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Short stories and observations told in rhymes and lyrics -this collection offers an autobiographical journey of an American songwriter in the late 20th century. ERIC IS A NATIVE SACRAMENTO SONGWRITER/GUITARIST RAISED IN THE AMERICAN WEST IN THE ‘50S AND ‘60S, RICHARDSON CHRONICLES A PERSONAL NARRATIVE IN 124 SONG LYRICS, THE INTERNAL AND CULTURAL SHIFTS, TENOR, AND STYLE OF HIS ERA, REFLECTING THE INFLUENCES OF FOLK-ROCK AND AMERICANA SONGWRITING.

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MELISSA WELLIVER melissa@submergemag.com I’m not sure if there’s ever been an April with so much to do Spring is booming with events! I can’t decide what I’m more excited about: all the rad art shows or all the concerts happening this month. Let me fill you in on a few that I’m excited about: ART: • Beneath the Surface: A Solo Art Exhibition by Rigo the Artist at Leave Your Mark. There will be an opening reception on April 13. • Mike Brodie aka The Polaroid Kidd will have an art show up at Public Land in mid-April. The opening reception is takes place on April 17. • At Sol Collective there will be an opening Reception for Styles: Calligraphy, Painting, and Printmaking Group Art Show on April 20. It will feature work from Ricardo “Ric” Cardenas, Chan Chung-Kong, Edgar Lampkin, Lurac, Daniel Paniagua and Rosaura Unangst. MUSIC: • On Friday, April 12, Hop Along, the band that we had on our front cover last issue, will be performing at Harlow’s. If you missed that feature story, it is on our website. But truth be told, I’m more excited to see the opening band, Portland’s Summer Cannibals. If you’re planning on going to this show, don’t be late! • Saturday, April 13, well I’m going to a house party up in Arbuckle with multiple bands. I’d love to share the details, but sorry, it’s not open to the public. However, I’m looking forward to seeing Sicky Bets and JonEmery and the Unconventionals. Unfortunately, you’re not invited to this show, but you can see JonEmery and his band twice this month, on Thursday, April 11 opening for JP Harris at Goldfield and at Torch Club on Wednesday, April 24. • On Sunday, April 14 at Holy Diver, there’s a stacked lineup! Headlining that night will be Big Business. Also performing will be Horseneck, NMTA and Peace Killers. • And kicking off festival season, on April 27, Sol Blume will be at Cesar Chavez Plaza. One of the performers, Jessie Reyez, is gracing our front cover of this issue. Be sure to check out our interview with her on page 20. Also performing will be Miguel, Queen Naija, J.I.D, and my favorite of the lineup, Masego. The festival is getting close to selling out, so if you plan on going be sure to purchase your tickets ASAP. Last but not least, April 26 kicks off Sacramento Beer Week!!! It runs through May 5. More on that in our following issue though. But I’m here to remind you of their kick off event, the Sac Mac + Brew Review. Do you like beer? Do you like mac and cheese? Duh, right?! Well this will be their second year doing this event and let me tell you, IT’S GREAT! Stop drooling and purchase your ticket now at Sacbeerweek.com. You can even get $5 off that event if you use the code: SUBMERGE5. Also, be sure to frequently check out our calendar section, whether in print every issue, or online at Submergemag. com/calendar, for hundreds of other regional event listings. Read. Learn. Do rad things! Melissa Welliver

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Issue 289 • April 10 – April 24, 2019

Californians for the Arts Executive Director Julie Baker at the California state Capitol with ACCM Project Manager Whitney Kear.

It seems like there’s an official day/week/month for everything nowadays—you know, National Hot Dog Day or Organize Your Files Week, those sort of silly and mostly useless “holidays.” But here’s a new one we can really get behind: Starting this year, April in California will henceforth be known as Arts, Culture and Creativity Month. The statewide arts advocacy organization Californians for the Arts (CFTA) announced their efforts earlier this month, stating in a press release submitted to Submerge that, “The goal is to engage and empower arts supporters to become arts activists in order to advocate for increased public funding for the arts and educate legislators to the impact of arts, culture and creativity in California.” CFTA will launch their “Arts Create Impact” messaging campaign, and they’re asking interested parties to submit their “arts impact stories” on their website, Californiansforthearts. org, where you can also register for free public arts advocacy trainings across the state. “Arts advocates are encouraged throughout April to visit their district legislative offices, stage public awareness actions through county resolutions, op-eds, events and more,” CFTA stated in their press release. Californians for the Arts advocates for increased public funding and awareness of the massive impact that our arts, culture and creative sectors make in California. “We also educate and lobby our legislators on issues that affect our field, from tax laws to affordable housing and we work to get funding for the California Arts Council, museums, arts education and more,” CFTA Executive Director Julie Baker recently told Submerge in an email. “Our goal is for the arts to be in every school and to be accessible for every Californian!”

While CFTA’s advocacy has worked wonders over the years, helping to increase arts appropriations exponentially, from the $1 million allocated in 2004 to nearly $25 million for fiscal 2018, the organization is quick to point out that on a per capita basis, California is currently ranked 26th in the nation for arts funding. “As arts advocates, Governor Newsom’s proactive support of the arts is exciting news coming out of Sacramento,” says Baker, “but our work here is still not done. We must still advocate for increased permanent funding for the arts so we are on par with other leading creative states as we know the arts and creative sector are invaluable to an enlightened, vital and functioning society. The creative sector has a lot to offer and should be recognized for its impact and worth. We look forward to working with the new administration to amplify California’s profile as the leading state of creativity and to illustrate how the creative sector is transformative, solution oriented and effective.” Arts, Culture and Creativity Month will take to the streets with a free, open-to-thepublic Advocacy Day and Rally scheduled for Tuesday, April 23 right here in Sacramento at the State Capitol on the South Side, featuring performances, guest speakers, art making and more. The event will kick off at 9 a.m. with an indigenous welcome by Native American artist Stan Padilla and opening speeches from Senator Ben Allen of Santa Monica and Assemblymember Kansen Chu of San Jose. The festivities and activities continues throughout the early afternoon and will culminate with visits to legislator offices from 1–5 p.m., and then a reception from 5–7 p.m. at the Sheraton. Visit CFTA’s website for more information and to get involved with their important work. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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BOCEPHUS CHIGGER bocephus@submergemag.com Children of the world today don’t know what they are missing. With the widespread adoption of Caller ID in the 1990s, an entire genre of hijinks was wiped out before millennials ever had a chance to experience it for themselves. Those of us born before then might still remember a certain kind of mischief that only phones of that era would allow. We called them prank calls or crank calls, and my childhood would not have been the same without them. Prank calls still technically exist, but they have taken on a more sinister form as of late. Before you get all worked up, you should know that we didn’t make the kind of awful prank calls that some people make today. We weren’t calling in bomb threats to schools or swatting people on the other side of the country that were beating us at a video game. We weren’t trying to scare anybody; it was all in good fun. We wanted to see if we could trick people into saying weird things to make ourselves laugh. The main culprits in our ring of merry pranksters were my older sister, my friend Joel and I, though occasionally we got help from one of our other siblings or another friend. I remember prank calls being our favorite thing to do whenever our parents left us alone for too long. With both parents working, that happened a lot and we were thankful for it. We were pros at the prank calling game before long, limited only by our imaginations and the amount of time our ears could handle being pressed against the phone. We almost never called people we knew. We would sometimes dial a random number, but more often we’d pick a funny name out of the phone book, another relic of the past. Back then, the phone book was like our bible; we’d just flip through the white pages and stop at random to pick the next name and sometimes the next prank if the name suggested a direction to take. We’d come up with childish jokes about the names of our victims. For example, we might call someone with the last name Butte and say we did some genealogy research and found out that we are related through some distant relative. We would say weird things about our made-up family to see if we could get them to admit something embarrassing. When they’d ask what our last name was, we’d say Cox as we tried to hold back our giggles. They’d figure out that we were just making fun of their last name and hang up, leaving us exploding in laughter. SubmergeMag.com

