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JONATHAN CARABBA jonathan@submergemag.com There are people who love their local music scene, and then are people who truly LOVE their local music scene. They live it. They breathe it. They go to shows all the time. They crank local bands’ new albums on their stereo in their downtime just because they want to. Yes, Mark Gilmore was one of those guys. Sadly, the staunch supporter of the greater Northern California music scene and longtime host of 98 Rock’s Local Licks has passed away after losing his battle with pancreatic cancer.

Gilmore championed so many local bands throughout not only his time at the radio station, but also as a show promoter who had his hands in a lot of live music happenings, that’d it be impossible to list them all. He played countless local bands on the radio for their first time, which, if you don’t know, is a huge deal for any musician. Heck, years ago he even invited one of my old bands to come on air for an interview on Local Licks after he had heard our new album! It blew us away, gave us confidence and was the sort of amazing opportunity that he had given to so many others before us, and we were forever thankful for him. He truly cared about helping local artists flourish, hence the reason he was beloved by so many.

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THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST NOT SO GRAND THEFT AUTO BOCEPHUS CHIGGER bocephus@submergemag.com What would you do with just one digit of a license plate? Perhaps I should clarify: Let’s say you took a license plate and cut it vertically right before the last digit with a pair of tin snips. The piece you cut off would contain the last number of the license plate and the registration sticker. Got it?

Great! Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s go back to the question: What would you do with that piece of plate?

For those of you who say, “I’d peel the registration sticker off to sell or use myself and toss the rest!” I should also add that the registration sticker was for 2018 and it had been slashed several times with a razorblade to prevent theft by its very clever owner. There was no way to get it off intact, and I should know because I’m the one who had the clever idea to slash it in the first place.

I understand that this seems like a bizarre scenario to ask about, but it actually happened to me recently. I didn’t know what to think then and I still don’t know now. I’m just baffled by the whole thing. Any evidence that might explain the motive of this perpetrator is scarce; however, there are a few things I do know.

I’m not sure where my car was parked when my plate was cut, though I’m suspicious that this act of deviousness went down in my driveway on a Friday night. Wherever it transpired, I did not become aware of this debauchery until the following morning when I was loading up the car to visit some friends. As I approached the trunk, I was immediately struck by the idea that something was off. The rear license plate was too short, both in length and numbers.

I checked the cut and it was pretty clean. The rest of the plate remained undamaged, though useless without its full complement of numbers and stickers. There weren’t any scratches on the car near the cut, and I detected no further damage to the body of the car. I did a quick check around the neighborhood and no one else had suffered a similar fate, despite the fact that their stickers were all of the 2019 variety.

None of these clues have helped me figure out why this happened. The only other thing I have to go on is that the digit that was removed from my license plate was the number 1. Perhaps the explanation lies there. Maybe this dirty rat thinks he’s a real boss for chopping up people’s

license plates. Perhaps his plan is to turn my hunk of plate into a dope neck piece that says he is No. 1 or some stupid shit like that. The rap OGs used to rock Mercedes emblems around their necks, so it’s not much of a stretch to use a piece of license plate. Whippersnappers of the world, is this a thing?

Perhaps our criminal mastermind has bigger plans with my chunk o’ plate. Maybe he is snatching up the end pieces of plates from a bunch of cars. I bet he takes them back to his shop where he joins them with other misfit plate pieces to make brand new plates complete with stickers, which he can sell to people who can’t get them legally. His work would have to be meticulous to pass muster; there are too many other real plates around to compare it to. If it wasn’t perfect, the seam where the plates were joined would be glaringly obvious, drawing far too much suspicion. Who’s gonna pay for that?

When I went to the DMV to get replacement plates, I asked the woman behind the counter the same question I posed to you at the beginning of this column. She looked at me, then looked down at my disfigured license plate, then back at me, then back to the plate, then back at me again before shrugging her shoulders. She said she had seen a lot of weird things in her time at the DMV, but this one didn’t make sense to her either.

We both laughed as she handed me my receipt, stickers and new plates.

It had been one of my most pleasant experiences at the DMV. The lines were short and I was in and out in about 20 minutes. It might9:30PM have been prudent to take a look at the new plates before I left, but I was so excited that this trip to the DMV had not taken all morning that I practically ran out the door in glee once I had the replacement plates. It wasn’t until I got home and put them on that I noticed the problem.

The plates were the right length and the stickers all looked to be in order, but there was something else. The first four digits on my brand new license plates were 8JIZ, which I read as, “ate jizz.” It was a real nice cherry on top of this shit sundae, but I had to laugh. This whole ordeal had been so ridiculous and left such a bad taste in my mouth that it seemed a fitting end to this particular chapter in my story. 8JIZ, indeed!

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OUTSIDE THE 9-TO-5 WHEN FALSE CONFIDENCE BRINGS YOU BACK TO BABY STEPS AS AN ADULT WORDS ELLEN BAKER Skis lashed to an old backpack on my back, snow shoes strapped to ski boots on my feet, a rock climbing helmet that didn’t allow for proper ski goggle arrangement on my face, non-waterproof pants on my legs and an enthusiastic nearing30-year-old woman with zero knowledge on how to ski—this all accurately describes my first backcountry ski tour.

“Good effort,” an elderly man mentioned with a grin as I slogged up the mountain. An obvious ski veteran, the man’s comment rejuvenated my confidence after the endless looks of concern I had received from fellow skiers throughout the day prior to him. Although my day began with many-a-lecture from my two friends on backcountry safety (avalanches, snow conditions, weather patterns, avalanche rescue), it should have started at a ski resort.

My confidence as a self proclaimed athlete and rock climber led me to believe I would be proficient at any sport in the elements; if I can spend 17 hours on a limestone big wall in Mexico in nearhurricane weather in the dark of the night, skiing in the backcountry will be a piece of cake! This, my friends, is false confidence. Psychologists call it the Dunning–Kruger effect: People who have low ability

or knowledge in something have an illusion that their skill or knowledge is greater than it truly is.

So, Dunning, Kruger and I headed to the mountains. Fortunately, I was with two friends who are well-versed in backcountry skiing who remained patient, informative and supportive throughout the entire day. When I returned home that night, I bought a season pass to Boreal Ski Resort, a fantastic place to start skiing as a beginner.

Boreal has a season pass option in which you take three lessons, be it ski or snowboarding, and after completing all three lessons, you receive a “free” season pass. The lessons and season pass cost around $220, a price you will not find anywhere else in California, or perhaps the entire country.

After purchasing the pass, I finished all three lessons within a week-and-a-half. As a freelance writer and photographer, I have the ability to ski during the week rather than the weekend, meaning less crowds and one-on-one ski lessons as opposed to large group lessons. I did take one large group lesson, and it was great to see people my age and older learning a new sport. Once I received my season pass, I skied as often as I could, either alone or with fellow novice skiers.

My proud 'first tracks' at Boreal Ski Resort Take away number one: Take lessons.

