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Right here in your hands you are holding another solid issue of Submerge! With two cover stories I’m extremely enthusiastic about! Gracing our front cover is the local band Screature. I’ve been a huge fan since their first album came out back in 2013, though we never featured them that time around. Nor did we when their second album was released in 2015. I’m pretty sure we didn’t feature them due to timing. I mean, they don’t really play a ton of local shows, and we like to try to feature bands that have shows to plug, and I’m guessing they had a local album release show, but I probably found out about it too late. I have no idea why else we wouldn’t have featured them, because they’re a really fucking good band. One of my favorite locals. Screature, however, did just open for Chelsea Wolfe late last year at Ace of Spades and they sounded fantastic! Around that time we got the news they were eventually going to come out with their third album, Old Hand New Wave, sometime soon. Not only did the stars align this time do get the news several months early, but after recently catching their show we knew we had to ask them if they’d be up for playing our 10-Year Anniversary Party. Read our interview with Screature’s Chris Orr and Liz Mahoney starting on page 22. Check out their new album, Old Hand New Wave, which is available on Jan. 19, then if you dig it, please party with us at Holy Diver on Feb. 3. Now I said I was enthusiastic about both our cover stories, right? Well, damn straight I am! Frankly, the only thing I like about winter, is snowboarding. While I’m not ecstatic about the shitty conditions so far in Tahoe, I am excited to at least get to watch the pros rip at contests on TV while I’m working away on our deadlines. One rider who I’ve been a fan of for years now is Danny Davis. From everything I’ve gathered on TV, he seems like a down to earth dude, and someone that I would totally be friends with. For the past 10 years, Davis has lived just an hour and a half from Sacramento in Truckee, California. In 2014, after watching him participate in the Olympics in Sochi for men’s halfpipe, I thought, damn we need to interview him! Around his video parts, would be cool and all—he put out this freaking awesome edit last winter where he snowboarded on and around his house in Truckee—but I held out trying to set something up for 2018. Now read up and learn more about Davis starting on page 28, and be sure follow his journey to see if he makes the U.S. Team at the last round of the Olympic qualifiers at Mammoth Mountain on Friday, Jan 19.; X Games’ men’s SuperPipe in Aspen on Jan. 28 (which has nothing to do with the Olympics, BTW) and then if he does qualify in Mammoth, hopefully you’ll get to catch him one more time on your TV screen as one of the four Americans for the halfpipe competition in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which starts on Feb. 9. Read. Learn. Do rad things. Melissa

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After combing through more than 800 artist submissions, Danielle Vincent—founder and producer of Sacramento’s mostly-local grassroots music and arts event, First Festival—has somehow narrowed things down and has the final lineup all set. And while the festival’s impressive headliners had previously been announced (more on them below), the rest of the equally great lineup has been under wraps, until now. The fourth annual festival will go down May 5–6, 2018 at a new location: North Natomas’ Tanzanite Park (2220 Tanzanite Ave., Sacramento). The six top-billed headliners, announced last month, include some of the Sacramento region’s most notorious and successful artists with a national presence: hip-hop duo Blackalicious, post-hardcore outfit A Lot Like Birds, beatboxer/ singer/pianist Butterscotch, pop-punk duo Dog Party, singer-songwriter Jonah Matranga and experimental-pop artist So Much Light. And now, here is your highly anticipated exclusive first look at the rest of the music lineup, which includes everything from rock, to indie, punk, hip-hop, singer-songwriter, electronic and more. First Festival 2018 will include performances by Cities You Wish You Were From, Rossy, The Philharmonik, The Nickel Slots, PRVLGS, Pyrite Sidewalk, Madi Sipes and the Painted Blue, Riotmaker, Elijah Jaron, Lama Neon, Shotgun Sawyer, Race to the Bottom, Vinnie Guidera and the Dead Birds, Sunmonks, Ghost Color, Flight Mongoose, The Moans, L.Rucus, Christine Tence, NYTVZN, Glass Tung, Mondo Deco, Eugene Ugly, Jesus and the Dinosaurs, PointDexter, Flourish, Skylis, The Stummies, According to Bazooka, Adam Jacobs Band, Worthy Goat, Jako, Heat of Damage, The Hey-Nows!, The Brangs,

Adrian Bellue, Darealwordsound and NB!OKS!. “This year’s festival is really exciting because our headliner lineup really reflects our growth over the past few years,” Vincent tells Submerge. “We also received over 800 music submissions this year, making it the most competitive year by far for the supporting lineup. We have plans for some bigger stages and some really cool interactive elements, including art and tons of photo opportunities throughout the festival grounds.” One of the new festival experiences will be an area dubbed The Circus, which will include stand-up comedy and burlesque performances, as well as live music. “It’s exciting to be able to create an environment where we can provide a stage for performing artists who aren’t comedians or musicians,” Vincent explains. “It really lets us reflect the dynamic art scene in Sacramento.” Of the festival’s new location, Vincent says that they have “finally found our home in North Natomas where we plan to stay for years to come,” and that, “the layout and placement of the park lends itself to a great festival environment where we have plenty of room to grow and experiment.” In addition to all of the live entertainment, there will also be tons of vendors selling their goods, plenty of food and drink options, including non-alcoholic options in the “Coffee Corner,” and much more. Visit Firstfestsac.com for more information and to purchase tickets in advance, which are currently only $18 per day or $28 for a weekend pass.

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THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST Illness does not always breed misery, but as you get older, it sure seems to throw a wrench in the works more often than it used to. I am currently home sick with a stuffy, yet somehow runny nose, a mucus-filled chest that never ceases to cough up more phlegm and a head that won’t stop pounding. I can’t even get comfortable because I have to pee every 15 minutes from all this tea I’ve been drinking for my burning throat. To top it all off, every movement sets off a coughing fit that makes my cat hide in the closet in terror. To put it simply, I’m probably dying. This is generally how I feel when I get sick now. All those aches and pains are only magnified when I remember that whatever work I am missing is just piling up for me to take care of when I get better. It wasn’t always this way though. When I was a child, getting sick was nothing; in fact, it could be pretty fun. I loved staying home from school as a kid. It was so much fun that many times I pretended to be sick just to stay home. It got bad enough that one of my teachers eventually noticed that

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I seemed to get sick a lot on Mondays, and I had to be more mindful of how often I faked it. It wasn’t that I hated school, it was just that home was a much more preferable place to spend my time. My toys were at home, and with two working parents, I wouldn’t be bothered too much during the day. I’d mostly have the house to myself. I just had to make sure I was laid out on the couch under a blanket looking miserable when mom came home for lunch. If I pulled that off, no one would expect me to do any work until I got “better.” It was a wonderful system, but at some point, the fun had to stop. That point was called adulthood, and going through it has been a real buzzkill. So, what changed? My body for one. The body of an otherwise healthy child is resilient and can spring back from an injury or illness with the quickness. In my current state of dilapidation, this wretched lump of flesh and bone that I now call my body can’t even lay on the couch for more than a few hours before my back starts to hurt and sciatica flares up. It just isn’t fair!

too. Sure, much of the same stuff is available, but now my old-man brain doesn’t think it tastes good anymore. I used to love me some SpaghettiOs. Them shits were delicious to my unrefined, 10-year-old palate. I even ate them poured between two slices of Wonder Bread like a goddamn maniac. When there were no SpaghettiOs, I could count on Velveeta cheese dip to help me ward off ailments with the help of a little of that ol’ vitamin cheese. Now, I’m lactose intolerant and SpaghettiOs taste like tangy, sour, disgusting spaghetti scraps. Getting old is bad enough without being reminded of how great it was to be a kid every time I get the sniffles. If I had known how awful I’d feel as a sickly adult, I would have tried to stop aging a long time ago. Now, as an old curmudgeon, I can’t even enjoy faking sick because it just isn’t fun anymore, and I don’t want all that catching up to do. Like everything else, TV sucks now and not even a SpaghettiOs can make it better. The fact of the matter is, if you are an adult, getting sick is the worst, so don’t do it!

