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dive in synonymous with summer Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com In Sacramento it seems like everyone loosely claims that it’s summer already when it’s technically still spring. Officially the Summer Solstice is on June 21, but I feel like the Concerts in the Park series starting at the beginning of May unofficially starts the mood and real feeling of summer. This time of year is synonymous with music festivals and summer series! From Sacramento, to Tahoe, to the Bay Area, the plethora of music festivities will never leave you saying, “there’s nothing to do.” I made a short list of just a few notable events this summer from recurring series to festivals for really any type of music lover. In our current issue we have even featured a couple bands that are taking part in festivals happening this June. Lodi’s A Skylit Drive will be playing every date on Warped Tour 2014 and plays June 26 at Sleep Train Amphitheater. Check out our interview with Michael “Jag” Jagmin starting on page 18. Also, local improv trio Swimming in Bengal will be playing at the Davis Music Fest on Sunday, June 22 at Delta of Venus. Learn more about their style of music starting on page 12. One thing that we don’t have a shortage of is film festivals in the Sacramento area. They’re great because when you want to beat that Sacramento heat, a movie is a great way to chill out. Check out our feature in this issue, starting on page 14, that highlights movies that will be shown at the Sacramento French Film Festival, going down from June 20 to 29 at Crest Theatre. Enjoy all of the other good reads in this issue too, and feel free to thank me later for putting together the list below of events that are not to miss! Enjoy issue 164, “the unofficial festival issue,”  Melissa

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Davis  Music Fest

June 20 – 22, Multiple Venues Davis, California (See page 10; Feature with Swimming in Bengal on page 12)

Sacramento French Film Fest

June 14 – Sept. 13,   Every Second Saturday MARRS Building, Sacramento

June 20 – 29, The Crest Theatre Sacramento (See page 14)

Fiesta en   la Calle

June 26, Sleep Train Amphitheater Wheatland (A Skylit Drive interview on page 18)

June 14 – Aug. 2, Every Saturday Cesar Chavez Plaza, Sacramento cofounder/ Editor in Chief/Art Director

festivals:

Hot Lunch   Concert Series

June 5 – Aug. 28, Every Thursday Fremont Park, Sacramento (See page 6)

Live at Lakeview

June 26 – Aug. 28, Every Thursday Lakeview Commons,   South Lake Tahoe

Warped Tour

Sactown Rocks

June 28,   Capitol Mall Sacramento (See page 6)

High Sierra Music Festival

July 3 – 6,   Plumas-Sierra County Fairgrounds Quincy

Sacramento Japanese Film Festival July 18 – 20, The Crest Theatre Sacramento

Outside Lands

Aug. 8 – 10,   Golden Gate Park San Francisco

Punch & Pie Fest

Aug. 15 – 17,   Multiple Venues Sacramento (See page 6)

Aftershock Festival Sept. 13 – 14, Discovery Park Sacramento

TBD Fest (ex-Launch)

Oct. 3 – 5,   The Barn  West Sacramento

Treasure Island Music Festival Oct. 18 – 19, Treasure Island San Francisco

Phono Del Sol

July 12, Potrero del Sol Park San Francisco

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The stream 7Seconds and Red Tape to Headline Punch and Pie Fest 3

Local MCs Poor and N.O.M.E. NOMADD Join Forces to Create SET

98 Rock’s SacTown Rocks Festival Set For June 28 at Capitol Mall

Hot Lunch Concert Series Heats Up Fremont Park on Thursdays Jonathan Carabba

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7Seconds

Local punk rock aficionado Sean Hills is at it again. His DIY festival, Punch and Pie Fest, is coming back to melt your faces off from Aug. 15 to 17 at various Sacramento venues. Now in its third year, Punch and Pie Fest is quickly becoming one of Sacramento’s most important recurring musical events, offering a more underground rock-y/ punk-y alternative to things like Launch Fest (which typically leans a little more indie) or Aftershock (more of a radio/ bro-rock fest). Confirmed headliners for this year’s Punch and Pie Fest are two legendary Sacramento bands: 7Seconds (who have a new record out on Rise, their first new release in nine years!), and Red Tape (first live show in more than four years and the 10th anniversary of their album Radioactivist on Roadrunner Records!). Also confirmed is Heartsounds, City of Vain, Suburban Threat, Setting Sons, The Shell Corporation, Bastards of Young (Hills’ band) and many others to be announced in the coming weeks. “The fest is a great way to bring everyone in the community together for a few days and it brings in a lot of new people who Sean Hils might not be that familiar with the local music scene,” Hills recently told Submerge. “Hopefully these people get more involved and continue coming out to some of the smaller shows that are booked year round.” Hills mentioned he’s looking forward to seeing every band on the bill, but that the headliners hold a special place in his heart. “7Seconds are one of my favorite bands and they were one of the big reasons I got into this kind of music in the first place,” he said. “Red Tape is one of the best bands that ever came out of this town and they were criminally underrated in my opinion. I hope that everyone comes out to see both of these bands tear the roof off.” Keep an eye out at Punchandpiefest. com or at Facebook.com/ punchandpieproductions for more band announcements, venue info, ticket info and more.

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Tesla

Two local MCs have joined forces to create a new group called SET. Poor (best known for his work with local hip-hop trio Tribe of Levi) and N.O.M.E Nomadd wanted to get together to create “that classic boom-bap, head-nod sound along with crazy lyrical wordplay in various styles,” according to an email from the group. Their Facebook page (just search “SET”) elaborates on their sound further: “Our goal with this project was to make something that sounded like Wu-Tang and Freddy Kruger raped each other and spawned a retarded bastard child we call SET.” The duo is planning on releasing their debut EP titled READYSETGOWIN on July 4. The one track they’ve shared with the public called “Underground” is absolutely on fire! Definitely one of the sickest beats we’ve heard in a minute (produced by Styles1001) with razorsharp lyricism from two confident MCs. To listen, head to Soundcloud.com/ readysetgowin/underground. We’ve played the track at least a dozen times, so we can’t wait to hear more! SET will be co-hosting Trapacana on June 25 with TL Miller at Badlands (2003 K Street).

Middle Class Rut

Local rock station 98 Rock and the “King of Beers” (Budweiser) are teaming up to throw a huge Sacramento-focused rock fest on Saturday, June 28 called SacTown Rocks. The fest will go down at the Capitol Mall in downtown Sacramento and will feature two stages, a beer garden, food vendors and more. On the main stage you’ve got some of Sac’s most notorious rock bands including Tesla, Middle Class Rut, Oleander, FallRise and Soul Motor (Brian Wheat from Tesla’s side project). The Local Licks stage will host some of the more up-and-comingyet-still-well-established local rock bands like Hero’s Last Mission, Element of Soul, White Minorities and Some Fear None. “We’ve had some great bands come out of Sacramento, and it’s time,” organizers wrote on their website. “Time to celebrate. Time to represent. Time to party.” Tickets are available now for $39.50, hit up Sactownrocks.com for more info.

If you work or live in Midtown Sacramento and can get away for an hour or two on Thursday afternoons, you really owe it to yourself to head down to Fremont Park (16th and Q Streets) for the Hot Lunch Concert Series, presented by Hot Italian and local promoter Jerry Perry. Every Thursday starting at 11:30 a.m., from now through Aug. 28, awesome local bands will be performing for free. The first two Hot Lunch shows are already in the books (Kepi Ghoulie played June 5 and Dog Party on June 12) but there Jerry Perry are still plenty to look forward to: James Cavern on June 19, Matt Sertich (of the Generals) on July 10, Hans! and the Hot Mess on August 7, just to name a few! To see the whole lineup, head to Facebook.com/hotlunchconcertseries. Pro tip: Don’t forget to call Hot Italian ahead of time at (916) 444-3000 to place an order for a panini or insalata plus a drink to go for only $10! Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

The Optimistic Pessimist As we age, our sense of taste becomes more refined. What we used to find disgusting as teenagers may now be quite delectable as adults. For example, you used to hate fish as a child and now you can’t stop cramming sushi into your mouth. You warmed up to that flavor over time and now find it highly enjoyable. Wine presents another fine example of this phenomenon. Nature doesn’t fuck around, so of course the grape is an amazing thing. In my book, the only bad grape is a seeded grape. Even in their fruit juice or Kool-Aid forms, grapes retained their deliciousness. I haven’t always been able to say the same about wine. When I first tried wine, I thought it tasted real funky. It wasn’t until college that I started to actually appreciate the flavor, and even then I progressed slowly. Like many people, the sweet stuff was easier to stomach, so I stuck with whites and rosés at first. Eventually, I moved up to their more pungent red cousins and never looked back. It took time to develop a taste for wine and it involved a lot of trial and error. If

Preface to a Purple Tongue

nothing else, you get drunk off wine from time to time and this is not a bad thing. If experimentation is your game then there really is no better way of getting to know wine than to go wine tasting. We in Northern California are lucky enough to be surrounded by several excellent regions for a bit of vino. Napa is an obvious first choice as its number of wineries boggles the mind and causes my liver to shiver in fear. It’s quite beautiful there and the weather can be very nice, but it’s also a bit snooty for my taste. Instead, try Healdsburg and its surrounding areas for a few nice surprises. Closer to home we have the Lodi area, which looks like a dirt patch but manages to come up with some tasty Zinfandels. I have heard great things about the El Dorado Hills region but unfortunately I haven’t been. I’ve even heard cries of Livermore enough that they should start calling the town Liverless. All of these can be fun places, but for my money (or lack thereof), the Amador Valley is the place to be. Amador has the beauty of

