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Jay Edgar on October 13, 2021
The son of ranchera legend Vincente Fernandez, Alejandro followed in his father’s footsteps in the national tradition, gaining fame in his own right before successfully crossing over to pop with his classic 1997 album Me Estoy Enamorando. On last year’s Hecho en Mexico, his sixteenth, Fernandez pivoted again, recording his first-ever all-Mariachi…
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Mike Huguenor on October 13, 2021
The work of Afro-Caribbean vocalist Christelle Durandy is frequently intoxicating. Whether singing dusky jazz numbers evocative of smokey basement clubs, or leading her all-female collective Cocomama over vivacious Afro-Carribean cinquillos, Durandy’s voice grabs listeners and holds on tight. At Mezcal, she’s joined by guitarist David Lechuga, a young virtuoso known for his…
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Kyle Martin on October 13, 2021
Look who creepin’, look who crawlin’, still ballin’ in the mix. Mike Jones is “Still Tippin’” and comes to San Jo this Thursday. The South Texas rapper is a legend in H-Town and brings a style to the stage that’s all his own (word to Swishahouse.) The chopped and screwed music gets…
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Grace Stetson on October 13, 2021
While musical styles and trends come and go, the musical creation of a group of friends never goes out of style. Formed back in 1974, Spyro Gyra has combined jazz, R&B, pop and funk for well over 40 years, earning them global standing, over 10 million albums sold and 5,000 shows played—and…
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Dan Pulcrano on October 13, 2021
Once dismissed as pop rockers with a gimmicky name, over their 51-year run, the hard working Doobie Brothers advanced a deep catalog of classics, from anthemic gems like “Listen to the Music,” to the folky “Black Water” and Michael McDonald’s yacht rock masterpieces. With McDonald rejoining Simmons, Tommy Johnston and John McFee…
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Alec Adams on October 13, 2021
Lots of blues vocalists have great talent as singers, but the ones who rise above bring with them a real “cigarette smoke, tears in the whiskey glass” pain to their work. An orphaned infant in the Vietnam War, Lara Price discovered her love of music as a child and has been channeling…
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Alec Adams on September 29, 2021
We’re all acquainted with the magic of sports movies—timeless stories of how conflict and rivalries turn into bonds and community. The cultural footprint of the genre of storytelling is so huge, it’s a wonder we don’t see more groups bringing them to live theater. Enter The Great Leap. Playwright Lauren Yee’s comedic…
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Mike Huguenor & Katie Lauer on September 29, 2021
Though the official Oktoberfest in Munich, Bavaria has been canceled this year due to COVID concerns, one of the traditional sounds of the world-renowned festival will still be audible all throughout Germany’s third largest city: the tweeting of birds.
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Amani Hamed on September 29, 2021
This Friday, after a brief closure, a memorial gallery dedicated to the late photographer David Pace will reopen at San Jose’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Truly a man who contained artistic multitudes, Pace worked across decades, beginning from the moment he was gifted a Brownie Hawkeye camera for his eighth birthday in…
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Mike Huguenor on September 29, 2021
San Jose hardcore moves fast. Two thousand people came to see Sunami play their second show. Three years after releasing their first album, Gulch have already announced their final tour. And Spy—a very new band with no music videos and only a four-song, seven-minute EP to their name—has somehow amassed over 17,000…
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