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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The winter months mean most concerts are relegated to indoor spaces. And in the South Bay, that can translate into fewer big-ticket shows—since Shoreline Amphitheatre and the Mountain Winery don’t open their doors until the skies clear. Still, if February is any indication, 2017 is bound to be a great year for…
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On a recent Saturday night during a relatively tame event, one of San Jose’s long-running DIY venues, Kitty Castle, was permanently shut down by the police. “Before this month, I had talked to the cops at least three other times,” says Stephanie Chang, who launched the venue in 2012, and has been…
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Locals watching Jimmy Kimmel Live last month might have noticed a familiar face. On Nov. 14, sitting behind the keyboards for L.A.-based folk-rock group Dawes, was San Jose native Lee Pardini.
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An openly misogynistic, KKK-endorsed serial abuser and circulator of anti-Semitic imagery is now president-elect. Peter Thiel, a Lex Luthor-esque Bay Area billionaire who waged a unilateral war on the First Amendment, tried to dissuade youth from attending college, and is planning on infusing himself with the blood of adolescents so that he…
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You’d be forgiven for not knowing what is going on in San Jose music right now. You’d be forgiven for thinking that in fact nothing is going on in San Jose music, or that “San Jose” and “music” aren’t really words that go together at all. We are, after all, the 10th…
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With a voice like absolutely no other and a sense of rhythm that often stretches the very definition of the term, Danny Brown is one of the strangest and most electrifying figures to have emerged from hip-hop’s underground.
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