Being decrepit is not my only problem when I get sick. Entertainment used to distract me when I had fallen ill, but it’s just not the same anymore. When I was a kid, I had all kinds of toys and video games to keep me occupied. My grown-up toys just don’t offer the same kind of mindless entertainment, and they require too much effort for my dysfunctional, sick brain. I used to be able to count on daytime TV reruns and game shows to carry me through the slow afternoons. There was everything from Leave it to Beaver to Diff’rent Strokes to make me laugh, and game shows like Supermarket Sweep and The Price is Right to keep things exciting. Today we have Guy’s Grocery Games (a poor substitute for the Sweep) and Drew Carey ain’t got shit on Bob Barker. Netflix isn’t a great option, either. I end up spending hours flipping through the menus to find something to watch and never end up settling on anything. It’s not just the TV that makes being sick worse now, it also has something to do with the food. The food I was given while sick as a child seemed better than what I have now,

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10th Annual Crayons to Canvas Art Supply Drive Is Collecting Donations! • Through Jan. 31 Show your support for the arts in schools, and help provide a therapeutic outlet for those with developmental disabilities! For the past decade, artist Raphael Delgado and his sister Veronica have been giving back to the community with Crayons to Canvas Art Supply Drive. Through the end of the month, donations can be brought to R&M Framing Studio (1200 S St., Sacramento) during regular business hours. Donations of binders, pens, pencils, cardstock paper, puzzles, board games, crayons (of course) and other items will go to benefit Ethel Phillips Elementary School and Developmental Disabilities Service Organization. For more info on this awesome cause and a full list of requested materials, visit Facebook.com/crayonstocanvasartsupplydrive or email crayonstocanvassac@gmail.com.

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The Michelin Star is a sort of crown jewel for restaurateurs. However, despite our city’s rising status as a culinary hotspot, Sacramento restaurants are being left out in the cold when it comes to this coveted prize. You see, even though Sacramento has become the Farm-to-Fork capital, the city isn’t included in any of the four California regions that get their own Michelin Guide, according to California Groundbreakers. It may just be a matter of time, though, as local chefs who have earned “Michelin-Star skills” elsewhere have recently returned to the City of Trees. In this first “Food for Thought” of 2018, California Groundbreakers is bringing in three local chefs for a panel discussion: Brad Cecchi of East Sacramento’s Canon, who earned a Michelin Star at Solbar in Calistoga; pastry chef Edward Martinez, a former gang member, who is coming to the Sacramento area after making a name for himself at Lazy Bear in San Francisco; and Scott Ostrander, who worked at the prestigious Alinea in Chicago who will soon be leading his own Origami Asian Grill, also in East Sacramento. This panel discussion will take place at the Auditorium at the CLARA Center for the Performing Arts (1425 24th St., Sacramento) at 6 p.m. on Jan. 29. For more info and to order tickets, go to Californiagroundbreakers.org.

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Crocker Art Museum Hosts Screening of Romeo is Bleeding Documentary As Part of California Fresh Film Series • Feb. 1 Poet Donté Clark saw his hometown of Richmond, California, as a city at war. Richmond was split in a turf battle between rivaling gangs, and shootings were a nightly occurrence. However, Clark thought he’d be able to at least open up a dialog between his city’s warring factions, and found the inspiration to do so in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Filmmaker Jason Zeldes followed Clark on his quest to adapt The Bard’s centuries old play in hopes that it would help heal some of Richmond’s wounds. Romeo is Bleeding debuted at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2015 where it won an audience award for best documentary feature. This screening is part of the California Fresh Film Series, which will continue on the first Thursday of the month through April 5 at the Crocker Art Museum (216 O St., Sacramento). For more info and to register for admission, go to Crockerart.org.

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Prepare for a night of face-melting riffs and debaucherous rock when Queens of the Stone Age, along with their partners in crime Eagles of Death Metal, come to Sacramento. Since forming out of the ashes of frontman Josh Homme’s former band Kyuss in the mid-1990s, QOTSA has seen its share of band members come and go (including the likes of Mark Lanegan and Dave Grohl), but what has remained true throughout is Homme’s penchant for writing punchy, riff-heavy songs that bear an almost hallucogenic catchiness. The band released its seventh album, Villains in August of 2017, and has been touring the world in support of it ever since. You can check them out live at the Memorial Auditorium (1515 J St.) on Jan. 30. You can purchase tickets through the band’s website, Qotsa.com, or call (800) 225-2277. Just know, you may have to call out of work the next day, what with your melted face and all …

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WORDS CARLY QUELLMAN The Post is a too-close-for-comfort, but arguably brilliant, American docudrama that knowingly parallels political events from the past 14 months. If you watch television, use social media, tune in to a particular news station or utilize the web, the events portrayed in this film may be eerily familiar. The Post, set in 1971 when societal and cultural events were creating a wedge between the American people and their government, reeks of déjà vu. The timing of the movie’s release makes a solid statement, as if inspired by the current White House. Directed by Steven Spielberg, The Post stars Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, the first female publisher for the Washington Post, which is always struggling to compete with the New York Times. Graham, with the help of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), follow their competitor’s lead and decide to expose government secrets about political misconduct over the previous 40 years, including information about how government officials knew the United States would lose the Vietnam War. Putting their careers, egos and consciences on the line, Graham and SubmergeMag.com

Bradlee bring their country’s truths to light in order to exercise journalistic freedom. The newspaper leak, first by the New York Times and followed by the Washington Post and multiple publications after, is known today as the Pentagon Papers. The Post is another Spielberg win, not the least of which for pairing firsttime co-stars Streep and Hanks as lead characters in the film. Spielberg not only deftly explores the historical elements that serve as the basis for this film, but he also manages to correlate them with present-day events. Though The Post depicts events from 40 years ago, the film’s implied theme—journalistic freedom—remains a timeless one. Spielberg, along with the help of Streep and Hanks, informs the audience of the complex, yet necessary duty of bearing bitter truths rather than happy lies. History has a way of repeating itself, certainly. The Post reminds the viewer how it can repeat itself in such a relatively brief amount of time in American politics. That someone like me, born decades after the events in the film occurred, can relate so closely to this movie is testament to its power. It’s not a huge leap to presume that Spielberg’s motive for directing this film was to recall the wrongdoings of government officials in our not-so-distant history in an effort to make our current

surroundings more palatable—not to comfort us, but rather to make us take another long, hard look at our present-day challenges with freedom of the press. Despite the fact that The Post is a smart screenplay, the film is rather jolting to watch. The same disputes from almost half a century ago are still prominent today. The Post conjures an Inceptionesque feeling, with its symbolism used to present an underlying message. Spielberg smoothly succeeded in using The Post as a platform to display the importance of the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech for both career and personal use. I was gladly taken aback by the boldness of the movie, as well as its subtle hints that reflected either Spielberg’s opinion or Spielberg’s perspective of American opinion. I can’t help but hope Spielberg will follow this movie with a film about Nixon and Watergate. If Spielberg is getting in the business of correlating moments of our country’s past with its present, I wouldn’t mind watching a film about political devastation that leads to a president’s resignation. Only time will tell if Spielberg takes me up on my offer, but at least we can still continue to discuss these things openly and freely. If there was ever a question as to why to keep the conversation going, ask the journalists of 1971.

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ea is the most consumed beverage in the world after water, yet in the United States. we have only recently considered tea plant terroir like we do with wine grapes, scrutinized leaf freshness like hops or considered tea-food pairings for a party. Wait, you don’t do that with your tea? If you have tea FOMO, don’t run out and buy a bunch of tea plants (Camellia sinensis) just yet. The Sacramento region is not ideal for tea production without significant investment (look up tea expert Roy Fong, who has spent years and more than $1 million in Esparto, Yolo County, to start one of the only two known tea farms in California). Perhaps a better introduction to all things tea would be to pay a visit to Nami Thompson, who has owned Tea Cozy with her husband Mike for 20 years. Located just inside Arthouse at 1021 R St. (next to Fox and Goose), Tea Cozy provides several dozen fresh, globally sourced loose leaf teas, as well as knowledgeable staff in a calm, jolly space lined with tea accessories— anything from Anglophile goodies like lemon curd and shepherd’s pie spice mix, to Chinese serving sets.

