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Summer Forever! Keep the Party Vibes Going At These 11 Upcoming Sacramento-Area September Events Jonathan Carabba
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Just because school is back in session and the official end of the season is looming doesn’t mean it’s time to say goodbye to your care-free summer lifestyle. Nope, it’s time to double down with these 11 upcoming events in and around the greater Sacramento-area that we think you should know about. Summer forever! Cosmic Family Gathering, Sept. 7–10, Blue Mountain Event Center
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#HOFDAY, Sept. 16, Old Sacramento A party so big, they call it a festival. The annual #HOFDAY event moves to Old Sac this year and brings with it two stages of hip-hop and dance music from 30-plus DJs and performers, plus food, drinks and all kinds of shenanigans. All-ages event. Hofdayparty.com for full lineup, tickets and more info.
At the Gathering, expect an epic weekend of live music, camping, live art and performances, yoga, guitar workshops and more, all in a beautiful setting less than two hours from Sacramento. More than 30 bands total! Visit Cosmicfamilyproductions.com for more info.
Cap City Heavy Fest, Sept. 16–17, The Boardwalk Opening Reception for Molly Devlin’s Valley of Shadows, Sept. 1, 1810 Gallery
Get pummeled for two days straight with more than 20 of the most killer heavy bands from around Northern California and beyond, including Big Business, Spite, These Streets, Armed for Apocalypse, Chrome Ghost and others. Both days are all-ages. Tickets and lineup at Boardwalkrocks.com.
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This incredible local artist, whose work you are likely already aware of if you've visited Art Hotel, ArtStreet, R Street Block Party or a number of other high-profile local events, has a new solo show up all month at 1810 Gallery. The opening reception on Sept. 1 is free, all-ages, starts at 6 p.m. Info at Facebook.com/1810gallery.
OnTheBlock, Sept. 2, 12th & R Streets Local musician James Cavern’s new label, Tree Tone Records, presents this carefully curated second annual free block party featuring tunes from The Lique, Inland, Soosh*E!, Cameron Calloway, DLRN, The Philharmonik and Wylma. Treetonerecords.com for more.
Sacramento Rainbow Festival’s 30th Anniversary, Sept. 3, 20th & K Streets Huge street fair celebrating Sacramento’s LGBTQ community with live music from Ty Herndon (pictured), Erin Bowman, Brandon Stansell and others, plus speakers, guest hosts and special appearances. Runs from 12–7 p.m. Tickets and info at Sacrainbowfest.com.
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City of Trees Music Festival, Sept. 24, Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo Doors open at 2 p.m. for this full-on music festival! Major headliners like Blink-182 (pictured), Bleachers, Iration, DREAMCAR and Bishop Briggs join a solid list of locals like Rituals of Mine, Petaluma, The Moans and others. Twenty-plus bands, four stages, one amazing day of music, food, art, beer and friends. Advance general admission tickets are $49.50 at Cityoftrees.com.
11th Annual Sacramento Horror Film Festival, Sept. 29–30, Colonial Theatre If horror is your genre of choice, this is the event for you. A weekend of terror featuring full-length films, short films, performance art, burlesque, stand-up comedy, crazy costumes and so much more. Visit Sachorrorfilmfest.com for passes and more event info.
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Wrap up another epic summer block party series with sounds from two awesome DJ/ production duos, BLU J (pictured) and Casino Gold, plus local support from dream-pop band Trophii and DJs Shaun Slaughter and Adam Jay. Free, all-ages event. Facebook.com/thisismid916 for details.
ArtMix: Crocker Con, Sept. 14, Crocker Art Museum Crocker’s fifth annual celebration of comic culture with live music, DJs, local comic book artists, vendors, live character sketching, panel talks, podcasts, a cosplay parade and more. All ages are welcome. 6 p.m. start time, more info at Crockerart.org.
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Farm-to-Fork Festival, Sept. 23, Capitol Mall This free, family-friendly event features a plethora of food, wine and beer for sale from regional eateries and purveyors, plus a seriously legit lineup of bands, cooking demos, an area for the kiddos, interactive booths and more. Runs from 11 a.m.–6:30 p.m. More info at Farmtofork.com.
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Statues of Limitations Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com Is it still the 21st century or did a black hole swallow the Earth and transport us back 100 years into the past? Racists sure seem to think so. They came out in droves to Charlottesville, Virginia, to show us all how ignorant they can be. Even the President of the United States of America thought it was cool to come out in support of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-nazis, white supremacists and altright shitheads (or at least the ones he claims are “good ones”). For fans of progress, this whole fiasco has been a remarkable and gut-wrenching thing to watch. I had thought we’d come further as a country, but that’s clearly not the case. Our problems may have begun at the founding of our nation when a bunch of old, rich white guys decided not to ban slavery, but they did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation or 100 years later with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Pure, unadulterated racism continues to dig its claws into various facets of our lives to this day. This article could never be long enough to detail all the injustices done to African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Muslims and (insert your country of origin here) in the name of America. The whole thing is truly shameful and unbecoming of a country that claims to be free. Worse yet, until we confront our troubled past and acknowledge what happened and what continues to happen, these kinds of things are going to keep bubbling up. Just look at what happened in Charlottesville. In case you’ve been living under a rock and hadn’t heard the news, several different groups of racists combined forces to march on Charlottesville in protest of the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Counter-protestors also showed up to push back against this public display of racism, violence ensued and some white supremacist ended up mowing down a group of counterprotestors with his car, killing one woman and injuring several others. It was another sad day in our history only made worse by President Trump insisting that all sides should share equal blame. Trump, like the protesters, lamented that removing this statue and others like it around the country would rip apart the “history and culture of our great country.” He and others on his side have called statues like these that represent hate and slavery, beautiful. These people want to pretend that these statues are doing some sort of public good, but they aren’t. That’s not why these types of statues were put there in the first place. Many statues of soldiers and war heroes of the Confederacy were placed around the country at two different times in our history. The first was about 35 years after the Civil SubmergeMag.com
War during the Jim Crow era and the second was during the Civil Rights movement. Both times, the statues were placed not in honor of our history, but in response to African Americans gaining more rights. The statues were meant to remind black people that while the laws might change, the South would not forget. The only history being celebrated with these statues was that of the white man enslaving the black. Why the fuck would we want statues to celebrate that? The South lost the Civil War, so why do we bother celebrating them at all? We don’t celebrate the other people we have conquered. There are no statues of Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden scattered around the countryside. We did not erect a statue of King Henry after we won the Revolutionary War. In fact, we mostly did the opposite and went about trying to erase his influence from our structure of governance. Better or worse, that is what victors in war do. Yet, despite our efforts otherwise, we still know who these people are and that they were terrible and we didn’t need statues to commemorate their awfulness. I know it sounds crazy to some, but it is possible to remember history without building a monument. There are these things called history books that get handed out at school that teach us about what happened, who was involved and what lessons can be learned. History books aren’t always as accurate as they could be, but flawed as they may be, these books are still in a much better position to remind us of our history than a statue could ever be. In fact, I would argue that a statue is maybe the worst way to teach history. With the exception of a small placard, statues rarely contain any information about the person being depicted other than their name. The passage of time allows people to forget many things and opens statues up to interpretation and ambiguity where none should exist. Eventually, this ambiguity gets exploited by a bunch of racist assholes who claim to be protecting history instead of admitting that they really just want to blame minorities for their own shortcomings as human beings. We cannot move forward in this country with statues like these around. They are not here to teach us anything. Statues of Confederate soldiers are not put in historic locations for historical purposes. They are put in places deemed the most effective to convey their sick message: that black people are not equal to whites and that racist shitbags will never give up. To see someone defend that is heartbreaking and should not be tolerated under any circumstance. Now can someone tell that to the president?