Another favorite prank call of ours could only be executed at a pay phone, something you don’t see too often in the age of cell phones. The prank involved calling 411, so we did it by payphone, where it used to be free. My friend and I would call 411 and ask to speak to someone with a common name like Jill. Sometimes there would really be someone named Jill available to answer the call. If that was the case, the operator would ask who was calling. We’d say it was her kids and that we needed her bad because we keep shitting our pants and ran out of toilet paper hours ago. That would usually get us scolded by the operator while we laughed and laughed and laughed. These were great gags, but they couldn’t touch our favorite prank call to make. One day, 9:30PM my friend and I were watching Family Feud and came up with a great idea for a prank. Fans of the Feud know that the host always says that the answers to the questions come from a survey of 100 people. Our idea was that we would pretend to be calling on behalf of the show to conduct the survey of 100 people. It allowed us to make up bizarre questions that people would happily answer. If we got any push back, we would offer round-trip plane tickets to Hollywood along with complimentary tickets for the entire family to an upcoming taping of the show. Dangling that offer usually got even the most reticent people talking. Before long, we would know their favorite cream soups, whether they’ve been circumcised, what color their last poop was, what they call their in-laws behind their backs and if they’ve ever cheated on their taxes and/or spouses. It’s amazing what people will cop to for a free vacation. The Family Feud prank call was truly the gift that kept on giving. Prank calls were a way for me to stretch my imagination and have a little fun in the process. I learned a lot about people and their idiosyncrasies by pretending to be someone I was not. It’s been over 30 years since I’ve made a prank phone call, but it’s one of those things that still brings a smile to my face. It was a simpler time when people weren’t so quick to explode with rage and seek out revenge. Instead we just laughed and moved on. Perhaps we should get rid of Caller ID and get back to our roots. If we do, I’d be happy to give 100 lucky people a call to see what they think about the change, and also whether they put their socks on before their underwear.

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here’s a mysterious and wonderful consistency to Nopalitos Southwestern Café that’s hard to pin down. You’d think with as many restaurants that come and go that a place that’s only open weekdays from 6:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. wouldn’t last a year, let alone several. This East Sacramento establishment on 56th and H streets, however, has been going strong since 1992. According to their website bio, Dave and Rose Hanke decided on the limited hours to manage their 7-year-old son’s baseball schedule. “Aaron grew up and eventually played a couple of years in the big leagues with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Dave and Rose decided they actually enjoyed having a life beyond the café, so they never opened on the weekends or evenings,” the bio reveals. I’ve lived just a couple blocks away for almost as long as Nopalitos has been open, and I’ve enjoyed the consistent and high-quality breakfast and lunch fare they’ve served through the years. It’s full of regulars sitting inside and out,

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and one of many longtime eateries in that area like Cookie’s Drive In and The Wienery that have been supported by the locals for decades. I had a couple of breakfasts in a row there to revisit the place, and it says a lot that I still want to go back tomorrow after I’ve already written this piece. Their breakfast menu is a family of burritos, scrambled egg plates, omelets and other favorites that cover Southwest cuisine nicely, along with standards like pancakes and french toast. There’s plenty of selections for vegetarians and gluten-free folk to choose from, as well. I started with The Polenta Breakfast,

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which has a moist base of cornmeal that is almost grits-like, covered either with chorizo or chili verde. It’s topped off with chile Colorado, roasted corn, two fried eggs, pico de gallo and your choice of flour or corn tortillas. Priced at $10.95, it was a divine and peaceful feast. The polenta had a subtle buttery taste to it, and the chorizo I chose was perfectly textured (not too greasy) and full of a mild spicy flavor and richness that made additional seasonings unnecessary. At 7 a.m. on a Tuesday, there was a nice crowd, but the morning was temperate enough to make for a nice outside meal. I returned with my wife the next morning about a half-hour later and it was a bit more crowded, but the service was quick and the food was excellent again. This time I got their signature dish, The Little Cactus Special, which is a plate-sized egg scramble that has cactus, corn and cheese inside, topped with cheese, sour cream, salsa and your choice of red or green chili sauce. I asked for both, expecting it to be drizzled all over the top, but the sauce was on the bottom of the plate, halved like a red and green yin-yang sign. Again, it was another wonderful meal that I still felt full from through the afternoon. My wife Linda got the Hot Corn Meal Mush. At $4.95, this soft and hot bowl of comfort came with brown sugar and cream on the side. She ordered it with bananas and raisins on top and it was a pleasing diversion from typical hot cereal fare. The service at Nopalitos is outstanding. Earlier this year, I brought my daughter Sierra and had forgotten that they didn’t accept credit cards. Rose, who had no reason to remember me or know I was a local, told me to sit down and enjoy my meal and I can

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just pay them later. (By the way, if I find out anyone does this on purpose, I’ll personally find you and make you listen to my stand-up comedy for three hours as punishment.) Of course, I gave her a gigantic tip as a thank you for her courtesy. Because of the limited hours, other folks and I have unfairly written off Nopalitos as inaccessible. I’d usually only eat there if I happened to be walking by after dropping my car off for repair. But what a dream it must be to own and run a successful business and still have nights and weekends available. Their reputation is so strong, they seem to thrive on word of mouth alone, as I don’t believe I’ve ever seen an ad for the place since I moved to the neighborhood in 1996. I looked on Yelp to see the opinions of others and was shocked to see that 11 years ago I docked them a star because of their schedule and cash-only policy. I’ve since deleted it and hope this review in Submerge will make amends. Dave and Rose’s Nopalitos is a Sacramento treasure, and you owe it to yourself to slow up your morning and

pay it a visit for breakfast or lunch. The staff is quick and thoughtful, and I’ve never waited too long to get my food. All of the items on their menu can be prepared to-go if you’d like to bring it to work instead. Don’t overlook their fresh salsa bar, either. In 23 years of eating at Nopalitos, I’ve never had a bad meal, and I don’t believe I ever will. The parking isn’t the best, but there are street spaces with two free hours all around the joint. If you see me on your way home from there down the street, give me a bite of your leftovers, assuming you had enough self-control to save some. While you’re in the area, be sure to check out the Sacramento Antique Mall around the corner to walk off those carbs.

Nopalitos is located on 5530 H St. next to East Sac Bikes. This staple of East Sac breakfast joints is open Monday thru Friday from 6:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Breakfast is served until 10:45 a.m., and lunch service runs from 11 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Visit Nopalitoscafe.com or call (916) 452-8226 for more information.

