Music

Saving Grace

Kevin Seconds finds solace in music Listening to Kevin Seconds speak about his music, you’d hardly believe he’s been in the game for more than 30 years. Serving as frontman for 7 Seconds, one of California’s most seminal hardcore punk bands, you’d think the years on the road, spitting bile…

Time Machine

DLRN keeps their latest release, and those to come, close to the vest It’s coming back around. Young artists are expecting more from their culture. Take the art of Kehinde Wiley, for example: He paints the stereotypical street hustler in gentlemanly poses against backdrops of elegant tapestries, juxtaposing the ghetto…

From the Garbage Pile of History, Into the Frying Pan

Exquisite Corps, Der Spazm Thursday, June 3, 2010 – Old Ironsides – Sacramento Words by Joseph Atkins – Photos by Amy Scott In Der Spazm, Ashley provides bass and vocals, and Leticia provides the majority of the lead fretwork and floating octave accompaniment. Their songs are a patchwork of arpeggiated…

Let It Bee

Sea of Bees is a buzz with debut album Just as I was getting ready to ring the bell labeled “Tape Op” on the door of Sacramento recording studio The Hangar, I heard a voice down the street call my name. “Adam!” I turned, and up rode Julie Ann Bee…

Deftones Ticket Giveaway

On Sunday, August 8 Sacramento’s very own Deftones will perform at Memorial Auditorium alongside Circa Survive and we’re giving away a pair of tickets! All you have to do to be entered to win the drawing is e-mail us your full name, age and zip code to contest@submergemag.com. It’s that…

Salute the State

Admiral Radley Sing Their California Devotion State pride isn’t a new phenomenon, but the amount of adoration continually grown in and thrown toward California is definitely something to be awed at. It’s a destination, an anchoring point and a wide sprawl of drastically varying landscapes, each mile more breathtaking than…

Piping Hot

Lee Bannon and Chuuwee look to make a mark among local hip-hop connoisseurs With the recent death of legendary MC Guru of Gang Starr, nostalgia is running strong in hip-hop for the golden era sound. Gang Starr’s simplistic formula of Guru lending his commanding voice only to DJ Premier’s gritty…

The History We’re Part Of

Musical Charis People People (JMB) Musical Charis has teamed up with JMB Records to release their latest full length, People People. For fans of “the gift of grace,” what you expected is to be expected. Musical Charis storms through this disc with the troubling aspirations of a K-Billy’s Super Sounds…

Bring Your Kids! (If they’re not already in the band)

Concerts in the Park Friday, May 7, 2010 – Cesar Chavez Park – Sacramento Words & Photos by Vincent Girimonte Two things to take away from last Friday’s edition of Concerts in the Park: one, Sacramento has some exceedingly hip youth; so hip, in fact, that I felt like a…

A Shot in the Dark

Chelsea Wolfe’s The Grime and the Glow dresses folk music in a black cloak Ravens perched on bare branches, snow falling on tombstones, wooden shutters clattering against cloudy window panes in a strong gale–these are just some of the visuals The Grime and the Glow, the latest fulllength album from…