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I went into the theater with a sense of nervous apprehension that can only be ascribed to a transplanted Southerner. I didn’t know much about Logan Lucky other than a few keywords: “NASCAR,” “heist” and “Channing Tatum.” Oh, brother. Could it be yet another movie depicting a bunch of good ‘ol boys with poor excuses for a southern accent (my favorites include Canadian twangs, archaic Gone With the Wind Georgia drawls, and Joey’s Jamaican southern accent on Friends)? And will everyone have their teeth? Will I squirm in my theater seat, anticipating redneck hijinks that make my people look like buffoons with subpar IQs? Enter: Jimmy Logan (Tatum), a seemingly down-home, hunky, divorced dad in West Virginia riding around in—what else—a pickup truck. He’s just lost his hard hat job because management noticed a hitch in his get-along (aka an old football injury) that might cause them liability issues. Job prospects in Boone County are grim, to say the least. Because he’s just trying to do right by his adorable, beauty-queen-pageant daughter, Sadie (Farrah Mackenzie), we don’t blame him at all when he decides the only option is to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Convenient to the plot, Jimmy’s former construction job let him in on the fact that the petty cash from race day (about $14 million) all flow through a system of pneumatic tubes into a vault. Well, shoot. Jimmy reckons he could pull this stunt off with the help of a few family and friends. Along with Clyde, his one-armed bartender
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brother (the equally hunky Adam Driver … yes, I went there) and his hairdresser sister, Mellie (Riley Keough), Jimmy sets out to make his fortune. After “retiring” from film (with accomplishments such as Oceans Eleven, Out of Sight, Traffic and Magic Mike under his belt), Steven Soderbergh dropped this flick in theaters without much noise. He spent very little money on traditional marketing and instead focused on smaller target markets; billboards were only placed in certain regions of the country, trailers weren’t shown to focus groups and it was funded by presales and foreign advances. Soderbergh didn’t care about dropping major cheddar to rally a legion of moviegoers to this flick—but critics are loving this shit (Google it). It’s as though he’s in on a strategy that others haven’t figured out: market the movie where/how you damn well want to. Just like the ne’er do well characters of Logan Lucky, Soderbergh only wants us to know what we need to know. Hell, we don’t even really know who wrote the screenplay for Logan Lucky— “Rebecca Blunt” gets the credit, but rumor has it that she’s not real. Soderbergh swears she’s a real gal in West Virginia, but who knows? Who cares? Whether Soderbergh’s characters are speaking from Blunt, Soderbergh’s wife, or Soderbergh himself— one thing is sure: they are relatable, funny and not as dumb as they seem. A near-show stealer of this film is Joe Bang (Daniel Craig), an explosives expert that Jimmy plans to break out of prison just long enough to pull of the heist and then put him back before anyone notices. Not that the prison warden (hilariously played by Dwight Yoakam) would admit to any scandal in his prison. In fact, one of the funniest moments of this film happens during a carefully planned prison riot: one of the demands the
prisoners make are copies of the last two Game of Thrones books. Applause to whoever wrote this screenplay—the relevance and timing of this joke is masterfully done. And the heist? It’s accomplished with minor hitches and a very satisfying explosion made with gummy bears and bleach pens. The real meat of the story is the heist-within-a-heist—the head-scratching “twist” being that Jimmy gives all the money back. Or does he? Turns out, Jimmy was working a sidehustle the whole time. The heist-within-aheist works in his favor, all while the media dubs his stunt as “Oceans 7-11” and the “hillbilly heist.” Despite a couple of Hee Haw-type brothers (that are initially depicted tossing toilet seats as horseshoes, sigh) that are only helping Jimmy because the Lord would want them to—Soderbergh manages to poke fun of the South without being disrespectful. He’s pulled off a fun story with only minor glitches (just like Jimmy’s heist. See a trend here?). However, these glitches have been deal-breakers to some: the underutilization of female characters (Katie Holmes as Jimmy’s exwife/baby mama and Hilary Swank as the FBI agent with an itch to scratch), and the overutilization of Seth MacFarlane as an obnoxious NASCAR driver left a sour taste in many a gummy bear-eatin’ mouth. But just like Clyde’s beloved prosthetic arm, this movie gets the job done one way or another, and all just in time to see Jimmy’s daughter sing a heartfelt rendition of her dad’s favorite song, “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver, at the county beauty pageant. I’ll give this movie four out of five stars because it not only made me laugh, it made my inner redneck high-five my inner cultural snob. That’s all you need to know.
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Sacramento’s Annual Jewish Food Faire Celebrates 40th Year! • Sept. 10 Fair warning: this blurb will probably make you hungry. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, can we talk about the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Congregation Beth Shalom’s Jewish Food Faire? Going down on Sunday, Sept. 10, this family-friendly community gathering features dishes like freshly hand-sliced corned beef and pastrami sandwiches, chopped liver, bagels and lox, latkes, falafel, cabbage rolls, noodle kugel, matzo ball soup, blintzes, macaroons and so much more. The event will also feature live music and entertainment all day long, plus vendors, arts and crafts, kids activities, ample opportunities for community connections and much more. Runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Congregation Beth Shalom, located at 4746 El Camino Ave. in Carmichael. Fore more info and to pre-order many of your favorite dishes, visit Jewishfoodfaire.com. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
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Soosh*e! Reps Sactown Hip-Hop On and Off the Air Words Andrew C. Russell • photo Vincent Vredenburg
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f listening to “My Year,” the latest, infectious single by Sacramento’s very own Soosh*e!, succeeds in shooting you upward a wave of optimism about your current state in life, it should be of special note that when he wrote it, some time ago, the song’s hopeful message rang hollow in his own ears. During a period of some financial struggle and general listlessness, he set aside the general hook and handful of lyrics: “I woke up here this morning and I told myself that this gon’ be my year,” all with a stubborn certainty of a time in the near future when he could spit those rhymes truthfully. Now, by all accounts, that time has arrived. And with a string of profile-raising shows in 2016, and the bookends this year of a triumphant appearance at Concerts in the Park in June (the highest attended in decades) and a role in the highly anticipated second annual OntheBlock party in September, we could very well be in the midst of Sactown’s summer of Soosh*e! Soosh*e!’s role in the Sacramento scene has steadily evolved since he first joined a drumline in his early teens, up through his first stabs at recording and producing his own material, to becoming one of the faces of Hot 103.5. Through it all, he’s consistently pushed community, curation and collaboration within his hometown, whether it’s promoting local shows or using his radio platform to boost the profile of regional talent alongside national acts. While seeming to be everywhere at once due to his rapidfire appearances and social media shout-outs, he once described himself as “not an extravagant person. Just busier than most.” This is what first strikes you about Brandon Shimabukuro, aka Soosh*e!, in person: a rare combination of ambition and perspective. Being able to look at the music scene around him from the inside and out, he has a keen understanding of how developing Sacramento’s musical wealth points the way forward to a windfall for everyone involved, versus the all-too-common “up-and-out” attitude. These days, Soosh*e! is focused on finding a balance to his grind between culture creator and culture promoter. Below, we sit down with him to learn the origins of his “infiltration” into radio, the value of positivity, and the cultural goldmine Sac has in its hip-hop.