Napa, the civility of Healdsburg, and wine that is as good or better than any of them. Tasting is usually free in Amador, which is not the case in Napa or Healdsburg, and they will usually let you re-taste whatever you like. The wineries are cool like that in Amador. You won’t be dealing with some sucka-ass sommelier with high opinions of him/herself. Instead your wine will more likely be poured by the owner, winemaker or friends and family of one or the other. Which is to say, no one in Amador is going to try to make you feel stupid if you don’t know shit about wine or how wine tasting works. Of course, they will appreciate it if you do. The good news for those eager to learn is there really isn’t much you need to know to avoid looking like a total dipshit. As with most public places, you should avoid fighting, breaking things and vomiting wine all over the place. Drink what you like and pour out what you don’t into the buckets on the counter. Don’t forget to eat crackers, pretzels, cheese or whatever the winery has laying around for you. You need to cleanse your palate between different wines so you can

Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com taste the difference between them and you also need to eat something to soak up all that booze, ya lush. Once you got all of that, the real fun can begin. You can hold your glass up and look at the wine in the light if you want, but that shit gets old pretty quick when you are tasting, so do what ya like! Once you are done staring at it, swirl the wine around lightly to aerate it and open up its flavor. Take a sip and savor it. Remember if you like it and move on to the next. Repeat the process until you are finished with your flight. Buy a bottle of that good shit if you want or say thanks and go to a different winery and repeat. Easy peasy! Hopefully you haven’t been driving like a drunk lunatic all day. Getting a limo or car service to take you around is pretty sweet, but it can be expensive unless the whole gang comes along. If nothing else you better get your drunk ass a room near the last winery you go to and sleep it off before you kill us all on the freeway. Keep yourself alive long enough and maybe you’ll eventually become a full-fledged wino! Don’t worry, you can thank me later!

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Grab a skateboard and gather the crew in honor of National Skateboarding Day on Saturday, June 21. Shred cement bowls or grind metal rails throughout a variety of Sacramento skate parks like the 28 th and B streets warehouse near the river access point, or join the daytime skate session at Granite Park on Ramona Avenue near Power Inn. The Colony and Café Colonial (3520 Stockton Boulevard) will then host a 12-band afterparty at 6 p.m. for $10 and boasts a variety of genres like hip-hop, reggae, punk and metal. Performances scheduled include The Storytellers, Peace Killers, SSA, Class System and more. Facebook.com/cafecolonialsacramento for more info.

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Grub on gyros, skewers, tacos and pies during the second-annual Fourth on the Field event hosted right on Raley Field’s baseball diamond. This Independence Day celebration is an all-ages friendly affair with tickets priced at $5 for kiddies, $10 for 12 years-and-up or $15 for VIP-status in the Solon Club section. A variety of food trucks are set to align the field’s warning track, enough to keep any July 4th appetite satisfied. Trucks include: Gyro King, Slightly Skewed, Chando’s Tacos, An Honest Pie, Mama Kim On the Go and the list continues to grow. Nunchuck Taylor will provide the live music entertainment with their renditions of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” or even some Lady Gaga. Then, cap the night off on the grass to a Raley-style firework show in the sky paired with classic, patriotic tunes. ‘Merica! More info can be found at Raleyfield.com/fourthonthefield.

Zombies, vampires and all things frightening are definitely a yearlong affair for the organizers of the annual Sacramento Horror Film Fest. Although October is months away, these ghoulish guys and gals aim to provide its cult followers with a taste of horror-inspired dance, blood-soaked burlesque, sideshow performances and more with the Love Horror Short Film Festival at the Colonial Theatre on Friday, June 27. This event will also host the inaugural horror host challenge, where four hopeful masters of ceremonies compete for the chance to run the show at this year’s SHFF. Tickets to the Love Horror Fest cost $15 and not only include screenings of some horrific short films, but also a sneak peak of film entries from the 2014 SHFF Filmmaker Challenge with a grand prize of $300 for best film. Sachorrorfilmfest.com will offer more information.

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Hear over 54 bands performing between 11 venues packed into one weekend at the Davis Music Festival. The chaos begins on Friday, June 20, and runs until Sunday, June 22 with tickets priced at $22 for presale or $25 at the door. Kill the Precedent, Horseneck, The Lurk, Charles Albright and Darlingchemicalia name a fraction of the weekend’s lineup that stretches from venues like Little Prague Restaurant to Third Space and also RockBand University. This year, the Davis School Arts Foundation and Davis Senior High School Blue and White Foundation also benefit from the festival with a portion of the proceeds donated to each organization. Head to Davismusicfest.com to gather more details. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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Methodical Improv

East-meets-jazz improvisational trio Swimming in Bengal releases new album Words Nur Kausar • photos rik keller

yes peripherally on each other, ears perked, a trio starts a meditative tune with the strumming of what sounds like a sitar but is actually Jed Brewer’s guitar, specially constructed to mimic the eastern instrument’s twang. Brewer is accompanied by the methodical drumming of Alex Jenkins’ tabla and either a sharp interruption of saxophone or a deep rumble from a standup bass, both played by Tony Passarell, adding a jazz element to the improvisational piece. Pieces are a more accurate description than songs for what makes up Swimming in Bengal’s Volume 1 album. Don’t expect to ever hear the three tracks played live. In total improv fashion, the trio plays whatever it feels, when it can, where it can, without notes. “Sacramento is historically a music/jazz/ improv city,” says Jenkins. “We have a deep and rich history of improv that dates back to the 1930s. You can find jazz/improv music every night of the week in Sacramento.” Chances are, wherever you find that improv, you’ll find Jenkins or Passarell too— and less frequently but just as passionately, Brewer—as all three play in multiple bands, ensembles and jam sessions throughout the city, in churches, cafes, bars, music fests and local art galleries.

Jenkins has been playing drums for more than 25 years and tabla for 12 years. He took two long music study trips to India and attended the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California, for five years. He now teaches “everything drums” and has been a full-time musician since 2003 (often with Passarell) in The Alex Jenkins Trio, The Nada Brahma Music Ensemble, Ross Hammond, Inertia, The Alex Jenkins Sound Immersion and other bands, almost all part of the improv scene. In 2005, he won a Sacramento Music Award for his work on the self-titled Daisy Spot record release, and another in 2008 for his work with the Ross Hammond Trio. “It’s better than 90 percent of the crap out there,” Jenkins says about why he loves and plays improvisational music. For Passarell, the love comes from his musical interests and influences. These include Carnatic jazz, a fusion of Indian Carnatic music with American jazz that both utilize improv; jazz pianist Vijay Iyer; and Steve Coleman and his concept of M-Base, an idea of creating music that relies on improv and has “a very angular and snake charm-y” sound, according to Passarell. He named several musicians across the country who have mashed eastern sounds with modern jazz, so that’s what Passarell was

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hoping to do when he first came across Brewer. “A few years ago, my wife was teaching at a school and Jed was teaching at the same school (he teaches second grade) and we had a ton of mutual musician friends but had never met somehow,” Passarell says. “He said he had gotten this special gourd/sitar/guitar and I had heard his band San Kazakgascar that has a similar sound I was looking for. I knew Alex Jenkins for years so I introduced those guys and it was just one of those things where we got in a room and started playing together and it sounded good.” Out of this initial session came Swimming in Bengal, for now an experimental collaboration with no specific musical direction. “All bands are whatever the musicians bring to them stylistically,” Passarell says. “Because Alex and I are full-blown improvisers, we start at zero and end at zero. You’re using whatever chops you have and whatever you can bring to the table to hook people. It’s already a huge part of Indian music, like Ravi Shankar. He was often improvising.” Passarell has been part of the music scene since the early ‘70s, starting with jazz but moving into early punk in the Bay Area and Northern California where he grew up. “My first band that people actually liked was Hunting Game. We used to tour around, had a record, got some airplay, so I kind of got away

from jazz in the ‘80s and then went back in late ‘80s. I never stopped listening to it, though.” Brewer, meanwhile, grew up playing guitar and has been part of several bands in Sacramento since the early ‘90s, even starting a co-op record label, Lather Records, to release his and friends’ music. It’s a low-profile operation, he says, with no recording studio and bands paying for their releases; but with faster and easier ways of sharing music online, the bands have grown their local following easily through the small label. Brewer’s band San Kazakgascar also has a quasi-Middle Eastern and Indian-inspired sound, something that appealed to Passarell. The differences for Brewer, however, took some time to get used to—where San Kazakgascar is loud, lyrical and structured, Swimming in Bengal is not any of those things. “It was challenging for me at first, but I’m getting more used to it,” he says of improvising. “We’re not doing anything authentic, just approximating those sounds and doing our take on it. [Jenkins and Passarell] come from a jazz background and I come from a more underground rock background. Sometimes we’ll do a show and I won’t have seen Alex for months and we’ll meet up and say hi and we’ll just start playing.” Swimming in Bengal’s upcoming appearance is at the Davis Music Festival, a place dear to

“All bands are whatever the musicians bring to them stylistically, because Alex and I are full-blown improvisers, we start at zero and end at zero. You’re using whatever chops you have and whatever you can bring to the table to hook people. It’s already a huge part of Indian music, like Ravi Shankar. He was often improvising.” – Tony Passarell, Swimming in Bengal Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

Brewer, as a UC Davis alum and former employee at the Davis-based community radio station KDVS. “When I was a teenager, I really liked thrash metal so I wanted to play that and then I started finding out about other music when I went to school at Davis and worked at the radio station,” he says. “Even years after I worked there, a lot of great DJs have turned me on to music that influences what I play now. They really opened up my eyes to the weirdo music that’s out there compared to all commercial stuff.” His favorite bands and influences include Sonic Youth, Metallica, Camper van Beethoven and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. As for Indian music, Brewer never grew up listening to it, but it’s always affected him. “It’s minor sounding, and I like the chromatic nature of it too,” he says. “Something about the scales and melodies has always really attracted me. There are rock bands that have a little of that in it.” The trance-like droning music that comes out of Brewer’s guitar suits the style perfectly, though not everyone may have an ear for it. “We are pretty straight with the shows— sometimes we’re sitting, sometimes we’re standing,” he says. “You have to really like the music. It’s not really a show-show. You won’t see us jumping around. People with ears more geared toward instrumental like it, so it’s a small group but enthusiastic.”