It’s taken an entire season to feel relatively confident on moderate runs, and I still find myself “in the backseat” sometimes—this refers to leaning too far back and almost immediately losing control of the skis. My ski poles still drag quite often when I feel like I’m going too fast, and every time I arrive at the resort I start on the bunny hill. Dunning-Kruger is still in full effect oftentimes, and I quickly remember that I am still a beginner, and that’s OK. Take away number two: Being a beginner as an adult is not a bad thing.

My ultimate goal was always to ski in the backcountry. As a climber, being in the wilderness is something I long for; plus, the $600 ski resort passes never really enticed me. I began with far too much confidence and quickly learned that there are legitimate risks in going into the backcountry. I learned that avalanches not only happen in extreme terrain, they can happen in almost all terrain, and becoming an expert in snow science can save your life, or at least allow you to make more informed decisions. I learned that 90 percent of avalanches are triggered by the victim or someone in the victim’s party, and I learned that if caught in an avalanche, you have about 7-15 minutes to get someone out before serious damage or death occurs. So, why the hell would I want to partake in this sport still!? Among various reasons, being in the wild is something I dream of.

Gaining the appropriate knowledge before venturing out, though, is vital. It may take years before being proficient enough to head into the backcountry, but I have signed up for an Avalanche Safety Course, I listen to my snow friends when they discuss current weather patterns and I follow all advice my fellow skiers have to offer.

Take away number three: Gain the skills and knowledge before using them.

So if you are in my boots and yearning to learn to ski, try out some lessons, make some friends who know what they are doing, don’t be intimidated by being an older beginner, and as always, adventure on.

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On Tuesday, April 2, you can delve deep into race, religion and mental health at the turn of the 20th Century with Princeton University’s Judith Weisenfeld, who will be leading a talk entitled, “Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry and African American Religions” (4 p.m., Benicia Hall 1025). The Festival of the Arts will spill out of the halls of academia and into downtown Sacramento galleries during U-Create, an event that will feature live music, interactive experiences and plenty of artwork. You can check out this multi-venue event on April 4 from 5–9 p.m. at Verge Center for the Arts (625 S Street, Sacramento) and Beatnik Studios (723 S Street, Sacramento). On Saturday, April 6, the Festival of Arts will welcome Ruby Chishti, a New York-based sculptor, whose work incorporates materials such as fallen twigs to create beautifully haunting forms.

Her lecture, “Narratives of Memory: A Conversation with Time,” will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Mendocino Hall 1005. There are many more events happening at this year’s Festival of the Arts, so check out Csus.edu/al/ (the College of Arts and Letters home page) for more details.

George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Plays Mondavi April 2

In recent years, the ukulele has become the instrument of choice for whomever it is you’re crushing on the most at cafes and on Youtube.

But the diminutive, guitar-like instrument has enjoyed more than a century of popularity here in the States. Across the Pond, the uke has been charming British audiences as well, thanks in no small part to George Hinchcliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. As funny as they are brimming with virtuosity, the group of merry players will illustrate that though the uke be small in size, it is nothing if not fiercely charismatic. You’ll have your chance to see this touring troupe when they come through Jackson Hall at UC Davis, presented by the Mondavi Center. Showtime is 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2.

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alking into Kicksville Vinyl and Vintage is a lot like embarking on a treasure hunt. There are finds from different eras and styles around every corner and in every nook thanks to a carefully curated inventory— masterfully assembled by co-owner Laura Matranga—and a larger space due to a vacancy down the hallway from where it all started.

Now in her new and bigger digs, Matranga is excited to embark on this next chapter of the enterprise she and husband Tim Matranga established in the Warehouse Artists Lofts in 2015. It was then that the Matrangas combined forces with Marty DeAnda of Medium Rare Records to turn their passion for vintage into a full-fledged business.

“I’m a lifelong collector, and appreciator of old stuff and funky things that are just interesting and well-designed and unique,” Laura explains.

“I’ve been a collector since I was a kid, and the collecting ended up kind of morphing into buying and then reselling over a period of years.”

From their humble beginnings selling their vintage loot at a local antique mall just as a hobby and a side hustle, to tapping into their entrepreneurial prowess and launching Kicksville, the two quickly realized that their passion, combined with their formidable inventory of vintage wares, was set to outpace the confines of the small footprint of their retail space in the WAL Public Market.

“We started here at the Market and everything started out great, then we just kept growing and growing, which is great,” Laura explains. “I made it work in there; I was doing my vintage housewares and furniture and Tim did records and it was a great combination, [but] I just ran out of space. I had 100 square feet in Kicksville, maybe. There were so many records to look at, and I don’t think people were seeing everything that I had to offer because it was getting lost among all of the records and music stuff.”

While having only been in her own space since March 9, Laura says she’s already observed a marked transformation in the way that her customers interact with the eclectic offerings she’s assembled. Staying true to her aesthetic, the store offers a rotating stock of affordable, fun and funky vintage furniture, art, housewares and decorative items.

“People are seeing it differently than they were down the hall and they’re responding to it differently, too,” Laura says. “It’s been really positive, like the colors jump out at people—the colors, the style, the color of the wood grain in the furniture you can see because there’s natural light in here, versus the other store that was a little bit dark. It was mostly music based so there have definitely been positive changes.”

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designer, says that owning her own business not only provides her with the freedom to explore and manifest her own creativity, but to connect with the customers that breathe life into her store.

“It’s nice to get to know people and what they’re looking for, what they’re into, and having repeat business like we do—we have numerous repeat customers,” she beams. “It really is nice to know your customer base; you know people by their first names, you know what’s going on in their lives, it’s a personal connection that I like having. When you own your own business, it is more personal.”

Bringing that personal touch into the store is Laura’s strength—drawing from her experience in graphic design, the designer-turned-vintage maven has created a dynamic and engaging chamber of objects that lure the customer in with her eye for combining color, texture, pattern and shape. With intentionality and creative use of space, she sets vintage lovers on a voyage of exploration that leads them through a menagerie of visually engaging and surprising elements that entices them to explore the space.

“It’s really is nice to know your customer base, you know people by their first names, you know what’s going on in their lives, it’s a personal connection that I like having. When you own your own business, it is more personal.”

– Laura Matranga, co-owner of Kicksville Vinyl & Vintage “I like juxtaposing different styles together, different decades together, different eras,” she explains “I like mixing things up so it’s eclectic— like positioning wood grain against a color piece from the ‘60s, or something really bright, or a natural piece of pottery or just to give the store some depth and texture so it visually looks interesting, too. It’s engaging; it gets people thinking. I like activating the space, making it interesting, making it fun.”

As a curator of all things fun and eclectic, Laura says she is always on the hunt for new objects to bring into her collection of offerings to her vintage-savvy clients. And while many of the pieces that she unearths on her many treasure-hunting expeditions are discovered on her own, she is quick to offer that some of those incredible treasures find their way into her collection through the connections she has with others who are just as passionate about the vintage lifestyle.

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“I travel a lot, I do estate sales, I network with other dealers and other antique pickers, too. The stuff comes from everywhere it’s not just one source,” Laura says. “I like meeting people in this industry because there is a community of people who do this for a living and we all kind of know each other. I think it’s good to support each other and that way, too, if I don’t have a certain furniture piece, I can refer a customer to someone else who might have it. So it’s not just all about me and my store, it’s about other people, too.”

