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BLUME MELISSA WELLIVER melissa@submergemag.com I have to give a shout out to the Sol Blume team. They put on one helluva music festival in Cesar Chavez Plaza back on April 27.

It was perfect: one day, solid lineup, had the right-sized footprint (wasn’t too big, nor too small) and there was good vibes in the air-from the crowd to the performers.

You can check out our new contributor Olivia Monahan’s review on page 25. Along with her words (ahem), you can see the photos I took as well!

The only downside were my allergies! The Blume was all too real, and unfortunately, I couldn’t stick around for the headliner Miguel because I wanted to rip my eyes out!

And hell, I’m sure everyone I was around was probably tired of hearing me sneezing.

However, I couldn’t agree more with Monahan’s favorites of the day—Tierra Whack, J.I.D and Masego absolutely crushed it.

With the outdoor concert season upon us, I can only hope that whatever allergens are in the air will go away sooner than later. But I won’t let whatever is blooming ruin my fun, and don’t let it ruin yours either.

In this issue’s “The Stream” column (page 6), there’s a list of some of our favorite outdoor concerts series you should keep in mind when you’re looking for something to do.

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SAC MUSIC SCENE NEWS UPDATES: OLD IRONSIDES UP FOR SALE, TORCH FEST LINEUP ANNOUNCED, JONATHAN CARABBA OUTDOOR CONCERT SEASON IS BACK Send regional news tips to info@submergemag.com Outdoor concert season is upon us! Spring has arrived in Sacramento and with the rising temps comes a plethora of outdoor concerts and festivals in the region. Here’s a brief rundown of just some of our area’s best outdoor concerts so you can be sure to get out and enjoy the weather while taking in some tunes:

Merle Jagger All things must pass. Just last week, news broke that the legendary Sacramento bar and live music venue Old Ironsides, which first opened its doors in 1934, is up for sale. After decades of owning and operating the business, it sounds like the Kanelos family is simply burnt out and ready to step away. Sam Kanelos, Jr. told the Sacramento Bee’s Mila Jasper that, “It was just time,” and that, “the family looked at our ages and time we put in. It’s time to start enjoying our latter years.”

The news of Old I being up for sale spread like wildfire on social media, with many members of Sacramento’s music community expressing their love and gratitude for the venue, along with a wealth of memories and a shared hope that whoever buys the business will keep its legacy alive. The Kanelos family also seems to share this hope, posting on Old Ironsides’ Facebook page, “We aren’t going anywhere yet!

Hopefully we’ll find someone to take over who wants to carry on in this 85 year tradition.”

Check out our calendar section or flip to page 17 to check out Old I’s ad to see what they’ve got coming up, and be sure to stop in if you can, because who knows what’s going to happen when this iconic downtown business gets new owners.

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Let’s Torch it up! One of our favorite yearly concerts is back with a stacked lineup. The Torch Club’s annual TorchFest will run from Friday, May 24–Sunday, May 26 this year and will feature 18 bands/artists, including Gillian Underwood, Ryan Thompson and the Delicate Hounds, 50-Watt Heavy, Danny Morris and the California Stars and Loose Engines on Friday night; BaddSelf, Lee Vandeveer Band, George Napp, Birds of Fortune and Grateful Bluegrass Boys on Saturday; and Sunday’s full day of tunes from Band of Coyotes, Twilight Drifters, Drop Dead Red, The Breakers, Ice Age Jazztet, Merle Jagger, Highway Poets and Smokey the Groove.

TorchFest is easily one of the best weekends of live music in town every year. Top notch talent all day, every day. Keep an eye on Facebook.com/thetorchclub or Torchclub.net for details on times, prices, etc.

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• Downtown’s famed Concerts in the Park series kicked off last week. These free, all-ages concerts happen every Friday at Cesar Chavez Plaza starting at 5 p.m. from now through July 26 (with the exception of July 5). CIP always includes a nice blend of local talent and nationally touring artists in a music festival environment with food trucks, vendors, live artwork and more. Check out Godowntownsac.com for the lineup.

• THIS Midtown Second Saturday Block Party series is returning on Saturday, May 11 and continues every Second Saturday through the summer. Head to 20th and K streets in Midtown to hear DJs and artists from here and beyond on a huge, amazing sound system. Watch the streets turn into a full-on dance party! These events are free, run from 5–10 p.m., and all ages are welcome. Keep an eye on Facebook.com/this916 for lineup announcements.

• Concerts at Quarry Park in Rocklin kicked off last week, and continues on Saturday, May 11 with Placer County Rocks at the Quarry, presented by Loomis Basin Brewing and The City of Rocklin. The beautiful and nearly brand new outdoor amphitheater will also host concerts in June, August and September. For lineups and more info, check out Meetmeattheq.com.

• East Sac Pops in the Park kicks off next month on Saturday, June 1 at East Portal Park with Joe Craven & The Sometimers, and then continues throughout the month at various parks in East Sacramento. Check out Facebook.com/eastsacpops for more.

If you have an outdoor concert, festival, or series to get on our radar, email us about it so we can make sure to list it/them in our calendar section!

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THE FUTURE MRS. CHIGGER BOCEPHUS CHIGGER bocephus@submergemag.com You’ve heard about it in countless classics: “All you need is love,” “Somebody to love,” “Can’t help falling in love,” “When a man loves a woman.” There is a reason why we have so many songs about love. When everything around you seems to be falling apart or failing, love can be there to keep you afloat. Love is there to remind you why you should get up and try again when you don’t think you can anymore. It’s there to make milestone events even more memorable. In short, love is the best thing that we as humans can do and when you are in love, it is one of the greatest feelings you can have.

To quote Young MC, I spent a lot of my life “looking for love in all the wrong places.” I let myself be taken down paths that I didn’t really want to travel because I thought I was in love when I really wasn’t. It took me a long time to realize that love isn’t something I should have to chase or conform to. Love should be mutual and reciprocated; one side should not be holding all the love for both or forcing their will on the other.

I also had to learn to love myself before I could really give and accept real love from others.

Five years ago, I finally figured it all out. At that time, I had been single for awhile and was resisting attempts by friends to set me up with their other single friends. One friend was relentless and kept telling me that she had the perfect girl for me. I, of course, didn’t believe that someone else could find the right person for me.

I didn’t think my friend knew my type, but she would not let it go, so I eventually agreed to meet the two of them for lunch on a work day.

When I arrived for lunch, my eyes were drawn to her immediately. I had seen her picture once and she looked like the woman I was supposed to meet, but I wasn’t quite sure. Thankfully, our mutual acquaintance stepped in and introduced us, so I didn’t have to guess who she was for long. My date wore a black dress and her hair was long and straight. She looked at me with her beautiful smile and dimpled cheeks as our mutual acquaintance introduced us and she had me right there, but she wasn’t done.

As we talked more, I could tell by the way she carried herself and spoke that she was intelligent and thoughtful. She was someone who wanted to make a difference in the world. She was the kind of person who cared deeply about people and wanted to help them when they needed it most.

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She was the woman of my dreams, and I was determined not to let her slip away. As it turned out, our offices were around the corner from each other, so we said goodbye to our chaperone and I walked her back to work after lunch. Outside her office, I nervously asked for her phone number before giving her a small kiss. When I said goodbye and turned to leave, I thought my heart was going to explode out of my chest. She was going to be the one. I knew it already.

The next six months were a whirlwind. We spent almost all of our free time together learning about each other and what we hoped our lives would be. We played each other records of our favorite bands and talked about where we had been, what we had seen and where we wanted to go next. In our time together, we quickly discovered that we had a lot more in common than we had realized. It was like we were two puzzle pieces that were cut to fit together perfectly. When I asked her to move in six months after we started dating, it didn’t even feel like we were rushing. It was like I had known her my whole life.

It’s been five years since we began our relationship and things are a little different now, but also the same. We have both changed jobs a couple of times. We live in a different city and in a house we chose together now, too. After all that time, we have found some things we disagree on, but that hasn’t stopped us. I never once considered what my life would be like without her.

My life would feel incomplete. She is too much a part of me now, which is why we got engaged9:30PM last summer and will be getting married in the fall.

When you find someone like that to love, hold on to them. Remember, it may not always be obvious who that person will be, so keep your eyes and mind open to the possibilities. If I had stuck to my guns and turned down my friend’s repeated attempts to hook me up, I might have wasted the last five years chasing something that I didn’t really want but thought that I did.

Instead, I ended up with someone who I truly and dearly love and I know that she will always love me back. You are going to have to find your own person, though; I wouldn’t trade mine for anything in the world. Thank you for making my life complete, Christina! You da you!

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And we thought the all-cello metal band Apocalytpica was going to be the most unexpected fusion band to come through Sacramento this year. Well, Che Apalache, a Buenos Aires-based Latinbluegrass band, just may have them beat. Joe Troop, the group’s fiddler, is originally from North Carolina but moved to Argentina in 2010. While trying to make his way in the music scene, he taught local musicians the art of old-time and bluegrass. Eventually, he and three of his best students, Franco Martino (guitar), Pau Barjau (banjo) and Martin Bobrik (mandolin) formed a bluegrass band in 2013. Over the years, Troop’s mountain music would blend with more local flavors, and thus, Che Apalache’s distinctive fusion sound was born. Despite being separated by vast distances, the traditional music of Argentina and Appalachia actually share many instruments, like guitar, violin and mandolin. Because of this, songs like “Red Rocking Chair,” which brings Argentinian strumming and harmonies to an old-time classic, seamlessly blend the genres together. You can catch Che Apalache at the Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts (2700 Capitol Ave.) on Friday, May 24. Doors at 6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35, and can be purchased at Sblentertainment.com.