Thompson’s idea for Tea Cozy came from time spent with her British mother-in-law, who at the time was suffering from cancer and was the reason the couple left Washington State to settle in Sacramento in 1998. Prior to the move, Nami was a product developer/designer for major companies like Eddie Bauer, and Mike worked as a civil engineer. “We quit our jobs without having jobs here and moved to Sacramento,” Thompson says as she pours a deep, beautiful, ruby herbal tea of her own concoction called Moulin Rouge (dried elderberry, raisin and hibiscus) into tiny white teacups. “My husband said I should start my own business because of my background. At that time, I read about old tea rooms closing in Los Angeles, and I thought, ‘I love that idea.’ My husband’s mother was from England and she introduced me to tea with milk and biscuits, and I liked that tea time was intergenerational; I liked the idea of kids and older people sitting and talking together.” Interviews with women who owned and operated tea rooms in the Sacramento region helped Thompson realize a restaurant wasn’t her cup of ... well, you know. These

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entrepreneurs woke early to prep kitchens, cook, clean, set up shop, handle employees and much more. Advice from her banker brother that a tea room wouldn’t turn tables fast enough for a profit also worried her. “We liked tea, but didn’t know anything about tea,” Thompson says of the shop idea. “The knowledge would come along the way. So I started the tea shop with the tea I would have with my mother-in-law.” Thompson attended the annual World Tea Expo to get more exposure, and joined tea associations and mailing lists, getting samples and choosing which to sell in the shop, which at the time was much smaller in the back of the building where the freight elevator was located. Over the last 20 years, Thompson and her employees have sat with top tea experts and distributors from around the world to learn and bring knowledge back to their corner of Sacramento. Aside from the historical and cultural education, Thompson says she always listens to what flavors her customers want. “I know everyone says this, but I feel like I have the best customers,” she says with a big smile. Indeed, nearly every customer who walks in during our interview she knows by name, and they each stop to chat about their latest purchase. Though Thompson is not a tea sommelier (she says they do exist), her palate has developed over these last few decades in a way that she can tell subtle differences in teas,

knows the right way to brew each kind and has a knack for unique blends and flavors that customers may request. “The water that you’re using, the amount [of tea] you’re using, the temperature of the water, how long you steep the tea, when you pick the leaf and if you pick on time ... it all makes a difference,” Thompson says. “If the leaf looks really dry and brittle and can look dusty, then you won’t have as much flavor.” Thompson notes that now some of the big tea bag companies will put dates on the boxes sold at the grocery stores, and that the quality has gotten better. Flavor profiles are very important to Thompson. She says that the shop staff tries to always use natural ingredients to meet flavor needs. For example, Thompson works with a company that does freeze-dried fruit that has a cut that is finer to get the flavor into the tea. Thompson purchased blueberries from the company and is working on a flavored tea. Tea Cozy has a unique, smoky Earl Grey, a tea called Purple Rain that brews purple, as well as a custom Moroccan Mint blend. They also provide specialty orders to Sacramento businesses Tapa the World, the Kitchen (for cooking with teas) and Bottle and Barlow for creative tea cocktails. The possibilities for food and drink uses and for new ways of serving tea seem endless to Thompson. The market, she reports, has yet to pick up on tea the same way it’s done with craft beer and wine. “When we went to talk to our oolong distributor recently, he said there are trends in ready-to-drink teas that you could serve in wine glasses and people can sip and still participate in parties without seeming like a party pooper,” Thompson says. “At the last tea expo, we did a cheese and tea pairing, and tea affects the creaminess of the cheese. The idea is that people put milk in their tea, so why not pair it.” The idea is not farfetched in many parts of the world; in Mediterranean and Eastern European cuisine, pairing a sweet or herbal tea with baked cheese dishes is common. Thompson notes she actually prefers plain and simple teas so that she can then pair them with her meals or desserts (she drinks five cups a day, preferably with food). The options seem endless, but what are the benefits? Why replace tea with water in your cooking? Why opt for tea over a Track 7 brewski? For 3,000 years, the Asian cultures where tea originated have claimed myriad medicinal benefits to tea drinking. According to the UC Davis Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science, the National Institutes of Health has “identified a need for more research

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1) If you wanted to host a tea tasting party (and considering it is both National Hot Tea Month and Dry January, you should), stick with one region and try the white (youngest freshest tea leaves), green (unoxidized leaves) and black (oxidized leaves) varieties to taste the range of that region. Or, choose one type of tea and try it from different regions. 2) The temperature of the water can affect the tea leaves. Green tea should steep in less than boiling water, or 185 degrees. 3) New tea drinkers should consider their caffeine tolerance and those who can't handle caffeine could start with white tea. 4) Seasoned tea drinkers could try Pu-erh, a black tea twice oxidized that can steep up to 20 times with subtle differences in flavor each time.

into tea’s anti-carcinogenic potential,” and the possibility of “improving cardiovascular health and mental acuity, but no health claims have yet received U.S. government approval.” Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague, UC Davis chemistry professor, created immune-stimulating molecules called glycolipids for treating cancer and HIV and is researching glycolipids that are present in tea. Of course, economic benefits also exist with tea, as commercial production has yet to flourish but seems on the horizon. “Tea is exactly where the wine industry was 100 years ago in California,” Gervay-Hague notes on the Global Tea Initiative website. Thompson thinks American tea culture will shift from its current unceremonial, speed-driven teabag ease to something more deliberate and contemplative. She has met people more recently who run tea shops or frequent them that give her this sense. “In Newcastle, I met a guy who brings just one Chinese tea back from overseas and serves it, and he invited me to come sit and have tea, not like in a restaurant,” Thompson says. “I have met people here who are more interested in the leaf and the processing of it.” The Global Tea Initiative is holding their third annual symposium Feb. 22–23 at the UC Davis Conference Center Ballroom free to the public, with the theme of “The Future of Tea: Issues in Sustainability and Preservation.” Previous Global Tea Initiative symposiums have brought in experts who speak to both scientific and social aspects of the drink. Thompson notes she heard from a man who patented his own Taiwanese tea ceremony, and from a woman who studied the families of plantation workers. This year, Thompson is working to secure a new type of license that will allow her to hold tea tastings and classes in the shop. In the meantime, if you don’t feel up to the challenge of brewing the perfect cup of Thompson’s Moulin Rouge—which for us deepened in color and thickened in texture over the course of an hour or more to the point of a sweet, heavenly balsamic reduction—try the acceptable readyto-drink alternative in town: rooibos on nitro at Temple Coffee Roasters on K Street.

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I read that you guys are the most honest band in rock ‘n’ roll. Where does that come from? Chuck Bradley: We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel, we’re just trying to play really good rock ‘n’ roll that’s familiar to people and is fun to listen to, and channel all of that into a great live show. For us, that’s where the honesty comes in. We’re not gonna try to fool you with smoke and mirrors, we’re just gonna come out and play you some good music. Rock seems to have become pretty stale in the past decade, do you see yourselves as trying to take it back? CB: Yeah, that’s the whole point. For a lot of years, everyone wanted to be in a blues band, and then you had people wanting to break away from the blues and try different stuff, which is cool, but we got to the point where we missed those

building blocks of rock ‘n’ roll. So we’re taking it back to the basics of not trying to play a million chords. We wanna play the ones that matter. We want to try and strip it away and do just what it would have been in the beginning. Maybe in a fresh way that means something. You guys do some cool covers and seem to have really cool taste. What do you listen to? Justin Mellor: I started out doing heavy metal and punk and hardcore, and I still listen to all of that stuff. As I grow, I’ve been listening to a lot of older country and bluegrass and a lot of different stuff. My favorite band is The Refreshments, but I also derive a lot of influence from Megadeth. I love stuff like that. CB: That’s part of stripping it down—when you do that color or that little drum part, it grabs people because it’s not through the whole song. It counts if it’s

onopoly capitalism poisons everything. It has turned Hollywood into a sequel/reboot machine. But it goes further than that. Our food is garbage; our elections are farcical, and even the drinking water isn’t safe to drink. Rock ‘n’ roll was once the fertile soil for all sorts of rebellion, but overproduction and an influx of talented but vapid one-hit wonders have stolen that from us, too. But Neil Young promised us that rock ‘n’ roll would never die, and he’s right. At least I think he’s right. There are still a handful of real-deal, unadulterated rock albums released by people with calluses on their hands, and, in that vein, the Damn Liars are honing the craft like few others. The band consists of veterans Chuck Bradley on vocals and guitar, Dan Sisson on guitar, Bob Jr. Dickson on bass and Justin Mellor on drums. Going to a Damn Liars show is like traveling back to a point in time before corporate rock ‘n’ roll, when the air was full of simple, sincere rock. Their music evokes mid-century, American working-class rock—straightforward lyrics, uncomplicated guitar riffs and incredibly well-written songs. I read in a press release that they called themselves “The Most Honest Band in Rock and Roll,” and I was ready to needle them about it, thinking it was just a play on the band’s name, but I was wrong. I sat down with drummer Justin Mellor and singer/guitarist Chuck Bradley and was dying to ask them about it.

well-placed. You [Mellor] are so good at that. The fills that you do and the stuff you do rhythmically always fits into the stuff we’re doing—it doesn’t ever fight with what we do. JM: I like Dave Lombardo’s [from Slayer] drumming, but when I’m listening to a really good rock ‘n’ roll song, there’s actually not a lot going on, and a good drummer plays to make the people sound better instead of just playing a thousand miles an hour. That’s cool, but it doesn’t really have its place in rock ‘n’ roll. And you guys use pretty specific vintage equipment. Is that an honesty thing, too? JM: When you’re an artist, you’re trying to find the perfect color, and when you’re a musician you try to find the perfect tone. When you’re as obsessed as we are, you never quite get it, so you’re always searching. We use a lot

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of hearty gear. Chuck uses a Marshall amp. CB: I just got that, I’m super excited about it. JM: Tube-powered, hearty stuff. We don’t like little solid-state amps that have a thin sound, we want the stage show to sound as cool as the record sounds. CB: You know, the new amp that I got has bass, mid, treble and volume, and that’s all. It’s made to overdrive the tubes and make that round, threedimensional sound. Dan [Sisson], the other guitar player, is super into that, too, and when I started playing music with him, he really revolutionized that for me. Having a guitar tone come from the instrument itself is important, and it’s easier for me. I don’t have to tap-dance on pedals all night. JM: It’s a house of cards thing. The more stuff you plug in, the more it can go wrong, and it hides the real thing.