For those new to the vintage game and looking to up the ante on their personal decor, Laura has these sage words of advice.

“Figure out what you like, then kind of style around that,” she says. “I personally like eclectic better than one thing or one particular style. Like, my house is extremely eclectic—we SubmergeMag.com

have antique pieces, family pieces, Danishmodern pieces, flea market stuff, stuff my neighbors threw away. I like to mix it up and I like the store to look like that, too.”

With a collection as vast as the Matrangas’—Tim’s collection alone is a towering behemoth that includes over 8,000 records—Kicksville’s vintage goddess says that restraint is key to ensuring the viability and sustainability of their business.

“I want to keep every single thing I put in here, like, no joke,” Laura admits. “I’ve been doing this for so long that I can let it go—the thing is I want to have nice pieces for the store; if I hung on to everything I wouldn’t have a shop. Sometimes I’ll have things at home for a while and enjoy it for a little bit and then pass it on and sell it or swap things in and out.

“I collect; this isn’t just what I do for a

living, it’s what I love,” she continues. “It’s how I decorate my home, it’s how I live my life, it’s what I enjoy. I’m lucky I get to do this in a retail setting.”

And while Laura is a one-woman show—yes, she does all of the branding and marketing work for both the vinyl and vintage storefronts, as well as acquiring and selling her rare finds— she says that in selecting the next space to grow into, she took a calculated risk in moving into a larger space that didn’t overwhelm her in carrying out the daily operations of the store and making the space a welcoming haven for her customers.

“It’s hard, it’s not easy and it takes a lot of tenacity, a lot of work to track this stuff down.

You have to put the time in,” she confesses.

“A lot of people think that I can just go to a thrift store and load up on everything. It’s

not like that; it takes a lot of time and there’s competition. There are other people who do this, too, and everybody wants the cool thing, the cool piece of furniture in their store. It can be challenging to get things. There are dry periods when I may not find much, or everything might sell, and I might not have enough back stock. Anything can happen, but you just have to keep at it, just keep trying.”

Check out Kicksville Vinyl and Vintage’s new home inside the WAL Public Market (1104 R St., Sacramento). The store is open seven days a week. For more info, go to Kicksvilleshop.com, or follow them on Facebook @kicksvilleshop.

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n the music criticism/appreciation realm, there are those records or songs upon which there is little immediate debate about their appeal. It’s a stone-cold scorcher, a slapper, a banger—choose your own adjective adventure. The point is that it’s a hit, or at the very least it’s very good.

The flipside to those somewhat lazy assessments (which typically drive the majority of pop music you hear on the radio) is the record as artistic statement—a textured, creative snapshot, critically adored, and therefore sometimes a challenging listen that those with enough time and willingness can be rewarded for upon receipt of repeated listens.

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Philadelphia’s Hop Along is somehow firmly entrenched smack dab in the middle of these two spectrums. Defying easy categorization, the band’s catalog runs the gamut from freak-folk minimalism, to powerpunk onslaughts, to new wave cut-ups and densely layered math-rock freakouts. The glue that holds it all together on each of their three releases—including their stunning 2018 LP Bark Your Head Off, Dog, released by seminal Heartland indie label, Saddle Creek Records—is vocalist/songwriter Frances Quinlan. The uninitiated listener is typically floored by the melodic range and crackling urgency heard in her voice. Backed by

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guitarist Joe Reinhart, bassist Tyler Long and Frances’ brother Mark on drums, the foundations for her literary lyricisms are given an enormously full-bodied, cathartic, provocative musical vehicle.

These sentiments, of course, are mined thanks to persistent listens of the aforementioned Bark …, but also from the band’s breakout 2015 album, Painted Shut, as well as their 2012 debut, Get Disowned. You don’t need the repeated aural visits to enjoy the music, but it’s somewhat of a disservice to the multi-layered approach the band injects their art with.

“The intensity is natural,” Mark explains during a recent chat with Submerge. “As

far as music goes, and how we feel within ourselves, we’re all pretty intense about it.”

The intensity is delivered in complex fragments of songs, woven together through tedious editing and revisitation, incubation and marination on behalf of the band, and somehow sounding polished, invigorating and fresh, rather than “difficult.” Frances’ complicated melodic arcs seem to bleed through the speaker, stretching her voice to the absolute peaks of its range until it’s a moment away from snapping. And sometimes it does anyway, making the song feel even more alive.

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be pretty devastating and heartbreaking,” Mark says. “I think we feel like the music and the lyrics should both play to their own strengths, and if they link up at times, or if they don’t link up at all, that’s fine.

It’s really about how each song should feel, in our opinion.”

Bark Your Head Off, Dog opens prettily enough, showcasing Frances’ meandering vocals, which often beg comparisons that aren’t exactly there, including approximating a less-caustic Janis Joplin, or a more pissed-off Joni Mitchell. The vulnerability and catharsis of release is heard in lines like, “How simple my heart can be/frightens me/don’t worry we will both find out/just not together.” There’s a rich vein of empowerment coursing through the record—the downright classical “Not Abel” is festooned by strings and a jaunty vocal that Frances delivers in crushing fashion, eventually uttering a line that is repeated later on the album on “What the Writer Meant,” and which has become something of an anthemic touchstone to the album: “So strange to be shaped by such strange men.”

The trick in making the line work in both songs is testament to the collaborative efforts of the rest of the band.

“Lyrically, I trust my sister completely,” Mark says. “If she decides, ‘Ya know, the lyrics are like this, and the mood of the song makes it feel silly, so let’s have another look,’ that has happened.

Otherwise we just allow everything to exist as we believe it should exist without overthinking on ambience or mood.”

This response is somewhat in contrast with what the band has cited as a fairly involved pre-recording editing process. During our call, the conversation consistently veers toward the logistics of performance—the mechanics of allowing enough energy and space for Frances’ songs to fully burst and bloom. As the brother of the band’s primary songwriter and sole lyricist, Mark defers to the subtle and oftentimes intense art of molding the raw clay of a composition into something altogether more collective, more realized and ultimately more representative of the vacillating emotions being expelled by Frances’ intoxicating wails.

“For the most part you just have to love it and know that you love it, and believe you’re doing your best work,” Mark explains. “A lot of the time we’ll work in fragments and then make it all come together. Or we’ll work in fragments and we can’t find a home for one of them no

matter how much we like it and we toss it. I wonder if on the next LP we’ll revisit some of those parts … sometimes we do.

There’s a few little snippets on Bark Your Head Off, Dog that were written around the same time as Painted Shut, compositionally speaking and lyrically speaking, that just never really found a home. There’s a lot of puzzle pieces.”

This process would explain the progressive nature of a lot of the songs on Bark …; the album is less aggressive than its predecessor, though only sonically speaking. Where the band’s affinities for distortion-heavy hooks and anthemic singalong choruses are a little more veiled on Bark …, Painted Shut allowed the sharper edges of the band’s collective influences to shine.