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How did you get started in radio? Basically, it was one of those situations where a door opens and you go running through it. 103.5 was throwing this Sage the Gemini Halloween concert at Coyote Tap House, where I was the in-house host on Fridays. The event was sold out, but none of the on-air personalities showed up, because at the time they were a pop station. When I got there, they said they didn’t have anybody to MC, so they wanted me to host the rest of the night and just do my regular thing. So I’m hosting it, it’s going crazy, because I’m working with a DJ that I know, the atmosphere is tight. The then-program director for 103.5 is there, because they’re super shortstaffed, and they had to have everybody on hand. I guess Sage said something to her along the lines of, “Yo! Who’s performing right now? It’s going crazy out there.” She was like, “He’s not even performing out there, he’s just hosting the party!” After that she saw me interact with Sage and it was a cool conversation, she could tell I wasn’t a fanboy over an artist, that I could be professional while talking to somebody. And at the end of that night, she offered me a job based on all those situations. Did you come into 103. 5 with a mission? When I got there, I was kind of on the fence with myself, it was one of those things where you feel like you jump ship, because this was like right after 103.5 The Bomb turned into Hot 103.5, a full-on pop station. At the time, I was almost anti-radio. And prior to that, there was the whole Sac Hates Hip-Hop campaign that was going on. But I realized it could be a big opportunity. I didn’t necessarily come in with a mission, but as I was getting in it, I realized there were a lot of eyes on me being
there, and on top of that, instead of the hiphop community shaming me like I sold out, the reaction was like, “Yo, somebody got IN. Somebody infiltrated the system!” From that point on, there was also a cultural shift. Hiphop was becoming more of a mainstream thing. Instead of a station having to be all hip-hop or no hip-hop, you saw all of the major pop stations going hip-hop. Probably the longestrunning DJ from the 103.5 The Bomb era became the program director, and decided we needed to make that shift back as well. I was pushing that agenda slightly by just changing the tone of my voice on air. I went from doing this Ryan Seacrest sounding radio host voice to really letting my roots show. Would an exclusively local hip-hop show have a big impact on the current scene? If we were to do an all-local show, it would cheapen the value of the local. If you were to say, “Every Saturday, this show’s for the locals,” then what’s that going to mean for the person who only gets played on the local show? If you’re a local, then you should aim to get played next to the nationals. That’s when you get a track like Lil Darrion from the north side. He has a track with Sage the Gemini that’s getting airplay from us called “Friends.” That song sits perfectly in a rotation with national records like a Lil Wayne or Drake record. We do what we can to break out of stigmas like that, but you have to do it in a way that doesn’t cheapen the value of what actually happens here. People don’t realize that there’s always a slippery slope to everything, if you put all the locals in one box. If you’re a local who gets played on one station enough that another station has to play it, that’s when you know you’re doing something big. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
Apart from radio, where are you at artistically now? Bring us up to date. Well, James Cavern started Tree Tone Records, which is a locally based record label that currently has signed me, a group called Inland—that’s a super dope indie folk group— and then Cameron Calloway out of Vegas, who actually runs with Rasar a lot—his voice is incredible. Since that happened, we’ve kinda gotten into business mode a little bit. Really trying to understand the ins and outs of what’s going on in the industry and how to actually make things work. Learning distribution is far more important than the actual signing to a label side. At the same time, I’ve kind of taken a step back from making music. Only because I was looking for inspiration and trying to figure out where my sound is gonna go after “My Year.” I felt like if I tried to do too many things that sounded like that song, I was gonna get stuck at some point. But I’ve been tapping in with a lot of other producers, The Philharmonik is one of them; Ru AREYOU, who’s on tour with Justin Bieber right now; and I tapped in with Steeziak and some others, trying to figure out what this vibe is going to be. I’ve also decided within this time frame that I don’t want to necessarily get stuck—I’ve kind of been leaning away from hip-hop and more toward how you can infuse dance and hip-hop, because if everything I do is uplifting, then someone’s gonna dance to that. So I’ve been really intrigued by the sounds of Kaytranada, Pomo, all these super dancey producer-DJs. I got involved with DJ Drewski and John Reyes and Sean LaMarr from DLRN, and we just started Good Company Radio. They’ve showed me the ropes as to where the dance scene goes. What role does positivity have in your music? This past year has been tough for me. I did get a little down for a bit. You know, every now and then you hit those financial struggles, and those kinds of things can turn into “everything sucks.” But I’ve always been the type of person to be forward thinking and whenever there’s something negative that happens, there’s always something you can do to solve the problem instead of dwell on what that problem is. There’s space in music to make that happen. Especially in radio—that’s your job. You’re there to give something to people that they can take comfort in listening to. The only reason people still listen to radio is because it feels like somebody’s with them, and they know that somebody’s alive and well on the other side of that radio, there’s always somebody there. When you’re listening to Pandora, nobody’s really there. The rapture could’ve happened, but Spotify’s still gonna be there. But we’re always gonna have that voice on the other side of the radio that says “I’m here.” That’s where the positivity for me comes from—knowing that there’s something you can do to help uplift somebody. It’s tough for me to even make deeper songs now. I’ve tried to dig deep and go really south with them, but now the emotions that I feel, sometimes even when I’m down, I’m writing music to uplift myself. I was really SubmergeMag.com
down when I wrote “My Year,” but by the time I released it, I was feeling the best I ever had, I’d lost 25 pounds, I was getting fit and just feeling good about the people around me, and I went in to finish that song and I finally got it done, and I was sold on it. You’ve explained that your name, Soosh*e! originally came out of a more denigrating term about your heritage. How do you approach your identity in your work now? I actually had a conversation with my mom the other day—you know, I’m half Mexican as well as Japanese. My mom is the Mexican side. She was super mad. She said, “When people hear your music, they can see your name, no one knows you’re Mexican!” I feel like in our current generation, we’re not bound to the cultures that we were born into, we’re creating our own right now. People don’t see me as an “Asian rapper” and they haven’t for a very long time, though they did early on. Being that we’re in a city that’s the melting pot of all those things, you know, don’t worry what nationality I am, don’t put me in that box. Put us more in the context of all the new culture we’re building upon. I think that that’s where I try to position myself.
I read an article today that really sat with me, and it almost made me feel like crap about the way that conversations have been going recently in circles that I’ve been in. It was a picture of this girl, this little Caucasian girl who had full-on geisha makeup on, wearing a kimono, and her parents were throwing a Japanese tea party for her birthday. It was surfacing on Tumblr with the caption “Parents, please teach your children that this is not OK.” It was this whole thing about cultural appropriation or whatever. So a girl from Japan responds and says ‘It’s not okay that what you’re doing is not considered the racist thing, to say that she’s not allowed to learn our culture.” It was crazy to me, because the one side is trying to impose this idea of cultural appropriation, while the other was saying that when you come to our country, our customary gift is to give you something like a kimono, something traditional that you can take home and embrace as part of our culture. And it applies to music. How are we supposed to get new music out if we’re not allowed to understand it from different veins? So many genres of music are based on cultural appropriation. EDM trap, for one—it’s a new genre. Now Waka Flocka is putting out new styles because of it.
Having knowledge of radio and promotion, do you often approach things as a curator? Absolutely. I curate things because I’m surrounded by DJs every day of my life. And my mom was very much a party planner, and in a lot of those settings, she had me help out a lot. Even my dad, at home, he’s very into cars. He loves the Japanese VIP style cars, so he has one of his own, and he loves the idea of creating and curating the look of something, so that it’s very presentable when it happens. I’ve put all those things together, so my idea of making music and creating a project is more about creating a vibe for someone to party to. I’m designing it more in a way that a DJ would play it through. If someone listens to my next album, I want it to almost be able to be played through like one ongoing party.
See Soosh*e! on Saturday, Sept. 2 at the second annual OntheBlock party on R Street alongside The Lique, DLRN, Cameron Calloway, The Philharmonik and others. More info at Treetonerecords.com. Soosh*e! will also play #HOFDAY on Saturday, Sept. 16 in Old Sacramento with Hippie Sabotage, DJ Noodles, Joyzu, DJ Amen and Kool John, plus many others. More info at Hofdayparty.com.
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n a time of growing political instability the world over, the line between reality and
doomsday Vaudeville has become increasingly blurred here at home. Scientific facts of life are one such blurred line, with things known by obvious physical laws of nature being both outwardly attacked and inwardly denied by those with a love of blind faith and willful misinformation. Be it evolution or climate change, we live in a time where mass avoidances of truths are perhaps more maddening than at any other time in human history, as science and technology continue to embolden our ability to tell fact from fiction. Maddening, that is, if you’re on the side of science, logic and reason. If not, prepare to be forever challenged by a man like Bill Nye.
Yes, that Bill Nye—“the science
The Nye of the Storm
David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg Bring Science, Reason and Bill Nye to Nevada City Film Festival Words Jacob Sprecher
guy.” He’s been in the business of public, educational truth-telling for nigh 25 years, and to this very day dukes it out with all comers, from Australian Christian fundamentalist and Creation Museum founder Ken Ham, to Fox News meteorologist and climate change denier Joe Bastardi. Nye’s grit in the face of such staunch pig-headedness has earned him both respect and hatred, depending upon which side of the aisle you stand. Which in part led filmmakers David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg (The Immortalists) to the task of documenting the man himself. Bill Nye: Science Guy follows the legendary science communicator for an entire year, chronicling the ups and downs of confronting the ugly side of scientific denial from Kentucky to Greenland. Along the way, a portrait is painted of an actual individual and not just a television personality. The result is an accessible, thoughtprovoking and often cringe-worthy documentary that can fill you with both hope and dread. Submerge caught up with Alvarado and Sussberg in anticipation of the film’s screening at the 17th Annual Nevada City Film Festival.