It’s harder to replicate live, too, right? JM: Yeah, and we wanna sound really good live, first and foremost. We don’t wanna be that band that sounds really good on the record and then sounds totally different live. Some bands sound like they have five guitar players on the records and then only two on stage. We don’t wanna be that, because you can get carried away in the studio … You can sound like a symphonic orchestra and you get on stage and it’s just two guys. You think anyone in particular is dishonest? CB: I’d hesitate to say dishonest, but there are different approaches. We don’t think these guys are trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes, it’s just different. We’re interested in making songs work without 50 million tools to do it. There’s a lot of newer

stuff that’s overproduced, in my opinion. I’ll watch something on TV like Good Morning America or Saturday Night Live or something and they’ll have a country band on, and I play pedal steel, so I know that’s a pedal steel lick you’re playing, and I’ll look on stage and there’s no pedal steel player up there, so that’s the kind of dishonesty we’re trying to avoid. We want to have the record sound like we do live, and capturing that honesty is what we’re about. JM: Nashville has a formula and they keep doing the same thing that sells. It’s all the same two-and-a-half-minute song with the same type of guitar riff and the same structures—even the same back up singers. They have a formula, and to their credit, it sells, but that to me is dishonest, because it’s remaking a fake product. It’s like KMart selling socks, and there’s no difference to them

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“For a lot of years, everyone wanted to be in a blues band, and then you had people wanting to break away from the blues and try different stuff, which is cool, but we got to the point where we missed those building blocks of rock ‘n’ roll. So we’re taking it back to the basics of not trying to play a million chords. We wanna play the ones that matter.” – Chuck Bradley, The Damn Liars because it’s a product. We wanna do something genuine that’s made fresh and real. Sacramento seems to be a really good place to do that right now. CB: I have to credit a lot of the musicians around here. I think as an audience, people recognize when you don’t put effort into what you’re doing, and I think that’s what ends up killing a lot of scenes in a lot of cities, and you have to keep your game elevated. Do you mean anyone in particular? CB: Tatiana McPhee put out a great record. JonEmery—he’s so active. He’s always putting out stuff. Shawn Cahoon of Rancho Deluxe—he’s an honest performer, too. He lays it all out and I respect the hell out of him. He’s that guy that no SubmergeMag.com

one knows but I respect him so much. He just hops up on stage and rips. Bobby Dickson of Unchained. Matt W Gage just put out a record, [and] he works with some of the greatest musicians. Billy Hood, too. He’s my favorite local songwriter. When is the record out? CB: We’re adding some last minute details and our producer is a busy guy, but the digital release will be out by the end of February. We’re gonna push, and I think we’re close. We’re only doing six songs, but we’re doing it well. We picked the six best songs that could run the gamut of what we do. We want this to be kind of like a sampler was in the old punk rock days that says, “Here’s our three-song EP, and this is who we are.”

What about shows? CB: We’re really fortunate to be able to play at places like the Powerhouse or Goldfield especially because, you know, those level of venues are important for a city to have. For them to come say, “Hey, we believe in what you’re doing, come be on our stage,” we’re really happy to oblige.

Show The Damn Liars you believe in what they’re doing, too, and check them out live at the aforementioned shows at Powerhouse Pub (614 Sutter St., Folsom) on Jan. 25 and at Goldfield Trading Post (1630 J St., Sacramento) on Jan. 26. Stay tuned for details on their new album by following the band on Facebook.com/ thedamnliars.

“Jocelyn Arndt owned the stage with inferno-like intensity (think Amy Winehouse x Janis Joplin x Fiona Apple). Chris Arndt delivered delicious riffs and energetic solos that’d earn a celestial fist-bump from Jimi Hendrix.” – Shirley Huang / Edge Television / Hollywood, CA

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e all look for different things in live music. Some want a full show—blaring speakers and bright lights behind a pop star flanked by a fleet of dancers or backup singers, the kind of high-energy performance that’s nothing short of exhilarating. Then there’s the other side of the spectrum: the sweet and sacred intimacy of a solo performance. That vulnerability is a hook, an alluring fragility. José González is a quintessential artist of the latter camp, a man who’s spent more than a decade captivating giant rooms—sometimes festivals—with stark, solo performances of quietly finger-picked arpeggios beneath a tenor delivery of cyclically sung verses. His live performances evoke the kind of soothing quality akin to rustling leaves or babbling brooks. “Intimacy can be something that happens in a small space when people are close, but it can also be a loud and clear volume that sounds like you’re really up close and people are quiet,” González said. “It’s happened many times in 2,000 [person] capacity venues, just the fact that it’s very quiet, people are very attentive.” It’s a rare thing to have a small group of listeners, let alone 2,000 people, transfixed by a minimal setup. But that’s the power of González wielded and kept listeners’ attentions back in the early 2000s with his airy, delicate (and wildly popular) cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats.” Since then, González has for the most part stayed in the same sparse acoustic wheelhouse, but the effect never dulls. Years later, these songs remain timeless and genuine. “Many people that listen to my music like the authenticity of it, or the feeling of authenticity, so I try to focus on my guitar playing and hope that will be enough,” González said. There’s a light fluidity to González’s gentle melodies, the kind that feels like it comes easy, which might not be far from the truth. “Some songs really take a lot of attention, and others like ‘Heartbeat,’ it’s

a really easy song to play and one of the favorites for the audience, so I can just relax,” González said. “I notice with all the tours I’m doing, especially toward the end of the tour, I’m able to think about other things—things I’ve been doing during the day or the next day, a bit of daydreaming while I’m playing.” That tranquility can even bleed into the writing process for González. “When I’m writing or rehearsing, I get soothed by the repetitiveness,” González said. For his last record—2015’s Vestiges and Claws—González took the reigns on production, working primarily from his home in Sweden. The result was a minimalist, well-crafted group of songs with standout moments like the enticing bossa nova sway of “What Will,” or the serene closer, “Open Book.” The solidity of songcraft is undisputed, but not far off in sound and style from his previous work, an intentional choice on González’s part. “The way I did it on my own was actually similar to old albums,” he said. “I’m sort of still doing the same thing I’ve been doing for a while. Guitar, vocals— keeping it simple.” Even with its simplicity (and maybe sometimes because of it), the smallest variations feel amplified. On songs like “Stories We Build, Stories We Tell,” the slightest grit comes through in a cautious dose of overdrive; as González skips through his guitar lick, you can hear slight splits of distortion, like a frayed tear in well-worn denim. To be fair, the live delivery of these songs isn’t always soft and solo. González has toured with a five-piece ensemble— guitars, percussion, three vocalists—and even spent the end of 2017 touring with a 20-piece orchestra. As he returns to his tried-and-true solo form, it’s both a challenge and a retreat. “It’s pretty hard to try to fill out the room on my own again,” González said. “Now I’m going back to basics, to my original style. I get tempted once in a while, whenever I’m about to go out

“Intimacy can be something that happens in a small space when people are close, but it can also be a loud and clear volume that sounds like you’re really up close and people are quiet.” – José González

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on tour, to add more stuff. Then I sort of relax a bit when I start and stick to just guitar and vocals and foot tapping.” Though the solo performance is minimal, similar to the recordings, those subtle flourishes or sonic expansions have defined strength. González percussively peppers the rhythmic lowend of his tunes with a small stomp box, giving the songs understated urgency, or simply defining their shape with a sweet little groove. It’s even carried over a bit into reshaping older favorites. “I’ve changed a few old songs like ‘Down the Line’ and ‘Killing for Love’ to get a bit more action,” González said. González will be working on a new solo record this year. While touring alone might give some artists space to write new songs, he prefers to keep that work at home. “I’ve had some tours where I try to write on tour and I usually get frustrated because usually there’s something to do. You’re in a new city, you want to have a coffee or a beer, you’re around people who want to hang out; you don’t want to do homework, so to speak,” González said. “The best thing is to be home and have many weeks in a row where I can sit down a couple hours a day and just write and record.” For now, as González stays on the road for a while longer, there are a few alternative releases on the horizon. “This year I’ll be releasing an EP with a live band, and also a live recording of the orchestra,” González said. “They’re all old songs but they’re different versions.” Once he’s back home, González will pick up on his writing, and spend time with his new three-month-old daughter, one of the few not immediately soothed by González’s song. “I was really excited to start playing music for her. The first time I picked up the guitar and started tuning, I was tuning too long so she started crying,” González laughed. “It was a moment I’d had anticipation [for]. But since then it’s been really fun, she likes it.”