During our conversation, there is also lots of talk about what Hop Along listens to in the van while on the road, which offered a glimpse at the band’s wide-ranging regimen. From Songs:Ohia to Obituary, Van Morrison to Sun Ra, Rancid to Elvis Costello to Andy Shauf, the impromptu list Mark reports somehow makes perfect sense when attempting to home in on the crosssection of sprawling inspirations heard in Hop Along’s oeuvre. Even better, Mark reveals that Frances is typically sketching and not listening to much music at all on long hauls. She is, after all, responsible for the artwork adorning the covers of each of the band’s releases.

“I’m pretty sure we all agree on the last Paramore record, too,” he adds.

Bark … was self-produced and recorded at The Headroom Studio in Philadelphia

by Reinhart and engineer Kyle Pulley, who co-own the space that Hop Along has done most of its recording work. The latitude of having their own studio to work at, without the strict parameters of a hard clock inclock out process, has paid huge dividends for Hop Along. To wit, they’ve received praise from every major music media outlet, landing on every 2018 year-end list that people care about (Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Noisy, Stereogum, Paste), cracked the top 50 on Billboard’s Top 200 list and will be performing at this year’s Coachella festival during the West Coast tour that sees them stopping at Harlow’s in Sacramento April 12.

“If I could give advice to a young band, it would be this: Realize your power,” Mark elaborates. “If you have access, be your own studio, your own producer, whatever it may be; realize that those things are not only good enough, they’re an extremely valuable resource, and you’re lucky.”

Harlow’s will be a sweaty, lovely mess when Hop Along rolls into town Friday, April 12. Portland rockers Summer Cannibals open this all-ages show. That’s right: ALL AGES. Doors at 6 p.m. and show at 6:30. Tickets are $17 in advance and $20 day of show. For more info, visit Harlows.com/allshows, and visit Hopalongtheband.com or anywhere else on the internet for more on Hop Along.

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’m going to be honest here: Metal is not my go-to genre of music.

I’m getting a bit older (turning 38 next month) and outside of the occasional road rager alone or the right band coming to town (Mastadon, Red Fang or High on Fire will get me checking ticket prices), I pretty much stick to the softer, lighter side of music.

However, there was a time in my youth when everything I dove into was some sort of metal or metal-derivative. I was even (embarrassingly enough) in a Christian metal band for something like four months near the end of high school. So, when the opportunity arrived in 2007, I decided to revisit my metal roots and got to attend the Sounds of the Underground tour in San Jose, where I was able to immerse myself in so much metal it was like gorging myself at a Vegas buffet. Bands like Amon Amarth, Job for a Cowboy, Every Time I Die, GWAR (!!!) and Suicidal Tendencies headlined.

It was epic. It’s been a few years since that date, but when the opportunity once again arose to dive into some metal, I was excited.

Heat of Damage is a four-piece metal act hailing from Sacramento. The band’s singer, David Haug, and drummer, Julian Bohland, met while attending middle school. Bohland had just moved from Ohio, and they instantly started playing Metallica covers together. The two of them met guitarist Nick Lassalette freshman year of high school, and the three of them started playing shows without a bass player. Finally, in 2014, bass player and scream vocalist extraordinaire Jared Easter was introduced and the full lineup for the band, as well a bond of friendship was formed.

“We’re friends. We’re best friends,” said Lassalette during a phone interview with Submerge. “We’ve been friends for a long time; we just have a bond. We kind of learned to play music together in a way, because we were all beginner musicians when we started playing together. So, we’ve grown together and we really just know how to tap into each other’s different influences. We all listen to a lot of the same music. It’s become natural to us.”

“We kind of learned to play music together in a way, because we were all beginner musicians when we started playing together.

So, we’ve grown together and we really just know how to tap into each other’s different influences. We all listen to a lot of the same music. It’s become natural to us.”

– Heat of Damage’s Nick Lassalette

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The band released the EP Lifestyle in 2014, and their debut fulllength Open Fire in 2015. This year, they completed their second full-length album, due out in April, called Cataclysm. The album is an ambitious step up from their debut, as the band added a bit more of everything in the way of songwriting and production, and the results are really good.

“On this new record we incorporated a lot more stuff,” said Haug. “Julian did a lot more harmony vocals with me. We incorporated a lot more of Jared’s hardcore vocals. We do some scream vocals; we do some gang vocals. We just bring in a lot more variety than we did in the first album. We wanted to bring in as much of what we can do as possible. We wanted to not only push ourselves as musicians, but also kind of say, ‘Hey, if you thought this album was good, wait until you hear this.’”

The band describes their second foray into the studio—and their experience with engineer Hunter Driscoll, who recorded the album at his Sacramento studio—as being much easier. The album took about a month and a half to complete.

“The learning curve is really quick in the sense you do the full length album once,” said Haug, “you kind of have the beginning, middle and end … The second time going in for a record we knew, ‘Alright, this is what we are going to knock out this day, this day, this day.’ We had better expectations and a better understanding going into it, that resulted in a much more streamlined and efficient process.”

The album’s first single is also its first track, an eight-minute plus epic called “Siegfried’s Last Bow,” a track whose subject matter is the first World War. To start the track off, the band chose to include a piece of British war propaganda, setting the mood for the memorable and intense track. “The sad part of it was that a lot

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of the recruits that year ended up being casualties of the war,” said Haug. “A really sad scenario in the background behind that song.

The song being about World War I, we wanted to [incorporate the sounds of] marching and the artillery to kind of bring in the vibe and to capture what we were going for with the whole track itself.”

When asked why the band chose to lead off the album on such a somber, lengthy note, they responded that they wanted to show off their maturation, and “Siegfried …” had just felt right.

“I think it was just a great representation of how our songwriting has progressed from the last body of music that we released to this one,” said Lassalette. “I think we’ve grown a lot as musicians and we just really wanted to showcase that right off the bat.

“We put the longest, most epic track right off there, and every song after that is just banger after banger. It’s a really good time,” he continued.

The new album really keeps things high energy from track to track. In regards to messaging, one thing noticed fairly quickly is the band doesn’t hesitate to offer political insight into the mix. One track this is clear on is “Systematic (The Real End),” a song about generational differences in politics. Though Heat of Damage keeps their political messaging away from their Facebook page, they find it difficult to separate how they feel from their music.

“We’re very political people,” said Haug, “despite the fact that we don’t project it all over social media. But we do get it out through our music. ‘Systematic’ was one of those where, as part of that younger generation, the generation that has lived with the results of the baby boomer generation, as well as the current political climate that young people don’t really like. So that’s our expression of that.

“A lot of young people feel ignored by the political system

as well,” continued Haug. “Voter turnout is abysmally low. The political efficacy of younger people is very, very low, and that’s that expression with the way they feel with how things are.”

When it comes to influences, while Heat of Damage does seem to all find their roots in Metallica, the band members have a wide variety of places they find inspiration, starting with a lot of local legends.

“We love a lot of Sacramento bands, [such as] Deftones and Papa Roach,” said Haug. “We also listen to a lot of hip-hop and stuff, too.

