Music & Alternative Culture Collective
Issue #20 | OCTOBER 2008

Resurrecting Rap Rock With Feo

FeoThe four members of the Suisun City-based Feo aren’t shy about the fact they play a “rap-rock” style of music that hasn’t been widely popular since the 90s. Read more

Devil Driver

Coming Through California

Devil Driver is one of those bands that by now should be a household name to most metal-heads and most nu-metal kids. Read more

DESA

Oakland’s Divergent Rock

The Oakland, CA. band DESA is the type of band that only Oakland could produce. Street smart, Tough as nails, one of a kind. Read more

Journal

Sac’s Latest Nintendo Chaos Sensations

Looks like we’ve got another local Sacramento band on the verge of some pretty great things. Let me introduce you to Journal, one of the newer additions to Sacramento’s plethora of loud and crazy bands. Read more

Sacred City Derby Girls

Bringing Classic Roller Derby Back


I have been a fan of the roller derby for many years. I used to love watching the late night matches on some obscure TV station, and get totally in to watching people get slammed, banged up, and thrown over the rails. Read more

Miniature Cups Of Instant Coffee

How The Broke Enjoy Tahiti


Traveling is an essential part of life; I know more people who have seen a genuine Thai prostitute than haven’t. Read more

Reunion

March is a big month for me this year. Not only do I get to celebrate the year anniversary of my dream of being a professional magazine editor, but I get to celebrate my 10 year high school reunion, and my 28th birthday! Read more

Charisse Fitzer: An Artist With A Huge Heart

What I really enjoy about artists is the way they are able to see beauty in just about everything around them. In one way or another, they are constantly creating and adding beauty to the world. Sacramento artist Charisse Fitzer is one such artist, but she does even more. Read more

Coolcat Gallery Bringing The Area Music And Art

The Happy Medium, 2or3 Guys, and Mr. Stitches did more than perform at Coolcat Gallery on Saturday March 1. There were hints of what I like to call the “3D’s,” desperation, dramatization, and drunkenness, which always make for an entertaining show. Read more

I Made A Movie… Give Me Money

Keith Lowell Jensen had a premonition he would one day need his banana suit. And he was right. The suit became an important prop in an ongoing experiment to see if he could make a living by begging for money, as documented in his film Why Lie, I Need a Drink. Read more

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