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There are few things more shamelessly bougie than eating caviar, and there are few more shamelessly bougie places in Sacramento than the Citizen Hotel (926 J St). Luckily, you can engage your inner millionaire by eating caviar in the Citizen at the Scandal Bar’s Caviar Club on Thursday, April 18. If you’re not familiar, the Scandal Bar is the Citizen’s swanky, speakeasy-style lounge located right above their lobby. Dane Blom, executive chef at upscale favorite Grange, will be preparing five caviar-based tapas, along with speciallycrafted cocktail pairings by resident mixologist (and Hawks alum) Teresa Loughner. Serving up the fishy goodness will be Michael Passmore, one half of the husband-and-wife team that founded Passmore Ranch. As Sacramento’s biggest name in top-shelf, deluxe foodstuffs, Passmore has been making waves in publications like the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle for making high-quality caviar at affordable prices. Even this far after the holidays, Passmore is largely sold out of its individual-batch offers, so now’s a good time to satisfy that expensive itch. The event runs from 6–9 p.m., and tickets are $95. To reserve a spot, call (916) 4924450, but for more event info, check out Grange’s Facebook page @dinegrange and search events.

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Finnish Orchestral Rock Band Apocalyptica to Play Metallica Classics at Crest Theatre! • May 9 While it’s not technically the homeland of metal, Finland boasts one of the world’s highest metal-band-to-population ratios in the world, at 54.3 bands per 100,000 Finns. And such tense competition breeds innovation, as proven by Apocalyptica, a neo-classical metal quartet who will be performing at the Crest Theatre on Thursday, May 9. While vocalists and instrumentalists have cycled in and out of the band over the years, Apocalyptica originally formed at the world renowned Sibelius Academy in 1993 as a classical Metallica cover band. The idea of a cello quartet covering the music of one of America’s most famous heavy metal bands, admittedly, sounds ridiculous at first. Even founding member Eicca Toppinen thought so too when a label rep approached them with a recording contract after watching them perform live in Helsinki. Yet their debut album Plays Metallica by Four Cellos proved to have enough crossover appeal to rocket them to stardom. Now, after years of experimenting with their unique fusion of classical and metal, they’re going back to their roots and doing a North American tour where they’ll perform Plays Metallica … with their original four-cello instrumentation. Even those skeptical of the band’s concept will have to admit that power chords translate surprisingly well into Apocalyptica’s fast, angular bowing, and the sweeping, classically inspired midsection of “Master of Puppets” sounds even better with actual classical expertise. Tickets are $22.50–$57.50. Doors open at 7 p.m.. For tickets and info, head to Crestsacramento.com.

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rom being considered ahead of their time, to finding the right time, Failure (Ken Andrews, guitars/vocals, Greg Edwards, guitars/vocals and Kellii Scott, drums) is currently meandering America, introducing new fans to their enduring sound of loudly layered, thick, technical rock. Thanks to streaming outlets and word of mouth, Failure is more popular than ever. I caught up with Greg Edwards, whose vocals were in mid-tour form. Edwards opened up about his views on modern technology, how his writing process has evolved and the newfound popularity of his band. “There’re young people at our shows now,” said Edwards. “I think a lot of them are turned on to us by their parents.” But while parents were sharing Failure with their children, the band was not only on an extended hiatus, they weren’t talking.

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“There had been probably five years where Ken and I just didn’t talk at all, because it ended pretty abruptly,” said Edwards. “Things were not good with us personally at that point. Things were not good with me, personally … my health … the way I was living. I wasn’t really someone who could be communicated with in any kind of rational way. So, the band just ended. And five years later, after we had both done other things and I had done Autolux, we got together.” It was only after becoming a parent himself, and through a series of hangouts, that a Failure reunion become possible. “We both had kids right around the same time, so we started hanging out socially on playdates,” said Edwards. “It was kind of always more and more, every time we hung out. It just felt like more and more molecules in the air causing pressure for the subject of Failure to be brought up.”

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Were you hoping for a reunion? I was just enjoying reconnecting with an old friend in this totally different context. I really wasn’t thinking about that. I’m pretty happy with Autolux. That was my world, musically. I never really considered Failure getting back together. In fact, the idea of a band getting back together after that many years just kind of seems a little lame to me. What are you going to do? Regain some former, half-assed past glory? What’s the point and how good could it possibly be? That would be my attitude toward us if I wasn’t in the band. But you are in the band, so what should people expect? The last thing I wanted to do was put out anything that was mediocre or trying to recapture something we had done on Fantastic Planet. If we were going to do this, we had to push forward. If you look at Comfort to Magnified to Fantastic Planet, each of those records are very different; each one has its own identity. Really, we just had to continue with that. We’re not completely abandoning everything about the sonic palette of Failure; that’s always there, but we’re always pushing and exploring. You mention pushing and exploring. How has your writing style evolved since the band was together last? One thing for sure is I think I’ve gotten better as a songwriter. I’m more capable in terms of getting at what I’m trying to. Moving one part to the next melodically and harmonically just comes easier to me, and I’m able to access the kinds of moods that I want. Like, if I know I want a song to feel like this, going from the verse to the chorus, I don’t have to experiment so much. I know how to get into the ballpark quicker. So, it’s a lot faster. In terms of Ken, he is a professional mixer and producer. That’s what he does when he’s not working on Failure stuff. So, that’s a huge benefit to the band because when we’re working on all of the creative stuff, and the writing process, that’s all done under the infrastructure of his studio and he’s very organized. Therefore, any idea can go from the raw music form to the finished product in a fairly fast amount of time. We don’t need to give it to someone else, or go back and forth with someone else. From knowing each other for so many years, the communication is really quick. The trust is there, too.

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“I never really considered Failure getting back together. In fact, the idea of a band getting back together after that many years just kind of seems a little lame to me. What are you going to do? Regain some former half-assed past glory? What’s the point and how good could it possibly be? That would be my attitude toward us if I wasn’t in the band.” – Failure’s Greg Edwards Have you noticed a difference in writing lyrics? Lyrics are always tough. It always seems in the abstract you can have anything to talk about. How do you start talking about anything poetically or lyrically? It’s a strange thing. But, somehow, every time Failure has made a record, there’s always something going on both personally and on a larger scale that just drives the whole process. How did your last album, In the Future Your Body Will Be the Furthest Thing from Your Mind, come about? It was originally released as four separate EPs, right? The title of the record came first. I’ve had that title for a while. In fact, it was up on our dry erase board when we were working on “The Heart is a Monster” as a possible title or song title. I like to have a dry erase board up on the wall and just write whatever—word, titles, possible song titles, whatever. That was one of the things that was up there that we considered, but, you know, it’s too long isn’t it [laughs]? Anyway, Kellii remembered that title and said, “Why don’t we do something like that and break it up.” I started thinking about how we could break it up into EPs and how it would work perfectly. So once you had the title you had a theme? That was halfway through the first four songs, but from that point on I looked to the title, which was a very ambiguous phrase that popped into my head. I looked to that title to give me some sort of direction and meaning. It seemed to really resonate with the things that I think about a lot and that are going on in the world right now. I guess one of those things is technology, and the screens that we all carry around with us like portals into the seemingly limitless potential of information and history and analysis, and mindless ridiculousness. It seems to be the new way of connecting with each other. A new way of being intimate with each other, but I just don’t know if any of that is possible through a phone.