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Before Disney rolls out their latest live-action makeover of one of their classic animated films, go see the bodypaint-covered version of Genie in the Broadway adaptation of Aladdin, which will be at the Community Center Theater (1301 L St.) May 15–June 2. With a book by Tony-nominated Chad Beguelin and music by the Disney Renaissance mastermind Alan Menken, the show offers both fans of the movie and newcomers a chance to experience the film’s music in a new light. Menken, who also wrote music for classics like Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Little Shop of Horrors, brings more to the Broadway adaptation than just music from the movie. The show includes three songs written for the film that were left on the cutting-room floor, as well as six original numbers that were written especially for the stage.

Our personal highlight is “Proud of Your Boy,” a moving number originally cut for time, where we get special insight on Aladdin’s relationship with his late mother. Tickets range from $35–$165, depending on seats. Matinees begin at 2 p.m., and regular shows start at 8 p.m. (7:30 p.m Sundays) For tickets, times and accessible shows, visit Broadwaysacramento.com.

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or such a seriously dedicated artist (or, um, sculptor—we’ll get to that later), Richard Jackson’s art is uncommonly comical. Walking into his exhibition at the Crocker was like walking into a vibrant dick joke. And as a Richard myself, let me tell you that Richards know their way around dick jokes.

I met Jackson as he was putting the final touches on the show that’ll be up for most of the summer. There are brightly colored bears pissing into a urinal—some of them have swapped their bear heads for urinals and are pissing brightly colored acrylic paint into bear heads.

There’s a Donald Duck-like character with massive steel breasts for eyes, and vivid paint that sprays out of—you guessed it—a large steel penis attached to a pump. But Jackson’s work, in all of its lightheartedness, is neither juvenile nor silly. There’s a massive steel sculpture of his head, cast in bronze, turned upside down, cracked and corroding with bright paint having spilled out the cracks in the skull. There’s a rendition of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte done by dipping thousands of steel beebees in paint and shooting them at a canvas. Jackson famously shies away from over-interpreting his own work, but his art seems above being crass on its own in a way that reflects our crudeness back at us, playfully of course, but also earnestly.

“People are afraid,” Jackson said. “Because the deal is you have to change your thinking about art. You have to change what you already pre-conceived about painting and what you think painting should be and what you want it to be, is it collateral or what is it? Nobody welcomes painting that looks like that. It’s too bad for them, but I think that to change the way people think in a capitalist society, you’re bucking a lot.”

Jackson graciously invited me to the Crocker for a look at the show before it opened.

I know that you lived in Sacramento for years, do you consider yourself a Sacramentan?

No. I’m from much further north. You know, my family was around Colusa county. My family’s been there for 135 or 140 years. Anyway, I lived in Sacramento, but no.

And you went to Sac State, too, right?

Yeah, but I didn’t finish.

So how’d you start as an artist?

I was an engineering student and back then you had to take drawing because everything was done in an analog style. There were no computers, so we had to learn how to draw everything out.

Richard Jackson | Pump Pee Doo, 2004–2005 | Fiberglass, pumps, buckets, acrylic paint, MDO | 11 x 20 x 20 feet Rennie Collection, Vancouver | Photo: Site Photography © Richard Jackson

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But your art is so playful. How’d you start to see yourself as an artist instead of an engineer?

I got kind of interested because it was the 1950s and there’s a whole group of people making art, but there was no money in it so I thought, “Hey this must be interesting.” Then I got interested in abstract painting. I got interested in Jackson Pollock. I went to New York in 1960 and looked at real art and I got interested in jazz and later on, of course, rock ‘n’ roll. I mean, the best thing about Sacramento was that it was close to San Francisco.

That’s where we always went, and I think growing up in California when there were only 15 million people instead of 50 [million] or whatever it is now, it was a pretty great place to be.

Do you think that growing up during that time was special in that it allowed you to sustain yourself with art in a way that maybe doing the same thing today would be more of a challenge?

I don’t know. Times are so different. Forty percent of all people want to be artists now, you know? It’s a completely different thing because we have generations of people who don’t do anything they don’t want to do. When I was 15, I was thinking that I’d better get my shit together because I could end up in a foxhole somewhere, and now you don’t have that pressure to grow up. I think also you should contribute something to, not the country, but the society. That’s a bigger thing.

Are you working on anything now?

Oh, I’ve got a shooting gallery—I’m going to make it look like my gallery, you know like the entrance and everything, and people will shoot at it with the paintball again. There will be a big canvas in the back of it and they’ll shoot it and make a painting and then I’ll try to make that sort of make commercial sense. And then I have a motor home that I’ve turned into a tank and there’s a digital helicopter that comes up out of the floor and flies around the room. And there are all these blowup sex dolls that are filled with paint all over the place like they were dead people. I’m having a hard time trying to figure out where to show things and who would show things because now we’re in a very conservative period and all this crappy painting, decorative painting has come back and it’s something that everybody understands is nonobjective painting because it hangs in motel rooms, so I don’t know whether I want to be involved in that atmosphere. So I’m trying to figure it all out, but I’ll probably show in Europe where they’re not afraid of art as much.

What do you think that it says about America that we’re experiencing this kind of lull in the arts?

My German friends say, “You live in an uncivilized country,” and I never really thought about it—until I thought about it.

Do you have advice for somebody who is living here and just starting out?

It’s different now because there was no money in it.

That’s what attracted me to it, like, ‘Hey this must be a bunch of interesting people.’ But now there’s a lot of money in it, so I don’t know. I taught at UCLA quite a while ago and I had really good students. So I kind of saw how some young people figure it out, and then I find others that sort of have a romantic idea about it. It’s a job. I think for younger people, they can’t make the change over from art school which is all fun and everybody is paying attention to you because that’s the nature of it. And then all of a sudden, you’re on your own and you didn’t learn that you get to make your own rules. And so it’s really the same problem that I had only there’s this huge amount of money in it now. It’s a different environment.

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It makes it hard, doesn’t it?

It makes it hard because success can be evaluated differently. It can be just by money or maybe you make something really great and nobody cares and then you have to figure it out.

And then that way, it makes it even more difficult because we’re using money-making potential as a means of measuring worth and when your art is made with that intention, it’s not really genuine.

Yeah, it’s like, “I’m just doing this for the money then I’m going to do something I really want to do and drive around in a Porsche.” It’s so crazy.

I mean, it’s a different time, but I don’t know. I think the real trap for the younger people now is that the art establishment is like other businesses.

I think that a lot of people are attracted to it who don’t want to change it but want to be part of it. So in my mind—I might be wrong, but in my mind—I would rather someone say, “Hey your art is a bunch of shit, we’re going to do it better,” you know?

I had read somebody calling you a Neo-Dadaist.

How do you feel about that?

I don’t know. I don’t think in those terms. And I think it’s important that there’s a division of responsibilities. As your job is to write about art, my job is to make it. Someone else’s job is to interpret and explain it and tell the public. So I don’t think in those terms and I’m not into art history because things are made in a different spirit now than they were. Nothing is made very well.

Are you talking about just things like iPhones and Toyotas and whatever, or are you talking about art being not made very well?

Everything. And I think art is just an example of that. There’s so much art being made, and you can’t treat it as if it’s important, because it’s not.

I think things are still badly made and you can’t preserve them, you can’t archive them and you can’t store them. It’s like you were saying, like an iPhone, you’re not attached to a phone. It breaks, you just get another one.

Can you talk about your process a little bit? It occurred to me that experiencing your art is a lot like walking into a crime scene.

You’re thinking, “How’d it get done?”

Exactly.

My favorite art is like that because you can see the thought process kind of like this. And basically, I guess it’s not non-objective. You know, there is an

Richard Jackson | Beer Bear, 2010 | Bronze, stainless steel 66 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 26 3/8 inches | Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

objective and if something is non-objective, why do it? Painting hasn’t changed since 1940. The only thing that makes painting look different is either that the materials have changed or the technique has changed. Otherwise, it’s just decorative and that’s not enough.

So in that way, do you consider yourself a formalist? I know that you said that you don’t like those labels, but …

But probably. Sure, why not?

Can you talk about this show at the Crocker?

You’re including the stacked paintings called Big ideas, right?

Yeah, this is a thousand pictures. Exactly a thousand are painted and stacked when they’re wet, and you know basically, the commentary is because I consider myself a painter more than a sculptor because there’s always paint involved in everything … When I taught at UCLA, I had to teach sculpture in a class called new forms or new genres or something pretentious. But I’m really a painter, so this is like a commentary on painting. Abstract painters have one idea and then they make a thousand paintings and that’s called a career.

There’s so much motion and action in your work even though it’s still. Do you see these as kind of proof of performance?

