep in the water, and even the sound of traffic becomes kind of serene. What did you notice that was similar and/or different from Canyon, in terms of the cerebral atmosphere? There’s all sorts of unconscious inferences going on, but I can probably piece it together acoustically. The canyon was more or less silent except

I’m not really thinking so technically; it’s only in retrospect when I’m doing an analyses of it. Your music has the quality of lending itself to the natural world. Has that always been a part of your day-to-day experience, your observing of nature? Is it part of who you are? You might be able to say that. Where I really made the connection between my music and nature was when I moved out to Western Illinois to fix up this barn to live and make music for a few years. It was getting out from under the urban canopy in Chicago and being able to see the horizon, and being able to see a storm come through the valley and pass over you and move on. I’d be making these loops looking out the window and seeing a tree blowing in the wind, and noticing that not only can the environment affect what I decide to play, but I can affect through music the way the environment looks to me … rare moments that kind of make time slow down. And I was interested in that. How can I change the way I perceive time through music?

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Are You Serious has a pop streak to

Weather Systems is still my favorite

it, whereas the Echolocations series has no pop at all. Is that kind of a

Andrew Bird record. Sonically and compositionally, this latest piece has

counterbalance for you? Does it even out your songwriting?

a lot of similarities. Maybe it’s not a coincidence that your experience with

It’s a constant challenge, the restraint that’s required to write. Because

nature at the time is reflecting in what you’re doing now.

everything’s in service of the song when you’re making records like Are

I have a tremendous amount of trouble in the studio trying to capture

You Serious. I could cut loose and play a violin solo on “Capsized,” but maybe

my voice. If I’m in a small room with headphones on it’s over. I can’t do

I shouldn’t. You make these decisions, and they’re usually good decisions to

it. And maybe that’s what drove me outside. When you’re playing a festival

let it be incredibly simple. But I find it infinitely challenging trying to write

and you can see miles away, your voice shoots up an octave and you’re

those three-and-a-half-minute songs that get everybody singing. But you don’t want to feel repressive, [so] I invent these projects in between those pop records. Almost every time I learn something. Weather Systems was one of those. It wasn’t intended

trying to fill the vast negative space out there with your sound; it pulls all this primal stuff out of you. And when I started playing in the barn with these high-vaulted ceilings [and] a sense of optimism I just played differently. I sing differently. And I

to be a commercial release, really. I find when I’m in that mode of learning and experimenting, I do some of my best work. But if I was always in that mode, I don’t know if it would be as potent. One succeeds because it’s the counterbalance to the other.

thought, “Let’s just take the roof off and see what happens.”

See Andrew Bird live at the Mondavi Center (in Jackson Hall) on the campus of UC Davis on Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased through Mondaviarts. org. Special note: $1 from each ticket sold will go to benefit Everytown for Gun Safety (Everytown.org).

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WORDS & PHOTOS CURTIS VADNAIS Grammy Award-winning alternative rockers Imagine Dragons brought their Evolve World Tour to Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center this past Wednesday, October 4. The Las Vegas natives are no strangers to the Farm-toFork Capital as they made stops back in 2012 at Ace of Spades and headlined the former Launch Festival the following year. The Platinum-selling ensemble announced they would be hitting the road back in May and officially embarked on the 62date trek at the end of September in Phoenix in support of their third studio album, Evolve. The high-energy quartet, composed of lead vocalist Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee and drummer Daniel Platzman, delivered an exceptional performance to an exuberant crowd and brought along fellow acts Grouplove and K.Flay to kick-off the night. Reynolds appeared amidst a plethora of multi-colored lights as fog billowed onto the stage, encompassing every inch down to the catwalk. The band broke out with “I Don’t Know Why,” off their most recent effort, Evolve, in which Reynolds took advantage of SubmergeMag.com