I do agree that phone addiction is a problem. As a metaphor, I can look at the whole smartphone/internet epidemic as some sort of alien virus that infiltrated the planet and is basically taking away our souls and our ability to have any agency ourselves. That’s science fiction, but it doesn’t seem that far away. It seems like a pretty good metaphor for what actually is kind of happening. Was the intent to keep the newest album separate or combine the EPs into a cohesive album? Now I view them as a whole body of songs. And, in fact, releasing them like that— months in between each writing session—allowed me to absorb what each group of songs was and meant and think about what else we wanted to do sonically, emotionally and lyrically. So in a way it’s possible that it even made a more cohesive group of songs or a group of songs that are more complementary to each other in some form. But I definitely prefer to listen to it as a whole group of songs. Do you see this as a short reunion or do you look at Failure as a long-term project? I just want to keep making music and keep writing songs, because I truly believe that I’m just getting better at it. I’m doing what I wanted to do when I was in my early twenties. I’m actually doing that thing now, so now I have other goals with what I want to do. But, in terms of Failure, my feeling is that we work so well together, and the last two records we put out after the long hiatus have been really, pretty satisfying and successful, artistically. I think they are albums that will last, and I don’t know why we wouldn’t keep doing that.

Failure will play live at Ace of Spades (1417 R St., Sacramento) on Monday, April 22. Swervedriver will also perform. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance and can be purchased through Aceofspadessac.com.

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SHOTGUN SAWYER CUTS TO THE CORE ON SOPHOMORE ALBUM WORDS JUSTIN COX • PHOTO WES DAVIS

he typical formula is for a band to write and record

A Shotgun Sawyer show is a visceral experience, at

time in nearly six months, the sun is cutting through the

an album, and then debut the material live. As any

the same time comfortingly familiar and yet foreign and

rain-drenched winter and this Shotgun Sawyer record served as the soundtrack.

musician will tell you, those songs will continue

challenging. You’ll hear shades of Chuck Berry, Led

to contort and evolve as they’re played live from night to

Zeppelin, Rage Against the Machine and Black Sabbath,

night. What you end up with six months later won’t be the

but taken together it’s distinctly Shotgun Sawyer.

same as what was initially written and recorded, whether the changes are slight or drastic.

The band met at Bear River High School in the foothills of Auburn, and started in 2015 when guitarist Dylan

Sonically, you can hear the heavy remnants of winter, but these songs are dropping shades over your eyes and igniting the flames on your barbecue. They’re not here to drag you into a pit of sluggish despair.

Shotgun Sawyer, a Sacramento rock band by way of

Jarman and bassist Brett (The Butcher) Sanders started

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Auburn, doesn’t subscribe to that backwards timeline.

jamming together, ultimately linking up with drummer

label Ripple Music on April 19. Not only should you listen

Everything they do traces back to the live show, which

David Lee, whom Jarman had played with in the past. They

to the album, but you should allow it to do its job of baiting

is why they routinely weave new songs into their set and

locked into a pretty natural groove early on and the band

you out to their live show if you miss the release party,

concertedly gauge how the crowd is responding in real

took shape under the moniker Thunderchief. They soon

which will also include Vinnie Guidera and the Dead Birds

time. The new songs are living beings, and banging them

learned that the name was already taken, so they pivoted

and Ghost Mesa at the Press Club April 25. They’ll have

out live is an essential part of the writing process.

to Shotgun Sawyer with the release of their first album,

new merch and vinyl copies of the record, and they’ll follow

which they titled Thunderchief as a nod to the transition.

that with a tour through California and Nevada.

Shotgun Sawyer plays a raw take on rock ‘n’ roll that’s spiked with some hellacious, riff-heavy garage, blues,

During a phone interview in late March, I told Jarman

Below you’ll find an abridged version of my conversation

doom and indie rock. Their new album, Bury the Hatchet,

I’d been looping the new record all weekend to ready

with Jarman, in which we talk about songwriting, album

covers just about all of those bases within the first three

myself for the interview. The songs lodged themselves

art, shirtless drummers and plenty more.

songs alone. It’s a loose-and-loud approximation of their

nicely into the winter-to-spring transition currently taking

live show, where they unleash their real devastation.

place at my home in the Pacific Northwest. For the first

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When someone asks what kind of music Shotgun Sawyer plays, what’s your answer? I usually tell them we play rock ‘n’ roll. I consider what we do to be an original interpretation of what that phrase used to mean. It used to be Chuck Berry and Little Richard, then the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and Cream. Those are huge influences on what we do. If you get into defining genres too much, you get into trouble. In its purest form, it’s rock ‘n’ roll. So how did you arrive at your specific interpretation? David loves jazzy stuff, Brett really loves Rush, and I really love Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. All of those styles came together. What was it like plugging into the Sacramento music scene early on? As soon as we got serious about doing it, we looked for bands doing the same thing. We plugged into the scene through bands like Peace Killers and longtime friend of the band Joshua from Pressure Lounge, who made the connection between us and Mark Gonzales, who [books at] Old Ironsides. What’s the process of writing a Shotgun Sawyer song? It varies. If I were to typify some sort of general formula, I’ll bring little guitar pieces to practice and we’ll just jam on them for 15 to 20 minutes and see if that naturally leads to a second part. If so, we’ll make a little phone recording. Once it gets there, it’s really a collaborative experience— the three of us coming together. That’s what I love about it. If we feel like something is going somewhere, I’ll listen a bunch of times and feel out a vocal melody. The words end up being very natural to how I’m feeling that day or that week. They’re pretty pure expressions of whatever happens to be floating around in my life. When you made your first album, you studied how the bands you admired packaged and presented their music. What was behind that decision? The visual representation, for me, is almost just as important [as the music]. It’s the visual counterpart to this piece of your soul. You have emotional capital invested in this piece of art, and to have that represented by some random image would feel disingenuous. It’s important to represent it well. Sometimes you play a record and look at the album art and you’re like, “Yeahhhhh. This is what this sounds like.” Most Zeppelin records are like that. There’s nothing worse than picking up a record that looks like something it’s not. Did you set out to make a specific kind of album when you started writing Bury the Hatchet? The songs come as the songs come. Every time I show a riff to the guys, almost everything starts with, “What does the live show need?” We needed a real fast, high-energy song to blow people’s socks off and lead the set. That’s where “Ain’t Tryin’ to Go Down Slow” came from. I imagine us on a stage performing it and how folks might react.

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“I usually tell them we play rock ‘n’ roll. I consider what we do to be an original interpretation of what that phrase used to mean. It used to be Chuck Berry and Little Richard, then the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and Cream. Those are huge influences on what we do. If you get into defining genres too much, you get into trouble. In its purest form, it’s rock ‘n’ roll.” –Dylan Jarman, Shotgun Sawyer

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What was the recording process like? We recorded all instruments down in Visalia. We’re good friends with the band Slow Season, and their drummer Cody Tarbell is an eccentric with vintage techniques, machines, sounds, mixing. He’s got all these old tape machines. #mondavicenter We set up a bunch of microphones in his living room and played all of the songs live to tape, no instrument dubs. All in one or two afternoons, warts and all. We had the option of re-recording this song or that song over and were like, “no.” The vocals were recorded with Pat Hills at Earthtone. He’s the best. He digitized all the tape recordings and I put vocal tracks down on all the songs. He did a little witchcraft in mixing and mastering and we sent it off. Submerge

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OK, last question, and I’m passing it off to our mutual friend, Vinnie Guidera: How many songs until David, the drummer, removes his shirt at the show? The average is dwindling. For the sake of the shirt and not having to do laundry, he’s now taking the shirt off before we even start playing.

Into shirtless drummers and raucous rock ‘n’ roll? Then don’t miss the album release show for Shotgun Sawyer’s Bury the Hatchet Thursday, April 25 at the Press Club (2030 P St.). Vinnie Guidera and the Dead Birds, and Ghost Mesa open. Doors open at 8 p.m. and tickets are $10.