That’s exactly what they are. That’s kind of like an action. This is a residue or the evidence of it.

And what I try to do when I’m working, I’m not as strict as I used to be about people being around or watching because my idea is that, if you see it, it’s not as big a deal.

Richard Jackson | Big Girl (Yellow), 2008 | Aluminum, color 135 7/8 x 47 1/4 x 53 1/8 inches Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

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Explain that.

Well, I think what it does is, like, if you do something, then people have to imagine it. They have to use their mind to imagine how it happened or sort of investigate, because there’s a little story with everything. And the other thing is that what they really use is their imaginations. It’s like you pass a secret around a room, it always comes back bigger than it started Richard Jackson’s Big out; so somebody Ideas is now on view comes and sees the at Crocker Art Museum work, somebody (216 O St., Sacramento) doesn’t see the work through Aug. 25. For so they tell them about more info, go to it. It gets bigger. That’s Crockerart.org. my art.

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FRENCH HARDCORE TRIO BIRDS IN ROW WANT YOU TO COME TOGETHER FOR THE GREATER GOOD WORDS DANIEL ROMANDIA • PHOTOS ABOVE LAURE GHILARDUCCI

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veryone is looking for their group, a community to which they belong. It’s easier for some than it is for others, but everyone is looking for connection in some way. Music is often the force that brings many people together, and for the members in French hardcore band Birds in Row, it’s their band altogether that gives the trio a powerful sense of unity.

Birds in Row is made up of B., Q. and J. All of the band’s promo photos purposefully keep the members’ faces hidden or distorted. When asked questions, even when directed to one member, the answer comes from Birds in Row as a whole.

All of this isn’t an effort to be shrouded in mystery, but to have people focus on the music that the band creates.

“We don’t want people to think about who’s in the band,” Birds in Row said. “For us, it’s more important for people to think of the whole project and to listen to the speech that the project is trying to give.”

The band proffers the idea of the modern music industry as having a “boy band complex,” meaning that musicians and bands need to present themselves and their image to an audience before the audience has had a chance to get into the music. That’s why their ethos is the exact opposite.

Their music is always at the forefront. This is a band that also wants their audience to think, and that’s something that goes beyond having a message connected to their lyrics.

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FREE FRIDAYS 5 - 9 PM | MAY 3 - JULY 26 Cesar Chavez Plaza | 9th & J Streets Birds in Row doesn’t set prices for their merch. It’s more of a “pay what you feel is right” system where fans who choose to buy a shirt have to put their own value on it. The band says that the routine of how people buy merch after a show means those people don’t think of the impact that the shirt has.

“If you want to buy a shirt, you’ll have to come talk to us,” they said. “And you’ll have to choose the price—it’s basically a donation.”

Having the opportunity to make fans think is going to be easy for Birds in Row this year since the band has a long stretch of touring ahead of it. Their U.S. tour makes 27 stops and then heads back to Europe for another 46 shows—and that’s before the fall hits.

“When we created [the band], we were really into touring a lot and escaping from home,” they relayed. “That’s the basic dynamic of the band now. It’s like we’re always on tour.”

The band has more than their selling practices to get people to be more thoughtful than they’re accustomed to. Their latest release, We Already Lost the World, is a blistering halfhour of heavy, distorted guitars and throatripping screams. It also has a message that centers around community and the “greater good,” even if the band has a hard time truly believing in the latter.

“There is no way you can [introduce] a model or a scheme that is not going to turn into a dictatorship,” they said.

Plenty of vile events have come to fruition with the “greater good” in mind, according to Birds in Row. The band doesn’t really have its own solution in mind either.

“We all punch each other,” Birds in Row said.

“We all participate in competitions we haven’t started ourselves. We all tend to focus on ourselves and not on the community.”

Birds in Row wants people, a community, to try and build society together. They don’t know if that’s the best way, but they know that it’s better than the system we have now.

“The message behind all that we do is more like, ‘start listening to each other and start building together,’” they explained.

It’s a view that the band is lucky enough to share with the music scene that they are in. It’s no secret that punk music brings outsiders and, usually, believers in left-wing politics together into a sort of dingier hippie commune. A lot of punk circles tend to be open to anyone and everyone, so long as those who are invited are just as open.

“The fact that people feel like an outcast means they need to build a new community or need to find a situation that is more comfortable than the one they have now,” the band related. “If you’re a punk, then you’re going to look for punks and you’re going to start a community together.”

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This idea comes down to science and instinct for Birds in Row. Since we are pack animals, we are always looking for a group to which we belong, according to the band. That search for a group, especially for punks, leads to the DIY mentality, and Birds in Row are no exception.

Since being in a band has put them in the position where being a part of said band can be considered an actual profession, Birds in Row have thought about how they either give back to the world or keep control of their art.

The band’s merch-selling model lends itself to just that. More self-sustaining ideas have been thrown around amongst the band, including donating any profits to an organization they deem fit, or starting their own label to help foster their friends’ artistic endeavors.

Those DIY ethics are something that Birds in Row see all over, whether it be at home in France, out in Southeast Asia or here in the United States.

“The community sense in the United States is very strong,” the band said. “When we first landed in Oakland, California [on our first tour], we experienced a sense of community that is beyond what we thought was possible. You see people in distress and others will help them much more than in a comfortable society such as the one we have in France.”

All of this is nothing new to punk, but it’s becoming more and more the norm for the rest of the world. That’s what Birds in Row wants, and that’s the message they want to push out into the world.

That’s why their latest album is called We Already Lost the World. The fate of society as we know it is not in the hands of the common person; it’s in the hands of corporations, capitalists and greedy demagogues who value power over human life. Birds in Row believes that’s something that we can change.

All we need to do is come together. We are all stronger together than we are as individuals.

Until we get there, Birds in Row will be right in our faces screaming about how we can make it better.

French hardcore rebels Birds in Row headline an evening of extremely loud noise and social and cultural awareness Thursday, May 23 at the Boardwalk (9426 Greenback Lane, Orangevale). Opening the show are Listener, Quentin Suave, Enter: Villain, Death

by Fireworks and Cardinal Sin. Doors open at 6 p.m. for this all-ages exposition, and tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

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LOVELYTHEBAND, AN OVERNIGHT SUCCESS, YEARS IN THE MAKING WORDS JAMES BARONE PHOTO GUERIN BLASK

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o the casual listener, Lovelytheband may have appeared virtually out of nowhere.

The band formed in 2016 and just a year later, their single, “Broken,” with its almost diabolically catchy chorus, was topping the Billboard Alternative Chart.

“Everyday our minds are playing catch-up to what we’re doing,” Lovelytheband’s frontman Mitchy Collins admits over the phone from a tour stop in Omaha, Nebraska. “We’re waking up every day in a new city, being told where to go.”

However, the story of the band’s overnight success is somewhat misleading. While it’s true that things moved quickly for Lovelytheband, Collins’ path as a musician and songwriter has been a long journey.

“I feel like success is a glacier,” Collins says.

“People only see the top. They don’t see the bullshit you went through in the 10 years prior.”

Perusing the internet reveals a glimpse into Collins’ early forays into the music industry. A video posted to YouTube entitled, “Welcome to My Town,” features a Collins taking a tour of his hometown of Bedminster, New Jersey. There are interviews with his friends, his parents and even a visit to his favorite pizza place.

“You can kind of tell which kids are going to stick with it and be around and do music and get the hell out of here,” Brent Carpentier, a former bandmate says in the video. “Mitch was one of those kids that you knew one way or another, he was getting the hell out of here. He wasn’t going to stay here.”

“I knew I would make it work one way or another,” Collins tells Submerge over the phone.

“I never had a back-up plan.”

The video was made while Collins was in the band Oh Honey. The project, based in Brooklyn, dissolved in 2016 when he and bandmate Danielle Bouchard split up. Not long thereafter, Collins found himself in West Hollywood where he met guitarist Jordan Greenwald. He and Collins then hooked up with drummer Sam Price via Instagram, and Lovelytheband’s lineup was set.

“I knew this was going to be it. There was no wavering for me,” Collins says of his resilience in navigating the music industry. “I knew it was going to click one of these days. It’s like statistics, man, like getting up to bat. Eventually, you’re going to get one that connects. If you keep at it, and keep making shit you’re passionate about, you’re going to get one that connects eventually.”

Lovelytheband’s success thus far shows that fans are connecting with the band’s infectious hooks and moving lyrics. The group followed up their breakthrough EP, Everything I Could Never Say … with their debut full-length, Finding It Hard to Smile, in 2018. In the following interview, Collins gives us a glimpse into his songwriting process, discusses the surreality of being tagged as a mentor for the current season of American Idol and explains how Lovelytheband’s latest single, “Maybe, I’m Afraid,” sheds a light on the struggles on America’s LGBTQ community.

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How are you doing? You’re on the road currently, right?

Yeah, we’re currently in Omaha, Nebraska.

Speaking of, your latest single, “Maybe, I’m Afraid” is a beautiful track …

Thank you.

How’s the tour going so far?

Good, man. The show’s have been selling out. Meeting new people, seeing new places. It’s been good.

I’d gotten a press release that the video, which is also beautiful, raises awareness for the Beyond I Do initiative. I was wondering if you’d like to talk more about them and how you got involved, because it sounds like they’re doing some really good stuff.