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I’m guessing you didn’t expect Donald Trump to be the next president when you began this undertaking in 2014. Did you imagine the battle for science and reason would become as intense as it has? Jason Sussberg: Not at all. There’s a whole different version of the film where Donald Trump wasn’t even a part of it; where this fight for science, fight for facts, fight for reason, was sort of a fringe oddity. When we were [making] the film, and just anecdotally we would share this with our friends or other filmmakers, their response was a uniform, “Who cares, why bother, why whack this hornet’s nest?” And not to say, “I told you so,” but David and I were aware that there were dark forces lurking on the surface of our politics. David Alvarado: If you live in New York or San Francisco and L.A., it’s easy to forget how many people have those very strange worldviews. How many people in the American electorate believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old or that evolution didn’t happen? It’s something like over a third of the voting electorate doesn’t understand the most basic parts of science, and it’s easy to forget that in our bubbles on the coasts. I grew up in Dallas, and that was everybody around me. And when I moved to California for graduate school, I was shocked that people didn’t perceive the threat that people are this backwards. It kind of just came to a head when we were in production, and it was a reminder of why we set out to do it in the first place. It’s an engaging film to watch on many levels, from the personal touches in Bill’s life to the various political and scientific debates. But I gotta admit that as much as I enjoyed it, at the film’s conclusion, I kinda felt helplessly depressed, which seems par for the course with many thinking critically about climate change. DA: [Laughs.] I think it is kind of depressing. The whole conflict with Joe Bastardi and Ken Ham felt like you’re banging your head against the wall, and I think that’s sort of where we’re at right now. I think we have to find a solution to that, and the film doesn’t really pretend to offer any answers. But one takeaway is that education is key. The next generation of educators are the long-term solution. As much as we need to be literate in the sense of being able to read, I think you have to be scientifically literate. That should be something we take with extreme seriousness. We hope that was the message. There’s a chance to reverse this, but it’s going to be a long process. What kind of personal relationship did you develop with Bill over the course of the film? DA: He sort of became our friend. There was the critical distance we had to maintain, because we had creative control over the film and wanted to be honest about what we discovered about the man. But we truly do like SubmergeMag.com
him as a person. He’s an amazing guy and his heart’s in the right place. He’s not perfect, just like nobody’s perfect, and we explored those avenues in the film. Through that process there was a trusting relationship built between us, and I’m really glad he let us into his life. Did he enjoy the final product? DA: At SXSW, where the film premiered, I think he just needed to take it all in. It’s hard to look at your life on a 50-foot screen with an audience of a thousand people. He seems to love the film more and more as he travels with it and hears people’s response. He always liked it, [but] I think he’s grown in appreciation for what the film does and what we crafted. As filmmakers, what was toughest for you to take in on a human level? DA: The Ark Encounter [at the Creation Museum] in particular, that’s sort of the environment I was raised in. My family aren’t believers in evolution; I remember going to Sunday school and learning those things and taking them as fact. [So] walking through the Ark, with all its horrors, was like walking through my childhood. They were literally telling kids that giants are real; like 40-foot tall giants were a thing that was actually roaming the earth. These are grown adults telling children lies. Realistically, what’s your vision for the future? And how do you think climate change will continue to unfold? JS: Not to sound Pollyanna-ish, but I think that technology is going to be the thing that helps us get out of this, not politics alone. We might never agree on how to solve climate change, [but] right now we can’t even agree that it’s happening. We are so screwed in our politics. Technology won’t deliver us from our current situation, but I think that there are solutions out there— renewable energy, carbon trapping, geo-engineering—that are kind of post-politics that we’re gonna have to use. Democracy is a very slow process. Politics is slow. Technology is not. It’s only a matter of time before we’re using batteries to energize our houses, and using solar panels to gather that energy … there are solutions out there.
Bill Nye: Science Guy is part of a fantastic slate of films—shorts, documentaries, animation and fiction—set to screen at this year’s Nevada City Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 8–15. Bill Nye: Science Guy will be shown on Sept. 11 at 5:30 at The Miners Foundry Cultural Center (325 Spring St., Nevada City). Filmmakers Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado, as well as the man himself, Bill Nye, will be on hand for a special Q&A. To purchase tickets and for a full lineup of films, go to Nevadacityfilmfestival.com.
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The Science of Suds
Crooked Lane Brewing Company is a Strong Addition to Auburn’s Booming Beer Scene Words Alia Cruz
Crooked Lane owners (left to right) Paul Schilling, Adrian Psuty, Kirt Braun | Photo by Jen Kingston
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rewing beer is hard work on many levels; making the sudsy nectar is not only extremely labor intensive, but a lot of legit science goes into concocting the perfect pint. With this said, who better to open a brewery than a couple of hardcore beer enthusiasts, homebrewers and ex-biotech chemists? Crooked Lane Brewing Company is the newest addition to the renowned Auburn beer scene, and the only brewery to intertwine a solid science background with old school, traditional European styles, among others. The company has had a whirlwind year, and is already approaching its oneyear anniversary. In the last few years, Auburn has become somewhat of a surprise beer drinking destination. It became a beer hot spot most notably because of the OG hop heavy hitters over at Knee Deep and more recently the award-winning hazy and double IPAs of Moonraker. In a crazy fast amount of time, suddenly busses from all over were bringing out-of towners into the sleepy town to throw the renowned pints down their gullets. Only a year ago, Crooked Lane joined Auburn’s prestigious lineup with a love for their brewery neighbors and a couple of recipes that would give them their own distinctive niche in the community and bring even more awards to the Auburn beer scene. They describe themselves as “an internationally-inspired, locally-focused craft brewery with a broad portfolio of beer offerings ranging from traditional German lagers to West Coast style IPAs.” In a short time, Crooked Lane has already won more than 15 awards from all over the country. They were recently named Auburn’s best new place to grab a pint, and the brewery’s Wobblor Doppelbock, placed first in the Strong European Beer category and went on to win second best of show, out of 1,488 total beer entries at this year’s California State Fair brew competition. The brewery holds community in high esteem, and wants their company to reflect their own roots. The three couples who own the brewery are all neighbors on Crooked Lane in Newcastle, and thus named their business after the street that brought them all together. The families/neighbors turned business partners are all very close and tend to eat dinner together regularly and share produce from their gardens. “We want the same communal feeling at our brewery. We want it to have the neighborhood feel where people can gather and have have a good time,” says co-owner Paul Schilling. The same can be said for the general beer community in Auburn. Schilling is quick to point out that every brewery in Auburn brings its own unique concoction to the table. They aren‘t competitive with one another and are actually really open with sharing techniques and offering support, they are metaphorically all sitting at the same table just sharing a different dish. Many West Coast breweries specialize in hoppy beers; beers that are piney, bitter and super danky. Crooked Lane has these too, but what they really master are their European-style brews—beers that are usually crisp, have a delicate sweetness and Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
Photo by Chad Davies have a very low, if any, hop profile. Making European lagers can take months and months and requires someone who is extremely wellversed in the delicate brewing process of these traditional beers. Co-owner Adrian Psuty and his wife Teresa (who is the head brewer) were both chemists who worked in biotech and frequently traveled to Ireland and Germany for projects. As they traveled, they would become extremely familiar with the flavors and styles of the local beers by drinking plenty of it and then obsessively researching how to make them. The two have experimented with and perfected most of the European-style beer recipes they have recreated in their own brewery. “Beer and science go hand in hand,” said Adrian. “Beer is also extremely technical. It’s all about process control and putting beers through tests and using the scientific approach of tweaking things by assessing what components must be eliminated or modified.” Their award-winning Wobblor Doppelbock went through more than six different processes and four months to get where it is now. If the beer isn’t perfect, the brewers do not hesitate to dump it down the drain and start all over. The kolsch lager beer style is so transparent and pure, that it makes the quality of the beer and its ingredients far more obvious than an IPA would. An imperfect kolsch would show any flavor blemish, while beers like IPAs can easily mask off-flavors with their abrasive hops. Brewer Teresa Psuty can be seen working hard in the brewing facilities pairing her science brain with her beer-centric pallette to eliminate imperfections
in her kolsch and lagers. While these beers are the highlight of Crooked Lane, they also offer just about every other style of beer including darks and sours. Schilling says that they want to provide customers with an unforgettable beer experience, and always have traditional beers on tap with the glassware and knowledge to back it. Crooked Lane's current digs is a massive building that has seen a huge variety of occupants. Initially it was a historic Auburn movie house, and then it was a martial arts school and more recently, a car lot. The space is enormous, and even has an outdoor beer garden that owners say are good for anything from reading books to bringing a large party of friends for fun. The space is so huge, you can easily find refuge from the party. “We wanted to make sure we had enough space to host large events inside and out,” says Schilling. “We want our brewery to be a community epicenter.” The folks at Crooked Lane are most excited about hosting live comedy events and music. They want to regularly bring in both local, amateur and large national acts to perform. It will hopefully evolve into not only a brewery, but an events center for the community. As they prepare to complete their very first year as a brewery and enter a new chapter, They have a few ambitious goals in line. Teresa Psuty wants to have an award-winning beer in every category and style; she doesn’t just want to put the product out there, but she wants to put it through all of the scientific procedures to reach levels of perfection. They also want to expand on their barrel-aging program; they currently plan on releasing a barrel-aged version of that awardwinning and much sought after dopplebock to celebrate their one year in the books. This beer will be malty, slightly sweet, mature, boozy and of course scientifically perfected.