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Issue 289 • April 10 – April 24, 2019

alking about the dark moments from our past is an arduous process. It can drum up feelings of hurt and pain, but it also allows us to heal and grow as we confront what once made us tremble. When we write about those moments, we examine them even closer; and when we sing about them, we channel the emotion that we were forced to overcome. Jessie Reyez has done exactly that through raw and soulful music that speaks on the struggles that she’s faced. Her Twitter bio sums it up pretty well: “I like to sing about shit I don’t like to talk about.” The 28-eight-year-old singer/ songwriter was originally born in Toronto before moving to South Florida at the age of 16. Her parents, who migrated to Canada from Colombia, were influential in the young artist’s life in so many ways. Her parents’ unrelenting work ethic to support their family, as well as their love for music, are characteristics that shaped Reyez into the future star that she would become. She took piano lessons at age 3 after her mother caught her watching opera on the TV and singing in unison with the performers. She also played her father’s guitar, and eventually began writing music in high school. “Music always felt like home,” Reyez told me over the phone. Her move to Florida came when her parents finally obtained American visas, and with the move south, she decided to forego college to work and save money, while busking on the beach to keep her dream of music alive. “It definitely made my skin thicker … Time’s more valuable than money and to fight to make a stranger stop for 10 seconds was difficult,” Reyez said about her time performing music on the beaches of South Florida. While music still remained present in her life, the limited moments of doing so weren’t enough to satiate her soul, leading to a moment of existential crisis. Working diligently to overcome this feeling,

a song struck Reyez in a way that she’ll never forget. “I was listening to BJ the Chicago Kid, ‘Dream II.’ That song came on and kind of made me free, and I took it in,” she said. “It’s such a potent song about not being afraid to go into the unknown and not being afraid to chase what you want … If you want to go against the grain and you feel like your soul is calling for it, then it might be worth it. That song has all of that in it, so it hit me at that point in my life when I was struggling and I wasn’t sure what I was struggling for.” For those unfamiliar with the song, it begins with a quote from Will Smith, “I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic,” Smith says before the beat drops. Not long after, Reyez filmed her first music video and instead of waiting for her videographer to edit the tape, she learned how to edit with iMovie in the span of 48 hours, before sending the video to everyone she knew in the music industry. She eventually heard back from The Remix Project, an arts academy that helps underprivileged youth explore their talents in music, photography and business in her hometown of Toronto. After receiving an invitation to audition for the program, she took a weekend off from her bartending job and flew up to Toronto. A week later, she was accepted into the program, and Reyez quit her job to move back home. During her time with The Remix Project, Reyez’s work ethic truly began to flourish, capitalizing on her first chance to be fully invested in music. She would often stay past her allotted studio hours, turning off the lights and hiding in her room while everyone left so that she could stay and continue working. Daniel Daley from Toronto-based R&B group Dvsn—a mentor for The Remix Project—worked in the studio next to hers and was usually the one to find Reyez Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

staying past her studio hours. Luckily, it was cool with Daley, and he began working closely with Reyez, seeing something special in the singer. “He really forced me to not double up on meanings, just cutting the fat so that my songs could be very potent,” she said about her time working with Daley. Reyez also worked with Chicago rapper and producer King Louie, who invited her to an impromptu jam session that would lead to their joint-single, “Living in the Sky.” After graduating from the program, music was finally a full-time career for Reyez, and three years later, she released her first EP, Kiddo. The sevensong EP is an honest look into the singer’s life experiences of heartache, highlighted by the emotional ballad “Figures.” The song is the perfect encapsulation of Reyez’s craft. Honest, powerful and catchy, Reyez’s smoky voice describes the tale of a past failed relationship, however, it’s not the typical song of heartache as Reyez repeats, “I wish I could hurt you back,” to her ex-lover throughout the song. The track that follows “Figures” is “Gatekeeper,” a chilling song of the sexual harassment she experienced from the “gatekeepers” of the music industry during her time as a relatively unknown artist. She produced a short film of the experience as well, playing herself in the emotional 11-minute video. “It was difficult to hide that anger and that sadness because it felt like I needed to defend my younger self,” she said about playing herself in the film. When I spoke with Reyez, she told me that she wanted to see more women in power and men to begin acting as allies in the struggle for equal representation. “The second it’s not a onesided war, the second it’s not women just fighting for this but men also fighting for this … men understanding that if they bring us up, it’s bringing humanity forward,” she told me. Following the success of her first EP, Reyez released her second EP in 2018, Being Human in Public, featuring the powerful track “Apple Juice” and the rebellious “Fuck Being Friends.” The EP’s success earned her a Juno Award—one of Canada’s most prized awards for music—for R&B/Soul recording last month, an emotional moment for the Toronto-born singer-songwriter. SubmergeMag.com

“I was listening to BJ the Chicago Kid, ‘Dream II.’ That song came on and kind of made me free, and I took it in. It’s such a potent song about not being afraid to go into the unknown and not being afraid to chase what you want … If you want to go against the grain and you feel like your soul is calling for it, then it might be worth it. That song has all of that in it, so it hit me at that point in my life when I was struggling and I wasn’t sure what I was struggling for.” – Jessie Reyez “I was stuttering throughout my speech, and the second I got off stage, I started crying,” she recalled. Reyez is currently working on her first full-length album. The name has yet to be revealed, but she told me that the album would incorporate the idea of the yin and the yang. Duality is an important theme in Reyez’s life, and when asked about the subject she said, “I think about it everyday, I feel like it gives me more understanding … It’s not just about how you look at something, it’s about how your neighbor looks at it, too.” If Reyez’s first LP is anything like her previous works, we’ll be offered another glimpse into the diary of her life. She may not like talking about it, but the way that she sings about her life, in such a vulnerable and honest way, makes it impossible to look away from this rising star from Toronto.

See Jessie Reyez live in Sacramento’s Cesar Chavez Plaza on April 27 as part of the Sol Blume Festival. Miguel will headline a lineup that also includes Queen Naija, J.I.D, Masego and many more. Tickets for this all-ages event start at $69 and can be purchased through Solblume.com.

Issue 289 • April 10 – April 24, 2019

PERSEVERE THROUGH SKATEBOARDING PROJECT LIFELONG GIVES KIDS PURPOSE WORDS NIKI KANGAS • PHOTOS JEFFREY LATOUR

eing a kid is tough. Especially if you live in a neighborhood where not having a car means not being able to access amenities that are out there, like skateparks and places to socialize. Having an outlet can really help young people identify with something bigger than themselves. Project Lifelong attempts to address this need by making skateboarding, camping, surfing and community more accessible to children and teens. Sean LaTour, founder and director of Project Lifelong, is working on expanding the program’s unique offering, as more kids could benefit from his revolutionary idea. The afterschool program gives kids a place to go, but moreover, it’s a place to learn and create. It also gives teens an opportunity to become mentors and teach children how to skate. “Project Lifelong is kind of a rendition of being blessed in my childhood and getting to go on amazing road trips with friends,” explains LaTour. “We want to recreate that for kids that couldn’t otherwise afford to get out of town and see the mountains, the ocean and visit great skate parks. The vision was to see kids’ hearts get ignited about how the world is a lot bigger than just Arden-Arcade. There’s a lot out there and it’s only an hour a way. “The project actually started as a senior project while finishing up an education-focused degree,” he continues. “It was a write-up that identified an underserved group of youth with

an idea to better educate and serve them through social justice. Back in junior high, we had to hide our skateboards in trash bags because they weren’t allowed on campus. It was a bummer because we’d want to skateboard after school. Hiding my skateboard was like having to hide my identity.” There are many kids who don’t identify with traditional sports who need some structure and programming. They need adults that support and celebrate their passion. “If you connect it to school, these kids may have incentive to stay at school so they can stay after school and skate,” says LaTour. “To watch kids connect to skateboarding and persevere through skateboarding on a daily basis is incredible. They learn that if they want to do something, they are going to have to work hard for it. To get that really good feeling, you have to go through some shitty feelings. If you fall, you get back up. They say the concrete is a blank canvas and skateboarders are the paintbrush. Kids are able to be self-expressive through skateboarding. They get to create something that doesn’t exist yet. And it gives them focus.” The name for the project comes from LaTour’s group of best friends who he grew up with and is still close with today. Together, touting themselves the Lifelong Boys, they would push their limits. They skateboarded, hiked, camped and traveled. They got their first cars and realized,