Passarell separately adds that an audience hasn’t really been built for what Swimming in Bengal plays, but events like the Davis Jazz Festival have been embracing of their style. “A lot of it is just exposing people to stuff and seeing how they react to it,” he says, adding that this is much easier to do than it was 30 years ago. “That’s a big difference between the ‘70s, ‘80s and now, being able to produce and promote your own stuff, it’s a totally different world. You could barely afford to do anything back then. It was a lot of money. That stuff’s coming around, for bad musicians and good ones. It’s kind of great though because people can decide if your stuff is good or bad.”

With the current Swimming in Bengal album out with Lather Records, and another on the way in a few months, listeners can decide for themselves whether the improvisational East meets jazz sound is right for them. Check out Sanskazakgascarsolo.bandcamp.com to order the CD or download the album. You can see the band live as part of the Davis Music Festival on June 22. The festival will feature 54 bands playing in 11 venues from June 20–22. For more info, go to Facebook.com/davismusicfest.

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Inside (À l’intérieu)

Queen Margot (La Reine Margot)

Chinese Puzzle (Casse Tete Chinois)

Cinephile Meets Francophile

The Magnifique World of the Sacramento French Film Festival Words Jenn Walker

omance between a philosophy professor and a hairdresser, or a 60-year-old dentist and a computer instructor half her age; a 60-year-old former beauty queen who hits the road for an epic road trip; and a judge who finds out not only is she pregnant, but that the father is a murder suspect—you can expect a lot of the unexpected at the 2014 French Film Festival, now in its 13th year and happening June 20 – 29 at the Crest Theatre. The films in this year’s celebration of French cinema explore subject matter ranging from adolescence and young pregnancy to mental illness, self-discovery, and, of course, love. According to Cecile Mouette Downs, the festival’s executive and artistic director, this year’s selection is one of the strongest yet, and includes 12 of the most acclaimed and awarded premiere films, as well as three classics: the 1970 fairy tale film Donkey Skin (Peau D’Ane), the 1994 historical drama Queen Margot (La Reine Margot), and the 1942 comedy thriller The Murderer Lives At Number 21 (L’Assasin Habite Au 21). There will also be a screening of short films (complete with petit déjeuner, aka a French breakfast), as well as two late-night films—an erotic thriller and a horror film, both of which have gained high-caliber reputations in their respective genres. French cinema fans will recognize names like Audrey Tautou, Romain Duris, Juliette Binoche and Roman Polanski. To top it off, Laetitia Dosch, the star of the film Age of Panic, is rumored to be attending the festival and presenting the film on the first weekend (June 20-22). We’ve highlighted a few films featured in this year’s festival.

Laetitia Dosch

Inside (À l’intérieur)

2007 | Horror Saturday, June 28 • 11:45 p.m.

Considered one of the scariest, most gruesome French horror films out there right now, À l’intérieur features the rare female killer. The plot is a morbid one. While a pregnant widow is waiting for a ride to the hospital from her mother so doctors can induce labor, a mystery woman (a frightening Beatrice Dalle) shows up at the door with plans to perform the procedure herself and take the baby. Critics give À l’intérieur an 83 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, waxing poetic about what a “damn good” horror film it is, and even toying with the thought of labeling it a classic. “Leave it to the French to make Suspiria look like a ‘30s drawing-room comedy,” one critic commented, referencing the Italian cult classic that has made numerous Greatest Horror Films of All Time lists. If you fancy scissors and guts in your horror movies, this is a not-to-miss.

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Chinese Puzzle (Casse Tete Chinois) 2013 | Romantic Comedy Sunday, June 29 • 3:15 p.m.

Calling all Audrey Tautou fans! Here is yet another film to settle your fix, taking place this time in New York City’s Chinatown. This romantic comedy concerns Xavier (Romain Duris), a writer who may just need a little amour to clear up a bad case of writer’s block after the mother of his children moves from Paris to New York, taking their children with her. To be closer to his kids, Xavier follows suit and winds up living in Chinatown. Suddenly Xavier finds himself in the company of a former roommate and a former lover. “I came to New York to be near my kids, who I had with a Brit, who I lived with for 10 years. I had a baby with two lesbians. I married a Chinese woman to become an American. And life’s not complicated?” Xavier asks in a poignant scene. Casse Tete Chinois is, in fact, a followup to Cedric Klapisch’s films L’Auberge Espagnole and Russian Dolls, which follow the same characters. (No, you don’t need to see the previous films in order to follow this story line.)

Attila Marcel

Queen Margot (La Reine Margot)

Attila Marcel

Considered a timeless classic, La Reine Margot is a (very) ‘90s adaptation of the historical novel written in 1845 by Alexandre Dumas. It traces the life of Margaret of France, aka Marguerite de France or Marguerite de Valois, a Catholic who reigned as France’s queen during the 16th and 17th centuries. From poisonings to beheadings, this true story is anything but a happy one, recreating the bloodstained history of France during the battle between Catholics and Protestants for political power—notably the infamous St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of 1572. Entangled in the plot is Margaret’s personal life, starting with her arranged marriage to Henri de Bourbon, the king of Navarre and a Protestant, in order to make peace between the Protestants and Catholics, which is (of course) followed by a love affair with the soldier La Mole. This movie won the Jury Prize and Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as five César Awards. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, SFFF will present the digitally restored director’s cut of this film, honoring the film’s maker and stage director Patrice Chéreau, who passed away last year.

Some of the best movies are those that walk the line between reality and a dreamlike world sprinkled with oddities and hints of old Paris. Attila Marcel smacks of a magical realism that is found in French films like Amelie. “It’s not Lord of the Rings, it’s not a totally fantastic universe,” says leading actress Anne Le Ny. Attila Marcel is about a dreamy young pianist who became mute after his parents died in a mysterious accident when he was just two. Suspecting his father was violent with his mother, he suppresses his emotions and treats his parents’ deaths as a dark secret. This suppression makes him a bit childlike. Things take a sudden turn when he meets one of his neighbors, a strange woman (Ny) whose home is overrun with vegetable plants. She is rough, tough, outspoken, very eccentric and connected to nature, Ny says of her character. Directed by Sylvain Chomet, who also directed the 2010 animated drama The Illusionist (L’illusionniste), this film is about self-discovery.

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Camille Claudel 1915 tells the true story of Camille Claudel, the renowned French sculptor and artist who became the protégé, mistress, and muse to Auguste Rodin (another renowned French sculptor). Around the age of 50, Camille (played by award-winning Juliette Binoche) is admitted into an insane asylum at the urging of her brother, the poet, playwright, and diplomat Paul Claudel. The film traces Camille’s despair, convinced that she is not insane and constantly awaiting visits from her brother with hopes he will take her away from the asylum. The story is based on the letters exchanged between Camille and her brother throughout her years spent there. Camille Claudel 1915 tells Camille’s story in a strikingly raw and emotional way. In fact, the film itself was directed in an asylum in France, using its doctors, nurses, and patients as supporting cast members.

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Stranger By The Lake (L’Inconnu Du Lac)

2013 | Erotic Thriller Saturday, June 21 • 11:35 p.m.

Sometimes, it seems we humans are blindly attracted to what’s in our worst interest. Exploring that concept, L’Inconnu Du Lac takes place on a lakeshore in southern France frequented by gay nudists. The beach also serves as a favorite hangout for the main character Franck, a thirty-something handsome gay male who is constantly scouting the shoreline during the summer. On one afternoon, he meets and is immediately attracted to Michel. The next day, from behind the trees, Franck sees Michel murdering a lover in the lake. Blinded by passion, despite what he secretly knows, Franck is even more infatuated with the killer and seeks a relationship with him, even after police begin an investigation into the death. The film received a 94 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, four stars from Michal Oleszczyk on RogerEbert.com, eight César nominations this year (including Best Film and Best Director) and is praised by critics as a sexy and arresting erotic thriller.

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This film tells the story of sailor Yann Kermadec (played by François Cluzet), who replaces his sailing cohort in the Vendée Globe. Yann’s prospects of winning the three-month roundthe-world yacht race are looking good, until he discovers he’s not alone on the ride. Somehow a teenage stowaway managed to sneak onto the boat when Yann landed on the Canary Islands to repair a damaged rudder. Since the Vendée Globe is a solo race, having a passenger onboard immediately disqualifies Yann. Lacking options, Yann has no choice but to share his journey with his unexpected guest. In doing so, he also has a change of heart. A debut for French cinematographer Christophe Offenstein in a directorial role, this film recreates the harshness of international sailing competitions while revealing the spectacular views and extreme conditions of the untamed sea.

