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André Jaquez on November 1, 2017
As the fearless, freewheeling frontman of metal giants Iron Maiden, no obstacle was too high for the leaping and bounding Bruce Dickinson. In 2014 that all changed when doctors discovered a large cancerous lump in his tongue. Dickinson’s 40-year career manning the cockpit for Iron Maiden—quite literally; he is the band’s singer…
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André Jaquez on November 1, 2017
Taking their name from the classic John Hughes flick Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, one of Orange County’s original ska punk bands rise again with energy to spare. When the Southern California ska punk scene broke into the mainstream with acts like Sublime leading the pack, Save Ferris earned their way with an…
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Satvir Saini on November 1, 2017
Let’s do the Time Warp again—live! And that’s the key. Most local productions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show involve a screening of the Tim Curry-starring 1975 cult hit accompanied by live actors and calls for audience participation. This rendition of Rocky Horror will be performed on stage, in real live meatspace.…
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André Jaquez on November 1, 2017
These Berklee alums know how to hit their listeners right in the feels. In a flush of pop brushstrokes, A R I Z O N A create infectious electronic dance music, which they perform with live instruments, following a growing trend in the EDM world. The trio’s detailed production sounds like a…
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André Jaquez on October 31, 2017
Ask Charles Yan where he comes from and he won’t start with his birth. For him, it all goes back to China’s Cultural Revolution. Yan’s father fled his homeland as Mao Zedong was consolidating power—only to land in Vietnam. When government forces there “repurposed” his home, he and his family fled again, this…
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André Jaquez on October 27, 2017
Imagine doo-wop’s comedic Coasters switched their electric guitars for flugelhorns and theremins and you’re getting close to understanding what this California Pops Orchestra program is all about. In between turns at the rostrum, pops maestro Kim Venaas dishes out deadpan one-liners—like Mitch Hedberg in a tux. The orchestra, along with special guest…
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André Jaquez on October 27, 2017
Rumbling onto American stages during the mid-1960s, the Rolling Stones were the dangerous alternative to the bubbly Mersey Beat sound of their contemporaries The Beatles. Anyone who knows anything about The British Invasion knows that. The only question is, whose side are you on? Join in the enduring rock & roll debate…
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André Jaquez on October 27, 2017
Growing up in the Cypress Village projects in West Oakland is tough. Especially when you go from hustling candy bars to pushing work. Unlike the stripped-down beats and absurdist view of street life trotted out by his hyphy predecessors, Stalin takes a bleaker, more serious tone over gooey beats that borrow from…
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No topic is too serious for Zach and Kelly Weinersmith. After all they are the satirical cartoonists responsible for the popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. “Soonish” is a macro to micro, lighthearted discussion of science and society that explores future technologies that may or may not be the doom of…
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It’s been 100 years since Vladimir Lenin led his Bolshevik Party to overthrow the czarist autocracy. The Russian Revolution deposed Nicholas II, left the enigmatic mystic Rasputin dead and ushered a new socialist order into the halls of power in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The revolution also paved the way for some…
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