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Saints of El Dorado County Fair & Event Center Circumstance, 3 p.m. Dry Diggings Festival: Nahko & Medicine for the People, Don Carlos, Blue Lamp Rachel Steele, Tim Long Beach Dub Allstars, Evidence, Josh Williamson, Marty Taters, Alan Wright, Heinrichs, Orgone, Arden Park Roots Kyle Martin, DJ Manifo, Fully Covered, and More, 10 a.m. 8 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon The Taylor Chicks, The Boardwalk Strawberry Girls, 3 p.m. Andrés, A Foreign Affair, Find Yourself, LightUpSuperHeroes, 7 p.m. Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Eric Church, 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Jed Madela, Vina LowBrau Throwback Jams w/ DJ Epik & Morales, 8 p.m. Special Guests, 9:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial Diners, Walter Etc., The Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Croissants, The Globs, 8 p.m. Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 Capitol Garage The Corner w/ DJ Veyn & p.m. Guests, 10 p.m. Colonial Theatre The Iron Maidens, X-Method, Toxin and More, 7 p.m. The Colony Empress, Corroded Master, continued on page 24 >> Killer Couture, Bad Slime, 8 p.m.
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Ace of Spades Simple Plan, Set It Off, Patent Pending, 6 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Open Mic, 6:30 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Reagan Youth, Hoods, Yankee Brutal, Human/Nature, 8 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. The Fig Tree (Roseville) Hailey Ann, 7:30 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Nashville Night w/ Mike’s Lost & Found, 8 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Gaslight Company (Folsom) Open Mic Night Hosted by Brian Souders, 7 p.m. Go Palladio (Folsom) Wednesday Summer Concert Series w/ The Cheeseballs, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Press Club Work Your Soul, 9 p.m. Sacramento State: University Union Plaza Nooner w/ Sol Peligro, 12 p.m. Shine Unplug, Recharge: A Micless Open Mic, 8 p.m.
Ace of Spades Famous Dex, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Mark Lemaire and Michael Manring, 7:30 p.m. Bar 101 Jessica Malone, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Doc Tari, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp Sad Numbers, Trinidad Silva, The Surrounded, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Spacewalker, CBR, Sam Peter & The Village, Tao Jiriki, Occupy the Trees, 7 p.m. Cafe Colonial Pounded Clown, The Bananas, Detroit Red, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Crest Theatre Destroy Boys, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Rolling Heads, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Sunmonks, Cold Eskimo, Starover Blue, 9 p.m. Golden 1 Center Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Shelters, 7 p.m. (Rescheduled Date) Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m.
Armadillo Music Stereo No Aware, 5:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Rhyme Revival 2: BrvndonP, Mission, Kennedy Wrose, Izreal Graham, Winrow the Square, DJ Kool Kuts, 8 p.m. CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) Jim Martinez Quartet, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club Spotlights, Shadow Limb, Astral Cult, 8 p.m.
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Ace of Spades Ugly God, Wintertime, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Kasey Williams, Carrie Welling, Kate Mills, 7 p.m. Blue Lamp The Scene, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Goldfield Jason Richardson, The Reign of Kindo, Stolas, 7 p.m. Harlow’s Gangstagrass, 8 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Guitar Club, 6:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Torch Club Jessica Malone, 5:30 p.m.
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CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) Rebecca Kilgore Trio, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s George Kahumoku Jr., 5:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Digisaurus, 5 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. Press Club Monday Vibes w/ MC Ham & Friends, 9 p.m. Swabbies on the River 4 Barrel, 2 p.m.
Ace of Spades Sister Hazel, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Open Mic, 6:30 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Locksmith, KungFu Vampire, 9 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Gaslight Company (Folsom) Open Mic Night, 7 p.m.
Harris Center for the Arts George Winston, 7:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Songwriters Showcase, 5:30 p.m.; Hannah Jane Kile, 9 p.m. Toyota Amphitheatre Nickelback, Daughtry, Shaman’s Harvest, 6 p.m.
9.07 Thursday
Ace of Spades Minus the Bear, Velvet Teen, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Country Club Saloon (Loomis) Gethen Jenkins, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Moon Boots, 10 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Marty Cohen & The Sidekicks, 8 p.m. Goldfield Ana Popovic, 7 p.m. The Hangar at McClellan Conference Center An Evening with Jonathan Butler and Gerald Albright, 7:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Dylan Crawford, 9:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Midtown BarFly Soul In Soul Out: A Musical Dedication to Erykah Badu, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Nash Brothers, 9 p.m. Press Club Emo Night Sacramento Live, 8 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Steven Young Amphitheater (El Dorado Hills) Folsom Lake Symphony, 6:30 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Pine
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Street Ramblers, Micah Schnabel, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY
Ace of Spades Quiet Riot, Roswell, Anarchy Lace, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe Debbie Wolfe & Halfmoon Highway, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Jason Weeks, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Nacho and the Dollar Menu, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp Arkaik, Alterbeast, Inanimate Existence, Waste Walker, Sound Soul, Purification By Fire, 7 p.m. The Boardwalk J. Stalin, DJ Hawk, 7:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial Murderburgers, City Mouse, At Both Ends, Day Labor, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) Vagabond Brothers, 9 p.m. Crest Theatre Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, 6:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Kevin & Allyson Seconds, Natalie Cortez, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Gold Country Lanes (Sutter Creek) C.T. Locke: DJ, Sing & Dance, 6:30 p.m. Goldfield The Nickel Slots, 7 p.m. Harlow’s Jethro Tull’s Martin Barre Band, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Ottmar Liebert, Luna Negra, 7:30 p.m. Helwig Winery Vino Banditos, 5 p.m. Kupros Craft House Mudfolk, 9:30 p.m. MOMO Sacramento Blu & Exile, DLRN, 7 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Jackson Michelson, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m.
Old Ironsides Worthy Goat, The Phantom Jets, Dr. Striker, Hits and Misses, 8 p.m. On The Y Among the Torrent, Pacifists, Stormfall, Focara, Exiled from Grace, 7 p.m. Opera House Saloon (Roseville) Restrayned, Toryn Green, 8 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Shift, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Rockology, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. The Purple Place (El Dorado Hills) Bum Lucky, 8:30 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 9:30 p.m. Shine The Mechula, Bogg and More, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub DJ Night, 9 p.m. Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) Auto Reverse, 9 p.m. Sutter Creek Provisions Miss Lonely Hearts, 6 p.m. Swabbies on the River Night Moves (Bob Segar tribute), Shades of Purple (Deep Purple tribute), 6 p.m. Torch Club Lynn Drury, 5:30 p.m.; The Nibblers, 9 p.m. Zinfandel Grille Jazz Gitan, 7 p.m.
9.09 Saturday
Ace of Spades The Magpie Salute, 7 p.m. The Acoustic Den Cafe The Icarus Account, 4 p.m.; Songwriters In The Round Showcase, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Christian DeWild, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. The Bathtub Gins, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp The Scratch Outs, The Storytellers, Inciters, The Celestions, 8:30 p.m. The Boardwalk MC Lars, Big O, Dead Till Monday, KaiLord, 6:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial White Minorities, Malcom Bliss, Terra Ferno, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage The Corner w/ DJ Veyn & Guests, 10 p.m.
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Country Club Saloon (Loomis) The Kenny Frye Band, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Harlow’s JOEL the Band (Billy Joel tribute), 5:30 p.m. The Hideaway 3rd Annual Tiki Tailgater w/ The Fortunate Few, 3 p.m. Kupros Craft House Hot City, 9:30 p.m. MARRS Building THIS Is Midtown Free Block Party w/ Blu J, Casino Gold, Trophii, Shaun Slaughter, Adam Jay, 4:30 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Stephen Stills & Judy Collins, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. Old Ironsides 50-Watt Heavy, The Mutineers, Sun Valley Gun Club, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Opera House Saloon (Roseville) Robby James and the Streets of Bakersfield, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Mere Mortals, 4 p.m.; Cripple Creek, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 10 p.m. Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen Arts & Leisure, The Aerosols, Vasas, 6 p.m. Sauced BBQ & Spirits 27 Outlaws, 9:30 p.m. Shine That Kid Raja & Charm The Riot, Kennedy Wrose, Sparks Across Darkness, 8 p.m. The Silver Orange Surviving the Era, Flight Mongoose, Public School, Short Trip, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen The Gold Souls, Pistachio, 9:30 p.m. Sutter Creek Provisions The Carolyn Sills Combo, 6 p.m. Swabbies on the River Mr. December, 2 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Keith Sweat, Bobby Brown, Blackstreet, Warren G and more, 5:30 p.m. Torch Club Diego’s Umbrella, 9 p.m. Whired Wine Ja’Net Miller, 8 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Whiskey Alley, 6 p.m. Zinfandel Grille Jane Thompson Trio, 7 p.m.