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Their Time in the Sun A Skylit Drive comes into their own on their latest album and gears up for another Warped summer Words James Barone

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ummer. It’s as if just the sound of the word can make you feel young again. It conjures memories of skinned knees, camping, day trips to the lake (any lake, just pick one) or endless carefree hours at the beach. Fun? You bet, but all that running around, traveling and carousing can also be exhausting. Just ask Michael “Jag” Jagmin, vocalist for Lodi, California’s A Skylit Drive. This summer, he and his band mates will be taking part in another great seasonal tradition, the Vans Warped Tour, which turns 20 in 2014. Since 1995, the Vans Warped tour has become synonymous with summer, especially for bands and fans of punk, hardcore, metalcore, emo and any and every hyphenated-hybrid thereof, and it’s not difficult to see why. The tour brings a veritable army of bands to fields, parking lots and amphitheaters all over North America. This will be A Skylit Drive’s third stint on punk rock’s most popular traveling circus. The band had recently hit the road in support of their latest album, Rise, which was released in September 2013. Their fourth full-length album, Rise was something of a coming of age for A Skylit Drive. It boasts a bolder sound than their previous efforts thanks in part to a more painstaking writing and recording process, according to Jagmin. The band first entered into pre-production with Jim Wirt (Hoobastank, Incubus, Something Corporate) as well as Mitchell Marlow and Kit Walters, who worked with A Skylit Drive on their debut Wires…and the Concept of Breathing before nailing down the finished product with producer Cameron Mizell at Chango Studios in Arizona. Jagmin says this was the first time the band really had the opportunity to take their time recording an album, and he was really pleased with the results. In the past, however, writing and recording had to be done at breakneck speed. “Everything is so fast-paced, there’s not a lot of planning that goes into it,” Jagmin explains. “You put out an album, and a year later the label is knocking down your door for the next one. And it’s like, what’s the game plan? And they’re like, you’re going here for a month, and that starts in three weeks. So we’ve got three weeks to write and a month to record, but we’re probably going to be writing that month in the studio as well. That was usually how it went.” With a few successful albums under their belts, A Skylit Drive felt confident enough to speak up about how they wanted to do things. “We put our foot down and wanted to take our time,” Jagmin says. “We weren’t promising when this album was going to come out. We wanted to make the right album…just give us the time, and we’ll give you the album. Things finally went and operated the way we wanted them to.” Determined to take a more methodical approach to recording, A Skylit Drive left Fearless Records, which put out the band’s previous two albums, and returned to Tragic Hero, which released their aforementioned debut. In the following interview, Jagmin speaks more about Rise and the band’s return to Tragic Hero and also waxes eloquent about the trials and tribulations of having so much fun in the sun on Warped Tour.

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Was taking your time in recording something you brought to Tragic Hero but weren’t sure how they’d take it? No, that was one of the biggest draws. Fearless is a powerful label and an extremely capable label, but our biggest concern with this album—being our fourth fulllength, and we’re not a new band anymore—we wanted that time to work on it. And we also knew that it was going to need a little extra attention. On Fearless, even that label has competition with all these bands in the same genre, and it’s kind of overwhelming. We just felt that for where we were and where we are in our careers, going back to Tragic would have been a smarter move, to be back on a label that could hone in on us.

This will be your third time on Warped Tour this summer. Do you have a certain way of preparing for it? It’s such a long haul with a lot of long days. As for performance and such, we prepare the same as we would for any other tour. As far as preparing for the long, grueling days, that comes with the experience of doing it before. There’s no real way to prepare for it. It’s not like we go running around outside, because even doing that, that doesn’t really get you ready for that. Sure, you have a bus or a van to go back to, but it’s not like going on a run because you’re whole day is different every single day. There’s no plan to it until when you wake up. You wake up, and it’s like, “Oh, you play at 1 today.” I just got up at noon, and I’ve got to play in an hour, or you woke up at 10 a.m. and you have play in an hour and a half. It’s like, oh crap. Time to wake up. Then it’s like, you’ve got a signing at this time at this tent. You have to do this at this time. It’s like, alright, I guess that’s my day.

It must have been cool to go back home, so to speak, and it definitely worked out, because it was your biggest charting debut weekend, and their best seller as well. I’m sure every band says this, but even a year later, this is the best album that we’ve ever done. The way that we wrote it, the time that was spent on it and the fact that we were able to do it the way that we wanted to do it, that kind of freedom had never been offered to us.

When you’re in it, it must seem pretty hectic, but at the end it must felt like it all flew by… I don’t know. Both times that we’ve done Warped, it definitely felt like it was as long as it was. As far as I remember, the days do not fly by. It’s just so hot, every day is a long day, and by the end of it you just can’t wait to go to bed.

Was there anything you missed about the fast-paced recording process? I would never want to do it at a fast pace again. It’s amazingly stressful. You don’t get to try all your ideas. You’re left listening to the album for the rest of your life hearing all the things you’d wished you’d done differently. Even on Rise, I’m sure I’ll hear one or two things that I’ll think could have been slightly cooler, but on the other ones, all the way through, I’m like, man, we could have worked on this so much more had we been given more time.

“Both times that we’ve done Warped, it definitely felt like it was as long as it was. As far as I remember, the days do not fly by. It’s just so hot, every day is a long day, and by the end of it you just can’t wait to go to bed.” – Michael Jagmin, A Skylit Drive, on the Warped Tour grind

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As a vocalist, it must be tough on you not knowing when you’re performing. When I wake up and I just speak I sound like crap, so it must be a lot tougher for you considering you have to sing in front of so many people every day on the tour. Yeah, it’s definitely a whole different experience. You’ll hear a guitarist complaining before having to go on early, and it’s like, your guitar doesn’t have to wake up. It sounds the same whether it has gotten an hour of sleep or slept all day, whereas I am my instrument. That definitely makes it harder, not having that repetition for your body to get used to. On a normal tour, your body almost naturally starts getting used to you performing at a certain time. Your body knows when it’s game time. On Warped Tour, you have to force the game time. There’s almost no perfect time for you to play for your body. If you play too early, you didn’t get enough sleep; if you play toward the end, almost all of your energy is gone because you’ve been waiting to play all day, and you’ve been out in the sun all day. I feel like most bands shoot for that middle of the day spot, because you’re finally awake, and the sun hasn’t sucked all the energy out of you just yet [laughs]. Every day is a different thing. I don’t think there’s any way to prepare for it. All that being said, this is your third time doing the tour, so it must be something you really enjoy. Oh yeah. All of this stuff about being tired, it’s not me saying all that sucks. It really is the best experience. It’s like mobile summer camp. I remember doing summer camp, and those days were tiring too. You’re running around, doing the [Water]Blob thing in the lake, playing games and everything, and by the end of the day, you’re knocked out, but you’re having such a great The Vans Warped Tour rolls through time. It’s definitely the most the Sacramento area with a stop at the Sleep Train Amphitheater in taxing tour I’ve ever done, and Wheatland, California on June 26. I’m pretty sure it’ll always stay A Skylit Drive will perform along that way, but at the same time with Finch, Saves the Day, Anberlin, 3OH!3, Bayside, I Fight Dragons, MC it’s the most memorable tour Chris…and pretty much every band I’ve ever done.

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Sonically extreme hip-hop group Clipping talks style changes, rising popularity and the virtues of mainstream rap Words Andrew C. Russell

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n the oftentimes adversarial landscape of hiphop, an original voice can be seen as a call to arms, a middle finger in the face of the status quo, an all-out attack on popular taste. Those at the very edge of the vanguard, like the distortion-heavy Clipping, are sometimes met with an outrageous set of expectations from fans and journalists alike. A few days after their debut, Midcity, was released last year, the Los Angeles-based trio (MC Daveed Diggs and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson) abruptly began receiving major write-ups in international publications such as The Guardian. At the same time, underground hype took on a life of its own, stirring up the music blogosphere at critical junctures like Decoder Magazine and the one-man YouTube show The Needle Drop. The comment sections of every post across the Web tended to run deep and divisive. Who was this “Clipping?” Why were the MCs swaggering party rhymes accompanied by high-frequency sonic projectiles from some as-yet-uninvented riot dispersal cannon? Were they high-concept? Low-concept? Were they being ironic? Were they…oh no, not the dreaded H-bomb…Hipster? One easy way to piece together the disparate strands of Clipping’s DNA is to visit their Tumblr account, where you will find a comprehensive digital museum of rap videos ranging from the instantly recognizable (Nelly, Lil Wayne, J Dilla) to deeper cuts from classic gangster icons (UGK, DJ Quik, Young Lay). Interspersed among these are experimental tracks from Merzbow, ‘60s bebop cuts from Sun Ra, house singles from Frankie Knuckles, and popular tunes running the gamut from Nine Inch Nails to Madonna. If anyone exemplifies the ability to be both eclectic and uncompromising, it’s these guys. After a few pages of scrolling, your preconceived notions of the group begin to melt away, and you begin to discover some of the truths at the heart of the Clipping project. They are not hipsters, punk-rockers, high-concept gimmickers or genre-hating ironizers; they are true music lovers, in the most voraciously omnivorous sense. Their shared love of everything from Auto-Tune to ear-shattering feedback is helping to inform their unique sonic fingerprint and put new flavors of music on the map. The further you slip into the Clipping universe, the more you’re able to see how the catchiest club rap single can sound like a multi-layered avant-garde masterpiece, and how an hour-long noise installation can sound like your favorite summer jam.