See José González and his guitar live at the Crest Theatre (1013 K St., Sacramento) on Jan. 30. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and tickets start at $35. You can purchase them online through Crestsacramento.com.

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henever and wherever Sacramento’s Screature take the stage, they bring a 4 a.m. world of dread with them, embodying completely a dark strain of rock music that first sparked in the underground nearly 40 years ago. They are the bony gait of Famine’s horse, Alice’s final rabbit-hole descent into Hades. They are the harbinger, the massacre and the holy ghost to gloat above all—play their music in a darkened bedroom, and things begin to crawl. Formed seven years ago, partially out of a shared interest in cultish music and UFO literature, Screature has released two full-length works: their self-titled debut (2013) and Four Columns (2015). The combined effect when listened to both without interruption amounts to a monolithic, rising wail, a dance along the precipice of sanity. The lineup is so well integrated (Liz Mahoney’s foreboding wail, Chris Orr’s jagged guitar stabs, Sarah Scherer’s murky, bassregister organ and Miranda Vera’s unrelenting drumwork) that the result is a single ritualistic howl, each element overlaying the next. When combined with the right visuals, it’s hypnotic and uncanny. Just scope their video for the single “100 Lines” off of Four Columns, a disturbing transgression captured in reverse, confirming the feeling one gets zoning out to their music that time is being demolished. Whether we get the chance to unmake our evil—or merely run the risk of getting snared by it once again—is left up to question. In the two years since their last aural/spiritual onslaught, Screature has used the live setting as a laboratory for their forthcoming release, Old Hand New Wave. In the throng of a dark venue, the power of shared

presence cannot be denied, and their most powerful statements come to life here. I was lucky enough to catch them at Ace of Spades in late 2017 in a perfect trifecta of spectral aggression with Youth Code and Chelsea Wolfe (with whom Chris Orr recorded the track “Scrape” for her latest album). Although their recordings have become ever more sophisticated, Screature is first and foremost an event, in need of living conduits to spread its doom. But if Screature’s brand of lightning can be bottled, it is under the aegis of producer Chris Woodhouse (Oh Sees, Ty Segall) who has worked with them in the past. On OHNW, he succeeds in adding a deeper sense of fury to their output. Standout cuts like “Induction” and “North of Order” verge on industrial metal, and provoke compulsive re-listening and wild subjective imagery—a volcano erupting beneath a cemetery, say, or a colony of vampires succumbing to bacchanalian abandon before being incinerated by the sunrise. For me, the winner is the closing track, “Another Mask,” which comes charged with a maddening, insectile guitar drone that drags the listener closer to imminent possession. Though clearly a contemporary work, it could easily be a rediscovered classic from Joy Division’s Closer or an early Christian Death record. It leaves us with the troubling conviction that there is no such thing as finality, no clear delineation between descent and ascent, that one has screamed into the void only to be answered back, “Do what thou wilt.” Below we share a brief encounter with two of the mad geniuses behind the curtain of Screature, Mahoney and Orr.

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meeting once a week with drinks. We barely made it through Whitley Strieber’s Communion before we turned our focus on becoming a four-piece. LM: I met Miranda when I was 11, Sarah when I was 13 and Christopher when I was 17. Miranda and I lived together as sisters from the first year we met until we graduated high school. We clocked a lot of hours at the Cattle Club and watching MTV. When we started, I had shifted my focus from running a live music venue, Fools Foundation, to wanting to perform.

The first two singles off of Old Hand New Wave sound heavier, more doom-laden, more intense. Would you agree with that, and is there something that pushed you in this direction? Chris Orr: I agree. This is the heaviest Screature has sounded. Part of that was Woodhouse’s heavy hand—the drums are doubled and effected, the organ’s got deeper teeth this time round. Both drums and organ are more present in the mix, which helps thicken it up. The guitars weigh a ton [with] feedback, wah, even my first guitar solo. Liz just brings the roof down on the whole affair. Her vocals are devastating on OHNW. Beware. Liz Mahoney: I had just joined the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis) when we started writing this album, so some of the lyrics reference this experience. I was initiated the day before we started recording, so that was very intense for me. I think the impact bled into my performance on the album.

What has been your experience performing with Chelsea Wolfe and Youth Code? What’s your method of trying out new songs live? Do you shape the songs by reading the crowd, or is there another way? CO: Both bands seem to leave a bit of themselves on stage. The next night we witnessed them eager to get back up there and reclaim it, only to leave it behind again. That’s inspiring. I want to learn to live on stage. LM: Such an amazing experience! We are so blessed to have such hardworking, magical people in our lives who support what we do. I am usually chomping at the bit to play a new song live, especially in the midst of still figuring it out. You invite me over for a night of drinks, film-viewing and music listening: What is the lineup for our night in? How do you get across the ethos of Screature without using your music as reference? CO: Hey pal, nice to see you. Tequila, soda, lemon? We’ve made one just for you. Yes, that’s Machine Gun Etiquette on the record player. Now sit on the floor, we’re watching Communion on mute! LM: What he said!

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1.15 MONDAY

Cafe Colonial Hearts Like Lions, VIS, Lost Things, Mourning Mountains, Shpwrck, Cvltvre, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 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 feat. Arrington de Dionyso, Ben Bennett, San(s) Kazakgascar, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. Press Club Pregnant, Bad History Month, Longface, Yawzea, 8 p.m.

1.16 TUESDAY

Armadillo Music Bad History Month, Longface, 5:30 p.m. The Colony Avoid, Shinebright, Desolist, Shorelines, The Last Titan, 6 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Wynonna & The Big Noise, 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, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Press Club Reggae Night w/ DJ Dweet, 9 p.m. Torch Club Richard March, 5:30 p.m.; Andrew Little, 8 p.m.

1.17 WEDNESDAY

The Acoustic Den Cafe Open Mic, 6:30 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Lord Bishop Rocks, Louie Fontaine & the Starlight Searchers, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk The Color Wild, Stickup Kid, Fake It, Hi Mom, Everyone Leaves, Save Face, 7 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Laith Al-Saadi, 5:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Wynonna & The Big Noise, 7:30 p.m. MOMO Sacramento Bourbon & Blues: The Lucky Losers feat. Phil Berkowitz & Cathy Lemons, 5:30 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Manchester Orchestra, Write Or Die, Our People, 6:30 p.m. Press Club Teenage Dirtbag Fest w/ Kepi Ghoulie, Mean Jeans, Croissants, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase In the Round, 5:30 p.m.; Risky Biscuit, 9 p.m.

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The Acoustic Den Cafe Songwriters in the Round w/ Nick Foster, Connor Hormell, Jessica Agnew, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Lil Slugg, DJ KeDD-e, Keezy, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Crocker Art Museum AudioMuse: Sacto Storytellers, Natalie McKeever, Simon Dvorak, 6:30 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Jessica Malone, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Jingo, 8 p.m. Golden Bear The Philharmonik, They Live In the Clouds, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Jocelyn & Chris Arndt, 5:30 p.m. Holy Diver Digitour: Arctic Lights w/ Raegan Beast, Jonas Bridges, Sam Collins, Itsjustnick, 5:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Dylan Crawford, 9:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. MOMO Sacramento Discover Thursdays: Mino Yanci, George Napp, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, 4 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Acoustic Jam, 7:30 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 10 p.m. Palms Playhouse (Winters) Special Consensus, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Ashley Barron, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Trash Rock w/ Peace Killers, 8 p.m. Shady Lady Harley White Jr. Orchestra, 9 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Elvis Cantu, 9 p.m.

