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Wallace Baine on August 29, 2018
The bands, the synth patches and the haircuts that came and went with the 1980s all come rushing back in this grab-bag show designed to evoke the best of the Max Headroom years. Among the groups on the bill: A Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung, Boys Don’t Cry, Missing Persons, Bow Wow…
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Mike Huguenor on August 29, 2018
It’s been almost 60 years since the lovely weirdos at KFJC began broadcasting from Foothill College. What began in 1959 as a two-hour broadcast, four days a week, has since grown into one of the best college radio stations in the country. With their live session series, an encyclopedic library and some…
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Nick Veronin on August 29, 2018
Based on Jane Austen’s first novel completed for publication, Northanger Abbey follows 17-year-old Catherine Morland as she learns that life is seldom as glamorous and intriguing as the lives of the characters in her beloved Gothic novels. This production, adapted for the stage by Pear Theatre founder Diane Tasca, kicks off the…
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Here’s how it’s supposed to happen: You make a great album. Your label gives you full support. The critics are enraptured. The audiences are, too. Boom. You’re a rock star. Welcome to immortality.
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Mike Huguenor on August 29, 2018
All across Latin America, people would give a limb for the chance to see Dread Mar I in a room the size of the Ritz. The Argentinian reggae star normally plays amphitheaters—places the size of Shoreline Amphitheatre. On YouTube, his videos have tens of millions of views. Some, like 2010 hit “Tu…
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Mike Huguenor on August 29, 2018
Long before electric scooters filled the streets, Jonny Manak at the Depressives were one of the tried and true staples of downtown San Jose. A homegrown ’77-style punk powerhouse, Manak and Co. have both the energy of the Hives and the California street pedigree of Rancid. And with recent songs like “Cold…
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Andrew Lentz on August 29, 2018
Borrow your cool uncle’s buckskin jacket or funky aunt’s peasant dress and get ready for the hippest happening since the South Bay’s very own Chocolate Watchband helped ignite the mid-’60s garage rock scene. Across three gem-packed albums, Los Angeles quintet Mystic Braves effortlessly re-create the magic of psych-pop’s golden age, from vocal…
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The summer festival season is great for catching legacy acts and buzzy bands enjoying their moment of critical acclaim, but festivals are just a small part of the yearly musical cycle. Much of the lifeblood of music takes place outside of festival—in clubs, bars, DIY venues and occasionally even the SAP Center.…
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Chiptune and 8-bit bands are nothing new. The sonic textures of early Nintendo and Sega Genesis games have inspired countless millennial musicians to approach the genre in numerous ways, cobbling together songs with crunchy lo-fi tones or reimagining classic video game soundtracks. Bit Brigade rearranges the iconic scores of games like Mega…
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Andrew Lentz on August 23, 2018
The Angels of Death are bidding fans goodbye after 37 years of brutality. For some purists the thrash giants haven’t been the same since co-founder Jeff Hanneman’s untimely death, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a substitute with more shred cred than Gary Holt of Bay Area legend Exodus, who appears on…
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