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Unsurprisingly, most Netizens spent more time trying to supply the answers than ask any questions. Clipping was immediately taxonomized into a narrow pop-up genre dubbed as “noise-rap” or “noise-hop.” They were compared endlessly (both favorably and unfavorably) to other adventurous rap acts like Shabazz Palaces, B L A C K I E and Sacramento’s own Death Grips. It seemed that people needed Clipping to be part of a movement, and debated endlessly on whether the group existed in a “post-Death Grips” or even “post-Yeezus” landscape. Before anyone realized it, however, a post-Clipping landscape had sprung up, like an industrial, chrome-plated ghetto on the edge of the city; and even if few people understood it yet, two things were quite clear: people were listening—and people were talking. One year later, Clipping is gearing up to tour for their sophomore full-length, CLPPNG. On the new album, the group seems to be pulling in the reins of their image, diversifying their sound and collaborating with a stellar roster of figures relevant to classic and contemporary hiphop (King Tee and Three 6 Mafia’s Gangsta Boo are just a few of the big names). The production is more dynamic, the lyrics are sharper, and the impression given is that of three dangerously creative minds just beginning to stretch out for the long run. If last year’s Midcity was a scorching lightning strike that confounded yet transfixed the listener, then CLPPNG is the following rumble of thunder: deeper, more deliberate, but still as frightening as ever. On the popular front, heads continue to turn, aided by a wave of goodwill from upstart homebased music addicts to veteran industry tastemakers (a recent inclusion on Rolling Stone’s “Top 10 New Bands You Need to Know” is yet another high point in the buzz). Following a whirlwind tour through Russia and Spain, Clipping will be making a Sacramento appearance on June 30 at Midtown’s rising epicenter for all things independent, The Witch Room. They will be accompanied by distinguished Sacramento rapper Signor Benedick the Moor and local breakcore act Vankmen. As a prelude to the big event, we grabbed a few moments with Diggs, Snipes and Hutson to engage in some real talk about style changes, the hype factor, and the love, appreciation and indebtedness the three have to the one source nobody expected: contemporary hip-hop.

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So, looks like your very first tour stop back in the United States after Barcelona is Sacramento! What lured you guys here? Jonathan Snipes: It’s very hard to tour the West Coast without hitting places twice… This worked out because we wanted a stop between L.A. and Portland. We didn’t want to play two Bay Area shows. By any chance are you familiar with our Sacramento hip-hop scene, old or new? Will Hutson: The older scene—C-Bo, Brotha Lynch Hung… I mean, they’re all still out there, putting out albums… Daveed Diggs: Doey Rock, I remember… WH: T-Nutty! DD: Dahlak Brathwaite, I know that cat… I know my Sacramento hits. I wanted to talk about labels, because it seems to be an issue that keeps following you around. Many bloggers are trying to assign you a particular label like “noise rap,” or figuring out whether you exist in a “post-Death Grips” or “post-Yeezus” world. Does anybody engage with you guys in terms of your old-school influences? WH: Not really… We try to talk about that stuff as often as possible in interviews, but you’re more or less the first person who’s brought it up... That’s one thing I’ve been seeing a lot in the press for us—“post-Yeezus.” It’s like, “Look that shit up!” Our album came out like eight months before Yeezus did, man! Come on! DD: Yeezus is post-Clipping! WH: I understand the journalistic impulse to label something, make it seem like it’s part of a movement, seem like it’s new, like it’s of the moment. Obviously, we started out super-disconnected from anything like that. We were already a band when that first Death Grips release came out. People started sending us that, saying, “Hey! Some guys beat you to the punch!” And then we felt like it didn’t really sound like what we were doing anyway, so it didn’t matter. We thought we were making this project out of our influences, that, to us, were really sort of old. We were putting ourselves in this lineage, this trajectory, and this history we were very conscious of, not necessarily with any idea that it could be labeled as particularly new.

Between you and Death Grips, do you see that your fan bases sort of coalesce? WH: Absolutely. We have a lot of fans who found us because they like Death Grips—or Death Grips sort of primed an audience that has come to us since then. I do appreciate the fact that they opened some doors in certain populations of listeners who very quickly took to us as a result of what Death Grips was doing. That’s fine with us. What’s that we were joking about at our marketing meeting at Sub Pop? I was saying something to the label and the A&R guy ended up drawing a little Venn diagram of it but it was like “People that come talk to us at our shows are either wearing Odd Future gear or Death Grips shirts,” and our fans were the little overlapping sliver in between. About Midcity—you guys mentioned in other interviews that you didn’t expect anyone except you guys to really understand it or like it. In light of that, how fast did the widespread buzz and fandom start to trickle back to you? How soon did you start to notice it had a much wider appeal? DD: Pretty fast. I think some things happened right away that were pretty surprising. WH: It seems pretty minor now, but I remember we were so shocked by even the first couple of weeks of downloads. We just expected maybe 15 downloads, but there were a couple of early press pieces that we got really excited about. JS: I think The 405 might have been the very first one? And then The Guardian piece happened like the first day after Midcity was released. I knew it was different. I hit upload, announced it in a couple of places, and within about—I don’t know—two hours? I already got an email from a manager wanting to know if we had management, and I had never, in 12, 13 years of making music and putting it on the Internet, had ever been reached out to by any kind of music management ever. And so I was like, “This is different, somehow. People think that there is something here.”

It seems like you had a very particular palette of sounds on Midcity. Would you say you switched it up a bit for the new album? DD: I think the new album covers a wider spectrum of sounds. We sort of continued where we left off in a lot of ways, but we also had a little bit more budget and we had resources that we didn’t have before. So were able to think bigger and reference a wider sound palette and pull in new things that we didn’t really have the opportunity to before, because we didn’t really have a strong enough idea of what we were doing at the time, or the resources to do them.

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How do you deal with the misunderstanding some people have when they assume you must be opposed to mainstream rap? Do you feel that people that love your stuff tend to hate mainstream rap, but then go on to discover your influences because of you guys? WH: I hope they do, but there’s no right or wrong way to like a band, and we appreciate anyone who likes us whether we understand it or not. We just tell people if you want to come up to us at a show and talk about how much you hate Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, we just politely say, “Actually we like them, but thanks for your interest.” DD: Yeah. However people come to it is great, and I think Will sort of between us grumbles sometimes about one of the kinds of fans we have but at the same time, they’re great, they’re out there listening to us WH: The new album we were very specific about putting three of our big influences on the record who are very much in that world of rap and gangsta rap and are not “blog-y Internet hipster noise rap” or anything experimental at all. This is who we like, this is who we hope you go check out if you like us.

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Mark your calendars and come check out Clipping on Monday, June 30 at the Witch Room, located at 1815 19th Street in Sacramento, with Signor Benedick the Moor and Venkman. For more info, go to Witchroomsac.com. Clipping’s new album, CLPPNG, is released as of June 10 on Sub Pop.

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2031 S Street • Sacramento Words Niki Kangas • photos liz simpson The expression “one trick pony” refers to someone who is only good at one thing. Although it sounds like an insult, I’d prefer a one trick pony to a jack of all trades, master of none—at least the ponies are great at something. My partner in crime Melody, photographer Liz Simpson and I decided to put my theory to the test when we checked out Trick Pony, the brand spanking new Midtown pizzeria that recently took over the old Tuli Bistro location. We took a seat at the bar in front of the wood-fired pizza oven so we could creep on how the alleged magic happened. We were cheerfully greeted from everyone behind the line and on the floor. “Dang, they really are one trick ponies—there’s only like, seven things to choose from on the menu, and it’s either pizza or salad,” I mused when they handed us menus. They do also serve beer, wine and other non-alcoholic beverages. Mel and I, winos that we are, ordered a half carafe of wine, while Liz grabbed a local microbrew draft. The atmosphere at Trick Pony is comfortable, relaxing and understated, while also having a somewhat contemporary feel. In addition to the bar that stretches along the line, table seating is available inside as well as on their enclosed patio. Fans circulate along the ceiling of the interior to mitigate the heat from the wood fire oven. It was rather empty when we visited, likely due to the fact that they were still in “soft opening” mode. They planned to celebrate their grand opening during June’s Second Saturday.

We were brought four narrow slices of the special to try, a pizza that was topped with San Marzano tomatoes, sopressata, housemade buffalo mozzarella and a house-made cherry tomato and braised leek pesto. The pizza was served with two dipping sauces, both of which were also house-made: a chili oil and a basil pesto. The pesto spread on the pizza had a tangy, savory and sweet flavor profile that was well balanced and scrumptious, and I immediately took note of the fan-fuckingtastic crust. Theirs is a near perfect equilibrium of chewy and crispy, while also managing to be a skinny bitch—thin, foldable, yet sturdy. I was really impressed, and asked the curly-haired ginger chef, Paul Caravelli, what the secret was to this magnificent dough and cooking process that led to some arrestingly good pizza crust. “I haven’t slept in three months,” he joked. But seriously, he added, “I’m obsessed. I’m living that dough life.” He wouldn’t go into too much detail on the recipe itself, but did disclose that he uses a sourdough yeast. The dough is hand-stretched, stored for at least 24 hours and cooked at 800 to 850 degrees Fahrenheit for 60 to 90 seconds. For pizzas, we elected the Margherita and pepperoni, and also decided to try their take on the Caesar salad. The Caesar salad was served first, and was comprised of red romaine hearts, a house-made Caesar dressing, parmesan crisps (known as frico in Italy, or fried cheese) and shaved parmesan, and came on a plate garnished with the basil pesto and cracked pepper. Eric, the other chef manning Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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6.16 Monday

The Blue Lamp The Murder She Wrote, Engraved, Grave Shadow, Origin Alive, 8 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Open Mic Night hosted by Musical Charis, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Robin Zander (of Cheap Trick), 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Swimming In Bengal, Chad Stockdale, 7:30 p.m. Midtown BarFly Pelican, Tombs, Summit, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5 p.m. Press Club Work Your Soul, 9 p.m. Witch Room Dog Party, Kepi Ghoulie, Pets, Shoujo Kitten, 6:30 p.m.

6.17 Tuesday

Assembly Dog Fashion Disco, Psychostick, The Bunny the Bear, The Brotherhood Of Ellipsis, Kryptic Memories, 6:30 p.m. Badlands RHYTHM w/ Freddy Silva, Tommy Choo Choo, Spire, Evolve, 9 p.m. The Blue Lamp Karaoke, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk The Supervillains, Abandon the Midwest, Riotmaker, ReLion, Babes4Change, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Le Twist Tuesdays w/ Running in the Fog, Sam I Jam, Adam J, Roger Carpio, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s Greatest Stories Ever Told, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Rock On! Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Press Club The Deep End w/ DJs Druskee, Cue22, 9:30 p.m. Shine Open Jazz Jam hosted by Jason Galbraith, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Corpse F**king Art, Exhumer, Embodied Torment, 9 p.m. Torch Club Quinn Hedges, 5:30 p.m.; Debut Tuesday feat. Calling Tempo, Rat Stomp, Orange Scene, 9 p.m.

