When I listen to This Will Destroy You I almost always get the same series of images in my head. An empty highway at night. Votive candles flickering in their colored glass cases. Distant lights on the horizon.
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Payje Redmond on July 13, 2017
The Goo Goo Dolls will kick off their Long Way Home summer tour at Shoreline on Friday night. Best remembered for a pair of multiplatinum albums in the mid-’90s, the New York-based band have been making music since the late-’80s and continue penning new songs. Last year saw the release of their…
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Starover Blue know their music isn’t going to get bottles popping in the club, and that’s fine with them. The dreamy synth pop band got started in San Jose back in 2007, when singer and guitarist Kendall Sallay met keyboardist Dirk Molitz at SJSU. At the time, Kendall was studying opera and Dirk…
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In downtown Campbell there’s a building that has been vacant for more than a decade. The former Gaslighter Theater opened in 1970 and has been empty since 2005. But for those who remember its heyday as a venue for local bands in the 2000s, its influence is still felt.
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This week, the beloved San Jose band Leer play their final show, not in San Jose, but six hours away in Pomona. Why? “A lot of people like us in the general Pomona-SoCal area, maybe more so than the Bay Area at times,” says Dan Vo, Leer’s guitarist and primary songwriter.
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The last time Tool released a record was in 2006. Maybe that’s why the tickets for their upcoming show at the Shark Tank are going for less than $15? Hard to say. If you didn’t shell out for full price tickets but still want to get your “Stinkfist” on, check out StubHub now.…
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The Cassette Vision and Super Cassette Vision—contemporaries of the Atari 2600 and predecessors to the Nintendo Entertainment System—may seem like relics today. But for those born in the late ’70s and early ’80s, these now-obsolete gaming systems may carry a certain nostalgic heft.
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In 1969, Dr. J. Allen Hynek delivered an address titled Twenty-one Years of UFO Reports to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In it, he developed the language that is still in use today to describe sightings of the unexplained. “I divide the close encounter cases,” Hynek wrote, “into three…
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At last year’s SXSW—against all odds—comedian Hannibal Buress and DIY California chiptune band Slime Girls hooked up for an impromptu collaboration. On Monday, March 14, Buress (The Eric Andre Show, Broad City) tweeted that he wanted to play guitar or drums with a band at the Austin tech, music and culture festival.…
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When Killer Mike and El-P banded together to form Run The Jewels back in 2013, both members had been making music for well over a decade. Still, neither had found mainstream success.
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