There’s a lot of groovin’ we like to implement to our music. A lot of heavier stuff as well, some death metal, some Gojira, Death, Exodus, Testament … stuff like that. It’s a bit all over the place.”

After getting the opportunity to speak with Heat of Damage, as well as spend an afternoon rocking out to Cataclysm while doing dishes and household chores, I can confidently say that even a metal-sometimes person such as myself thoroughly enjoyed the chance to digest this local band’s most recent studio album, and I look forward to seeing them live. The band is currently out on a short tour they are calling “DIY and Die.” The band hopes to spend more time touring, recording and playing together and these friends continue to grow and develop as a band.

“We’re just getting started,” said Lassalette. “We have a lot more years ahead of us.”

Celebrate the release of Cataclysm at Holy Diver (1517 21st St., Sacramento) on Saturday, April 6. Joining Heat of Damage will be Trikome, Cemetery Legacy and Cardinal Sins. Tickets are $10 in advance and can be purchased through Holydiversac.com. This allages show will get under way at 6:30 p.m.

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’m here now with Vice President of the United States and RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 3 finalist Mike Pence; Mike, thank you so much for joining me,” Randy Rainbow beams warmly at the VP. “Last year alone, 17,000 individuals with criminal histories were apprehended at our southern border,” Mike Pence lies in attempt to justify the government shutdown.

“Why not hire them as senior White House officials? They’ll all be convicted eventually,” Rainbow asks Pence, or appears to, thanks to some crafty editing.

As Pence continues to make spurious statements, Rainbow interrupts, bursting into the melody from “There is Nothing Like a Dame” from South Pacific. Except Rainbow’s version is “There is Nothing Like a Wall.”

No sooner does the latest outrageous headline blaze across the networks than flamboyant Internet superhero Randy Rainbow jumps into action. His superpower? Whipping the topsy-turvy Trumpian news into a viral video musical number from a Broadway show.

A total one-man band, Rainbow executes manicured lyrical parodies complete with backgrounds, harmonies, costumes and fake interviews, all framed around the most recent arrest, hairbrained policy or other such nonsense in the White House. Rainbow does all this solo from his two-story walk-up in Astoria, Queens.

“Cell Block Tango” from Chicago became a glorious condemnation of the string of indictments punctuated

by Roger Stone’s arrest. “Matchmaker, Matchmaker” from Fiddler on the Roof became “Fact-checker, Fact-checker” after Kellyanne Conway told another whopper of a lie.

On occasion, Rainbow ventures off the Broadway stage and into the club.

For example, when he mocked Trump for declaring a national emergency by turning Madonna’s classic “Borderline” into “Border Lies”: Gurl, You’re at an impasse, Now they’re going to sue your ass But you just keep pushing these …

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It’s not just the speed and hilarity with which Rainbow delivers these parodies; it’s the fact that every aspect is studied and polished. Even the “bad” costuming of his backup singers (which are all him) is deliciously tacky, contrasting perfectly with his crafted anchorman-cum-debutant male lead.

Rainbow grew up in Long Island, New York and Plantation, Florida, and show business runs deep in his blood.

He credits his grandmother for teaching him the art of wit and how to talk back to the TV. His father was a booking agent, so Rainbow cut his teeth singing in the Florida condo circuit.

He moved to Queens after dropping out of junior college and started working at Broadwayworld.com. The stage is his natural habitat, as is illustrated by his exhaustive knowledge of showtunes. If you listen carefully, you can tell that he has a beautiful voice underneath all that sarcasm.

His now elaborate project started to evolve around 2010. He began with a blog where he just responded to whatever was going on at the moment.

“Nobody cared,” he said in an interview with BBC. Then he started making videos where he would edit famous people’s voices into conversations.

“I never made a conscious decision to be political,” Rainbow tells Submerge.

“My gimmick was inserting myself into the hot topics of the day. So it was a natural progression.”

When Proposition 8 was overturned in California in 2010, making same sex marriage legal, Rainbow made a video where he fake-called a bunch of male celebrities and tried to talk them into marrying him. He got a glowing response when he ribbed then-Texas Governor Rick Perry.

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These experiments were the seeds for his fabulous fake political interviews that segue into showtunes. His zany, sharp-tongued character emerged and now no one was safe. Especially not our so-called “president.”

Trump won the 2016 primary, and Rainbow could not resist making vicious fun of the whole dog-and-pony shit show. The videos went viral and Rainbow got a stream of messages thanking him for giving them a laugh in an otherwise insanity-inducing time.

“That’s the thing I hear most from people, that I’m keeping them sane,” Rainbow explains.

Comedy went from being a side dish to a double shot in 2016. Most of us could not bear the news without a heavy dose of dark laughter. But the laughs were harder and harder to come by, in part because it felt like punditry had taken over comedy.

A pair of pink cat-eye glasses bedazzled with rhinestones make an appearance in every video when Rainbow gets to his “follow-up question.” It’s a signal that he’s about to drop some truth, and it’s never not funny when he puts those glasses on.

They have become his signature, and his audiences at his live performances have taken to wearing them.

Trump (on Kim Jung Un): “He likes me, I like him, some people say, ‘Oh you shouldn’t like him,’ I said, ‘Why shouldn’t I like him?’”

Rainbow: “Maybe because he’s a deranged dictator who starves his people and executes members from his own family? But you know, my boyfriend doesn’t put down the toilet seat, so [snort] men!”

Rainbow’s facial expressions, particularly his deadpan pout during these imaginary interviews, mirror our own feelings of bafflement, disgust and absurd outrage with startling facility.

It seems Rainbow’s secondary motive, aside from offering us comic relief, is to keep calling attention to just how abnormal this new normal is.

One must, of course, throw some shade on the terrible rug and the marmalade concealer; how can we ignore it? But it’s the lack of heart that Rainbow continues to call out. And he does it in the most delightful way.

It’s hard not to fetishize someone whose real last name is Rainbow. He’s the perfect opposite of the president: young, funny, charismatic, full of love.

You know, sane. The bright glow of his personality is so evident in these videos, that he’s even had some conservatives reach out and say, “I don’t agree with your politics, but your videos are hilarious.” Crossing the great political divide is near impossible these days, but Rainbow manages to get laughs on both sides of the isle.

“We’re all in this theatrical experience,” Rainbow says. “When people ask if I get hate mail, I say I don’t, but I hear nice things from people on both sides and I think that has to do with the way I built the character.”

Rainbow tells Submerge that he thought he would have to constantly be changing the live show according to the latest news, but he is surprised at the transition from screen to stage because so much of his older material is still relevant.

“All the numbers I do—my greatest hits, as it were—we’re still talking about it,” Rainbow says. “‘The Room Where it Happened?’ We are still talking about the meeting with the Russians. Alternative facts? These are things that are more evergreen than I ever imagined.”

Rainbow appears with a live band, a huge screen in the background and, of course, changes costumes many times.

He breaks up his musical numbers with banter and a little audience participation.

This will be his second live tour, and he’s crisscrossing all over the United States this summer.

