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Brandon Roos on May 8, 2013
In the months since Seattle hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis released their debut album, The Heist, last October, their rapid rise to pop stardom has been fueled primarily by the sleeper success of their single “Thrift Shop.”
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The party was at Stanford over the weekend as hundreds of people turned out for Blackfest, the annual party headlined this year by Atlanta rapper future also featuring several dance crews.
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The 49ers Draft Bash at San Pedro Square proved that there’s no off-season for the 49ers faithful who kept the square packed for a day-long pigskin party.
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After a one-year break, Music in the Park returns to San Jose with Latin fusion band Ozomatli.
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Stephen Layton on April 24, 2013
Far from the pop, hip-hop and mainstream house endlessly emanating from downtown clubs, the Cardiff Lounge in Campbell has kept the South Bay underground house scene alive with Get Down.
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Aaron Carnes on April 23, 2013
Back in the mid-’90s, 17-year-old punk-rocker Nathen Maxwell was on the prowl for a new band after his angry, sloppy punk-rock band PBS had broken up. At the suggestion of his musician father, he snuck into the bar Molly Malone’s to watch a Celtic rock band called the Dave King Thing, which…
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Bob Dylan is back on the road this summer, this time with Wilco and My Morning Jacket coming along for a show billed as the “Americanarama Festival of Music.”
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San Jose’s annual celebration of marijuana culture and medicinal marijuana was back for the 420 weekend with local dispensaries, smoking tools and booth babes.
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Fat Wreck Chords label head and NOFX front man Fat Mike announced today that he is planning a tribute album for No Use for a Name singer/guitarist and San Jose local Tony Sly, who died unexpectedly last year.
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Sean McCourt on April 17, 2013
Jason Newsted has played bass with some of the biggest acts and names in metal and hard rock over the course of more than 30 years, laying down a monstrous bottom end and solid foundation for Flotsam and Jetsam, Ozzy Osbourne and, of course, Metallica.
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