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9.10 Sunday
Ace of Spades SZA, 7 p.m. (Sold Out) Berryessa Brewing Co. Elizabeth Moen and Blake Shaw, 3 p.m. Blue Note Brewing Co. Sunday Sessions Live w/ Dyana & The Cherry Kings, 3 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Las Fenix, 5 p.m. Cafe Colonial Astral Cult, Vincula (EP Release), Midnight Sinfini, 7 p.m. Cesar Chavez Plaza Tamales, Tacos and Touchdowns w/ Baby Bash, DJ Gio, Mariachi Los Gallos, Solsa and More, 11 a.m. Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Indigo Girls, 8 p.m. (Sold Out) Crest Theatre Lalah Hathaway, 7 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Classical Concert feat. Christopher Atzinger, 3 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Elkhorn Country Saloon Moneyback, 2 p.m. Harlow’s Danielle Mone Truitt, 5:30 p.m. LowBrau Throwback Jams w/ DJ Epik & Special Guests, 9:30 p.m. Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides DJ Epik, 2 p.m. On The Y DJ Nachtdoom, 10 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Catfish Copeland, 3 p.m. Press Club Dusk, Cherry Death, Andrew Diamond Henderson, 5 p.m.; Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Royer Park (Roseville) The Sun Kings (Beatles tribute), 6 p.m. Sutter Creek Provisions Darin Sexton & HWY 49 Band, 3 p.m. Swabbies on the River Beer Dawgs, 3 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m. Trinity Life Center Big Daddy Weave, We Are Messengers, Micah Taylor, 7 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Alex Trujillo, 2 p.m.
9.11 monday
The Boardwalk Kublai Khan, No Zodiac, I Am, Earth Down, Know Your Enemy, Nailed Down, 5:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. Press Club Run It Back w/ DJ Nocturnal, DJ Rated-R, Mr. P Chill, 9 p.m. The Silver Orange Nezumi Onna, Tabloid Tea, 6 p.m.
Comedy Blacktop Comedy Diego Curiel: Live Album Recording, Sept. 8, 8 p.m. Fox & Goose Fem Dom Com: Hosted by Jaime Fernandez, Emma Haney, and Becky Lynn, Sept. 9, 9 p.m. Harlow’s A Night of Stand-up with Martín Moreno, Sept. 7, 9 p.m. Laughs Unlimited DJ Sandhu & Friends, Aug. 31, 8 p.m. Taylor Tomlinson feat. Andrew Rivers, Sept. 1 - 3, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Comedy Open Mic Showcase, Sept. 5, 8 p.m. There Goes the Neighborhood Comedy Jam feat. Cisco Duran, Sept. 7, 8 p.m. San Francisco Comedy Competition Preliminary Round, Sept. 8, 8 p.m. Mark G feat. Sterling Scott, Sept. 8, 10:30 p.m. JR DeGuzman feat. Sterling Scott, Sept. 9 - 10, Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Laguna Town Hall (Elk Grove) Comedy Under the Stars w/ Stephen B & Guests, Sept. 8, 8 p.m.
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Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy w/ Host Jaime Fernandez, Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. Comedy Showcase, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. MOMO Sacramento Comedy Burger w/ Ngaio Bealum, Sept. 10, 7 p.m. On the Y Open Mic Comedy w/ Host Robert Berry, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. Punch Line Carlos Rodriguez Presents: Hella-larious, Aug. 30, 8 p.m. Thomas Dale feat. Nick Aragon, Hosted by David Naimyar, Aug. 31 - Sept. 3, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Josh Blue feat. Christie Buchele, Hosted by Joey Avery, Sept. 7 - 9, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m. Will Durst: Durst Case Scenario, Sept. 10, 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 8 p.m. Improv Taste Test and Harold Night, Wednesday’s, 7 - 10 p.m. Cage Match and Improv Jam, Thursday’s, 8 - 10 p.m. Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, 9 p.m. Sacramento State: University Union Ballroom Comedy Night w/ Joel Kim Booster, Ngaio Bealum, Daniel Humbarger, Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m. Tommy T’s Eddie Griffin, Sept. 1 - 2, Fri., 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m. Carlos Mencia, Sept. 8 - 10, Fri. & Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.
Misc. 8th and W Streets Certified Farmers Market, Sunday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. 1810 Gallery Opening Reception for Molly Devlin’s Valley of Shadows, Sept. 1, 6 p.m. 20th & K Streets 30th Annual Rainbow Festival, Sept. 3, 12 - 7 p.m. 20th Street (between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. B Street Theatre B3 Series: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, Through Sept. 9 Mainstage Series: Bloomsday, Through Sept. 10 The Barn (West Sacramento) Off the Grid Markets Presents: Saturday Nights at the Barn feat. Food Trucks, Live Music and More, Saturday’s, 5 - 10 p.m. Beers Books Movie Night: L’avventura (1960), Sept. 7, 8 p.m. Black Diamond Boutique & Gallery Uncle J’Rocque & Friends Art Show, Aug. 30, 6 p.m. Blue Cue Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, Tuesday’s, 8 p.m. Cal Expo Sacramento Classic Car & Parts Swap Meet, Sept. 9, 7 a.m. - 1 p.m. Capitol Mall Certified Farmers Market, Thursday’s, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) In Conversation with Alice Waters feat. Moderator Beth Ruyak from Cap Radio, Sept. 8, 8 p.m. Central Park (Davis) Vintage and Crafts Fair, Sept. 10, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Cesar Chavez Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Wednesday’s, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Congregation Beth Shalom 40th Annual Sacramento Jewish Food Faire, Sept. 10, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Crest Theatre Film Screening and Moderated Q&A: Turn It Around: The Story Of East Bay Punk, Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m. Film Screening: Ghost, Sept. 3, 7 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose, Through Sept. 17 Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans, Through Oct. 8 Empress Tavern Urban Roots Brewing’s Collaboration Release Party, Sept. 7, 6 p.m. Fairytale Town 2017 Labor Day Picnic, Sept. 4, 5 p.m. Florin Road & 65th Street Certified Farmers Market, Thursday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m. Fremont Park Chalk it Up Festival, Sept. 2 - 4, 10 a.m. Galt Market Grounds Galt Heritage Festival, Sept. 9, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Gibson Ranch Park Community Yard Sale, Sept. 2, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Green Valley Theatre Company The Magic of Ryan Kane, Sept. 8 - 9, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Qingdao Song and Dance Theatre Presents Dance Opera: Red Sorghum, Sept. 10, 6:30 p.m. Heritage Plaza (Woodland) 5th Annual Yolo Brewfest, Sept. 2, 2 - 6 p.m. Highwater The Trivia Factory, Monday’s, 7 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 8 a.m. Identity Coffees SPLAT: Sacramento Public Latte Art Tournament, Aug. 31, 7 p.m. The Midtown Bizarre feat. Ariz Mendi Clay, Cultured Card Co., Have Love Will Travel, It’s Knot Love and More, Sept. 9, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Insight Coffee Roasters (8th Street) Coffee Brewing Seminar, Sept. 9, 12 p.m. Jackrabbit Brewing Co. 90’s Trivia Night, Aug. 30, 6:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sunday’s, 7:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited The Ultimate Trivia Game Show Challenge, Sept. 6, 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, Thursday’s, 8 p.m. Mather Airport California Capital Airshow, Sept. 9 - 10, 9 a.m. McClatchy Park Oak Park Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesday’s, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Trivia Night, Monday’s, 7 p.m. Oak Park Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Sunday’s, 8 p.m. Oblivion Comics & Coffee Game Night Monday!, Sept. 4, 6 p.m. Old Sacramento Gold Rush Days Bar Crawl, Sept. 1, 6 p.m. On The Y Movie Night w/ Jandy Barwench, Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Raley Field Blacklight Slide Sacramento, Sept. 9, 4 p.m. Robbie Waters Library So You Want to Write A Poem: Poetry Workshop, Sept. 9, 12 p.m. Roosevelt Park Certified Farmers Market, Tuesday’s, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Sacramento Convention Center Sac Anime 2017 Summer Con, Sept. 1 - 3, 10 a.m. California Craft Beer Summit & Festival, Sept. 7 - 9 Sacramento State: University Union Ballroom Free Movie Night: Baywatch, Aug. 31, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento Zoo Off the Grid: Sacramento Zoo feat. Food Trucks and More, Thursday’s, 5 - 9 p.m. Shine Questionable Trivia, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Sacramento’s Naked Narratives: Open Mic for Writers, By Writers, Sept. 6, 7 p.m. Sierra 2 Center The Playground: An Improv Community, Aug. 30, 7 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Pub Trivia, Sunday’s, 8 p.m. Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) Let’s Get Quzzical: Trivia Game Show Experience, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m. Time Tested Books Alice Anderson Release Party Reading & Signing, Aug. 31, 7 p.m. Bruce Jennings Reading & Signing, Sept. 7, 7 p.m. Tsakopoulos Library Galleria Sacramento Pride Awards, Aug. 30, 5:30 p.m. Verge Center for the Arts 12th Annual Sac Open Studios Launch Party and Opening Reception for Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Art World and Beyond, Sept. 7, 6 - 9 p.m. WAL Public Market Gallery Opening Reception for States of Matter by Kari Sullivan, Sept. 1, 6 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Tuesday’s, 6 p.m. Yolo County Fairgrounds Crawfish & Catfish Festival, Sept. 9 - 10, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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Back to the Old
Matisyahu Goes Against the Current on His New LP
Words Ryan J. Prado photo Nechama Leitner
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atisyahu hasn’t exactly had the smoothest ride throughout his decade-plus career. I was introduced to the artist through the clearing of a crowd backstage at Lollapalooza 2006 in Chicago, as a phalanx of Orthodox Jews walked in a mob surrounding the rapper/singer. The mysteries of the man who’d just released his sophomore record, Youth, were shrouded beneath a yarmulke, Payot (the long side locks worn by Hasidic men), a thick beard and my admitted ignorance of the Hasidic lifestyle. The paradoxes grew exponentially when Matisyahu took the stage that humid summer afternoon, dropping insane beatbox breakdowns and spitting reggae-dripped rhymes like a Rastafarian wunderkind. It was a mashup of so many disparate cultural corners that you couldn’t help but be swept up in its undeniable energy. Now, into his second decade as an internationally acclaimed reggae and hip-hop star, Matisyahu’s persona has experienced an
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abrupt about-face. He shaved his beard and cut his hair in 2011, essentially denouncing his previously misunderstood devotion to his Yeshiva background, got a divorce and even starred in a horror film about demonic possessions (smartly dubbed The Possession). Still, for all the peaks and valleys of his life outside of music, Matisyahu’s latest record, Undercurrent, is a fiery commentary on the tributaries and wayward avenues that have brought him to where he is today. It’s an incendiary record heavy on the live aesthetic and improvisational undertones you might expect with Matisyahu’s band, comprised of two-thirds of shapeshifting reggaemetal ragers Dub Trio. When Submerge caught up with Matisyahu, he was driving in Manhattan, on his way to take in The Emoji Movie with his kids, and on the cusp of heading back out where he’s most comfortable: on the road. Matisyahu and his band will headline Placerville’s Dry Digging’s Festival Sept. 2 and 3.