“It’s my dream, by the way,” Rainbow says of putting all of his parodies into a live performance.

In the meantime, he continues to crank out videos to keep his 250,000-ish YouTube followers happy. His Facebook group has almost 1 million members, and his video “Braggadocious” was viewed 28 million times.

It’s a special gift to take the hate and chaos of the world and transform it into something that lifts people’s hearts.

Beyond the sharp tacks of his one-liners, Rainbow’s comedy speaks truth to power in the most fabulous way possible.

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

Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays w/ Tyson Graf Trio & Thomas Molina Group, 7:30 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m.

Sol Collective Buyepongo vs.

Quita Penas, DJ El Indio, 7 p.m.

3.31 SUNDAY

Berryessa Brewing Co. The Big Poppies, 3 p.m.

Blue Note Brewing Co. Sunday Sessions Live w/ The Taylor Chicks, 3 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Live Band Karaoke, 1 p.m.

Folsom Hotel Vagabond Brothers, 3 p.m.

Midtown BarFly New Wave Society w/ DJ Keyz, DJ Xiola, DJ Duckie and More, 9 p.m.

Goldfield King Calaway, Nick Tyrell, Chad Bushnell, Jennifer Belle, 6 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.; Eddie Honeyeater Student Recital, 6 p.m.

Harlow’s Mt. Joy, Wilderado, 7 p.m.

Old Ironsides The Brangs, 50 Watt Heavy, Dirty Pillows, South Lot (Farewell Show), 7:30 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Will Ackerman, Todd Mosby, Imrat Guitar, Trevor Gordon Hall, Todd Boston, 2 p.m.

Opera House Saloon Press Play, 9 p.m.

Holy Diver Slothrust, Rituals of Mine, Sunny Acres, 7 p.m.

Orangevale Community Center Dallas Moore, JonEmery and the Unconventionals, 4:30 p.m.

LowBrau Throwback Jams w/ DJ Epik & Special Guests, 9:30 p.m.

Palms Playhouse Antsy McClain & the Trailer Park Troubadours, 8 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Peeti V, 9:30 p.m.

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Palms Playhouse Sunday Afternoon Jazz feat. Amendola vs. Blades, Skerik and Jeff Parker, 2:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m.

Momo Sacramento Bourbon & Blues feat. Wendy Dewitt & Kirk, Steve Freund, 5:30 p.m.

The Press Club High Voltage!

Rock & Roll Vinyl Night, 9 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Beginning Ukulele Group, 6 p.m.

4.02 TUESDAY

Ace of Spades Quinn XCII, Ashe, Christian French, 6:30 p.m.

(Sold Out) Holy Diver Soundcheck feat.

Lulj30k, Madv, Elevtd, Erica Ambrin, Krimson, Talia Adja, 6:30 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Kyle Rowland, 5 p.m.; Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Guitar Club, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

The Press Club Blitzed w/ DJs Lady Grey & Dada, 9 p.m.

Sacramento State: University Union Serna Plaza Nooner w/ Jahny Wallz, 12 p.m.

Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Kally O’Mally, 5:30 p.m.; Tropicali Flames, 9 p.m.

4.04 THURSDAY

Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, 7 p.m.

Ace of Spades San Holo, Melvv, 7 p.m. (Sold Out)

Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

Momo Sacramento The Trouble Notes, Güero, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Scott McConaha, 5:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Blue Lamp Koffin Kats, Riot Radio, Grimetime, 8 p.m.

The Colony TelepathicChildren, Hyper Vigilance, In Retrograde and More, 7 p.m.

Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

El Dorado Saloon Patrick Walsh, 7 p.m.; DJ Uncle Hank & Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m.

Fox & Goose Irish Jam Session w/ Stepping Stone, 8 p.m.

The Colony Dead Leaf Echo, Electro Group, Ashes Fallen, The Surrounded, 8 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Zakir Hussain & Masters Of Percussion, 7:30 p.m.

Holy Diver Spice 1, Marvaless, Dubb 20, Saucy Da Salesman, 7 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Dylan Crawford, 7 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Melanie Owens, Stevie Mello, Imani Alston, Chris Jones and More, 8 p.m.

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

Momo Sacramento Love Mischief, 7 p.m.

Old Ironsides House of Mary, Kelly Jean, 8 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Sacramento State: University Union Ballroom Salsa Loca Live w/ Pacific Mambo Orchestra, 6 p.m.

Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m.

Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts @ B Street Theatre The Four Bitchin’ Babes, 7 p.m.

Theatre DeVille Dinner & Blues: Matty T & Friends, 6:30 p.m.

Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Marshall House Project, Dash, 9 p.m.

4.05 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, Don Q, Trap Manny, 7 p.m. (Sold Out) Bar 101 Moody Slough, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Colonel and the Mermaids, 5 p.m.

Blue Lamp Dwarves, Decent Criminal, Yankee Brutal, Pisscat, Original State, 7:30 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Box Band, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Kevin & Allyson Seconds, Nice Monster, David Houston, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m.

Goldfield Zion I, Equipto, Squarefield Massive, 7:30 p.m.

Harlow’s JOEL the Band, 5:30 p.m.

Holy Diver John 5, Jared James Nichols, Dead Girls Academy, Beauty Is Betrayal, 7 p.m. (Sold Out)

Torch Club Dey Trippers, 5:30 p.m.; John Clifton Blues Band, 9 p.m.

4.06 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades Gasolina: Reggaeton Party w/ DJ Oasis and FVME Crew, 7 p.m.

Bar 101 Toast & Jam, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. What’s Left, 3 p.m.

Blue Lamp Spanky’s ElectroSwing Soirée w/ DJ Lady Char, 9 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m.; The Kitchen, 9 p.m.

The Boardwalk Vice Versa, Brace For Mavericks, Ambers Wake, Taking Fox Hollow, Sindria, In Chaos, 6:30 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Ann E. Pitzer Center Susan Lamb Cook (Cello), 7 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Nebula Drag, Low Cross, Astral Cult, Sky Pig, 8 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall HellaCappella feat. The Spokes, Divisi, On The Rocks, Dil Se, Cloud 9, The Afterglow, The Ninth Street Hooligans, 7:30 p.m.

Crest Theatre A Thousand Kisses Deep: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, 7:30 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Watt Ave. Soul Giants, Acid 9, 8:30 p.m.

On The Y Nate Smith, Whirl, 8 p.m.

Opera House Saloon North Forty, 9 p.m.

Palms Playhouse Dirk Hamilton, 7:30 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge Cash Cash, 9:30 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Mugshot, 9 p.m.

The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Fox & Goose The Stockings, Brian Dahl, Mise, 9 p.m.

Golden 1 Center Banda Sinaloense MS, 7 p.m.

Harlow’s Tim Bluhm, The Coffis Brothers, 8 p.m.

Holy Diver Heat of Damage (Album Release), Trikome, Cemetery Legacy, Cardinal Sins, 6:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Knobs and Knockers BacteriuM LIVE w/ TL Miller & Zephyr, 9 p.m.

Pistol Pete’s Shotgun Sawyer’s Album Pre-Release Party, 9 p.m.

