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Mike Huguenor on June 9, 2021
With his massive 6-string bass, eyeball-assaulting outfits, and interstellar falsetto, Thundercat is a force to behold. One of the most distinctive bassists on the scene (any scene, really), Stephen Lee Bruner (aka Thundercat) played in thrash group Suicidal Tendencies, tours with modern jazz titan Kamasi Washington, and was a frequent collaborator with…
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Mike Huguenor on June 9, 2021
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘portrait?’ Someone’s face? A head-and-shoulders shot, like the Mona Lisa? Or is it something more personal: a depiction of someone’s skin and body? LA-based artist Amir H. Fallah thinks it is exactly none of these things. In his portraits, Fallah depicts obscured…
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Mike Huguenor on June 9, 2021
If you hear a collective sigh of relief at noon, that’s just the world tuning into San Jose Art Museum’s free “Art Fix Wednesday.” Weekly throughout the pandemic, SJMA docents have taken to the internet to discuss the museum’s many stunning works, like Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s broken-glass installation Drowning Sorrows, and…
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Mike Huguenor on June 4, 2021
Jazz vocalist Rebekah Victoria is done listening to her analyst. “He said I was the type that was most inclined, outside of his sight, to be out of my mind,” she sings on “Twisted,” the tongue-in-cheek cocktail-number from last year’s Songs of the Decades. Within about ten seconds she’s already moved on,…
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Mike Huguenor on June 4, 2021
How about some good news from 2020? Last summer, a parent from the Peninsula-based Ragazzi Boys Chorus invented a new device that finally allows musicians to perform together over the internet without lag time. Now a regular part of the 200+ person chorus’ A/V setup, the “Virtual Studio” allows the massive choral…
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Mike Huguenor on June 4, 2021
Local presenter (((folkYEAH!))) has long been bringing far-flung music to far-flung places around the Bay, but this event might just be the furthest out yet. Presented in conjunction with the freaky Austin psych festival Levitation, heavy French trio Slift perform in front of a disused particle microscope at the CEMES laboratory in…
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Mike Huguenor on June 4, 2021
Pride may have started as a riot, but Jo’s Comedy & Bangou Productions are hoping for more of a laugh riot this year. Presented both online and in person at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, “Pride & Joy” is a queer comedy event that brings together some of the Bay’s funniest LGBTQI &…
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Mike Huguenor on June 4, 2021
San Jose rapper Trauma Fresh, “the Human Typhoon,” has been promising a lot from new album Crime Spree, and based on lead single “What About You,” it sounds like he might be right. Released in April, the track bounces to the post-hyphy production of legendary local Traxamillion, bobbing with an audible Bay…
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Mike Huguenor on June 4, 2021
So far there is exactly one great San Jose anthem of the new millennium: “The Hometown” by Rey Resurreccion. Spitting on top of a heartstring-tugging banda beat from DJ Cutso, Rey makes the case for all the golden grains of the Valley of the Heart’s Delight: “Barbeques, fairgrounds, go karts, taquerias /…
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Mighty Mike McGee on June 4, 2021
Summer really adds color to downtown, and this Friday is a chance to see just how colorful SoFA District can be. Under the blooming jacaranda, Anno Domini, KALEID, Works/San José, Art Ark Gallery, The Citadel, ICA and SJ Museum of Quilts and Textiles will be open and ready for your foot traffic.…
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