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Ace of Spades V101 Old School House Party w/ DJ Charlie Ramos & More, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Debbie Wolfe & Halfmoon Highway, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Banjo Bones, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. What’s Left, 5 p.m. The Boardwalk Circus Runaways, Good Ol’ Boyz, 7 p.m. Cafe Colonial The Polyorchids, Build Them To Break, Worth Taking, Pisscat, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. The Colony Outside Looking In, Class System, Mass Terror, Pug Skullz, Sick Burn!, 6 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Big Trouble, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose The Mindful, Deacon Free, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Goldfield Devin Dawson (Record Release), 7 p.m. Harlow’s The Dustbowl Revival, Moonshiner Collective, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Benny Goodman Tribute feat. Ken Peplowski and the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra, Chuck Redd, Ehud Asherie, Ann Roach, 7:30 p.m. (Sold Out) Holy Diver Krizz Kaliko, Slo Pain, Izzy Dunfore, Playah K, DJ Eddie Z, 7 p.m. Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond & Jon Bafus, 9:30 p.m. Mix Riffs on the Rooftop w/ Ruby Jaye, 6:30 p.m. Mondavi Center: Ann E. Pitzer Center Empyrean Ensemble, 7 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Railroad Earth, 6 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides La Mera Candelaria, Carlos Kandia, D.J. Riktor, 9 p.m. On The Y Octobrists, Zen Arcadia, Fallen Fury, Triggered Heart, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon Disco Revolution, 9 p.m. Palms Playhouse (Winters) Muriel Anderson, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. PJ’s Roadhouse Find Yourself, Mookatite, Seafloor Cinema, Benjamin Hecht, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Blackwater, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Shady Lady The Hucklebucks, 9 p.m. Shine Hans & The Hot Mess, Glass House, 8 p.m. Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) 8 Track Massacre, 9 p.m. Torch Club The Outcome, 5:30 p.m.; You Front the Band All-Star Party, 9 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Ed Masuga, 6 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Iration, The Movement, Tyrones Jacket, 7 p.m. (Sold Out) The Acoustic Den Cafe The Music of Dan Fogelberg, 2 p.m.; Old West Trio, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Curtis T, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. The Manzanita, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Surfer Blood, Terry Malts, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Remedy, Salsalino, Achor Boyz, 7:30 p.m.

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1.21 SUNDAY

Ace of Spades Iration, The Movement, Tyrones Jacket, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Ukulele Jam and Singalong, 11 a.m.; Terry & Harold, 1:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Sweet and Low Melody Co, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp MDC, Infirmities, MDSO, Screaming Bloody Marys, 8 p.m. Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Green Leaf Rustlers (feat. Chris Robinson, Barry Sless, Pete Sears, John Molo, Greg Loiacono), 8:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Josh Ritter and The Royal City Band, Nicki Bluhm, 6:30 p.m. Harlow’s Xavier Wulf, 6:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Sergio Mendes, 2 p.m.; Sacramento Baroque Soloists, 2 p.m. (Sold Out)

The Library of MusicLandria New Year Circle Singing w/ Hannah Gladstone, 3 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 The Auburn Symphony, 3 p.m. Palms Playhouse (Winters) Albert Cummings, 7 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Dennis Jones, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. The Red Museum Sacramento Audio Waffle feat. MOM, Xome, Vankmen, Venetian Veil, Sidewalk Brujeria, Dino Rockets, 12 p.m. Shady Lady Alex Jenkins, 9 p.m. Sutter Creek Provisions Darin Sexton & HWY 49 Band, 3 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

1.22 MONDAY

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Masonic Temple The Common Ground Jazz and Blues Concert, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. The Silver Orange The New Crowns, Short Trip, Criminal Rock, Lowglance, 6 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Jeffrey Siegel, 7 p.m. MOMO Sacramento Bourbon & Blues: Proxy Moon, 5:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Press Club Emo Night, 8 p.m. Sacramento State: University Union Redwood Room Nooner w/ Brian Chris Rogers, 12 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Hans Eberbach, 5:30 p.m.; Peter Petty and His Double P Revue, 9 p.m.

1.23 TUESDAY

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1.25 THURSDAY

Ace of Spades Avatar, The Brains, Hellzapoppin, 6:30 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Songwriters in the Round w/ Ken Burnett, Robert Scott Mueller, Tyler Ragle, Chris Matthews, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. The Boardwalk Coyote Reverie, The Herald, Alex Walker, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Tim Dierkes, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose According to Bazooka, 8 p.m. Gold Lion Arts Sunwatchers, Swimming in Bengal, Invasive Species, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Lee Scratch Perry w/

1.24 WEDNESDAY

The Acoustic Den Cafe Open Mic, 6:30 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial Ssyndrom, Phane, Anti-Sycotix, Korrosive, Omnigul, 8 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m.

Subatomic Sound System, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Keola Beamer, Henry Kapono, 7 p.m. Holy Diver Sleeptalk, Groves, NOSEDIVE, Sam Peter, Average League, 6:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Stephen Yerkey, 9:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. MOMO Sacramento Discover Thursdays: Blame the Bishop, Mezcal Aces, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides The Creston Line, The Loose Engines, Arthur Watership, 8 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 10 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Damn Liars, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Greg Rekus, Danger Inc., Sunday School, Danny Secretion, 8 p.m. Shady Lady Hot City, 9 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; City of Trees Brass Band, Ctrl-Z, 9 p.m.

1.26 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Meshuggah, Code Orange, Toothgrinder, 6:30 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Larry Diehl, Aireene Espiritu, Michael Gaither, 7 p.m. Bar 101 One Dollar Check, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Doc Tari, 5 p.m. The Boardwalk The Sactivity feat. Dee Cisneros, Big Tone, C.N., Ally Bo and More, 6:30 p.m.

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1.27 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades Chris Robinson Brotherhood, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe The Jones Gang, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Misner and Smith, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Armed For Apocalypse, xTom Hanx, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk L$T BYZ, 7:30 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Tony Orlando, 7:30 p.m. Capitol Garage The Corner w/ DJ Veyn & Guests, 10 p.m. Community Center Theater Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera’s Russian Festival: Rachmaninoff Third Concerto, 8 p.m. Cordova Performing Arts Center Winter Concerto Concert, 7:30 p.m. Crest Theatre The Fab Four (Beatles Tribute), 6:30 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Tijuana Weekend, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Western Spies & Kosmanaut, Amy Blue, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Midnight Players, 9 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout feat. RJ Mischo, Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Mark Hummel, Deitra Farr, Oscar Wilson, Billy Flynn, June Core, Rw Grisby, Rusty Zinn, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Dio Disciples, Criminal Rock, North Shore, Arminius, 7 p.m. Kupros Craft House Harley White Jr. Trio, 9:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe David Houston & String Theory, 8 p.m.

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1.28 SUNDAY

The Acoustic Den Cafe Ukulele Jam and Singalong, 11 a.m.; Red Dog Ash, North Country Blue, 2 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Muddy Waders, 3 p.m. Harlow’s Tommy Guerrero Meets Mattson 2, 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. On The Y A World Without, Glass Creatures, Zephira, 8:30 p.m. Palms Playhouse (Winters) Almir Côrtes Trio & Harvey Wainapel, 3 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Daniel Castro, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Shady Lady Peter Petty, 9 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

1.29 MONDAY

Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Steve Smith and Vital Information NYC Edition, 8 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 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.

Comedy Harlow’s W. Kamau Bell, Jan. 26, 7 & 10 p.m. Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Jim Breuer, Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Comics Without Boundaries: Insane Wayne, Eric Mee, Braden Murphy, Tristan Johnson (Host), Jan. 17, 8 p.m.