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“Holy shit, there are skateparks everywhere,” in LaTour’s words. They were able to discover a big world outside of Sacramento and did their best to stay out of trouble. When his best friend’s dad was killed in a car accident, LaTour says, “It made things really real for us very quickly. You get one life. The thrill-seeking and chasing that high of pushing our bodies became a staple of our friendship. Proclaiming ourselves the Lifelong Boys meant we’re always going to take care of each other. Through thick and thin. We tell the kids, ‘You need to stick together. Life is so much better enjoying experiences with other people.’” Project Lifelong identifies underserved, low-income neighborhoods where kids aren’t able to get to skateparks, like the west end of Arden-Arcade, to determine where to host their programming. Their recently garnered Sheckler Foundation grant is allowing them to expand with their new offering of shipping container skateparks, like the one off Fruitridge and 44th where they host youth skate nights. They’re hoping to next serve North Highlands and Del Paso Heights. “The big goal is to be everywhere, even beyond Sacramento,” states LaTour. “From a skateboarder’s perspective, Sacramento has done a fabulous job of building places to skate. There are over 10 skateparks in our county. But if you look at a map of Sacramento, the skateparks do

this giant circle around freeways. For kids that are out in Arden-Arcade or North Highlands, there are a lot of parents that are struggling financially and maybe don’t have a vehicle. So just because Sacramento has so many skateparks doesn’t mean that the kids can get there. Skateboarding should be accessible for everybody.” The shipping container skatepark idea is brilliant and turn-key for volunteers who can set them up anywhere with ramps inside, turn on some lights and make a space for kids to congregate. When the skate night is over, they can put them away and lock them up. Project Lifelong is about to order its third shipping container. The program engages teen volunteers to mentor younger kids, and has evolved from summer programming to supporting the kids year-round as they get older. The high school program gives kids a higher level of ownership of the program. “We’ve always empowered the kids that participate by telling them that the program belongs to them,” LaTour explains. “They get to choose what skatepark trips they go on and where to go on camping trips or surfing trips. That ownership piece has been huge in getting them to connect to their passion. They get to connect to something and identify with something that is theirs. They’re in charge of the afterschool program. They show up, get the kids all geared up, and do a lot of one-on-one mentoring with kids from [ages] 5–12 and teach them how to skate. They learn to give back to their community.” LaTour will pull out a paper map and draw a 90-mile radius around Sacramento. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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*Photo above by Makenna Rae Christiansen The kids get to decide which skateparks, camping trips and surfing trips they’re going to go on. And they do the research for their excursions. The biggest hit are the surfing trips. “The kids are humbled by the ocean,” LaTour shares. It’s not free to join, but pretty damn close. LaTour wants Project Lifelong to be affordable for any family. You can get skate nights, surfing and camping trips for the entire year for $5 if you qualify for the free or reduced-lunch program in the school district. “If you offer a free program, it sometimes equals a parent won’t show up,” says LaTour. “There’s something about the psychology of paying into something that makes people feel invested.” Relying on donor contributions and grants is how the program has not only perpetuated, but grown. To become a donor, go to projectlifelong. org/donate. Annually, donors contribute about $17,000 toward perpetuating the program. And help from friends supports the program, too. PLA Skate Shop, Boulevard Skate Shop, Mission Oaks Recreation Park District, Porchlight Brewing, SACSCIP (their biggest contributor that allows them to exist), Sacramento County Coalition for Youth and local rotary clubs are just some of the organizations that support Project Lifelong’s endeavors. The Sheckler Foundation will be personally delivering Project Lifelong’s grant as part of a tour, and Ryan Sheckler and other pro skateboarders will host a check presentation ceremony. Follow @projectlifelong on Instagram to stay abreast of when the event will take place.

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You can also visit Projectlifelong.org to see the video that they submitted to earn the Sheckler Foundation grant. This program matters because of how it impacts children’s lives, as they may be coping with really difficult circumstances. “One of my favorite stories is a young man who is from the west end of Arden-Arcade and has more going on in his life than I’ve ever had to deal with,” LaTour says. “We’ve had him since sixth or seventh grade and he got hooked on skateboarding. And he got hooked on getting to help run a skateboarding program that he identified with. He got caught shoplifting and it was a huge turning point. To be able to catch kids when they’re falling—that’s what Project Lifelong’s all about. Creating a support system for them. This kid will ride his bike probably 30 minutes or so to be able to come volunteer and teach other kids. This kid, going through so much, was able to put Project Lifelong down on his resume and get a job, ironically really close to where he had gotten caught shoplifting. Getting to witness a kid turn his life around is an incredible experience.” Every once in a while, LaTour has the participants write up what the program means to them. One child wrote, “Project Lifelong gives me purpose.” “Every kid needs to be celebrated,” says LaTour. “If a kid is celebrated and Once again, for more info on Project Lifelong, and told that they to learn how you can can do anything, donate or get involved, they’re going to.” go to Projectlifelong.org.

Issue 289 • April 10 – April 24, 2019

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Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. 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. Folsom Hotel Saloon Proxy, 6:30 p.m. Golden 1 Center P!nk, Julia Michaels, 6 p.m. Holy Diver Pacific Dub, Tyrone’s Jacket, Seranation, 6:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 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 Acoustic Open Mic, 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. Theatre DeVille Karaoke in the Lounge, 6 p.m. Torch Club Ballin’ That Jack, 5:30 p.m.; Jesse Daniel, Danny Morris & The California Stars, 9 p.m.

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The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. The Colony Goolagoon, Paperxcut, End Game, Sick Burn, HXS, Cheap Shoes, 7 p.m. Crocker Art Museum ArtMix: Cosmos w/ DJ Epik, Spacewalker, Honyock and More, 6 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Jerry Martini and Frank Sorci, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Michael B. Justis, 8 p.m.

Goldfield JP Harris, JonEmery & the Unconventionals, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Special EFX All-Stars, 6 p.m. Holy Diver Anxious Arms, Paper Airplanes, Hi Mom, Soft Nerve, Anime Aliens, 6:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Momo Sacramento Symytry, K.O., 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Fred Hersch and Friends, 8 p.m. Oblivion Comics & Coffee Open Mic, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Remedy Seven, 6 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. PowerHouse Michael Beck, 9:30 p.m. The Press Club Jon Snodgrass, Garrett Dale, Shelby Murray, 8 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts @ B Street Theatre Cocktails & Jazz feat. The Arlyn Anderson Quartet, 7 p.m. Theatre DeVille Two Tone Steiny and The Cadillacs, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; The Toadmortons, Patrolled By Radar, 8 p.m.