6.18 Wednesday

Badlands Trapacana w/ DJs IMF. Dred, TAMEsta and Guests, 10 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m.

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The Blue Lamp The Business, The Attack, The West Lords, RDL, 8 p.m. Cafe Colonial The World is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Unconditional Arms, So Stressed, VVomen, 7 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Menagerie Pop Up Art Show feat. Live Music by Drop Dead Red, The Western Tates, 7 p.m. Dive Bar Summer Block Party w/ Massive Delicious, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Northern Soul!, 8 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s Pushing the Sun, Jahari Sai, 7 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, DJ Peeti-V, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Empire of Dirt and Special Guests, 8 p.m. Press Club Fate Under Fire, Luke Leichfield, 9 p.m. Starlite Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Patrick Rynn & Chris James w/ Aki Kumar, 9 p.m. Witch Room FEA (feat. members of Girl In A Coma), Slow Motion Dive, Mad Judy, 7 p.m.

6.19 thursday

Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Beatnik Studios The Bumptet, 7 p.m. The Blue Lamp Wildcard, Ilam, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Treed Kush, Jab Skatez, Mizzle, DeJon, Chuck E, DB Shottus, Tenerese, Norco, Crimino, BMMG, Mister Thoughts, Young Diggz, BL, Lean Kidz, Different Strokes , 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Fiesta del Caribe, 7 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. District 30 Classic Chris Jones, Vince Vicari, Gleniece, Ayana Shakira, Luke Tailor, 7 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose The Mike Justis Band, 8 p.m. Fremont Park Hot Lunch Concert Series w/ James Cavern, 11:30 a.m. Harlow’s Tommy and the High Pilots, Fallen Riviera, 7 p.m. Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s Miss Massive Snowflake, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Bluegrass Jam, 7 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Brodie Stewart, 10 p.m.

Press Club Century Got Bars (Album Release), Element Brass Band, Derek “Dizz” Saastad, Grey Trip Matter, Mahtie Bush, Mic Jordan and more, 9 p.m. Shine Furschitzen Giggles, The Andrew Endres Collective, Ross Hammond‘s Humanity Trio feat. Kerry Kashiwagi and Dax Compise, 8 p.m. The Stoney Inn Georgia Rain, 9 p.m. Torch Club Mind X Quartet, 5 p.m.; Zanardi & His Hi Beamz, 9 p.m.

6.20 Friday

Ace of Spades Slaves (Album Release), Kyle Lucas, Cemetery Sun, Wrings, Altessa, Overwatch, Imagine This, 6 p.m. Back 9 Bar & Grill Color Bully, TKstayRokkin, 8 p.m. Bar 101 City of Trees Band, 9:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp The Gatlin (Release Show), Marvaless, Nome Nomadd, Cali Bear Gang, Celsius, Penny, Mo Better, Reflective Intelligence, Coon the Poet, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Self Centered, Abby Normal, A Shot at Zenith, Once an Empire, Maven, Arminius, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Cowboy Junkies, 8 p.m. (Sold Out) Cesar Chavez Plaza Concerts in the Park w/ Andy Allo, Contra, The Harbor, Delta City Ramblers, DJ Sam I Jam, 5 p.m. Club Car Tiki Lounge Lizards, 9 p.m. District 30 DJ Billy Lane, 10 p.m. Fox & Goose West Nile Ramblers, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Concerts in the Park After Party w/ Netscape Navigators, Royal Jelly, Sea Legs, 10 p.m. Harrah’s Lake Tahoe The Yardbirds, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Dr Hall & the Blues Practitioners, Proxy Moon, Clay Dogs, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s You Front the Band Live Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides William Mylar, 5 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub The Killer Queens, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Audioboxx, 9:30 p.m. RockBand University Davis Music Fest: Kill the Precedent, Horseneck, Silvara, Battle Hag, 6 p.m. Shine TooMuchFiction, Punch-Out!, Xochitl, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Rebel Punk, DJ Populuxe, 9 p.m. Third Space Davis Music Fest: G Green, Charles Albright, Darling Chemicalia, Frozen Folk, 6 p.m. Toby Keith’s Michael Hart Band, Keith Anderson, 9 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Steven Roth & DC Powers, 9 p.m. Witch Room Cobalt Cranes, Soft Science, Vision, Kittens Having Kittens, 8 p.m.

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The Gatlin (Release Show) Marvaless, Nome Nomadd, Cali Bear Gang, Celsius and more The Blue Lamp 8 p.m.

6.21 Saturday

Ace of Spades Warren G, Andre Truth, Playah K & Reign, Rae Rock, El Capitan, I80 Playaz, GFN, DTR, 7 p.m. Armadillo Music Outdoor Stage Davis Music Fest: Dead Winter Carpenters, Rin Tin Tiger, The Nothing/Brothers Amor, Element Brass Band, Bomba Fried Rice, 3:30 p.m. Assembly Kalin And Myles, 6 p.m. Back 9 Bar & Grill Red Sky Sunrise, Somebody’s Madness, 8 p.m. Bar 101 Humble Wolf, 9:30 p.m. Bertha Henschel Park Pops in the Park w/ John Skinner Band, 6 p.m. The Blue Lamp (Waning), SpaceWaster, Cobra Light, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Hessler, Skin of Saints, Bad Boy Eddy, Gypsy Flight, California Riot Act, 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Mr. Louie Castro & Ms. Sandra Lang, 1 & 4 p.m. Cafe Colonial Go Skate Day Afterparty w/ Storytellers, DC Fallout, Rebel Radio, The Strange Party, The Ferments, Wild Life, 6 p.m. Capitol Garage Feel Good Saturday’s w/ DJ Epik, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Neal Morgan, Sandycoates, Aaron Ross, 8 p.m. City Hall Tavern Davis Music Fest: State-to-State, Double Duchess, Desario, Tha Dirt Feelin’, 4 p.m. Club Car Babes4Change, 9 p.m. The Colony Go Skate Day Afterparty w/ Criminal Wave, SSA, Classs System, The Jim Kelly Kung Fu Orchestra, The Magikool Doods, Bleed By Example, 6 p.m.

Delta of Venus Davis Music Fest: Boca Do Rio, Sometimes Warren, Zorelli, Alicia Murphy, 2:45 p.m. District 30 DJ Elements, 10 p.m. Fox & Goose Druglords of the Avenues, The Celestions, Bastards of Young, 9 p.m. G Street WunderBar Davis Music Fest: The Greening, John Vanderslice, French Cassettes, Mau, Bottom Dwellers, 5 p.m. Harlow’s Tainted Love, 9 p.m. KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m. Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m. Little Prague Davis Music Fest: Cherry Royale, Big Sticky Mess, Hollow Point Stumblers, Be Brave Bold Robot, Bonanza King, 5:30 p.m. The Lodge Davis Music Fest: Vandella, Midnight Moonshiners, ToadMortons, Joe Getty & the Dead Flowers, Richie Lawrence & the Yolos, The Hoots, 2:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Larisa Bryski’s Birthday Show, 8:30 p.m. Marilyn’s Playback (Classic Rock Hits), 9 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Facination: ‘80s New Wave Dance Club, 9:30 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Spider, 10 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Thunder Cover, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Tortilla Soup, 10 p.m. Shine Wolfgang Vega, Denver Saunders, Cloudship, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Davis Music Fest: Opus Orange, Two Sheds, Glitterbang, Contra, World Hood, Future Us, 3:30 p.m.

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Starlite Lounge Disposable Heroes (Metallica tribute), Bloody Roots (Sepultura tribute), 9 p.m. Toby Keith’s Michael Hart Band, 9 p.m. Torch Club Neckbone, 5:30 p.m.; A.C. Myles (CD Release), 9 p.m. Vini Wine Bar Davis Music Fest: Jon Hatamiya Quintet, Adrian Bellue, Owl Paws, Justin Cox, Moonlit Wheat, 4:30 p.m. Witch Room King Woman, Foie Gras, Mother Room, 8 p.m.

6.22 Sunday

Assembly Framing Hanley, Devour The Day, Starset, Saint Ridley, Faith in Fiction, For All I’ve Done, 6:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Bustin’ Jieber, Human Ottoman, Moon Mantis, 5 p.m. The Boardwalk Zach Myers, Justin Moore, Track Fighter, 7 p.m. Broderick Roadhouse Karaoke w/ DJ Jazcat, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m. Delta of Venus Davis Music Fest: West Nile Ramblers, Swimming In Bengal, Bisoux, 10:30 a.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Daniel Castro, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Sharon Cuneta, 6 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; The Crux, 8 p.m. Witch Room Sonny & The Sunsets, The Memories, Opus Orange, 8 p.m.

Woodstock’s Pizza Davis Music Fest: Smoke Shovelers, The Lurk w/ Million Dollar Giveaway, Crow Canyon, 12:30 p.m.

6.23 Monday

Ace of Spades Ingrid Michaelson, 6:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Acoustic/Spoken Open Mic, 8 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Open Mic Night hosted by Musical Charis, 9 p.m. The Colony Enough Said, Nuclear Age, Crossface, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5 p.m. Press Club Riot Radio, Bass Line Bums, The Hybrid Creeps, Six Beers Deep, 8 p.m.