Say It Loud Comedy: Nate Jackson, Michael Calvin Jr. and More, Jan. 18, 8 p.m. Derek Richards feat. Michael Calvin Jr., Jan. 19 - 21, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. All Ages Family Show feat. Justin Rivera, Jan. 21, 1 p.m. There Goes the Neighborhood Comedy Jam w/ Yoshi Obayashi, Robert Omoto, Braden Daniel Murphy, Jimmy Earll, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. Keon Polee feat. Travis Nelson, Jan. 26 - 28, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy w/ Host Jaime Fernandez, Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. STAB!, Jan. 17, 8 p.m. On the Y Open Mic Comedy w/ Host Robert Berry, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. Punch Line Cards Against Humanity, Jan. 17, 8 p.m. Steve Trevino, Jimmy Earll, Richard Sarvate, Jan. 18 - 21, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri., 8 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Free Space! Comedy Bingo Hosted by Daniel Humbarger and Jason Bargert, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. Corinne Fisher & Krystyna Hutchinson Present: The Bridget Bishop Tour, Jan. 25 - 27, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri., 8 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. LOLGBT Drag Dinner - A Night of Drag and Comedy!, Jan. 28, 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 8 p.m. Improv Taste Test and Harold Night, Wednesday’s, 7 - 10 p.m. Cage Match and Improv Jam, Thursday’s, 8 - 10 p.m. Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, 9 p.m. Tommy T’s Deray Davis, Jan. 19 - 21, Fri., 8 & 10 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9 p.m.; Sun., 6 p.m. Shang Forbes, Jan. 26 - 28, Fri., 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Misc. 8th and W Streets Certified Farmers Market, Sunday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. 20th Street (Between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Blue Cue Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, Tuesday’s, 8 p.m. Cal Expo Sacramento International Sportsmen’s Expo, Jan. 18 - 21 California Automobile Museum Hazy Sacramento IPA Festival, Jan. 26, 5 p.m. The Citizen Hotel Sacramento Chocolate Salon, Jan. 27, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Coloma Community Center Bring ‘em Back: A Place Called Sacramento, Jan. 18, 6:30 p.m. Colonial Theatre Louder Than Wolves: Taking a Stand Against Rape Culture 2, Jan. 27, 8 p.m. Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Crest Theatre Dirty Dancing, Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m. Blade Runner, Jan. 20, 7:30 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Theater at the Crocker: Fortunes Way, Jan. 28, 2 p.m. Exuberant Earth: Ceramics by Ruth Rippon, Now through Feb. 4 Masters of Venice: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo from the Anthony J. Moravec Collection, Now through Feb. 4 Davis Musical Theatre Co. Performing Arts Center Monty Python’s Spamalot, Through Jan. 28

Fair Oaks Community Clubhouse Free West Coast Swing Dance Lesson, Jan. 28, 5:30 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. Fruitridge Community Center Polar Plunge: Freezin’ for a Reason Fundraiser, Jan. 27, 8 a.m. Job Skills Workshop, Jan. 29, 5 p.m. Go Palladio Tap Into A Cold One, Jan. 27, 4 p.m. Golden 1 Center The Original Harlem Globetrotters, Jan. 15, 1 & 6 p.m. Monster Jam Triple Threat Series, Jan 19 - 21 PBR: Sacramento Invitational, Jan. 26 - 28 Hal Bartholomew Park Rugby NorCal Girls Kick-Off Festival, Jan. 20, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Highwater The Trivia Factory, Monday’s, 7 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 8 a.m. Holy Diver The Darling Clementines: Sac-rilegious, Jan. 24, 8:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sunday’s, 7:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, Thursday’s, 8 p.m. Memorial Auditorium State of the City Address, Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m. McClatchy Park Oak Park Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. McKinley Library Sabrina’s Craft Corner: Annual Knitting Exchange, Jan. 27, 2:30 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesday’s, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Circa: Il Ritorno, Jan. 26, 8 p.m. Circa: Carnival of the Animals, Jan. 28, 3 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, Wednesday’s, 7 p.m. Outlet Coworking Stranger Things 2 Tribute Art Show, Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m. The Red Museum The Latest Show, Jan. 18, 8 p.m. Revolution Wines Cellar School: That New Year Sparkle, Jan. 20, 2 p.m. Sacramento Convention Center Perfect Wedding Guide Bridal Show, Jan. 28, 12 p.m. Sacramento High School SacTown VegFest 2018, Jan. 27, 11 am. - 4 p.m. Sacramento Theatre Company Walkin’ After Midnight: Broadway Loves Country, Jan. 18 - 21 Shine Questionable Trivia, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Sacramento’s Naked Narratives Open Mic, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. Sol Collective Peach House Presents: Pop Up Market and Movie Night, Jan. 20, 1 - 4 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. Sunrise Light Rail Station Certified Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. WAL Public Market Creativity and Storytelling: Jeff Knorr and Ann Kraemer, Jan. 18, 5:30 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Tuesday’s, 6 p.m.

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DANNY DAVIS: PROFESSIONAL SNOWBOARDER AND ALL AROUND GOOD HUMAN WORDS JONATHAN CARABBA • PHOTOS COURTESY BURTON SNOWBOARDS

It looks like you had some pretty good runs at Copper Mountain a few weeks back, placing fifth, and the Dew Tour’s Breckenridge stop was just last weekend and you placed sixth there. How are you feeling gearing back up for these major competitions and Olympic qualifiers? I feel pretty good. I still haven’t gotten a chance to really land the run that I feel would get me on some podiums. I’ve kind of been playing that game of landing a run, getting a run down, and then going from there. It’s been working. It’s been getting me in that fifth, sixth position at these contests. I don’t exactly know how the points work out for the Olympic team, but I know that I’m in an OK place. I need some good finishes in Aspen and in Mammoth, which are the last two qualifiers. I did take a good fall at the Copper contest. I bruised my tailbone really good. I got in good enough shape to ride in Breckenridge at the Dew Tour, and ended up OK there. But I’m looking forward to these next two. Then, really man, the contest’s that I love, you know, I love Dew Tour, I love X Games, I love the U.S. Open, so I’m really looking forward to those events as well. It’s gonna be a fun season, no matter what.

Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships, 2017 | Vail, Colorado | Photo by Gabe L'Heureux

anny Davis is many things: professional snowboarder, Olympian, two-time X Games gold medalist, co-founder of the annual Peace Park event, co-founder of The Frendly Gathering music festival, proud ambassador for both Protect Our Winters and Martin Guitar ... the list goes on and on. Beyond all that though, he’s just a solid human being and has been universally hailed in recent years as not only one of the most influential riders in the sport, but as one of the best dudes in the industry, too. At the tender age of 19, Davis who was born in Highland, Michigan—packed up his belongings and headed out west, eventually settling down in the Tahoe area (Truckee, to be exact), where he has called home for the last decade. Now, on the verge of turning 30, Davis is attempting to make it to his second Winter Olympic Games as part of the USA men’s halfpipe team that will travel to Pyeongchang, South Korea, where competition starts on Feb. 9. As of press time, Davis had not yet secured his slot on the extremely hard to make four-man team, but with a couple of qualifying events still to happen, he was in a pretty good position.

In 2014 at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, Davis finished 10th overall, and was the second best placing American halfpipe rider (poster child Shaun White finished fourth overall). And while competing in the Olympics is not what Davis calls the “be all end all” of snowboarding, he’s got a level-headed, humble outlook on the games. “For me, I think what the Olympics is about is making the people who have supported me for so long proud,” Davis recently told Submerge during an interview. “That is where this effort all comes from—making my parents proud. They’ve really gone out of their way to make this career possible for me. Burton has really gone out of their way to make this thing possible for me. I think it’s really making those people proud and making them stoked. “Because if I had it my way and nothing mattered,” Davis joked, “I’d probably just ride powder all season.” In the following interview, Davis talks Olympics, music festivals and why he’s just trying to emulate surfing when he straps into his snowboard.

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The competition to get on the U.S. men’s halfpipe team seems really stiff. Everyone’s gunning for it. Regardless if you end up in Pyeongchang or not, you’ve already competed in an Olympic Games before. What’s it like to be called an Olympian? Is that a trip? It’s kind of a trip. You look at our sport, and it’s snowboarding, you know? At least from my side of things, I don’t spend a ton of time in the gym. I’m not like crazy about being as strong as possible. I do most of my training on the snow. I’m out splitboarding, I’m out riding, I’m out learning tricks, I’m out having fun. The fact that we can call ourselves Olympians, or have the opportunity to, is pretty cool. What’s really fun about it, at least in my world, is my family gets such a kick out of it. So it’s really fun, but I’m super thankful that snowboarding is what it is, in that the Olympics is not exactly the pinnacle of our sport. How much importance do you place on making it to Pyeongchang versus, say, filming video parts with your friends or riding powder and doing some soul shredding? Is it really important to you? I’ve been spending a lot of time in the halfpipe this fall and this past summer. For the effort put in, it would be great, it would feel like hard work paid off. Last year I did OK at contests. I wasn’t the guy to beat necessarily; I wasn’t landing on podiums. So to work my way back there, it’s been hard work. Doing well at contests in general is kind of the way that I see it, and if you do well at contests, you’re going to make that Olympic team. So it would be like hard work paid off, but, Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

nothing compares to the days in the backcountry when you’re in chest-deep pow with your friends getting clips. That’s the stuff that we all dreamed about when we were 10 years old watching all the videos. It’s so hard to even compare the two, because the feeling is just so different. The last time around at the Olympics, what a great experience it was going to the opening ceremonies and meeting all the other athletes. Being a part of the whole thing was very cool. The snowboard competition side of it, was, you know, not the greatest competition we’ve ever had. Yeah, the halfpipe in Sochi in 2014 looked so shitty. How much do you know about South Korea and the conditions out there? Do you think the riders are in for better conditions? I think we are in for a better pipe. They’re going to take some more precautions and some more steps to make sure that pipe is good. That was definitely one bummer to Russia was just that everyone worked so hard to get there and to have a B-grade halfpipe was just sort of a bummer. But what’s cool about the Olympics is that it’s fun, man. You really feel like an American. You’re a part of an American team with other American riders. You know, I like to think of myself as a citizen of the world. I love the United States.

