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Rod Bastanmehr on October 29, 2013
“My earliest musical memory is me riding this yellow tricycle around the house when I was, like, four, while ‘Boogie On, Reggae Woman’ by Stevie Wonder was playing,” says Nai Palm, lead songwriter and vocalist for the band Hiatus Kaiyote. “Stevie Wonder has just been one of the big ones for sure.”
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After a three-year run at Pagoda Lounge, Universal Grammar promoter Tommy Aguilar announced online this week he is parting ways with the Fairmont hotel nightclub.
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DJ and producer Clorofila from the Tijuana music group Nortec Collective spun his signature mix of norteño and techno (nortec) music at Pagoda on Saturday night.
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Oakland rap duo Los Rakas packed Pagoda Lounge on Friday for the latest edition of Sonido Clash.
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Nina Tabios on July 3, 2013
Los Rakas, a spin on the Spanish term “rakataka”—”ratchet” or someone from the ghetto in their native Panama—came together in 2006 when rappers Raka Rich and Raka Dun met in the East Bay.
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Aaron Carnes on March 27, 2013
Although they’re brothers, it wasn’t until 2010 that San Jose musicians Raul and Mexia Hernández made a serious attempt to collaborate. The resulting song, “Todos Somos Arizona (We Are All Arizona),” a protest against the anti-immigration law SB 1070 that had just passed in Arizona, quickly earned the duo more attention than…
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After 10 years out of the spotlight, Cody ChesnuTT is back on tour with stops in San Jose and San Francisco last week.
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Condy ChesnuTT, performing at Pagoda Lounge on Thursday, remembers the day in 2002 when his cousin, who was his manager at the time, received a call from the Roots, telling him they wanted to collaborate with him. Specifically, they wanted to cover ChesnuTT’s song “The Seed” and have him sing on the…
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The latest EP, Awakenings, by Sacramento hip-hop duo DLRN, performing January 19 at Pagoda Lounge, takes a big step away from the norm found on most hip-hop records, creating a sound that is almost unclassifiable. It mixes 80s electronic, experimental soundscapes, guest soul singers and straightforward, emotional rhymes—all backed by barebones old-school…
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R&B crooner Mayer Hawthorne returned to his DJ roots for a full house at Pagoda Lounge on Friday for the two-year anniversary of Live at the Pagoda.
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