When we here at Submerge say that we like covering things happening in Sacramento that we’re passionate about (i.e. music, art, comedy, etc.), we aren’t lying. You may not know this, but many of our contributors are musicians, artists, performers and creatives themselves, and as co-owner of the publication, I…
A group of friends from Sacramento dubbed Weirdoze began releasing 30-minute weekly mixes of popular and eclectic songs on SoundCloud to establish credibility in the music industry. Now, at the 28th edition of the weekly installment known as Weirdoze Radio, this ambitious group of artists is slowly finding a foothold…
On the day of his phenomenal recent show in Sacramento, former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne posted the following message on Facebook: “Sacramento! I’ll be playing the Sacramento Community Center Theater tonight, and while I’m in town, I’d love to hear your Reasons To Be Cheerful.” Byrne cited an increase…
The New York Times once called Café Tacvba “Mexico’s most visionary rock band,” and it would be difficult to argue otherwise. The band formed way back in 1989, and the Grammy-winning group has staked their lengthy career in constantly reinventing themselves; notably, Café Tacvba frontman Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega often…
Family reunions are usually stressful, what with relatives that seem to have beef predating your birth by decades and the amount of times you’ll be asked about your romantic life. The Cosmic Family Gathering, however, is a reunion of a different kind. While in previous years the music festival with…
Local DJ, event producer and all around good guy Sam Sascha Keshavarz (aka Sam I Jam) is turning 40 soon and to celebrate, he’s throwing another one of his always awesome Le Twist parties on Thursday, Aug. 30 at LowBrau (1050 20th St., Sacramento). Beside it being Sam’s B-Day party,…
Unbeknownst to me at the time, I would be attending a 2013 Sacramento homecoming—the prerequisites: a love for Willie’s Burgers, weed, Jameson, sour gummies and Nintendo 64. Sacramento-based rapper Harris Rudman—who released his latest album 2013 in May—performed at Holy Diver alongside friends and fellow artists in an energetic yet…
My first exposure to Jesus and the Dinosaurs came in 2015 when I saw the band’s sticker on the wall above the urinal in the Cafe Colonial bathroom. It was black and white with a T-Rex in a leather jacket strutting down an alley. The band name (truly a gem)…
With the newfound national successes of Sacramento rappers like Mozzy and Hobo Johnson, not to mention the continued critical favor shown to internet-darlings Death Grips, the local rap scene is getting more attention than ever. Yet it would be hard to sketch out any real conception of a “Sacramento sound,”…
Listening to Ordinary Corrupt Human Love on a packed light rail car, scraping along through the wreckage of the workweek under the full weight of afternoon midsummer heat, in close quarters with inscrutable humanity—anonymous lives in the thick of their separate mortal coils—might be the ideal context in which to…
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