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On Undercurrent, when you began to sculpt a lyrical narrative, what sorts of ideas and stories were you most interested in exploring? With this record, it’s not so conceptual in the sense that I’m thinking of concepts before I write a song. It’s more free association. I find out in the process of singing the songs and performing them live what they mean. Usually as I’m writing them, I’ll have a sense of what they mean and of what’s going on, but I don’t necessarily have a clear idea. Akeda and Undercurrent are connected, like a part one and part two. Akeda is the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac on the mountain. At the time, I was living in the Hollywood hills. I moved back to New York, and I moved by the river in an old, haunted Victorian house on the Hudson River across from Sleepy Hollow. I feel like that part one, imagery-wise, is about the mountain, and about the mountain of one’s life, and sacrifice and the breakthroughs of big, catastrophic events. There was a feeling of freedom as I was breaking away from a lot of different things in my life. Religion, relationships and just trying to start over again. Undercurrent is more like after all these breakthroughs, I’m putting the pieces back together and figuring out where I’m at in my life at this stage. There’s a feeling of a massive breakthrough when there’s a recovery period. I feel like this record comes from there, and the lyrics all tie into that. Is the separation from your religious background and studies something you are concerned will follow you around? I don’t really get concerned. I kind of do what the fuck I want and deal with the consequences. Sometimes people might misunderstand what I’m doing, but even though I am extroverted in some sense, and I do care to some extent if people like or don’t like me, if I’m being honest, at the end of the day, I kind of just go after what it is I’m going after. When I knew that it was time for me to shave, the thought never even crossed my mind, “How will my fans react to this?” I think a lot of that is based on confidence, and the feeling that as long as the music I make is authentic and real—and I know what’s good. I know when I make shitty music versus good music—if I can keep making good music that matters to me and that matters to other people, then everything else is kind of irrelevant. You could have all the fans in the world, but if you get up on stage and—yeah, they may have paid a lot of money, and you may be making a lot of money … fine. But if you have to get up on stage and you have to be somebody that you don’t feel is who you are at that moment for other people, that leads to severe depression and bad things for me in my life. When I get out on stage, that’s the most holy moment for me. Religious or not, music to me is a very holy thing and I’ve been privileged to be able to dedicate my life to it, to be able to pay my bills off it. That has to stay holy to me. When people come to hear Matisyahu, there’s a certain feeling and experience I want them to have. If I can give that to people, it’s really worthwhile, and I’ve been put in a position to work at doing that. Not everyone necessarily will understand that, or want that, or come to the show thinking that’s what they’re looking for, and those people might not come back, but that’s something I have to come to peace with.
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Do you look forward to a day when there’s a new generation of fans of yours who maybe don’t even remember or even know about the beginning of your career as a very public image of a Hasidic Jewish man, and the image that was presented, and with those religious views and studies being more overt? No, because for me it’s about the whole story. There’s people who’ve come to me at different records. There’s people who’ve come during the Spark Seeker record, and have seen the “Sunshine” video, and that’s how they know me. Then later they go back and they see the Hasidic guy. Or there’s people who heard my music before they even saw a picture of me and then afterward saw some Hasidic guy doing it. All that is there if people want it, and people come for different reasons. But I don’t ever want there to be a time when people don’t know who I am or where I come from. If the music connects, with them, great. At the end of the day, my music is about a personal journey and moving from one place to the next in your life. Shifting perspectives, growth and evolution, which stems out of improvisation, which comes from listening, which comes from taking chances, which comes from risk, which comes through humility. It’s religious context, but it’s not about the religion for me. Music is your main passion, but you’ve also done some acting. It’s been a few years since you starred in The Possession. Did someone just come to you about that, or was it something you had to audition for cold? The producer or the director thought it’d be a good idea to get me involved. They wanted me in particular, and then the other producers were kind of against it, thinking they didn’t really want a singer to act because it’s kind of an important role. I had to try out for the part, so they flew me out to Vancouver, and I was there with the director and one of the producers, and we had to shoot a video and send it back to the other producers. The scene was the exorcism scene and I wasn’t really giving it enough. This was kind of cool, my first experience acting in a movie. The director had his assistant lie down on the floor, with me on top of her, and tells her to pretend that I’m basically about to murder her. She starts kicking and punching me in the face, and grabbing my clothes and he starts screaming at me, “Hold her down! Hold her down! Don’t let her go!” And right in the most intense part of it all, he goes “Roll!” They roll the camera, and it gets me like sweating and spitting, and I was bleeding and then they sent that into the rest of the producers, and it was pretty undeniable. You’ll be headlining Dry Diggings in Placerville. You’ve performed in Sacramento before. Any special memories? I once played an acoustic show with Dave Holmes of Dub Trio right in front of the Capitol with huge subs. It was a duo show, like on stools, and I was beatboxing. A cop brought me up into the tower of the Capitol afterward and let me sign my name up there.
The Dry Diggings Beer, Camping and Music Festival will take place at the El Dorado Fairgrounds in Placerville on Sept. 2–3. Also performing will be Nahko and Medicine for the People, Barrington Levy, The Expendables, Long Beach Dub Allstars and many others. For a full lineup and to get tickets, go to Drydiggingsfestival.com.
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Moving On
Tatiana McPhee Pours Her Heart into Debut Album Words Ronnie Cline • photo kevin fiscus
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ince the recent release of Tatiana McPhee’s debut album, Mean Mama, the singer-songwriter has been trucking around Northern California from honky-tonk to honky-tonk, sharing her songs of real life heartache and heartbreak. Before going solo, McPhee cut her teeth in cover bands that played everything from Alan Jackson to Tom Petty, but once in front of the mic she quickly became antsy to sing her own songs. “I sang a couple Miranda Lambert songs while in cover bands, but I never wanted to just sing other people’s songs,” said McPhee. “The way I like to get my emotions out is through songwriting. I’ve always wanted to sing about the way I’m feeling.”
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Tatiana can be seen playing frequently around Northern California with American roots artist JonEmery, who she almost didn’t meet. “Actually it was an open mic night. About two or three years ago around Halloween. Jon had a murder ballads themed open mic night at the Country Club Saloon in Loomis. I told [boyfriend and band mate] Dan that I really wanted to go to the open mic night and play one of my songs. I almost chickened out at the last minute because it was going to be scary since I was going to be performing by myself, but I ended up going and Jon really liked the song I sang, and we became good friends after that,” McPhee recalled.