Ace of Spades Mr. Crowley (Ozzy Osbourne Tribute), Love Drive (Scorpions Tribute), Fallout Kings, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Nate Grimmy, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Achilles Wheel Trio, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp Mendo Dope Band, Underrated & Garth Vader, Chucky Chuck, 9 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Lea Salonga, 9 p.m.; DJ Fabian, 11:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. The Colony Mindless Aggression, The End of Everything and More, 7:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Steelin’ Dan (Steely Dan Tribute), 6:30 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Sactown Playboys, 7 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Dirty Blonde, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Freak Train, Delta Mystics, 9 p.m. Golden 1 Center Freestyle Jam feat. Stevie B., Lisa Lisa, Sir Mix-ALot, Rob Base, Exose, Cover Girls, Shannon, Connie, Debbie Deb, Nu Shooz, 7:30 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Hop Along, Summer Cannibals, 6 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Rovshan Mamedkuliev, 7:30 p.m. Highwater Vibe w/ BASI. and Friends, 10 p.m. Holy Diver Bret Bollinger (of Pepper), Mateo Briscoe, Squarefield Massive, 7 p.m. Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m.

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Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m.; Tim Noxon Rockin’ Blues Band, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Steve Key, Jenn Rogar, Hannah Jane Kile, 7:30 p.m. Momo Sacramento DJ Oasis, 10 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Havana Cuba All-Stars, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Fred Hersch and Friends, 8 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Jimmie Vaughan, Coco Montoya, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Be Brave Bold Robot, Nice Monster, Handle, 9 p.m. On The Y Diversity of One, Anarchy Lace, The Igors, 8 p.m. Palms Playhouse Joe Louis Walker, Missy Andersen and Her One Man Band, 7:30 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Eddie Edul, 9:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Placerville Public House Out of the Blue, 8 p.m. PowerHouse Brickhouse, 10 p.m. The Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Bobby Zoppi & the Corduroys, 9:30 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Groove on Fridays w/ Guest DJs, 10 p.m. Riving Loom Grand Re-Opening Celebration feat. Artwork and Music w/ Kevin & Allyson Seconds, Vinnie Guidera, Steve Brown, David Houston & String Theory, 7 p.m. SacYard Community Tap House The Mutineers, 6 p.m. Shady Lady Ross Hammond & Jon Bafus (Album Release), 9 p.m. Shine The Stoneberries, Zack Freitas, Kayla Meltzer, 8 p.m. Sol Collective Queer Voices: Showcase and Open Mic, April 12, 7:30 p.m.

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4.13 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades Celso Piña, Sol Peligro, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Todd Morgan, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Matt Rainey, 3 p.m. Big Sexy Brewing Co. Conceived In Chaos, WhiteWolf, The Last Titan, Exiled From Grace, 4 p.m. Blue Lamp #Rocdamic, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Judas Thieves (Judas Priest Tribute), The Quart of Blood Technique, Shade Brigade, Handle, 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Lea Salonga, 8 p.m.; Five Point O, 10:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Steven Curtis Chapman, 6:30 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Nate Grimmy, 7 p.m. Community Center Theater Opera in Concert: Rigoletto, 8 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Neon Playboys, 9 p.m. The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Gillian Underwood & the Lonesome Doves, The Speak Low, Alex Walker, Erik Hanson, 9 p.m. Goldfield me&you, Manzanita, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Arden Park Roots, Ideateam, CFR, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Folsom Lake Symphony: Fantastical, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Dark Signal, Artisvns, Apollos Key, The Never and Now, 7 p.m. The Library of MusicLandria Synth Trips: The Peoples Temple of Doom, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Fred Hersch and Friends, 8 p.m. Naggiar Vineyards Larry Potts, 6 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. Old Ironsides Cigarette Machine, Higher Mansions and More, 8 p.m. Outlet Coworking The Music Yard w/ Spirix, Olmos, Oshiin, Imullinati, Lucid Absynth, 11 a.m. Palms Playhouse Jayme Stone’s Folklife, 7:30 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge Schoeny, DJ Peeti-V, 9:30 p.m. Phono Select The Knockoffs, Mob Rule, 6 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Placerville Public House Patrick Walsh, 8 p.m.

4.14

PowerHouse Department of Rock, 10 p.m. The Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Patton Leatha, 10 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Encore w/ Guest DJs, 9:30 p.m. Riving Loom This Means Something w/ Host Kevin Seconds feat. Jonah Matranga, 8 p.m. Shine Banjo Bones, The W Lovers, Spencer Vogel & Cain, 8 p.m. Skyroom at Country Club Lanes Paris Escovedo & Special Guests, 8:30 p.m. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts @ B Street Theatre Joe Kye, 7 p.m. Swabbies on the River Country Kickoff w/ Amanda Gray, MoonShine Crazy, Blue Valley Band, 12 p.m.; Journey Revisited, 6:30 p.m. Theatre DeVille San Francisco Airship, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Ray “Catfish” Copeland, 5:30 p.m.; John Brothers Company, 9 p.m.

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Berryessa Brewing Co. Misner and Smith, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Uke-Hunt, 6 p.m. Blue Note Brewing Co. Sunday Sessions Live w/ Sicky Betts, 3 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Grupo Yndio, 5 p.m. CLARA Auditorium Midtown Vanguard Jazz Series: RiverRun, The American River College Jazz Collective, 6:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Buddy Guy, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, 6:30 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Classical Concert: Jason Sia, 3 p.m. The Flamingo House Spring Opener BBQ Funktion w/ Philharmonik, Good Company, Chango, 2 p.m. Golden 1 Center Chayanne, 6 p.m. Goldfield Leilani Wolfgramm, 7:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Christiane Noll & Hugh Panaro: Memories Down Broadway Lane, 2 p.m. Holy Diver Big Business, Horseneck, NMTA, Peace Killers, 6:30 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. Momo Sacramento Baseball Gregg, Majetic, Pregnant, 6:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. PowerHouse Coco Montoya, 3 p.m. The Press Club Early Service w/ Black Yacht Club, 7 p.m.; Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Blue Lamp Armed for Apocalypse, Aequorea, Kyntallah (Album Release), 8 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Leikeli47, Yung Baby Tate, 6:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Michael McDonald, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Haiti Babii, Mula Gang, Yoko Twazy, 7 & 9:30 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 w/ The Smith & Jones Band, Vol, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. The Press Club High Fidelity: Vinyl Night, 9 p.m. Two Rivers Cider Co. Grateful Monday w/ Possum, 6:30 p.m.

4.16 TUESDAY

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Big Sexy Brewing Co. Swoon, Drunken Kung Fu, Mookatite, 6 p.m. Blue Lamp Stevie Stone, Madchild, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk The Ellusive Furs (Album Release), Speakeasy, Damaged Things, Shirlee Temper, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Hans Eberbach, 7 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Island of Black and White, 9 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon The Ripoffs, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose According to Bazooka, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Soccer Mommy, Boy Scouts, 6:30 p.m.; Estelle, 10:30 p.m. Holy Diver Oh, Sleeper, The Agony Scene, Earth Groans, HellHeart, Sleep Speak, 6 p.m. Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m.; Radio Billionaires, 9 p.m. Momo Sacramento DJ Julian Pierce, 10 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Twisted Pine, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides FMK, King, War & Mind, 8:30 p.m. Palms Playhouse Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons, 7:30 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge Konstantina Gianni, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Placerville Public House Albertson Duo, 8 p.m. PowerHouse Fast Times, 10 p.m. The Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Audioboxx, 9:30 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Groove on Fridays w/ Guest DJs, 10 p.m. Riving Loom Bryan McPherson, Noah Nelson, 8 p.m. SacYard Community Tap House Dey Trippers, 6 p.m. Shine Band of Coyotes, Icarus Falling, Water Bear, 8 p.m. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts @ B Street Theatre Al Stewart Duo, Dave Nachmanoff, 7 p.m. Swabbies on the River Pato Banton and Zion Roots, 6 p.m. Theatre DeVille Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, 8 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Y&T, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Kate Gaffney, 5:30 p.m.; Patrick Contreras, 9 p.m.