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

The Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Momo Sacramento Don Ross, Adrian Bellue Project, 6 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Groove on Fridays w/ Guest DJs, 10 p.m.

Shine Tiny Sounds, Rruhb, Dylan Crawford, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Fake Figures, Seaside Massacre, Nail the Casket, 6:30 p.m.

Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts @ B Street Theatre Graham Parker, 7 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino La Septima Banda, 9 p.m.; Smash City, 11:30 p.m.

STAB! Comedy Theater Songwriters in the Round: Justin Farren, John Elliot, Wes Collins, 7 p.m.

Cafe Colonial The O’Mulligans, Danger Inc., Heck Yes, Mables Marbles, 8 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Boyce Avenue, 7:30 p.m.

Theatre DeVille Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix Tribute), 8 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Royal Scottish National Orchestra, 7:30 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.

Old Ironsides Lipstick!, 9 p.m.

Opera House Saloon Petty LUV (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tribute), 9 p.m.

Palms Playhouse Evie Ladin Band, Paper Wings, 7:30 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Peeti V, 9:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Encore w/ Guest DJs, 9 p.m.

4.05

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Shine Idle Fret, Jim Achilles, 8 p.m.

The Side Door Doug Pauly & Jeanne Munoz, 7 p.m.

Sol Collective Koli Kohler, 7 p.m.

Theatre DeVille The Jackson Stone Band, 8 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Aegis, 8 p.m.

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Berryessa Brewing Co. Andy Coe Band, 3 p.m.

Holy Diver Local Showcase feat.

Stepdad Passport, Anxious Admiral, Seth Kaminsky, Frantics Antics, Before I Break, 6:30 p.m.

Blue Lamp Kenya Cavasos Art Show w/ Tentacult, 7 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Los Angeles Negros de Chile, 5 p.m.

The Flamingo House Banana Sundaes feat. Öona Dahl, Alex R. Trujillo, Scottie Scribbles, 3 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts The Great Composers Chamber Music Series feat. Carrie Hennessey, Gayle Blankenburg, Susan Lamb Cook, 2 p.m.

Holy Diver Michael Sweet (of Stryper), Juniper’s Sealion, 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.

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

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Ace of Spades Andy Black, The Faim, Kullick, 6:30 p.m.

The Boardwalk Letdown, PS Lookdown and More, 6:30 p.m.

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Sacramento State: University Union Serna Plaza UNIQUE’s 40th Anniversary: Day 1 w/ Mariachi Los Gallos, DJ LG, 4 p.m.

Sutter Creek Provisions Slade Rivers Band, 3 p.m.

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

Watermelon Music Davis Community Guitar Orchestra, 3 p.m.

4.08

Kupros Craft House Jonathan Banda, 5 p.m.; Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe CMS Songwriter Showcase, 6 p.m.

Momo Sacramento Bourbon & Blues feat. The Mick Martin Band, 5:30 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Fred Hersch and Friends, 7 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Beginning Ukulele Group, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Sacramento State: University Union Serna Plaza UNIQUE’s 40th Anniversary: Day 3 w/ DJ Rated R & Live Manikins, 12 p.m.

Sol Collective Sac Kids First Fundraiser w/ The Philharmonik, Paul Willis and More, 6 p.m.

Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Ballin’ That Jack, 5:30 p.m.; Jesse Daniel, Danny Morris & The California Stars, 9 p.m.

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Sacramento State: University Union Serna Plaza UNIQUE’s 40th Anniversary: Day 2 w/ Element Brass Band, DJ Nocturnal, 4 p.m.

Torch Club Bill Mylar, 5:30 p.m.; Sicky Betts, 8 p.m.

Comedy Community Center Theater Whose Live Anyway? w/ Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis, Joel Murray, March 29, 8 p.m.

4.10

Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Comedy Night w/ Kevin Camia, Merrill Davis, March 28, 8 p.m.

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

Laughs Unlimited Carlos Rodriguez Birthday Show feat. Kabir Singh, Mike E. Winfield, Lance Woods, Myles Weber, March 27, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

Blue Lamp Altar de Fey, Cruz De Navajas, Hearse, DJ Dada, 8 p.m.

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

The Colony Crafter, Rig Time and More, 7 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m.

Golden 1 Center P!nk, Julia Michaels, 6 p.m.

Holy Diver Pacific Dub, Tyrone’s Jacket, Seranation, 6:30 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Vicki Lawrence and Mama: A Two Woman Show, March 30, 8 p.m.

Steph Sanders, Travis Nelson, Curtis Newingham, March 29 31, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Lost Boys Writing Session w/ Host Ellis Rodriguez, April 2, 6 p.m.

Pro-Am Comedy Night, April 2, 8 p.m.

By All Means w/ Nick Larson, Larry Dorsey Jr., Natasha Vinik, Marcus Peverill, Josh Means and More, April 3, 7 p.m.

Anthony K, Robert Omoto, Jason Anderson, April 5 - 7, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

MONDAY

Ace of Spades Gunna, Shy Glizzy, Lil Keed, 7 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, 7:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m.

The Press Club Monday Vibes with MC Ham & Friends, 9 p.m.

4.09

PIXIES Weezer Golden 1 Center 6 p.m.

Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

Cage Match and Improv Jam, Thursdays, 8 - 10 p.m.

Anti-Cooperation League, Saturdays, 9 p.m.

STAB! Comedy Theater Comedy Open Mic, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

STAB! Podcast Panel Show, Fridays, 10 p.m.

3.29

Late Night Leftovers Open Mic, Saturdays, 11 p.m.

WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? W/ RYAN STILES, GREG PROOPS, JEFF B. DAVIS, JOEL MURRAY Community Center Theater 8 p.m.

One Degree of Separation w/ Brad Bonar Jr., Sydney Stigerts, Chicago Steve, Jason Anderson, April 10, 7 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy w/ Hosts Jaime Fernandez and Michael Cella, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

Capitol PUNishment w/ Daniel Humbarger, Damian Harmony, Nicole Eichenberg, Emily Gilstrap, Justine Lopez and More, April 5, 8 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Comedy Night, Mondays, 7 p.m.

On the Y Open Mic Comedy w/ Guest Hosts, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.

Punch Line Where’s Mars? Wednesdays, March 27, 9 p.m.

The American Me Comedy Tour Presents: Joe Sib, March 28, 8 p.m.

Trae Crowder, March 29 - 30, Fri. & Sat., 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.

Tag Team Comedy w/ Myles Weber & Steph Garcia, March 31, 7 p.m.

Ali Siddiq, Josef Anolin, Ta Vi, April 4 - 6, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.

LOLGBT+ Presents: An Evening of Queens & Comedy, April 7, 7 p.m.

Stay Silly Comedy, April 10, 8 p.m.

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

Improv Taste Test and Harold Night, Wednesdays, 7 - 10 p.m.

Theatre DeVille Comedy Crack Up w/ Mario Hodge, Jeanette Marin, Josh Argyle, March 29, 8 p.m.

Tommy T’s Tristan Johnson, March 28, 7:30 p.m.