We got involved because we were trying to be aligned with an organization that was supportive of the LGBTQ community.

We started chatting with them.

There were a lot of things that I weren’t aware of that go on in this country … Like, in 30 states it’s legal to be discriminated against—legally discriminated against based on the fact that you’re LGBTQ, whether it’s getting hired for a job, or living somewhere. The fact that’s a legal thing that can happen in 2019 is absurd to me. The fact that it’s still a conversation, that people can still get their hands in telling someone who they can or can’t love in 2019 … The fact that we’re going through this in the current state of America just baffles me. People are still stuck on a book that was written 2,000 years ago, and the government is telling you how to live your life is just backwards to me.

There’s just so much heavier shit that people should focus on; why do you have to meddle in someone’s love life? … There’s people literally fucking starving to death. I don’t know. I think there’s a lot wrong with this country right now.

Where have you been that’s new to you that you’ve really enjoyed so far?

Honestly, here in Omaha has been really fun. Really interesting.

I remember a lot of the Saddle Creek bands came out of Omaha, like Bright Eyes and stuff.

Yeah, I’m a huge Saddle Creek fan. I’ve been checking that stuff out today.

I’ve talked to a few bands on tour who love to hit up local record stores and go hunting for vinyl. Are you one of those guys?

I’m not that hip, no. I try to find good local food. I wish I was cooler than I am.

Before you mentioned, “eventually it’s going to connect.” Did you feel that right away when you started working with the guys in Lovelytheband?

Yeah, we hit it off pretty quickly.

When Julian and I were finishing up our first EP and then Sam got involved and we kind of put the final music to it all. Around then, before Sam joined the band, we’d signed to Sony/RED, and then Sam joined the band and literally a couple weeks later, we were on promo and then on tour. It was kind of quick. It was kind of like, “OK, we’ll figure it out” … They’re the best musicians I’ve ever played with, so it’s really inspiring every night, seeing them put a show together.

Other than your bandmates, you collaborate a lot with your producer Christian Medice and others [Samantha DeRosa also co-wrote the hit song “Broken”] in your songwriting. How is the collaborative process for you? Is it something you’re more comfortable with than writing alone?

I love collaborating, especially with Christian. He and I have been writing together for going on 10 years. I’ve done everything with him, so it’s cool to have success with your friends. He’s kind of like—I don’t know. He picks me up, straightens me out and keeps me focused. He picks up where I’m weak, and vice versa. It’s a good balance.

Do you normally bring songs to him in a sort of skeletal form, and he helps you flesh them out?

Every song is different, man. I’ll come at him with a full song, or we’ll just go in and pull something out of thin air. You never know where the magic is going to come from.

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I was going through the website, and I didn’t realize a lot of the stuff was still going on. It makes sense that the name of the foundation is Beyond I Do, because the right to marry is there, but there’s still a lot of work to do …

That’s the baffling thing. The fact that we have to say, “the right to marry” … Are you kidding me? The fact that that’s a sentence that we have to say out loud in America. This is the land of the free, I thought, but at what cost? It’s not free for everybody. It’s pretty free if you’re rich and white, but not for everybody else.

The thing I like about the song is that it seemed universal. I was wondering if it was written with LGBTQ issues in mind.

The song is about being scared of the good things in front of you and the difficulty of accepting the good things that are standing right in front of you and embracing them, whether that be parts of yourself that you’re scared to embrace, or relationships, or people, or opportunities. The song is painted in the light of a prior relationship with this person I was scared

to commit to. Relationships are hard. People always think it’s this fairytale thing, but they take work. It’s not an easy thing.

Someone said once—I forgot where I heard it but it stuck with me—marriage is not a word, it’s a sentence. It takes work. People get scared. People get comfortable, but at the end of the day, you’re going to be there and it’s good to embrace the good things in your life and accept everything about you—the good and the bad … If you’re busy focused on who you’re supposed to be, you’re missing out on who you actually are.

What was it like for the band appearing on American Idol?

It was wild, man. There’s a lot of things that have happened with this band that we’ve done lately where I’ve been, “Are you sure that you have the right band?”

That was definitely one of them.

Being up there, and not just being asked to perform on the show, but being a mentor on the show was just wild. I was like, “Are you sure that you have the right guy?” It was a really cool experience singing with those kids and meeting Katy Perry was cool, and Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan. We’re all really big fans of them. When I met Katy Perry, I’ve been a fan forever, and her being like, “I heard your song on the radio, and I looked it up, and I really love it.” I was like, “Wow. You did that?” … That’s amazing. When I met Lionel Richie, he gave me a big hug and said, “Your song is really powerful,” and I was like, “Oh my God, You’re Lionel Richie.”

Meeting those three was wild.

There are people in life that you know they’re really humans, but you only see them on TV … and then they’re complimenting you on shit you’ve done, and it’s like, “What?” It was definitely a trip to be there.

The show’s been on a long time.

Did you watch it as you were coming up as a songwriter and musician?

Yeah, I watched it as a kid, like in high school when Kelly Clarkson was on. Honestly, I haven’t watched it in a while. Then we got the call that we were going to do it, and I was like, “Oh shit!”

Did you ever consider going on the show yourself?

No way, man! I can’t sing! Those are shows for people who can sing. I lucked my way into this.

See Lovelytheband live when they play Ace of Spades (1417 R St.) on Thursday, May 23. Also performing will be Jagwar Twin and Flora Cash. This is an allages show, and doors will open at 7 p.m. For ticket information, go to Aceofspadessac.com or Lovelytheband.com. For more info on Beyond I Do, check out Beyondido.org.

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n the cover of According to Bazooka’s third and latest album, the Davis quartet cast a long shadow over a country road, distant and faced away toward a wide screen of luminous blue sky. Are they following the fading light, dirgelike, a second line band holding a jazz funeral for the sun? Or are they seizing a new day, catching tomorrow unawares and keeping the light for themselves like a newfound fortune? They don’t always leave things in the open for easy interpretation; the best answer is to be found of the album’s title: The Devil's in the Details.

Roughly six years ago, According to Bazooka (often abbreviated as A2B), emerged from the beloved Davis-based cover band Cold Shot, featuring the two principal players from that project, René Martucci and Richard Urbino. Comfortable with having five decades of pop music as their playground, they managed to graft the sum of their divergent influences onto a more personal blueprint of hooks and riffs, developing a fully original repertoire of songs running the gamut from blues, heartland rock and zydeco to polka, calypso and country—all of them steeped in the freewheeling spirit of casual experimentation that suffused the Northern California scene of the ‘60s.

Functioning as a duo for their first two albums, Easy Come, Easy Go (2015) and Where We Are Now (2017), the heart of A2B lies in Urbino’s deceptively carefree

along with the bouzouki, a Greek stringed instrument, that first lent the group their quirky moniker. In recent years, they’ve been rounded out with a rhythm section (Jamie Knapp on standup bass, Don Johnston on drums), adding a new depth and muscle into their genre explorations. On The Devil's in the Details (coming to Bandcamp on May 11), the leisurely, Caribbean-tinged “Lover’s Lane” easily drifts into the upbeat Tejano flavor of “I’m the One,” each song adding up to something that can loosely be called “Americana” in the best sense, not limited to any one regional palette.

A2B’s omnivorous proclivities stem in part from the core duo’s alternate roles as music instructor (Urbino) and sculptor/art teacher (Martucci). For the former, a broad student base produces the need to communicate stylistically across generational lines, and for the latter, the tinkerer’s notion that pop music, as a raw material, can be molded into wildly different textures. They’ve managed to find inspiration in everything from the San Francisco sound to public access polka shows from the Midwest; years spent playing the hits has made them unusually attuned to audience dynamics, and often the kernel of their creativity is a matter of tracing the shaking, swaying and singing-along of the crowd back to the melody that made it happen.

Whether raiding multiple eras and musical traditions, or pushing standard love song fare off-kilter with clever narrative twists, A2B still manage to be undemanding

and straightforward lyrics (with an underlying hint of caustic humor) and Martucci’s clean harmonies and jaunty (at times wistful) accordion work. It was the accordion,

and buoyant performers, ready to lively up any venue with their detailed (sometimes devilish) brand of bohemian pop know-how.

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I think I lost track of counting how many genres were represented in your music. What is the root of your musical adventurousness?

Richard Urbino: I’ve been listening to pop music since I was a kid.

I have other leanings—for blues guitar styles, for instance—so that affects some of the things we do. But I don’t demand that every song have some big guitar part in it. Stylistically, I’m just interested in whatever speaks to me in a given moment. Recently, I was thinking about how in the ‘60s, there was a San Francisco sound that I enjoyed, bands like Moby Grape. If you listen to them, you’ll hear a rock band, you’ll hear a country band, you’ll hear some jazziness, and the reason for that is, there were five people in the band and they were all writing, they were all bringing different influences into the group.

In our group, on our last album, I wrote all the songs, so I’m just trying to pick a bunch of diverse, interesting sounds. Our bass player plays a stand-up; she comes from a somewhat folky, somewhat jazz background. Don is kind of a jazz guy, but also a touch of pop, and Rene and I, if you take our history with Cold Shot, there was a lot of cover tunes, so we were exposed to a lot of different styles that way.