I don’t know that there’s anywhere else I’d rather live. I think we have so much that we’re lucky for and so much that this country has to offer, from ocean, to desert, to mountains and lakes. It’s a very cool country just in the terrain that we have to offer. But there’s so many cool places in the world, man. Korea is definitely not the snowiest place on earth; it’s not somewhere that we go to shred. Japan is one of those Holy Grails of snowboarding, Switzerland is one of those Holy Grails of snowboarding, Austria, Canada, the United States. So it’s definitely always a little bit weird to see where they end up wanting to do the Olympics for the winter. I do know that last year at the test event [in South Korea] the pipe was very good. I think we’re in for a little bit better contest this time around.

“Snowboarding is one of those things that is like the endless pursuit of perfection. You’ll never be the best snowboarder there ever is, because there is always something to explore more in snowboarding. There’s always new places to go, new mountains to ride, new things to learn.” – Danny Davis

Fernie, British Columbia, Canada | Photo by Gabe L'Heureux Switching gears a bit, tell me a little more about Frendly Gathering, a multi-day grassroots music festival that you’re involved with. Just like snowboarding did, it started as something that was fun. We started, like, a camping trip for our friends. We invited friends, family and fans to just come camp and jam out for a weekend. There was probably a little over 100 people the first time we did it. It was just mostly homies. The whole point was to get everyone together. It was a crazy season. It was the year that Kevin Pearce hit his head really hard and had a really bad injury. So, we hadn’t seen Kevin in a long time, Scotty Lago went to the Olympics and won bronze, Luke and Jack [Mitrani] were doing their thing. I had broken my back. So it was just kind of an event to get everyone back together for a camping trip and just to high five and jam out and spend a couple days together, because we hadn’t seen each other in a while and everyone got spread out for a little bit. So we had the Frends Crew there, and that was really the beginning. The next year, we took it a little bit further; we did a snowboard event at Mammoth and invited, again, friends, family and fans to come not only compete in the event, but come and camp with us. From there we were like, “Dude, let’s bring some music in.” So we brought like a Led Zeppelin cover band, we brought one of our friends who played music at the time to perform. That was the beginning. There were two bands at that second one. That summer, a friend of ours called us and he was like, “Hey man, you guys should do one of your Frendly Gathering’s at my dad’s property.” His dad owns this old ski resort that’s probably 50, 60, maybe 100 acres. So we got 12 bands together and invited everyone to come again and just camp and jam out and listen to music. Just see each other, you know? All our friends from the East Coast, we wanted to see all of them and we were doing these first two on the West Coast. It was like, “Alright let’s do one on the East Coast now and try and make this something great.”

Do you think the festival will ever make its way back out west? Heck yeah. The plan was always to do an East Coast and a West Coast, then hopefully expand from there, going around the world and doing more music festivals and stuff like that. I think all of our ambitions were bigger than the possibilities. We’ve done it in Vermont now for six or seven years and now it’s grown to like 4,000 to or 5,000 people, and it’s 30-something bands over a weekend. It’s a lot of work. To wrap things up, just briefly, what’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about snowboarding? Oh, turns man! Surfing, you know, what we’re doing is we’re surfing on the snow. Every time I go snowboarding, a lot of times, especially when the snow is deep and killer, I’m just trying to imitate what I would do on a surfboard. I would love to be a good surfer. That’s where all this stems from, where skateboarding stems from, where snowboarding stems from. I think that’s what I picture most when I’m doing deep pow turns. That’s funny because here I am talking to an Olympian who can do all these crazy flips and tricks that most people can’t even wrap their head around, but at the end of the day, even for you, it’s just all about the art of carving, just turning a snowboard. Snowboarding is one of those things that is like the endless pursuit of perfection. You’ll never be the best snowboarder there ever is, because there is always something to explore more in snowboarding. There’s always new places to go, new mountains to ride, new things to learn. You’ve never learned every trick, you’ve never perfected everything. It’s just about waking up and getting stoked on learning something new and doing some good ol’ turns, man.

Follow along as Danny Davis tries to make it to his second Olympic Games over the coming weeks. Find him online at Facebook. com/officialdannydavis, Twitter.com/ theddeadshow, Instagram.com/travelindan or Dannydavis.com. You can also catch Davis competing in the upcoming X Games, happening Jan. 25–28, 2018 in Aspen. Visit Xgames.espn.com for more info on when and where to watch.

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THE SHALLOW END ZEUS AND HIEROGLYPHS I realize the two things mentioned in the title of this column don’t really relate to one another, other than that they’re both old and outdated… but hear me out. I just recently got an iPhone 7, which I guess is also old and outdated, but for me it feels like NASA-level technology (as of this writing, I think NASA is still a thing, but who knows how long that will last). I’m pretty sure the 7 is, like, what…four generations behind the current model iPhone? Just keep in mind that I was using a 5C up until Dec. 31, but with the dawning of 2018—on New Year’s Day to be exact—it was finally time to move on. To be honest, I would have stayed with my old phone for another year if I could have, but the thing sort of stopped charging. I’d have to wiggle the plug in the jack and hoped I found the sweet spot and that the rotation of the Earth or a sudden change in atmospheric pressure didn’t knock anything out of whack while I was sleeping and I’d wake up to a dead phone—no Instagram…no janky word search games. I know. Totally brutal. So I fought my frugality the best I could and ponied up for this fucking 7 thing. I was super bummed that they don’t give you a deal on the phones anymore and you have to pay for them outright over the course of 30 months or whatever, which is probably six months after the thing stops working so you have to get a new one on a new payment plan and seriously AT&T WHAT THE FUCK. Sorry, it’s just that buying things really makes me nervous. I’m only a few years removed from crossing my fingers that the $20 I just pulled from the ATM didn’t overdraft me, and my scars are still pretty deep. That being said, though, this gizmo sure is nice. It’s even got this Night Shift setting so the blue light from the screen won’t fuck with my circadian rhythm, which is so goddamn considerate. But the thing I love the most is that I don’t have to text in actual words anymore. Like, let’s say my wife tells me she’s going to stop at the bank before she comes home from work. I type “OK” in response, but before I press “send,” my awesome new phone

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suggests the thumbs-up emoji, so I send that instead. Or, maybe my buddy tells me where to meet him for happy hour. I type “cool” in response, but my phone is like, “no dude, words are so last decade, send the smileyface-wearing-sunglasses emoji instead,” and I readily oblige. Another great feature is that I can search for GIFs that accurately depict whatever mood I’m in, such as if I think something is a complete train wreck, all I have to do is type “train wreck” into a search field in my texting app and then I’m presented with numerous, suitable options. I feel like it has changed my life for the better, so I guess I shouldn’t be so sad about paying for the phone in full. In 30 monthly installments. Adding to my already exorbitant cell phone bill. But I’m not bitter. It’s funny though, because it makes me realize that even though our methods of communication have come so far, what with our fancy alphabets and all, that maybe the older ways are better. So maybe the Ancient Egyptians had it right with their hieroglyphs. And now thousands of years later, we’re starting to come around to their way of thinking with our memes and GIFs and emojis. It’s about the same time that I had this revelation that I also started thinking about Zeus, which is funny because I don’t think I’ve ever thought of Zeus, at least not outside of English class. Like, to me, Zeus is mythology. He’s just some powerful god-dude in a story. But at one time, he was someone’s God-god, right? Is he still someone’s God-god? Who’s out there worshipping Zeus? Because if someone is, I think I want in on that. Wouldn’t it be a trip that if when Mike Pence or some other hardcore Bible thumper dies, some ferryman shows up, and then poor Pence is screwed because his loved ones didn’t bother to put coins on his eyes, and he’s just gotta stand there on the shore of the River Styx with a whole bunch of other monotheistic dopes, all shrugging their shoulders, like, “Who knew?” The Ancient Greeks did, guys. Anyway, this is my way of saying I really dig my new phone.

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