6.24 Tuesday

The Blue Lamp A Piece of the Action, Mercedes Ave, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Sarah McLachlan, 8 p.m. LowBrau Le Twist Tuesdays w/ Dusty Brown, Sam I Jam, Adam J, Roger Carpio, 9 p.m.

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Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Summer Block Party w/ Lil Debbie, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Summer Block Party w/ Todd Morgan and the Emblems, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Northern Soul!, 8 p.m. Golden Bear Wet Hot American Summer w/ Shaun Slaughter and Friends, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Southern Culture on the Skids, Noah Clark and The Homewrecking Crew, 7 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s The Resonators, 8 p.m. Mix DJ E-Rock, DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Element of Soul, Special Blend, The Good Samaritans, 8 p.m. Press Club Mos Likely, The Enlows, Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang, 9 p.m. Starlite Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Reds Blues (CD Release), Kyle Rowland, 9 p.m.

6.26 Thursday

Assembly Cultura Profetica, McKlopedia, La Noche Oskura, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Back 9 Bar & Grill Special Blend, 8 p.m. The Blue Lamp Richie Ledreagle, Aranesa Turner, DJ Selekta Lou, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Ces Cru, Info Gates, Gatlin, 94Leo, Rappin E, Lil Rozy, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. The Colony Plague Widow (Tour Kickoff), Contempt, Fearection, 7 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Chicken & Dumpling, Chelsey Heidenreich, 8 p.m. Fremont Park Hot Lunch Concert Series w/ The Westwards, 11:30 a.m. Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s Wolfgang Vega, Bandmaster Ruckus, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Foxtail, Division Men, Hope Riot, 8:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Aces Up, 10 p.m. Press Club Music Box w/ DJ Missy Mark, 9 p.m. Shine Dr. Rock & The Stuff, Nautical Nation, 8 p.m.

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Pure X Geddes Gengras Witch Room 8 p.m.

Sleep Train Amphitheatre Vans Warped Tour: Bowling For Soup, Breathe Carolia, A Skylit Drive, Falling In Reverse, Saves the Day, A Lot Like Birds, Issues, The Devil Wears Prada, Terror and many more, 11 a.m. The Stoney Inn The Buck Ford Pure Country Band, 9 p.m. Torch Club Mind X Quartet, 5 p.m.; Shari Puorto Band, 9 p.m. Witch Room Young Widows, White Reaper, 9 p.m.

6.27 FRIDAY

Back 9 Bar & Grill Alex Vincent Band, Once An Empire, Ashes & Diamonds, 8 p.m. Bar 101 Down the Hatch, 9:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp CH 3, Infirmities, RAD, Crude Studs, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Husalah, Slomo, Trace Grammer, CEO Money, N8tive, Dalion, 24-7, Lil Rozy, Bobby Cooper, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Lasher Keen (Album Release), Step Jayne, The Furrow, 8 p.m. Cesar Chavez Plaza Concerts in the Park w/ Chris Gardner Band, Island of Black and White, Keri Carr Band, The Three Way, DJ Elliot Estes, 5 p.m. Club Car Never Too Late Band, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Hans & the Hot Mess!, Xochitl, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m. Harlow’s The Brothers Comatose, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Rachael Simone, Hannah Kile, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s North Bound Train, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m. Naked Lounge Downtown Russ Rankin (Good Riddance), Kevin Seconds (7Seconds), Gene Chowder, Tim Lithium, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides William Mylar, 5 p.m.; Mr. Hooper, The Klay, The Tipsy Hustlers, Ike Torres, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Cheeseballs, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Double Funk Crunch, 9:30 p.m. Shine Clark Reese, Rebecca Peters, Casey Groat, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Bellygunner, Josh Cook & The Key of Now, 9 p.m. Toby Keith’s Cripple Creek, 9 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Black Market III, 9 p.m.

Witch Room Pure X, Geddes Gengras, 8 p.m.

6.28 Saturday

Assembly Asher Roth, Chuck Inglish, M.Born, 7 p.m. Back 9 Bar & Grill Storytellers, The Stu Tails, Motorize, 8 p.m. Bar 101 Billy Manzik, 9:30 p.m. The Blue Lamp Moodie Black, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Cali Vendetta, Kali Streetz, Nitti Bo, Chuck Deezle, Young Nick & Rich T, 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Sister Sledge, 8 p.m. Cafe Colonial Backseat Lovers, Bad Machine, Mos Likely, 8 pm Capitol Garage Feel Good Saturday’s w/ DJ Epik, 10 p.m. Capitol Mall 98 Rock Presents: SacTown Rocks feat. Tesla, Middle Class Rut, Oleander, FallRise, Soul Motor, Some Fear None, White Minorities, Element of Soul, Hero’s Last Mission, 2 p.m. Center for the Arts Ruthie Foster, 8 p.m. Club Car Todd Morgan and the Emblems, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Adrian Bellue, EGG, 9 p.m. Harlow’s SambaDá (CD Release), The Nibblers, 9 p.m. KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m. Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe David Houston & String Theory, Ricky Berger, Adrian Bourgeois, 8:30 p.m. Marilyn’s Hollywood Texas Blues, Honyock, Red Union Blue, 9 p.m. McKinley Park Pops in the Park w/ Garratt Wilkin & the Parrotheads (Jimmy Buffett tribute), 6 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Blood Party, The Intuition, Zero Client, 9 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Peeti V, 10 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Superlicious, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino The Spazmatics, 10 p.m. Shine James Israel, John Gruber, Cancellieri, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Foxtails Brigade, 9 p.m. Starlite Lounge Rock the Dub, 9 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Gregg Allman, Leon Russel, Blackwater, 6:30 p.m. Toby Keith’s Erica Sunshine Lee, 9 p.m.

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6.29 Sunday

The Blue Lamp Devil’s Brigade (Matt Freeman from Rancid & DJ Bonebreak of X), The Interrupters, City of Vain, 6 p.m. Broderick Roadhouse Karaoke w/ DJ Jazcat, 9 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Live Band Karaoke, 5 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m. The Colony Witchhaven, Beerlords, Bruja, SSA, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Hellbound Glory, 6 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Shari Puorto, 3 p.m. Press Club Support the Rabid, Symptoms, Boomerang Kids, Life In A Spiral, 5 p.m.; Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Left of Centre, 2 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Big Sticky Mess, 8 p.m. Woodlake Hotel Dwight Yoakam, 7:30 p.m.

6.30 Monday

The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Open Mic Night hosted by Musical Charis, 9 p.m. The Colony Drunks Go Acoustic feat. Dead Frets (Jared Stinson of Sick Waiting), Matt Salkeld (Black Sails Western Shores), Jan Drees (of The Shell Corporation), 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5 p.m. Press Club Fuzz Cuffs (formerly Der Spazm), New Lungs, Monster Treasure, 9 p.m. Witch Room Clipping, Vankmen, Senior Benedick the Moor, 8 p.m.

Comedy Laughs Unlimited Stage 4 Comedy Night feat. Ruben Paul, Mike Betancourt, Halli B, Nick Aragon, Phil Patel, David Lew, June 18, 7 p.m. Say It Loud Comedy feat. Michael Cella, Jules Posner, Emily Van Dyke, Feel Woods, Ellis Rodriguez, hosted by Michael Calvin, Jr., June 19, 8 p.m. Ellis Rodriguez, Chris Riggins, June 20 - 21, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. It Takes Guts Fundraiser feat. Yvette Fernandez, Cheryl “The Soccer Mom”, Mike Betancourt, Kristen Frisk, Del Van Dyke, hosted by Julia Anne, June 22, 7 p.m. Ward Anderson, Lance Woods, June 27 - 29, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy, every Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Punchline Comedy Club Russell Peters, June 17 & June 19 20, Tues. & Thurs., 7 & 9:30 p.m.; Fri., 8 & 10 p.m. Doug Stanhope, June 18, 8 p.m. Joe Klocek, DJ Mervin, Mary Van Note, June 21, 8 & 10 p.m. Kabir “Kabeezy” Singh, June 22, 7 p.m. Tom Rhodes, Emmett Short, Cheryl Anderson, June 26 - 29, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 7:30 p.m. Spot-On Trivia: The Comedy Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 8 p.m. Harold Night Long Form Improv Comedy, Wednesday’s, 8 p.m. Gordon Teams: Improv Performers, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Gag Order, Thursday’s, 8 p.m. Improv Jam, Thursday’s, 9 p.m. Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, 9 p.m. Test Kitchen, Saturday’s, 10:30 p.m. Tommy T’s The Hot Mama’z feat. Shea Sugar, Regina Givens & T’Kia, June 19 & 26, 7:30 p.m. Healing Laughs: A Benefit for the Women In Need Foundation feat. Regina Givens, Stephanie Garcia & Cheryl “The Soccer Mom,” June 20, 7 p.m. Tommy Davidson, June 21 - 22, Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. D.L. Hughley, June 27 - 29, Fri. & Sat., 7 p.m., 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Misc. 2020 J Street Midtown Farmers Market, every Saturday, 8 a.m. APS Graphic Center Scriptorium Saturday: Poets of Faith Night, June 21, 6 p.m.