For the third album, was there a long repertoire of songs you had already written, or did you start from scratch?

RU: In Davis, we have something called The Performer’s Circle. We play there typically once a month. So, one of the challenges is to write and finish a new song to perform there. A lot of the songs started out that way.

René Martucci: The event is fairly close quarters. Most of the [people in the] audience are performers themselves and very focused on what’s going on. But they’re a very good listening audience. It’s how we’ve debuted a lot of our songs, and it’s a good motivator. We’ve been going there for about two years now.

RU: It can be a little intimidating, too. If you’re talking quietly in the back row, someone in the front row will shush you. But it’s a great place to get feedback. We presented a new song last weekend, and midway through the song, the crowd was singing along with it.

They’d never heard it before in their lives. It’s just interesting how if they’re feeling it, they’ll give it back to you.

René, with Cold Shot you were mainly on the guitar. How does switching to accordion change your approach?

RM: I think both instruments bring out different ways of writing.

And then there’s multiple ways to approach an instrument. I think of the accordion as a keyboard, but also as little organ because of how the notes sustain, how it breathes and has an expression to it. People have described some of our records as having “lots of happy accordion,” but there can be a real melancholy to the instrument, too.

How does one of your songs begin to develop? Do you start with a style you want to work with first, or is that added later?

RU: I start thinking of a vibe that the song should have. If I’ve already written something that I feel is going down one road, then I would just as soon never write another song that sounds too similar to it if possible. If one song is in four-four, then the next has to be three-four, or at least swing a bit. Maybe after a while I can return to a thought I used, but I like to keep it moving. The other thing is that melodies will come to me all the time. The way I listen to music, I like to approach it like a talent show or—say, when you’re watching a talk show, and the musical guest is someone you’ve never heard of before, and when they play, whatever genre they happen to be in, I think, “Is there a hook there?” Is there enough of a melody that I can remember later on, or something in the lyrics that will stick with me after the song is over? Or have I gone through a minute and a half and still have no idea what’s going on in the song—a song that has no stick-itiveness to it? I’m always looking for a melody that can come across and stay with you for more than a fleeting moment.

Through all of the genres that appear in your work, it seems to me that they’re all in some way “good living” music. Would you describe it that way, and if so, what does that term mean to you?

RM: Just sort of making choices and living in the world, dealing with the things that people deal with, life’s ups and downs. Music is the way we get out what’s bugging us—that little pebble in your shoe. Even if a lot of the songs are cautionary tales of heartbreak, sometimes you just have to laugh at the way things go.

RU: There’s always a touch of humor in it, without going for the obvious cheap shot. I don’t want to pick a subject matter or lyrics that are completely obvious. The humor is there if you want to find it, but I want it to be a little under the radar.

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Many of the songs on the latest album are upbeat, but have a slightly bitter tinge. Any inside jokes or stories behind the songs that the listener might not catch on to?

RU: Probably all of them. We don’t ever explain too much about what’s really going on. We have this recurring theme of “agonizing reappraisal.” There was this commercial back in the ‘70s—these two hippies talking about ‘60s music, and one of them says, “It was a time of agonizing reappraisal,” and that struck me as really humorous. It could mean that relationship you were in that just went south, or a Thanksgiving dinner-type situation where you feel like telling someone exactly how you feel about them, but instead of telling them point-blank, you’ll write them a song. They’ll either catch on or they won’t!

A2B has been described as having a particularly Californian (or Northern Californian) flavor. How would you describe this?

RM: Our Northern California influences are based out of San Francisco and Sacramento mostly—bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service.

These bands, like A2B, had members with different insights and genre-shifted with ease … Rock, folk, blues and jazz influences came into the songwriting as it does with A2B. Growing up in the area, we developed an affinity and love for these styles.

What does eclecticism mean to you?

RU: Being open to different influences and really listening. One day, I might have Stravinsky melodies going through my head. I’m also a huge Beatles fan. I was telling one of my students the other day that “New Rose” by The Damned is a great song, and they said, “I don’t see how can you say that when there’s a song like ‘Stairway to Heaven.’” But it’s not like that—there’s something in both songs that are great, they have different energies. You have to throw away all of your preconceived ideas you have about what the song is and find out what is actually in it that strikes you.

RM: When you talk about the Beatles, for instance, how many different genres can be found on some of their albums? When you’re listening to albums like Rubber Soul, you don’t feel as if every song has to sound like the last one. When a band, or even a type of music is just starting out, there’s freedom to experiment. Nobody’s decided that you can only do things in a certain way. Then as you go along, people have expectations for things to be done one way.

There was that recent controversy over whether a song belonged in the country charts or not. How strong do the rules really have to be? The average person isn’t necessarily making or using all these categories. As far as being eclectic, I think it’s the normal way to go.

I mean, I can understand liking something in a certain genre. But why limit yourself? Being flexible, opening yourself up to all these different flavors. It’s hard to imagine not wanting to do that.

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El Dorado Saloon Radio Memory Band, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Bad Barnacles, 9 p.m.

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Luna’s Cafe Swimming in Bengal, Art Lessing & The Flower Vato, 7:30 p.m.

Matchbook Wine Company Acoustic Sunset w/ Jimmy Ashley, 5 p.m.

Mei Wah Beer Room Blues Dues, 6 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Handle, Drop Dead Red, Be Brave Bold Robot, 8 p.m.

On The Y Phantom Killer, Spoon Me Softly, Attendees, 8 p.m.

Opera House Saloon Remix, Dark Signal, 9 p.m.

Palms Playhouse Sumaia Jackson Trio, 8 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge Silent Disco Launch Party, 9:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Placerville Public House Alex Vincent, 8 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub The Cheeseballs, 10 p.m.

The Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 9:30 p.m.

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The Side Door Nell & Jim Band, 7 p.m.

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20th & K Streets THIS Midtown Block Party w/ Will Clarke, Vince Lombardi, SubRhythm, Chango & Spiro Catalano, 5 p.m.

Ace of Spades Steel Panther, Roswell, 7 p.m. (Sold Out) Auburn State Theatre John Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

The Auditorium at CLARA Sacto Unplugged: The New Crowns, Xochitl, 8 p.m.

Bar 101 Bongo Furys, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Mike Blanchard and the Californios, 3 p.m.

Blue Lamp Cigarette Machine, Vinnie Guidera & the Dead Birds, Electric Vibe, House of Mary, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Sweater Zest, Roland Tonies, The Countermen, Turtle Rock, 7:30 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Kill Vargas, Igors, Short Trip, 7 p.m.

Cal Expo Country In The Park feat. Jon Pardi, Lauren Alaina, Locash, Midland, Tyler Rich, 2:30 p.m. (Sold Out) Crawdads On The River Remix, 7 p.m.

Crest Theatre Rosanne Cash, 6:30 p.m.

Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Double Shots, 7:30 p.m.

DOCO Sacramento Silent Disco on the Green, 7 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Sock Monkey, 9 p.m.

Faces NightClub Poolside (Episode 1) feat. Mike Paz, Bfunky, Analog Disko, Alex Hernandez, 3 p.m.

The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Fox & Goose The Blue Lights, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Cattle Club 30th Anniversary Extravaganza feat. 58 Fury, FMK, Ian Faith, Kepi Ghoulie, Phallucy, DJ Dennis “The Master Bastard” Yudt, 5 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 3 Cantaré Chorale of the Sierra Foothills: Tapestry of Love, 7 p.m.

Holy Diver Emo Night Sacramento Weekend Rager!, 7 p.m.

King Cong Brewing Co. PolyFunktion, 7 p.m.

La Cosecha Sueños Band, 6:30 p.m.

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

Luna’s Cafe Aaron Linkin & Ruby Fradkin, The Anderson Duo, Spring Fling, 8 p.m.

Midtown BarFly Technosaic w/ Lee K, Karl Mak, Amicus, Scottie Scribbles, 9 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Ukulele SingAlong, 11:30 a.m.; Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.; DNA Guitars Workshop & Jam feat.

Calvin Peters, 4:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides ONOFF, Amahjra, DJ Brooke Budduh, 8 p.m.

On The Y Brokenote Undertone, Nothing But Losers, Bungalow Bunnies Burlesque, 8 p.m.

Opera House Saloon When Doves Cry (Prince Tribute), 9 p.m.

Palms Playhouse Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, 8 p.m.

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

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Placerville Public House Matt Rainey & Dippin’ Sauce, 8 p.m.

Pleasant Grove Community Church Reconciliation Singers Voices of Peace: Sing Me to Heaven, 7:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Superbad, 10 p.m.

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

Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 10 p.m.

Red Museum Invasive Species (Album Release), Jon Raskin, Lotus Eater, 8 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Encore w/ Guest DJs, 9:30 p.m.

Riving Loom This Means Something w/ John Conley & Kevin Seconds, 8 p.m.

Sacramento Bike Kitchen Sacto Storytellers, LaTour, Black Yacht Club, 7 p.m.

SacYard Community Tap House An American Forrest, Margo Cilker, 6:30 p.m.

Shady Lady Swoon, 9 p.m.