the catwalk for the utmost fan interaction. The group also took some time to address the tragedy that took place in Las Vegas recently. “We’re from Las Vegas. This was our hometown, and to think that this happened because of events like this—people enjoying music at a concert,” Reynolds stated. “There are people that were there that night that are here tonight. This next one’s for you,” he continued as they made their way into dedicated Night Visions’ debut single “It’s Time.” The troupe kept the energy at a constant high throughout the night, delivering stunning visuals and not missing a beat as they dove into a 20-song setlist filled with new works, as well as fan-favorites such as Smoke + Mirrors’ “Gold,” Night Visions’ “On Top of the World,” and heavy drum-driven signature single “Radioactive,” also featured on debut release Night Visions. Reynolds reflected mid-set on his previous years and addressed some very personal issues. “We all have those moments in our life— I’ve been very candid over the last six years

of my career talking about how I’ve struggled with depression since I was young,” Reynolds recalled of his youth. “This is not something to be afraid of. This is not something to be ashamed of,” he continued. “I was very ashamed of it growing up and as I got older I realized it’s the most unique part of who I am. It drove me to create art. It brought me to the computer after school. It brought me to try to teach myself to sing these words that I wouldn’t express unless I felt that deep sadness inside of me. So to be honest with you, I’m grateful for it. There’s nothing wrong with seeking help or seeing a therapist. “C’mon and join me—it’s great,” he proudly proclaimed before proceeding into “Demons,” as a collective amount of cell phone lights illuminated the arena. It’s quite safe to say Reynolds redefined crowd interaction, as he exited the main stage to get up close and personal with several fans on the general admission floor, and even those in the lower level seats before relocating to the secondary stage for a few numbers.

Taking the time to soften the tempo, the group paid an eloquent homage to the late musician Tom Petty. “We lost a legend this week. Tom was an inspiration to me since I was very young, as I’m sure for so many of you. We’d like to do a cover for you in honor of him,” Reynolds said as they performed a rendition of “I Won’t Back Down.” It was an immensely emotional moment for all, but quite possibly the pinnacle of the night. After bringing it down a notch, it was time to reignite the enthusiasm of the those in attendance at Golden 1 Center. The gang returned to the main stage for a final round, as they vigorously bounced around to Smoke + Mirrors’ “I Bet My Life” and Evolve’s heavyhitting “Thunder.” They closed out the twohour set on a high note with a confetti-filled encore of “Walking the Wire” and Evolve lead single “Believer.” The Evolve World Tour will continue through April 26, 2018, ending in Stockholm, Sweden.

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COMING SOON 10.20 Together Pangea 10.20 Wonderbread 5 (late) 10.21 House of Floyd 10.22 10.23 10.24 10.25 10.26 10.27 10.28

Pink Floyd tribute

The Trashcan Sinatras Mario Spinetti Aubrey Logan Twiddle The Soft White Sixties The Purple Ones School of Rock Elk Grove

10.28 Petty Theft (late) Tom Petty tribute

10.29 Paul Cauthen 11.02 Beatles vs Stones 11.04 Foreverland 11.07 11.08 11.11 11.12 11.13

Michael Jackson tribute

The Floozies Daniel Ceasar (Sold Out) Khruangbin Brand X Dead Boys

11.14 Haas Kowert Tice 11.16 The Abyssinians 11.19 Jarabe De Palo 11.22 Janmondo 11.25 Vista Kicks 11.27 Tennis 11.30-12.02 Goapele 12.05 Valerie June 12.07 Flobots 12.08 Elvis Presley Tribute 12.10 AJJ (FKA Andrew Jackson Jihad)

Issue 250 • October 9 – October 23, 2017

THE SHALLOW END STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER

JAMES BARONE jb@submergemag.com

I write about outer space a lot. I blame Steven

a knee for The National Anthem. (“I left today’s

Spielberg and George Lucas for that. If I hadn’t gone to see E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial or Return of the Jedi in theaters as a child, and been told that the universe was just teeming with friendship, magic and races of beings that basically resembled only the most adorable of teddy bears, I probably wouldn’t spend so much

Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem,” Pence later tweeted, further solidifying how out of touch he and his administration are.) I hear we lost another great music legend in Tom Petty. All of these things, obviously, are notable and important, but I don’t

time obsessing over what wonders exist beyond our cosmic shores, even now as a disgruntled forty-something man-nerd. By the way, I caught some of the Spielberg documentary that aired on HBO this past weekend, and I highly recommend checking it out if you haven’t already. But my fascination for places I’ll probably

hear anything about Burkina Faso, though I did find out today that it underwent a military coup in 2015 that ultimately failed. Maybe you knew that, but I didn’t. Burkina Faso’s official language is French, and it’s a landlocked country in northwestern Africa, bordered by (clockwise from the north) Mali,

never go doesn’t just extend to the macrocosm of space. I’m kind of obsessed with earthly locales that will probably only ever be names on a map to me. Part of my obsession stems from a quiz site I love called Sporcle. On it, they have a bunch of geography quizzes, which are really the only ones I play. Last night, I played one that asked me if I could name all the countries with “U” as the second letter of their name in an allotted amount of time. I nailed the easy ones off the top

Niger, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. That’s what I found out on Google Maps and Wikipedia, but I was wondering what was going on now in Burkina Faso, so I did a news search and found that the top stories were that their national soccer team was defeated in a World Cup 2018 qualifier by South Africa (sorry, guys). I also learned that Burkinabe strawberry farmers are looking to break into the international market. According to Africanews.com, the country’s

of my head—Austria, Australia, I somehow totally spaced on Cuba, but in my defense, it was 3:30 a.m.—and then got some of the others that might not spring to mind right away, such as Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, and in all I was able to get about 80 percent of them before my time ran out. One of the countries I missed was Burkina Faso, which made me drum my desk and say, “Duh!” You may or may not be more familiar with Burkina Faso than I am, but I always know when to type its name into a Sporcle quiz. I’m not sure why, but the name has always stuck with me. However, it wasn’t until last night when I totally whiffed on it that I realized that the only reason I even know the name “Burkina Faso” and its general position on the globe is because of these stupid quizzes that I take at 3:30 a.m. to fuel my unquenchable insomnia. I certainly don’t turn on the television and hear its name in the news. All I hear about is Trump tweets and, sadly, mass shootings here at home, but now is not the time to discuss gun control. I hear North Korea bragging about how many missiles it has. I hear Vice President Mike Pence walked out of the game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers this morning, because some of the players took

strawberries “are appreciated for their aroma, texture and sweetness.” However, the article noted that packaging and quality standards would have to be improved to meet up with international standards. Another challenge facing Burkinabe strawberry farmers is climate change, as one farmer noted in a video posted on the site. To combat high temperatures, farmers have been conserving rain water to keep their crops, which they’ve nicknamed “red gold” hydrated. I’m not trying to say that I’m now an expert in all things Burkina Faso, but it was fun to put some kind of face, no matter how general, to a name that I’ve become oddly familiar with. It’s strange to think that even though the world has become much smaller due to technology that there is still so much to learn about people. Maybe this is how we get past some of the impasses we’ve been facing here at home. Getting to know your neighbors may keep you from thinking that it’s a good idea to fire into crowds of strangers or maybe realize that protesting against intolerance honors our flag instead of defiling it. I’m starting to find that it’s still good to hope and learn and grow, because they’re probably the only things that will help us get through difficult times.

Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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Issue 250 • October 9 – October 23, 2017

DIVE INTO SACRAMENTO & ITS SURROUNDING AREAS OCTOBER 9 – 23, 2017

#250 NO TRICK, ALL TREATS SACRAMENTO-AREA HALLOWEEN EVENTS

ANDREW BIRD THE GREAT OUTDOORS

ODESZA THAT MAGIC MOMENT

OAK PARK FIX-IT CAFE IF IT’S BROKE … FIX IT!

LOWBRAU BECOMES A TOTAL SAUSAGE FEST

DOUGLAS PRYOR HEAVY METAL LIVE AT 5 FALL INTO FUN IN OLD SACRAMENTO

BRENDAN STONE THE HUMAN CONDITION

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