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The Art Institute of California Sacramento The Art Institute of California Graduate Portfolio Show, June 20, 3 p.m. Blue Cue Bar Bingo, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. The Blue Lamp Naughty Trivia!, every Wednesday, 8 p.m. Bonney Field Sacramento Republic FC vs. Colorado Rapids Reserves, June 20, 7:30 p.m. 2014 Pacific Nations Cup: USA vs. Canada Rugby, June 21, 3 p.m. Sacramento Republic FC vs. Arizona United SC, June 26, 7:30 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, every Tuesday, 8 p.m. Brickhouse Gallery The Art of Hip-Hop Festival: Celebrating the 5 Elements, through June 29 Capitol Garage Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Crest Theatre The 13th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival, June 20 - 29 Crocker Art Museum “Workt by Hand”: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts, through Sept. 1 District 30 Menagerie Pop Up Art Show feat. Sarah Marie Hawkins, Nick Taylor, Julie Gesicki, Alejandro Montano, Matt Trammel and more, June 18, 7 p.m. Fair Oaks Community Clubhouse West Coast Swing Lesson & Dance, June 28, 5:30 p.m. FE Gallery Paintings by Teri Nittler, Mixed Media Sculpture by Kainan Becker, Black Light Paintings by Jennifer Bernstein, through July 31 Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Costumbres Latinoamericanas, June 22, 3 p.m. Little Relics Boutique & Galleria Show Grand Finale for Kim Scott, Rob-O, Krissi Sandvik and Kyle Lawson, June 27, 6 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, every Thursday, 8 p.m. The G Show: An Evening of Music, Comedy and Interviews hosted by Giulianna-Vita & Claire Fisher, June 25, 8 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, every Wednesday, 8 p.m. Pence Gallery Createfest: Teenorganized Celebration of Youth Art, Music, Food and Video, June 28, 5 p.m. Pine Cove Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Placer County Fairgrounds & Event Center Placer County Fair 2014, June 19 - 22 Press Club Flex Your Head Trivia, Tuesday’s, 8 p.m. Sacramento State Hornet Stadium 2014 USA Outdoors Track & Field Championships, June 25 - 29 Shine Midtown Out Loud: Open Mic Poetry and Acoustic Performance, June 18, 8 p.m. Red Alice’s Poetry Emporium hosted by Bill Gainer, June 25, 8 p.m. Sleep Train Arena EnduroCross, June 21, 7:30 p.m. Swanston Park Concert and Car Show, June 22, 5 p.m. Verge Center for the Arts Champagne feat. Works by Brett Amory, Clorophilla, Yarrow Slaps, Michelle Guintu and More, through Aug. 24 Tough Old Broads Poetry feat. Victoria Dalkey, Kathryn Hohlwein, Viola Weinberg, June 22, 2 p.m. Witch Room The Bodacious Bombshells Burlesque Revue Presents: Lana Lust - A Del Rey Cabaret, June 19, 9 p.m. William Land Park 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival, June 20 - 22

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Witch Room, Sacramento • Saturday, June 7, 2014 Words Brooke Dreyer • Photo BUFF $LUT

Los Angeles-born band Wounded Lion is infamous for their energetic stage performances. The band has been dominating the L.A. garage-underground scene since their birth in 2005; their goofy, brilliantly minimalist garage-pop style was perfectly executed through their goofy, artistic dispositions. As the band matured, they began drifting more toward the punk side of the garage sound. This greatly appealed to lo-fi loving followers, as this transition naturally assimilated into their audacious performing style. Wounded Lion is truly one of the best garage-performing bands to this day; they manifest an ability to turn any setting, no matter how obscure, into the perfect canvas for their music. Consider their June 7 performance at Witch Room (the reincarnation of the Bows and Arrows on 19th Street). Witch Room doesn’t aesthetically identify to any specific genre or musical style, yet, Wounded Lion transformed the venue into a garage-pop, lo-fi punk paradise. The show began with a 4/4 drum stick count in as the guitars struck the initial heavy chord; shortly after, all hell broke lose…and I mean that in the most enjoyable, limitless, eclectic way possible. Wounded Lion, the apparent love child of Cake, Pixies and early Misfits, stood as the messiah leading their audience SubmergeMag.com

into a nirvana of psychedelic, garage rock. Wounded Lion harnesses a theme of crunchy distortion carried over repetitive, yet catchy, lyrics. The band’s style is distinct, almost too distinct; they hardly explored beats beyond a duple meter and opted to play in only three out of the 15 key signatures known to music. But hey, this band isn’t playing for the pleasure of music snobs. Instead, they’re playing for those looking to lose themselves and softcore mosh against some strangers, and the Witch Room audience relished in it. By the end of the second song, nearly 90 percent of the guests had migrated from the patio to the stage’s border to watch Wounded Lion transform the Witch Room environment. Brad Eberhard (vocals, guitar) would require a call-and-response from his band members, to which the audience joined in once the response pattern was clear. Raffi Kalenderian (vocals, percussion, bass) was perhaps the most captivating of the group; his electric mannerisms may have contributed at least 50 percent of the energy the band provided, which was quite impressive considering how dynamic each musician was. Each member plays a variety of instruments; Lars Finberg (drums, guitar), Shant Kalenderian (guitar, bass, vocals) ad Jun Ohnuki (bass, drums, organ, percussion) would quickly swap their

instruments between each song. Despite Wounded Lions’ obvious technical abilities, their tambourine skills were the most memorable of the performance. This is due to a variety of ways to which the tambourine was played; some members would slam it onto the ground, sometimes playfully onto other band members or even onto unused instruments to create different resonances. The band is remarkably innovative when it comes to instrumental manipulation; for instance, the audience absolutely lost its shit when the bass drum was brought to the front of the stage, tilted horizontally and beat with maracas. Some may argue that the band’s disposition and musical character may have been a bit sloppy, but any long-time punk fan would report that their energy and personal sound nailed the essential essence of punk music. CesarIsAPuppy couldn’t have said it more perfectly on Last. fm, “This band. Last night in Sacramento. Bruises for days. So much fun.” Though the comment was made back in 2011, the meaning still survives. Wounded Lion’s music, just as most garage-punk groups are, is best appreciated when performed live. The band transformed Witch Room into a lo-fi utopia and delivered an incredibly unique experience to their audience. There was this synonymous feeling across the audience of somehow feeling like Hilly Kristal after essentially discovering the Talking Heads; Wounded Lion’s performance was so unique and addictive, it gave everyone a sense of discovery. We’ll see you next time, Wounded Lion. Long live punk.

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As I write this, it’s mere hours before HBO’s Game of Thrones debuts its season four finale, and nerds (and wannabe nerds) everywhere are suffering anxiety attacks contemplating what is to come of their favorite dwarf, Tyrion Lannister (played by the awesome Peter Dinklage), whose life is currently on the chopping block thanks to one of the most gruesome and disturbing fight scenes I’ve ever seen on television. Thanks HBO for ruining a perfectly good evening. Some things can’t be unseen. Meanwhile, on the other end of the solar system (I mean the whole other end) another dwarf ostracized by its family is once again attracting attention. When Pluto was nixed from our solar system’s roster of real planets and labeled a “dwarf planet,” I was understandably upset. I mean, back in the third grade, I’d made a diorama of the solar system in a shoebox as my science fair project. I didn’t win, obviously, but I was proud of that janky little thing. I like planets. Who doesn’t? And of course in my expertly crafted diorama, Pluto was included, because back then, that little ball of ice that could was a full card-carrying member of our solar system. You know, now that I think of it, I should’ve won that science fair. I was a fucking genius. Suck it, Public School 53. But now that the initial hurt of Pluto’s expulsion has waned, I’ve grown to understand that science is a fluid thing. It’s not written in stone. The whole nature of the thing is that its theories have to be tested and withstand those trying their hardest to disprove them. It’s survival of the fittest, and wee, icy Pluto and its irregular orbit just didn’t stand a chance. Poor guy, poor little guy. I’m sorry, I’m getting choked up. Dwarf or no dwarf, Pluto is still able to capture people’s imaginations. I mean, just what the hell is it doing all the way out there anyway? It’s like this distant outpost just floating out there in space, the border between our neck of the galactic woods and the rest of the freaking Milky Way. Who knows what Pluto has seen? Alien fly-bys? If you’re a big fan of Coast to Coast with George Noory (shh… don’t tell the government, but I love that shit), you probably think so. The truth is out there. Back in 2006, NASA sent out its craft New Horizons on an epic mission. It’s currently just more than 300 million miles away and a year’s

travel from Pluto. On Father’s Day (June 15), the spacecraft awoke from a hibernation period that started in January. This awakening is in preparation for its big showdown with Pluto, currently 393 days away. Among other things, New Horizons will help scientists study whether or not the surface of Pluto’s largest moon Charon is cracked. Scientists theorize that Charon was once home to an underground ocean. According to an article on Thewestsidestory.com, “Cracks on the surface of the moon are very essential for the study as it has the potential of revealing details about these supposed ancient oceans.” As we’ve learned by living here on this blue marble, water is one of the basic building blocks for life. Though Charon’s temperature, a frigid 380 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, would most like have frozen any ocean it might have had by now, the possibility, I guess, exists that micro-organisms or whatever were once surfing waves on the moon’s ancient oceans. Which is pretty tubular, bro. It seems that scientists have had a big boner for finding the evidence of water on other planets nowadays. Like, Mars, remember when everyone was all freaking out about the possibility of water on Mars? We even sent my favorite robot on Twitter, the Curiosity Rover, out there to check shit out. I understand the “cool” factor of thinking there may have been life, or at least the possibility thereof, on other planets in our solar system. It opens up the possibility of life on other planets in other solar systems in other galaxies all over the universe. That’s pretty damn awesome. But really, when you consider how vast the universe is, it’s kind of ridiculous to think we’re the only intelligent beings out there tinkering around on iPhones and being more or less shitty to one another. You don’t have to be a scientist to know that. So why all this alien water business? Maybe scientists know that we’ve pretty much screwed this pooch of a planet, and we need to start looking elsewhere for places to live if our species is to survive. Maybe in a millennium or so, humans will show up at Pluto’s doorstep with their hats in their hands and be all, look, we’re sorry we kicked you out of the solar system all that time ago. Can we chill on your moon for a bit? Hopefully, Pluto is a lot more forgiving and accepting than we are. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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