Shine Proxy Moon, Liz Ryder, 8 p.m.

Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts @ B Street Theatre Sacramento Women’s Chorus Presents #FreeToBe, 2 & 7 p.m.

5.12 SUNDAY

The Auditorium at CLARA Vivian Lee “It’s a Mom Affair” (A Celebration of Family and Mom), 6:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. The Moves Collective, 3 p.m.

Crocker Art Museum Classical Concert w/ Andrei Baumann, 3 p.m.

Goldfield The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Life of the Afterparty, Occupy the Trees, The Honest, 7:30 p.m.

Harlow’s Talib Kweli, 8 p.m.

Holy Diver Combichrist, Silver Snakes, Esther Black, Oh The Horror, 6:30 p.m.

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

Mei Wah Beer Room According to Bazooka, 3 p.m.

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

Momo Sacramento Chaos Chaos, WornTin, 6:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Curtis Salgado, 3 p.m.

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

Red Hawk Casino American Young, 1 p.m.

SacYard Community Tap House DiscomBOBulaters, 2 p.m.

San Joaquin Delta College: Warren Atherton Auditorium Stockton Symphony POPS 4: Simply Sinatra feat.

Guest Vocalist Steve Lippia, 2:30 p.m.

Sol Collective Plugged: Open Mic & Open Jam, 8 p.m.

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

5.13 MONDAY

Blue Lamp Osatia, Anever, Gigantes, Royals Die Young,Without Hope, 6:30 p.m.

Cordova Performing Arts Center Rancho Cordova River City Concert Band: The Sword of Titan, 7:30 p.m.

Cosumnes River College Performing Arts Center CRC Orchestra, 7 p.m.

Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Haggin Oaks Golf Complex Golf & Guitars 2019 Singer/Songwriter Showcase, 6 p.m.

Harlow’s Starcrawler, Death Valley Girls, 6 p.m.

Holy Diver Ayleks, 7 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.

5.14 TUESDAY

Ace of Spades Yacht Rock Revue, 7 p.m.

Blue Lamp Lord Dying, Year of the Cobra, Ape Machine, Hauler, 8 p.m.

Cosumnes River College Performing Arts Center CRC Jazz Band, 7 p.m.

Crest Theatre Eels, Robert Ellis, 6:30 p.m.

Golden 1 Center Carrie Underwood, Maddie & Tae, Runaway June, 6 p.m.

Haggin Oaks Golf Complex Golf & Guitars 2019 w/ Cody Johnson, Mitchell Tenpenny, Love & Theft, Jason Michael Carroll and More, 6 p.m.

Harlow’s My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Curse Mackey, Killer Couture, DJ Dada, 7 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Raul Malo, 8 p.m.

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Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m.

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

5.15 WEDNESDAY

Ace of Spades Jai Wolf, 6 p.m.

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

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

Cosumnes River College Performing Arts Center CRC Concert Band, Sacramento Concert Band, Fred Morgan Big Band, 7 p.m.

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

Goldfield Koe Wetzel, Brotherly Mud, 7:30 p.m.

Harlow’s Front Country, Jessica Malone, Austin Quattlebaum, 7 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Keb’ Mo’, Jontavious Willis, 7:30 p.m.

Holy Diver The Faint, Choir Boy, Closeness, DJ Shaun Slaughter, 7 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m.

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

Luna’s Cafe Jazz Jam w/ Byron Colburn, 8 p.m.

Momo Sacramento Bourbon & Blues feat. Todd Morgan, 5:30 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

The Press Club So Much Light, Spooky Mansion, Tre Burt, 8 p.m.

Shine Speak Out! Sacramento Open Mic, 8 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 8 p.m.

Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club The O’Mally Sisters, 5:30 p.m.; Blue Boys, 8 p.m.

5.16 THURSDAY

Ace of Spades Mac Demarco, 7:30 p.m.

(Sold Out) Berryessa Brewing Co. DJ Williams Shots Fired, 5 p.m.

Blue Lamp Pounder, Gygax, Solanum, Trip Weaver, 8 p.m.

The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

Crawdads On The River Floating Piano Bar, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Jessica Malone, 7 p.m.

Fox & Goose Steve McLane, 8 p.m.

Goldfield Scott Pemberton Band, 7:30 p.m.

Holy Diver Ignite, Black Crosses, No Sympathy, Rise & Strike, 7 p.m.

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

Momo Sacramento Sam Eliot, King Dream, 7 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Eddie Honeyeater, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Jam Workshop, 6:30 p.m.; Open Acoustic Jam, 8 p.m.

Palms Playhouse Hot Buttered Rum, 7:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Moonshine Crazy, 9 p.m.

The Press Club Honyock, Failure Machine, The Anhedonians, Oh Lonesome Ana, 8 p.m.

Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m.

Theatre DeVille Derek Abel Band, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Collectivity, 9 p.m.

5.17 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Zoso (Led Zeppelin Tribute), The Outcome, Bad Mother Nature, 7 p.m.

Armadillo Music A Sombre Dream, 7 p.m.

The Auditorium at CLARA Midtown Vanguard Jazz Series: Citywater, 7 p.m.

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Bar 101 Samantha Sharp, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. DJ Phantom Rhythm Band, 5 p.m.

Blue Lamp Natalie Cortez Band, Sparkle Jet, 50 Watt Heavy, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Failure by Proxy, Soulwood, RepresA, Amongst Thieves, 7 p.m.

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

Cesar Chavez Plaza Concerts in the Park: Dreamers, Madi Sipes & The Painted Blue, Mastoids, DJ Eve, 5 p.m.

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

Crooked Lane Brewing Co. James VanDeuson, 7:30 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Dirty Blonde, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose According to Bazooka (Album Release), Love Lorn Trio, 9 p.m.

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

Harlow’s Xavier Wulf, Beau Young Prince, Reco Havoc, Marty Grimes, 6:30 p.m.

Highwater Cuffin’ Sacramento: All Thangs R&B Party, 9 p.m.

Holy Diver Carnifex, Oceano, Prison, The Last Titan, 6:30 p.m.

Lion’s Gate Hotel Banjo-Rama, 12 p.m.

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

McFarland Ranch (Galt) Another Family Affair: Day 1 feat. Dead Winter Carpenters, Smokey the Groove, Alyssa Mattson, Birds of Fortune, One Leg Chuck and More, 12 p.m.

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

The Nugget Campground (Placerville) Family Vacation: Day 1 feat. Kurt Travis, Andrés, Floral, Mookatite, The Seafloor Cinema, Demon In Me and More, 11 a.m.

Old Ironsides Pogues Tribute feat.

Whiskey & Stitches, One Eyed Reilly, The Pikeys, Bob Eastwall, 9 p.m.

Opera House Saloon Superbad, 9 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Eddie Edul, 9:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Placerville Public House Sactown Playboys, 8 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Pop Rocks, 10 p.m.

The Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino The Wiz Kid, 9:30 p.m.

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

River City Christian Church All About Spring Symphony Concert, 7:30 p.m.

SacYard Community Tap House Dey Trippers, 6 p.m.

Shady Lady A Tribe Quartet, 9 p.m.

Shine CommerceTX, Sara Noelle, Gillian Underwood, 8 p.m.

The Side Door The Kathy Kallick Band, 7 p.m.

Sol Collective É Arenas (of Chicano Batman), Valley Wolf, DJ El Indio, 7:30 p.m.

Theatre DeVille McKenna Faith, Crossman Connection, 8 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Regine Velasquez, Ogie Alcasid, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Mau, 5:30 p.m.; Harpdog Brown, 9 p.m.

The Trocadero Groundwave, 6 p.m.

WHIRED Wine Bar Mello Zink, 8 p.m.

5.18 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades The Strumbellas, The Moth & the Flame, 7 p.m.

Armadillo Music Heavypill, 7 p.m.

Bar 101 Nate Grimmy, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. The Nickel Slots, 3 p.m.

Blue Lamp Sandman, Shayne The Rapsmith, John Dough and J.O, The Ovaseeahz, Marlon Amedee, Kennedy Wrose and More, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Negative Sixxx, Prey 4 Reign, Nail the Casket, 7 p.m.

Cal Expo Fairgrounds Fish Family Fest: Bethel Music, Lincoln Brewster, Hawk Nelson and More, 4 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Monster Squad, Deseos Primitivos, Screaming Fist, Class System, Get Out, 8 p.m.

Crawdads On The River Ariel Jean Band, 3 p.m.

Crest Theatre The Kingston Trio, 6:30 p.m.

Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Austin Payne, 7:30 p.m.

DOCO Sacramento Silent Disco on the Green, 7 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Cartunes, 9 p.m.

The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Fox & Goose KC Shane, Nate Grimmy Theythem, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s The Purple Ones (Prince Tribute), 9 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Voices Of California: A Decade Of Entertainment, 2 & 7 p.m.

Holy Diver Faster Pussycat, Dead Fervor, SJ Syndicate, Cardboard Ringo, Teazer, 6:30 p.m.

The Ice Blocks Courtyard Garden Sessions feat. Tâches, 9 p.m.

The Library of MusicLandria Sac Unplugged feat. Khona (Molly Roy and Friends), 7 p.m.

