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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
With gently warbling organ, warm tube amps, The Band-esque vocal harmonies and the kind of resonant, straight-to-tape tom-toms that would make Levon Helm swell with pride, these Philadelphia indie-rock veterans prove it’s possible to teach an old pooch new tricks. After tracking Abandoned Mansion in 2014 only to shelve it until 2017,…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
San Jose’s pioneering craft-cocktail bar teams with The Francis Experience Trio for a series of live music, poetry and storytelling—all paired with the bar’s top-shelf libations. As the resident house band, The Francis Experience will back a number of local performers on select Sundays through April. The first installment of The Haberdasher…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
It’s been a little over two years since hyphy-heavyweight Keak da Sneak was nearly murdered in Richmond. The man was shot no less than eight times. “Can’t kill hyphy!” were his words two months later, as he dropped Withdrawl, his first album in five years. After recovering from the shooting, Keak, landed…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
The Trims have played melancholic post-punk with pop ambitions for nearly a decade now, and if you’ve ever seen one of their high-energy live performances, you know they’ve got the chops. While frontman Gabe Maciel’s confessional poetry has always been concerned with loss, regret and heartbreak, sonically the band’s latest record Julian…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
The great family norteño band from San Jose known as Los Tigres Del Norte return for a hometown show with their friends, Los Tucanes—another norteño group from Tijuana—and Joss Favela, a rising Sinaloan musician who trades in the traditional Mexican folk traditions of banda and norteño. Los Tigres is among the most…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
A staple of the operatic repertoire, Giuseppe Verdi’s turbulent tale of love, revenge and the power of music, Il Trovatore, comes to the California Theatre. The opera tells the tale of a woman following her own heart despite various and violent patriarchal obstacles and features an emotional, heart-stopping score conducted by Joseph…
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Anne Gelhaus on February 12, 2020
It’s hard to fathom how many “scenes from a hat” Ryan Stiles and Greg Proops have done, given that they’ve been appearing on Whose Line is it Anyway? since its original BBC incarnation in 1989. After more than 30 years of improvising comedy sketches for small screens on either side of the…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
Richmond Virginia metalcore outfit Bad Omens blend melodic vocals and ethereal keys with crunchy, soaring guitar leads and throaty screams—using personal despair and inner demons to inspire defiant songs of hope and transcendance. They are currently touring behind their 2019 full-length, Finding God Before God Finds Me. Direct support comes from Oh,…
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Anne Gelhaus on February 12, 2020
While next month is the fifth anniversary of Drink & Draw at Art Boutiki, this week marks two years since Carlos Velazquez and Alca Ulsan began co-hosting the monthly, all-ages event. To celebrate that milestone—and their engagement—the couple invited Sonido Clash–cofounder Fernando Julian Perez (a.k.a. DJ Tlacoyo), Chulita Vinyl Club–founder Claudia Saenz…
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Bill Kopp on February 4, 2020
When mainland music fans think of the Hawaiian islands, they may hear Don Ho’s “Tiny Bubbles,” Israel Kamakawiwoʻole’s famed ukulele arrangement of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” or Bing Crosby’s holiday classic, “Mele Kalikimaka.”
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