Cocoa Brown, March 29 - 31, Fri., 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 6 p.m.

Jay Rich, April 3, 7:30 p.m.

Sinn D. Rella, April 4, 7:30 p.m.

Carlos Rodriguez, April 5 - 6, Fri., 7:30; Sat., 7 p.m.

Watermelon Music Comedy Night w/ Joe Klocek, April 5, 8 p.m.

Misc.

8th and W Streets Certified Farmers Market, Sundays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

20th Street (Between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Antiquité Midtown Groundbreakers Q&A: Liv Moe of Verge & Estella Sanchez of Sol Collective, April 3, 6 p.m.

B Street Theatre at The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts A Doll’s House Pt. 2, Through April 7 Badlands Sacramento Trinity The Tuck Live w/ Hellen Heels, Apple Adams, Mercury Rising and More, April 7, 8:30 p.m.

Selections from the CrockerKingsley, Through May 5

Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

The Roaming Eye: International Street Photography from the Ramer Collection, Through May 12

Sacramento State Festival of the Arts, April 2 - 7 Sactown Union Geeks Who Drink Trivia, Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

A Passionate Muse: The Art of Leonard Baskin, Through May 12

Beatnik Studios Opening Reception for Dance of Enlightenment by Sunya Whitelight and Zahra Ammar, April 5, 6 p.m.

Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Florin Road & 65th Street Certified Farmers Market, Thursdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Blue Cue Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Sol Collective Peachy Zine Fest, April 6, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Streets Pub and Grub Pub Trivia, Sundays, 8 p.m.

Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Fremont Park Lantern Street Festival, April 6, 6 p.m.

California Automobile Museum The 8th Annual Nor Cal Beard And Moustache Competition, April 6, 6 p.m.

Goldfield The Darling Clementines Variety Show, March 29, 7 p.m.

Capitol Garage Dinner and a Drag Show, March 30 & April 6, 7:30 p.m.

Shine Fossils in the Making Book Launch Party w/ Kristin George Bagdanov and Friends, April 6, 5 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Bella Gaia, April 3, 7:30 p.m.

Community Center Theater Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Search for Life in the Universe, March 27, 7:30 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical, April 5 - 7, Fri., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 1 & 6:30 p.m.

Broadway Sacramento Presents: Cats, April 2 - 7

Highwater The Trivia Factory, Mondays, 7 p.m.

Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Crocker Art Museum Film Series: Work, Struggle, and Emancipation - The Grapes of Wrath, April 4, 6:30 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sundays, 7:30 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Magic is in the Air w/ Majinga the Magician, March 28, 8 p.m.

Modern Menagerie: Sculpture

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

History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence, Through April 7

Mango’s Drag Queen Bingo Benefiting NorCal AIDS Cycle, April 4, 7 p.m.

Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) Let’s Get Quzzical: Trivia Game Show Experience, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Sunrise Light Rail Station Certified Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Theatre DeVille Classic Movies, Dinner and a Show: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, March 31, 5 p.m.

Tommy T’s Australia’s Thunder From Down Under, April 9 - 10, 7:30 p.m.

Two Rivers Cider Co. Cribbage Night, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Urban Roots Brewing & Smokehouse Movie Night: The Life Aquatic w/ Steve Zissou, April 7, 7 p.m.

WAL Public Market Opening Reception for Not Your Bunny

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Yolo Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

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THE SHALLOW END I was starting to write this column about the Mueller report being submitted to the Attorney General. At the time, I only knew there were no further indictments recommended in an investigation that churned out roughly a billion of them, scored numerous convictions and spawned even more investigations. I didn’t think we’d hear about what was in it until everyone had a chance to pore over the details.

I should’ve known better. I was about 500 words in when I had to scrap the whole thing.

Considering how lazy I am, that really hurts, you know?

So, yes, according to Attorney General William Barr’s summary, the special counsel found no evidence of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. It then fell short of exonerating the president on suspicions of obstruction of justice, but mentioned there was evidence on both sides of the argument.

However, the Department of Justice says there’s not enough evidence to pursue the matter further.

“In cataloguing the President’s actions, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus

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to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent, each of which, under the Department’s principles of federal prosecution guiding charging decisions, would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish an obstruction-of-justice offense,” Barr wrote in his letter to Congress.

In response, President Trump tweeted the word “exonerated” in all caps (along with some other words), so I suppose that’s the end of that. I mean, there’ll be squabbling of course. The Democrat-controlled House will surely want Barr to explain himself under oath.

Representative Jerry Nadler, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, already tweeted that he intends to call Barr to testify (because Twitter is where 90 percent of governing happens now).

There will also be some legal wrestling matches as to how much of the report is made available to the public, if any of it is at all. But if you were hoping for some sort of incendiary “gotcha” moment, it doesn’t look like you’re gonna get it.

What really bothers me is that I had this whole column thing mapped out, but this letter coming out on a fucking Sunday really ruined everything. Usually, it’s safe for me to write this thing on a Sunday, because it’s the only day

when nothing ever happens. It’s difficult enough trying to come up with something that’s going to stay relevant for a couple of weeks without major news events happening on a fucking Sunday. I mean, shit. No one even works at the White House anymore on any kind of permanent basis. Everyone’s an acting something or other … But here’s Barr, somehow the only dude hard at work on the Lord’s Day, who wasn’t only able to digest this report that was 22 months in the making, but also able to consult with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, come up with some conclusions that will be debated over in the weeks to come and then write a four-page letter to Congress … on a fucking Sunday! I realize the preceding sentences may sound like I’m of the opinion that Barr didn’t give the report the due diligence it deserved. Honestly, I have no reason to believe he didn’t. I’m just impressed that he was able to get pants on and do all this shit when I’m over here riding the struggle bus trying to bust out 800 words. I guess that’s why he’s the U.S. Attorney General, and I’m, well … not.

It sucks, too, because I was painstakingly likening what was going on in the news to a D&D campaign. I had something like, “we’re

JAMES BARONE jb@submergemag.com in the lair of the 24-hour Cable News Network Pundit Hydra and the path behind us is barred by an army of Internet Trolls.” Now it’s rendered useless.

I was going to go on a tangent, too, about how I’ve spent the majority of my life in a fantasy world. Superheroes, Star Wars, Magic: The Gathering, D&D … whatever. I like all that stuff, still. It doesn’t define my life as much as it used to, maybe, but it’s not like my fantasy world is as dangerous as other people’s. I found this story where Mike Pompeo, who’s our Secretary of Something or Other Yet Surprisingly Not in an Acting Capacity, likened Donald Trump to Queen Esther, who’s in the Bible, I guess? Anyway, she was the Jewish queen of a Persian king and … whatever. It’s not important. Basically, Pompeo said that it was “possible” that, like Esther, God chose Trump to protect Israel from Iran. Elsewhere, Trump has been called the new King Cyrus, another dude from the Old Testament who God chose to do something for some reason or another, even though Cyrus was a total dick.

I went into more about it, but it seems pointless now. You’ll just have to trust me. I was really stoked on it.

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MAR 28

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