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McPhee was born and raised in the Bay Area, but currently resides in Lincoln. When asked if she has ever thought about moving to Nashville, McPhee replied, “I’ve never really been out of California other than to Nevada, so I don’t really know how it’s like in other places.” McPhee continued, “I hear Texas is really nice, and Nashville seems to be kind of more corporate and it seems like everyone is going there. I really like the quiet countryside.” From raiding her father’s music collection as a child to discussing the life lessons she learned from getting married at a young age, McPhee's experiences flow naturally into the lyrics of a good old-fashioned country singer.
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Where in the Bay Area did you grow up? I was born in San Pablo, but I lived in Richmond, El Cerrito, San Pablo, Pinole. I lived in every one of those cities [laughs]. How did someone who grew up in the East Bay discover country music? My dad was a big influence when it came to music. He listened to a lot of different things from Irish folk music to classic country. He really liked Hank Williams Sr., Jimmie Rodgers and Marty Robbins. So that’s the kind of music I grew up with and I love that stuff. I used to always steal his tapes. I’d see the Clancy Brothers or the Dubliners and I’d take those. So I started listening to that kind of music at a very young age. How about your mom? My mom is from Panama. She listened to a lot of salsa and stuff like that. I just did not go that way. My sisters all love that sort of thing, but I ended up sticking with country music. I hear a bit of an edge to your music as well. Yeah, I listen to a lot of stuff, I listen to punk rock, I love rockabilly and old soul. Sam Cooke was another big one that my dad always had around. I love that kind of stuff. It was very strange for me when I was younger because I didn’t listen to current music. I actually really hated it. How did you start singing and playing music? Well I’ve always loved music and when I was little I wanted to play the guitar really bad, I wanted guitar lessons and my mom was like, “I know somebody who gives piano lessons if you want to play piano.” I did try it once, but after that I was like, “No! I want to play guitar! I’m not playing anything now.” How long was it until you picked up a guitar and started singing on a stage? I started playing guitar when I came up here, when I was about 19 or 20. My friends had a band and I would go see them play. I loved watching them play and every once in a while they would let me up on stage and sing. It just struck something inside of me that said, “I really want to do this!” SubmergeMag.com
I noticed your singing style is very diverse on Mean Mama. Who are some of your influences? I’ve always loved Patsy Cline, I’ve always loved that she could belt it out, but Dolly Parton is my number one now. I can’t even listen to her music without crying. Dolly’s an inspiration not only in the way she sings, but in the music that she writes. I also love people like Ann Wilson, and Linda Ronstadt. I really like those big, powerhouse singers. How did you select the songs that are on the album? The songs for this album came together once I started thinking about a certain section of my life. This album represents a transitional part of my life. So you’ll hear a lot of songs about leaving, heartache and heartbreak. Even though there are other types of songs I have written, I wanted to tell the story of this section of my life.
“This album represents a transitional part of my life. So you’ll hear a lot of songs about leaving, heartache and heartbreak. Even though there are other types of songs I have written, I wanted to tell the story of this section of my life.” –Tatiana McPhee on the songs that make up her debut album, Mean Mama. So would you say this album represents your transition from being married to becoming an independent woman? Yeah, that relationship and the person I used to be. It’s weird for me because when I was younger I was a certain way. I was a wild type of person. Not wild in the sense of partying, but wild in the sense of, “Don’t tell me what to do. I’m going to do what I want.” All of a sudden, I became complacent. So this album is about going back to being the strong person I used to be.
It sounds like you got married when you were young. Yeah, I was 17. I was in high school and he was a little over three years older than me. At the time I wasn’t very social and he liked me. I just thought it was cool someone liked me … but when you’re 17 you don’t think about the important things in life. I was married for almost nine years, but it got to a point where I gave a lot. I’m the type of person that gives 100 percent and if you don’t get that back it crushes you inside. I just didn’t get back what I gave.
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Do you think you would be making music if you were still married? We wouldn’t be sitting here today, because I was told that it’s only a hobby. Music is something that means a lot to me. I love singing, I love writing and playing music. I have to do it. Do you feel the process of making Mean Mama helped you close that chapter of your life? That’s the thing that makes me happy about the process. It was about what I went through, where I’m at now and how I feel about it. I was able to get it out of my system. It’s not sitting in me, lingering inside anymore. I’ve gotten it out. I’m good. I can move on. What would you like to be doing in a year or two from now? I would like to be able to tour. I love writing songs for myself, but it’s really cool when somebody else can pick up on the lyrics and say, “That one song you wrote made me feel this certain way.” Having that connection is really cool. Also, to be able to get out there and go to different places and not just be in one little place. To tour around the country and see how it goes would be nice, even if it’s just one time. I would also like to put out another album. I have a whole album’s worth of songs in my head that I would like to get out there too.
Catch Tatiana McPhee on Thursday, Sept. 14, at The Torch Club, located at 905 15th St. in Sacramento. The 21-and-up show starts at 8 p.m. and will cost you $5 at the door. For more info and check out Tatianamcphee.com.
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the shallow end Animal House When President Trump pledged to get America back to work, he probably didn’t realize there would be so many openings within his own administration. If you don’t mind a high-risk, high-reward (for a week or so) position, maybe you should fax the White House your resume. If your skillset includes a proclivity for in-fighting, a history of shady business dealings and a sort of laissez faire attitude toward hate groups, you’ll probably do very well (for a week or so). Lucky for you, there’s a new opening. Sebastian Gorka is out. Perhaps you can fill his role of doing whatever the fuck it was that he was doing (the only thing I can figure is that his job was to grant interviews and talk shit about everyone). According to conservative news site Thefederalist.com, which published Gorka’s resignation letter on Aug. 25, the former presidential adviser’s official title was “Deputy Assistant,” and I only assume that was his official title, because The Federalist capitalized it. They also called him a “national security and counterterrorism expert,” though as the New York Times reported (I know, fake news), Gorka “existed outside the National Security Council and had no clear duties.” In his life before the White House, Gorka was an editor for Breitbart (of course), wrote a book about Islamic extremism, served as an “expert” on the Boston Marathon bombing case (though he never took the stand) and earned a Ph.D. from Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary. He’s been accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, and, obviously, good friends with another ousted Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who’s now back at Breitbart, so I’m sure Baz will eventually land back on his feet at his old stomping grounds. See? JOBS. So, Gorka resigned. Or he didn’t. The letter published by The Federalist seemed to be a resignation letter, but the website had to update their story after hearing from an anonymous White House official who said, “Sebastian Gorka did not resign, but I can confirm he no longer works at the White House.” Maybe new Chief of Staff John F. Kelly is really getting this mess under control, or perhaps the Dark Lord Mephistopheles saw fit to summon his brightest prodigy back into the fold for whatever nefarious scheme is yet to come. Gorka’s I-no-longer-work-here letter had a very foreboding tone to it. “It is clear to me that forces
James Barone jb@submergemag.com that do not support the MAGA promise are—for now—ascendant within the White House,” Gorka wrote. This sounds like the end of the first Star Wars movie. Sure, the Rebels were able to defeat the Death Star, but you know that Darth Vader got away, and that the Empire had the resources to rebuild and soon enough, their ultimate weapon would be back online and ready to threaten the galaxy once again. Gorka also mentioned that he was kind of butthurt that the President’s recent speech about Afghanistan didn’t specifically use the words “radical Islam” or “radical Islamic terrorism,” saying that such an omission, “proves that a crucial element of your presidential campaign has been lost …” It’s true. Trump was supposed to be a straight shooter. He was supposed to call things what they were and clean things up. He was supposed to drain the swamp, but the only swamp he’s been draining so far is his own administration, which is probably a good thing. But if Gorka’s comments seemed critical of the President, fear not. Much like the Mooch and Bannon before him, Baz is still riding the Trump train. “The best and most effective way I can support you, Mr. President, is from outside the People’s House,” he wrote, stating elsewhere that “outside of yourself [President Trump], the individuals who most embodied and represented the policies that will ‘Make America Great Again,’ have been internally countered, systematically removed, or undermined in recent months.” Since I secretly wish real life was a Dan Brown novel, it seems like there really is something nefarious at work here. We have all these people jumping ship, making the White House out to be a den of vipers, all of whom are conspiring against the president, sort of validating this usversus-them narrative that got Trump elected in the first place. It makes me wonder that if Robert Mueller’s investigation digs up more damning evidence, is this how they (whoever they are) are going to sow the seeds of future doubt? Maybe, but maybe this is just Trump’s job plan. Eventually, if this administration actually makes it to full term without collapsing under its own preposterousness or, you know, nukes everything, that we’ll all end up working for and then resigning-not-resigning from the White House, giving us something awesome on our resumes to find jobs elsewhere. That would be pretty sweet. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
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