Lion’s Gate Hotel Banjo-Rama, 12 p.m.

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

McFarland Ranch (Galt) Another Family Affair: Day 2 feat. Ideateam, Joe Craven & The Sometimers, DJ Zephyr & Spacewalker, George Napp, BTU Brass Band, PolyFunktion, Late for the Train and More, 10:30 a.m.

Momo Sacramento The Brevet, 6 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Ukulele SingAlong, 11:30 a.m.; Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.

The Nugget Campground (Placerville) Family Vacation: Day 2 feat. Eidola, Wolf & Bear, Vis, Noble Band, Find Yourself, Crecon, Dwellings, Catbamboo, The Never & Now, Yunger, The Countermen, Artisans, Worthy Goat and More, 11 a.m.

Old Ironsides Lipstick w/ DJs Shaun Slaughter and Roger Carpio, 9 p.m.

Opera House Saloon Kenny Frye Band, 9 p.m.

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

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Powerplay, 10 p.m.

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

Red Hawk Casino What the Funk, 10 p.m.

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

Shine Brotherly Mud, Fort Definance, 8 p.m.

The Side Door Iola Rose Band, 7 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Legends of Motown Tribute Show, 7:30 p.m.

Torch Club Loose Engines, 5:30 p.m.; Dennis Jones, 9 p.m.

5.19 SUNDAY

Berryessa Brewing Co. The Twilight Drifters, 3 p.m.

Harlow’s Robyn Hitchcock, Bill MacKay 7 p.m.

Holy Diver Conflict, The Linecutters, Brown Dynamite, Discovery, Suburban Paradise, Captain Cutiepie, 6:30 p.m.

Lion’s Gate Hotel Banjo-Rama, 12 p.m.

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

McFarland Ranch (Galt) Another Family Affair: Day 3 feat. CFR, Love Mischief, Rubbidy Bubbidy, 10 a.m.

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

Momo Sacramento Kyle Gass Band, 6 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall The Auburn Symphony at the Mondavi: Majesty, 3 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Alexander String Quartet 3, 2 & 7 p.m.

The Nugget Campground (Placerville) Family Vacation: Day 3 feat. What Rough Beast, Rob Ford Explorer, Big Sticky Mess, Smokey The Groove, Hypha, Sunsound and More, 11 a.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Delta Wires, 3 p.m.

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

Red Hawk Casino Buck Ford, 1 p.m.

Red Museum Sacramento Audio Waffle #54 Feat. Instagon, Nicotine Mantis, Filthmilk, Brother Steed, La Macacoa, Parousia, 12 p.m.

Rio Americano High School Sacramento Concert Band Spring Concert, 2:30 p.m.

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

Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

5.20 5.22 MONDAY

WEDNESDAY

Ace of Spades Hatebreed, Obituary, Agnostic Front, Prong, Skeletal Remains, 5:30 p.m.

The Colony Dandelion Massacre, Long Sought Rest, Jib, Brianna Carmel, 7:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Harlow’s Hieroglyphics: Third Eye Vision Anniversary Tour feat. Rap Noir, Stoney Hawk, Mike Wird, S.A.V.E. 1, 7 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 The Drowns, Mob Rule, Unsteady Heights, 8 p.m.

Ace of Spades Falling in Reverse, New Years Day, Ice Nine Kills, From Ashes To New, 7 p.m.

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

Blue Lamp Petrification, Ensepulcher, Denunciation, Wandern, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Mugshot, Samsara, No Home, Foot Clan, Mescaline Maniacs, 6:30 p.m.

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

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

Holy Diver Local Showcase feat.

Chonnie Gold, Emoflytrap, Donny-D, Zack The Villain, Elevtd, 6:30 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m.

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

Luna’s Cafe Jazz Jam w/ Byron Colburn, 8 p.m.

Momo Sacramento Bourbon & Blues feat. Tropicali Flames, 6 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub RepresA, Chaos Mantra, Dreams of Madness, 8 p.m.

The Press Club Emo Night Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Shine The Songwriter Circle, 7 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 8 p.m.

Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Adam Varona, 5:30 p.m.; Peter Petty & His Double P Revue, 9 p.m.

5.21 TUESDAY

Armadillo Music Under Ego, 7 p.m.

Blue Lamp Teenage Bottlerocket, Tightwire, The Moans, The Four Eyes, 7 p.m.

Holy Diver Local Showcase feat. 3D, Box, Espero, Your Local Cemetery, The Outside, Chariots of Sound, 6 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m.

Memorial Auditorium Tedeschi Trucks Band, Los Lobos, 8 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Beginning Bluegrass Club, 6:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Richard March, 5:30 p.m.; Matt Rainey & The Dippin Sauce, 8 p.m.

Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento Sacramento Valley Concert Choir: 50th Anniversary, 7:30 p.m.

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Comedy Folsom Hotel Saloon Standup Saloon Hosted by Jason Anderson, Mondays, 8 p.m.

Goldfield Pauly Shore, Frank Castillo, Sandy Danto, May 9, 7:30 p.m.

Harlow’s All Things Comedy Presents: Jesus Trejo, May 16, 6:30 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Kristen Frisk, Jay Wuck, Mike E. Winfield, Ellis Rodriguez and More, May 8, 8 p.m.

Michael Calvin Jr., Buddy Rahming, Miss K Kidd, Dennis Martinez, Hosted by Javon Whitlock, May 9, 8 p.m.

Cash Levy feat. Kente Scott, May 10 12,Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

All Ages Comedy & Magic Show with Justin Rivera, May 11, 1 p.m.

Manny Maldonado feat. Mike Betancourt, May 17 - 19, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Saul Trujillo & Friends feat. Taylor Evans, AJ DeMello, Emma Haney, Roman DeGuzman and More, May 22, 8 p.m.

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

Invisible Disabilities Comedy: “Show Your ID” Open Mic, May 8, 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 Road Warriors w/ Carlos Rodriguez, May 9, 8 p.m.

Steve Byrne, May 10 - 11, 7:45 & 9:45 p.m.

The Mother’s Day Comedy Showcase w/ Justin Rivera, May 12, 7 p.m.

Brad Williams, May 16 - 18, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 7:45 & 9:45 p.m.

Lance Woods, May 19, 7 p.m.

Two Dykes and a Mic, May 22, 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.

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

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

Shine The Creation District’s Stand Up Comedy 101 Class Graduation Show w/ Blake Smith, Tiffany Gold, Grace Loescherr and More, May 8, 8 p.m.

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

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

Late Week Leftovers Open Mic, Sundays, 8 p.m.

Theatre DeVille Comedy Crack-Up w/ Jay Rich, Shea Suga, Hosted by Jean Yee, May 10, 8 p.m.

Tommy T’s Capital City Comedy Show w/ Wendy Lewis, Corey Polster, Imin Love and More, May 9, 7:30 p.m.

Dear Mama Mother’s Day Comedy Show, May 10 - 11, Fri., 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.

The Rising Stars of Comedy w/ Jason Anderson, Morty Stein, Al Shuman, Jaqui Pirl, Aurora Singh, May 16, 7:30 p.m.

Tower Brewing Comedy Showcase w/ Saul Trujillo, Sergio Novoa, Jason Sohm, Becky Lynn and More, May 10, 8:30 p.m.

Misc.

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

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

21st & X Streets Sacramento Antique Faire, May 12, 6:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Arthouse on R Dark Core - Art of the Human Psyche, May 11 - June 2 Axis Gallery The Atman and The Ego by Jackie Dreamspell, Through May 26 B Street Theatre at The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts Mainstage Series: Holmes and Watson, Through May 26 Blue Cue Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Cal Expo Fairgrounds Law Tigers Sacramento Mile, May 18, 2 p.m.

Capitol Garage Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz, Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.

Dinner and a Drag Show, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.

CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) Sacramento Ballet: Fast Forward, May 16 - 19, 7:30 p.m.

The Colonial Theatre SacCirque Presents: The Sacramento Artist Showcase, May 11, 7 p.m.

Community Center Theater Broadway Sacramento: Disney’s Aladdin, May 15 - June 2 Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Crocker Art Museum ArtMix: Makeshift feat. Live Music, Art Installations, Dance, Creative Reuse Art with Upcyclepop and More, May 9, 6 p.m.

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.

Faces NightClub Midtown Love: A Celebration of the Midtown Community, May 16, 6 p.m.

Federalist Public House & Beer Garden Empire Arts Presents: Hamilton SingAlong, May 13, 6:30 p.m.

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

The Guild Theater Film Premier and Q&A feat. Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba, May 10, 8 p.m.

2019 Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival, May 18, 12 p.m. - 10 p.m. @ The Grounds Placer County BerryFest Strawberry Festival, May 11 - 12, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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

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

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

Leave Your Mark Sac Opening Reception for A Visual Conversation on “Change”

by Camer1, May 11, 6 - 9 p.m.

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

McClatchy Park Oak Park Farmers Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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

Miller Park Matsonian’s West Coast Invitational Craft Beer Festival, May 11, 1 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall William Shatner Live On Stage, May 11, 7 p.m.

Murieta Equestrian Center Western States Horse Expo, May 9 - 12 Old Sacramento Waterfront Old Sacramento Waterfront Chocolate Week, May 13 - 19 Papa Murphy’s Park Nitro Circus: You Got This Tour, May 19, 6 p.m.