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4.21 SUNDAY

Berryessa Brewing Co. Mike Blanchard and the Californios, The Manzanita, 1:30 p.m. Blue Note Brewing Co. Sunday Sessions Live w/ Banjo Bones, 3 p.m. Colonial Theatre Northern Alliance Festival: Integrity, Lionheart, Toxic Holocaust, All Out War, Acephalix, Hoods, Murder Death Kill, Easy Money, Rhythm Of Fear, Funeral Chic, Mastiff, Solanum, The Cutthroats, Lowlife, Disperser, 3 p.m. Crest Theatre Leo Dan, King Clave, Nestor Daniel, Carlos Bardelli, Alex “El Genio” Lucas, 6 p.m. Faces NightClub Funday Frolic w/ Pumatron, Amy Roze and More, 3 p.m. Goldfield Big Smo, Good Ol Boyz, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Powerman 5000, Graybar Hotel, Control, 6:30 p.m. Kasbah A Celebration of Prince w/ DJ Chris Magaña, Amy Kelly, Stephen Hendry and More, 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. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Kenny Frye, 1 p.m. SacYard Community Tap House Ross Hammond, 3 p.m. Wildwood Kitchen & Bar Jazz Sundays w/ Valerie V, 11:30 a.m.

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Misc. 8th and W Streets Certified Farmers Market, Sundays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. 1810 Gallery Opening Reception for A Show of Ice and Fire: Artworks Inspired by Game of Thrones, April 13, 6 p.m. 20th Street (Between J and L) Midtown Farmers Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. 21st & X Streets Sacramento Antique Faire, April 14, 6:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Armed Forces Pavilion & Community Garden (Auburn) Earth Day Celebration 2019: “Celebration of the Monarchs” feat. Live Music, Food Trucks, Workshops, Artists, Local Authors and More, April 20, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. B Street Theatre at The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts Family Series: Charlotte’s Web, Through April 14 Mainstage Series: Holmes and Watson, April 16 - May 26 Badlands Sacramento RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11 Star Plastique Tiara Live w/ Taryn Thru-U, Hellen Heels, Sasha Devaroe and More, April 12, 8 p.m. Beers Books Record Club Movie Night: Krautrock - The Rebirth Of Germany, April 11, 8 p.m. Blue Cue Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz, Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m. Dinner and a Drag Show, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Capitol Steps (South Side) Californians for the Arts Presents: Arts Advocacy Day & Rally, April 23, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Colonial Theatre Amber’s Sweets Presents: Rocky Horror Picture Show Spring Fling Edition, April 20, 10 p.m. Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Selections from the Crocker-Kingsley, Through May 5 The Roaming Eye: International Street Photography from the Ramer Collection, Through May 12 A Passionate Muse: The Art of Leonard Baskin, Through May 12 Arte Extraordinario: Recent Acquisitions, Through Aug. 18 Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Delta Mind Body Center My Existence Is Resistance: Trans Art Show, April 20, 5 p.m. Esther’s Park Oak Park Block Party feat. Live DJ, Barbecue, Face Painting, Jump Houses and More, April 18, 4 p.m. Florin Road & 65th Street Certified Farmers Market, Thursdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

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THE SHALLOW END THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE JAMES BARONE jb@submergemag.com

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I’d like to think that I learn from my mistakes. Last issue, right around this time, I began writing about the recently delivered Mueller report. In the midst of what I was typing, Attorney General William Barr showed up to work on a goddamn Sunday and threw everything I’d written out of whack. I figured it was pretty much a done deal. I mean, what sort of moron, let alone one who had spent his career at the upper echelons of public service, would whitewash such an important document in this day and age? Here we are, just about two weeks later, finding out the Cliff’s Notes version of the 400-page document may have not told the

mindset is the same. I’m not condoning either belief, mind you. I’m just over here trying to flex my empathy. Eventually, you’d have to think that we’re going to know what we don’t know. Someone is going to dredge that 400-page lake and find something. It may not be a millennia-old sea monster, but maybe its fossilized excrement. It’s highly unlikely that the report says nothing, because, like, it would have required far fewer words to do so. A simple, “We’re good,” sent in an email would have sufficed. Or, for even more brevity, the thumbs-up emoji. The big question is if, when the gory details are splayed out for the world to see,

whole story, and still, no one has seen the damn thing. At this point, the Mueller report is sort of like the Loch Ness Monster. People will swear that the fucking thing is real, but all we have to go on is some blurry photos of some shadowy blob peeking out of a lake. Is that a terrible analogy? I don’t care. I just love the Loch Ness Monster. And conspiracy theories. Is Nessie involved in the Russia probe somehow? Can you prove to me that it isn’t?! You couldn’t convince me that it isn’t. I mean, I know it’s not … and I know that it probably doesn’t even exist, but that doesn’t stop me from believing in it. That’s why belief is so cool, yet so dumb. Like, no matter what’s in the Mueller report, people are going to keep on believing whatever they want. That’s probably why Trump’s poll numbers didn’t budge after Barr’s hastily scribbled summary. It would seem that the public has already made up its mind about the president, as I have about the Loch Ness Monster. I just prefer to live in a world where it may exist. So I get it: Trump supporters want to believe in the mythology of a brash, toughtalking champion of the “forgotten man” who built a billion-dollar empire through the strength of his determination (or something like that). And I want to believe that some relic of the age of dinosaurs somehow managed to hold up in some lake in Scotland for millions of years, beating the odds, subsisting on cod or sturgeon or something … mating with eels maybe? Sure. Why not? Mating with eels is fine. The results are different, but I guess the

will it make much of a difference? Belief is such a primal thing. I read a headline on NPR. com that said, “Suspected Rhino Poacher Killed by Elephant, Eaten by Pride of Lions in South Africa.” The headline was so descriptive, that I didn’t really need to read the whole story. My first thought was, “Good. He got what he deserved … and in probably the most poetic way possible.” I did scroll down, though, to read that ranters inside Kruger National Park were contacted by members of the suspected poacher’s family. They were hoping to find their loved one’s remains, but, according to the article, “only a human skull and a pair of pants” were found. I believe poachers deserve whatever they get, but when I imagined this family trying to bury their loved one I had a moment of pause. I thought, why did this person take up poaching to begin with? Was he poor? What made him so desperate that he would engage in such an illegal, immoral and dangerous activity? What unscrupulous assholes would pay so much for dead rhino bits that poaching these magnificent beasts would be a lucrative endeavor? It’s easier to just believe something, because if you hold it dear enough, you can exclude whatever contrary information arises that makes you feel uncomfortable. You can stand fast, even when you’re totally wrong, or partially wrong, or simply misguided. But Nessie, you don’t have anything to worry about. I still love you, girl.

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