Performing Arts Theater at Rancho Cordova High School Sacramento Contemporary Dance Theatre Presents: Out, May 11, 7:30 p.m.

Punch Line SacraFreakShow feat.

Side Show Performances, Live Music, Comedy, Burlesque, Drag and More, May 15, 7 p.m.

Raley Field Raley Field Brewfest, May 17, 6:30 p.m.

Roosevelt Park Sac Fry Fest, May 11, 3 p.m.

Sacramento Zoo Mother’s Day Brunch, May 12, 10:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.

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THE CHILLEST OF VIBES SOL BLUME FESTIVAL

Cesar Chavez Plaza • Saturday, April 27

WORDS OLIVIA MONAHAN PHOTOS MELISSA WELLIVER The weather is getting warmer, and the days are getting longer. That can only mean one thing: it’s festival season.

This year, one of the newest festivals to BLUME (ha, get it?) is Sacramento’s very own Sol Blume.

Now in its second year, the festival’s curators provide a unique spin on the traditional festival blueprint. Whereas you would normally see a lineup that focused on making you want to twerk, mosh, scream or a combination of the three, Sol Blume chooses to pivot in a new direction. In a world where chaos feels the norm, and we are constantly inundated by over-stimulation, music can often act as our brain’s temporary respite. Sol Blume is just that. A respite.

This year’s lineup was stacked with a beautiful balance of major headliners like Miguel and Jessie Reyez alongside up-and-coming indie stars like Jess Connelly and Summer Walker. While most of the artists would have fit well in that neo-soul/R&B/chillwave section of your favorite Spotify playlist, there was just enough hip-hop blended in that your energy was taken on a journey from amped up, to relaxed and mellow in a matter of set shifts.

“It was a magical day,” Sol Blume co-founder, Justin Nordan recounted when I caught up with him a few days after the show. “I think people are starting to understand what Sol Blume is all about. Positivity. Diversity. And the chillest of vibes.”

Magical is a fitting way to describe the day. Scores of early birds lined the sidewalks of Cesar Chavez in fevered anticipation as the day crested. Food trucks lined the block, acting as glistening aluminum beacons with wafting smells of fried chicken and carne asada filling the early afternoon air, making folks even hungrier to get in.

Entering into the main gates, you were greeted with bursts of color from the Sol Blume flower wall, the brightly SubmergeMag.com

colored banners fluttering in the perfect spring breeze and the technicolor sights and sounds of activation spaces sprinkled throughout the park—such as J.I.D the larger than life Sol Blume mascot, While the variety of visuals set the Sol Child, primed for the selfie, and the tone and the food sated your hunger, it Hella Good Company Lounge, perfect for was the carefully curated line-up that people-watching. In fact, hanging around set Sol Blume apart from its festival the activation spaces long enough gave counterparts. While so many festivals you access to a whole other kind of show. are three-day bangers with non-stop The kind where you were able to watch turn-up that leaves you exhausted and the great lengths some would go to in dehydrated, co-founders Nordan and order to be a part of all things Blume.

Fornati Kumeh set out with intentions “I watched a person sprint away to create a space that made you feel from a security guard at an impressive like you were in your backyard with a speed while holding their backpack like ton of friends, having a cookout while a football. As they rounded the corner your favorite playlist blasted in the of the Hella Good Company installation, background. They chose artists that we thought hope was lost but they struck a balance between larger-than-life Heisman’d on them and managed to headliners and obscure indie gems and escape,” recounted festival attendee staggered the performances to make sure Vanice Dunn. that festival-goers were able to catch “She had originally been caught each set, allowing attendees to discover sneaking in and was kicked out, but as many new artists as they could before she managed to weasel her way back settling in to watch their favorites—though in,” Brandon Shimabukuro (aka Soosh*E) in my opinion J.I.D, Tierra Whack and added as we discuss the events of the Masego were the all-around stand-outs. day. Shimabukuro is a member of the Tierra provided that much-needed Hella Good Company team, a group of burst of energy as the festival day curators responsible for some of the began to turn into the festival night. most unique pop-up events in Sac, The excitement that emanated off Tierra as well as one of the most popular as she took the stage was something activation spaces of the day. “When they you could feel whether you were two or figured it out, she sprinted through the 200 feet away. It was that excitement shit and ran past us to go hide in the that translated to pure electricity as ID check booth and offered the ID check the performance went on, with the set guy $100 to tell security that she was acting as the plug that gave the festival with them. When security got to her, she a quick charge. was sitting in a chair in the booth like Masego, who followed directly after she’d been working there all day. It was Tierra, has officially taken a spot in my by far my favorite visual.” top live performances I’ve seen this “So what you’re telling me, is that year. He had a stage presence that you people were basically willing to do usually only see coming from vets with some mainey stuff to be able to be 20 years in the game. In no easy feat, a part of Sol Blume?” I asked, as I Masego managed to completely engage laughed at his recalling of the day.

6,300 people for the full 45 minutes, “There it is. That’s exactly it. And created an entire song—the beat, lyrics, if you missed it? You missed out,” Shimabukuro replied. instrumentation—live in front of the

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audience, all while being so smooth that surely someone went home and made a Sol Blume baby after that set.

This is where the beauty of the Sol Blume curators really kicks in. With vibes from Masego settling the entire park into a mood, the artist who played after him was going to make all the difference. If they put another waved-out act, you

could lose the crowd. They would start to wander around, or could get distracted by shiny things, or be enticed by the vegan choco tacos. Masego was a pivot point that they masterfully navigated by putting with this hip-hop head’s reason for being there on the lineup: J.I.D. J.I.D is the future of hip-hop. He’s the perfect melding of turn up and consciousness. His quirky cadence and fast-paced energy gave the audience that second wind needed to ride out the rest of the festival.

Personal standouts aside, each artist offered energy, love, life and amazing crowd interaction. In fact, if you were meandering the festival grounds, you had a pretty good chance of running into the artists as they took time to speak with fans, take pictures and show their appreciation for the show.

In only its second iteration, Sol Blume’s potential is limitless. With little time for trial and error, Nordan, Kumeh and the entire team has managed to create a nearly flawless festival with an atmosphere of pure joy permeating the air. I would have to agree with Soosh*e— if you missed it, you missed out.

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THE SHALLOW END

SPOILER ALERT

NS AWKI H E I L MOL JAMES BARONE jb@submergemag.com

Have you ever heard of a Luddite? Sure you

on Instagram and Facebook talking about/

Ah, simpler times.

have. In slang terms, it basically means a

making fun of what happened in the episode that

When did everyone become—for lack of a

person is technophobic and rejects modern (see

hasn’t even aired yet, or a key character doing

better term—a dick about spoilers? I see it on

also: digital) improvements and standards. For

something phenomenal in Avengers: Endgame.

both sides. I see clickbait articles giving away

example, I would say my grandma is an unwitting

Seriously, folks,

one of those whiney people who publicly blasts

pivotal moments of TV

about how much you “don’t get the whole Game of Thrones thing,” and shame the rest of us, shut up, you cantankerous bridge trolls, let us have our simple, collective joy, OK?).

Luddite. She lives in rural Alabama, in a town

it’s getting out of

(OK, HBO, whatever)

so small they “don’t have the internet.” In her

hand. What happened

history, people posting

A while back I was complaining about old

defense, she’s almost 90. She doesn’t have use

to the excitement of

on social media acting

now, shame on you folks who can’t keep your

for a cellphone or a computer. That’s OK, because

waiting eagerly and

like they’re not spoiling

pie-hole shut about what happens on a TV show/

she gardens like a mofo and her cooking is so

patiently to go with

something, but are

movie. Shame. If you can’t say anything nice and

amazing it has caused grown men to break into

your friends to see

totally just humble-

neutral, don’t say anything at all. Some of us

song. What I mean is, I consider our elderly the

the latest blockbuster

bragging about seeing

really like surprises.

last true generation with Luddite tendencies (I

without knowing in

it before the rest of

could also talk about the Amish, those wacky

advance that so-and-so

us—and I see the people

age of a million memes? Avoid social media, the

off-the-grid people, cultists, etc., but I wanted to

dies, was dead all along,

that don’t give a shit,

internet in general, and maybe TV, until you get

people being the ones to talk during movies. But

What’s the best solution for us all in this

keep this short), but I am here to say one thing:

marries the bad guy,

and just enjoy watching

to watch that damn show or movie? Maybe my

At least they aren’t getting spoilers for literally

whatever? Or scheduling

people get riled up. I

grandma is onto something after all. Luddites,

every movie, show and popular book coming out.

your weekend around

see no winners here.

unite! Or not. They probably don’t care about the

Not that my grandma watches Game of

finally getting to watch

The problem is, I

Thrones (there is no amount I wouldn’t pay to

that episode of Grey’s Anatomy that you recorded

do enjoy the memes that are blossoming into

see that), but she’s definitely not turning on her

on DVR, without first hearing that, uh, so-and-so

existence like wet Gremlins after each episode of

phone or computer to see every single account

dies or gets cancer?

the last season of Game of Thrones (and if you’re

fate of the throne.

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