Nothing beats a warm night under the stars with friends, family and one of Jack Black’s all-time best characters—Nacho! The 2006 film by Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess follows Ignacio, a quirky Catholic cook, who spends his days preparing and serving mediocre food at the Oaxacan monastery and orphanage where he was…
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All the world’s information (and plenty of misinformation) is at our fingertips. It’s enough to drive old curmudgeons like us to pine for the good old days. You know, back before squiggly red lines alerted us to our grammatical faux pas and our handsets auto-corrected our text messages—when you either knew how…
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Maarten Hoogstraten is better known by his stage name, Bingo Players. The Dutch DJ and producer—along with his former musical collaborator, the late Paul Bäumer—is responsible for a number of international hits, including “Cry (Just a Little),” which was sampled by Flo Rida for his 2012 hit, “I Cry;” and “Rattle,” which…
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Incubus broke out big in 1999, closing out the millennium with Make Yourself. The multi-platinum album combined heavy riffs, FX-pedal wizardry, hip-hop-inspired beats and a frontman who could really sing and proved the commercial potential of the nü-metal sound. That same year, Jimmy Eat World released Clarity—a sleeper hit of an album…
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Dave Matthews gets hated on a lot. So does 311—for the rap rock thing, for the often-ridiculous lyrics, for the signature PRS guitars and for those white-dude reggae vibes. Back in 2014, they were listed as one of Rolling Stone’s top 20 “Frattiest Bands” listicle. But what if the Grateful Dead had been around…
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Bill Kopp, Yousif Kassab on August 10, 2017
From classic jazz to the cutting edge, there’s so much to see at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. Here is a round-up of great performers taking stages all over downtown San Jose this weekend.
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When hip-hop heads lovingly refer to the “West Coast sound” or Prince fans regale his potent pairing of musical prowess and sartorial eccentricity—or when a kid in suburbia picks up a bass after hearing “Give It Away” by Red Hot Chili Peppers, or a new Talking Heads convert is pulled into the fold…
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Yousif Kassab on August 9, 2017
This year marks the tenth edition of the Outside Lands music and arts festival, which means it’s just short of its big double-digit anniversary. The festival isn’t saying goodbye to its prepubescent years without a fight. The lineup this year is full of artists with albums of new material to play—with the…
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Generations before the fantastical cast of characters from the Harry Potter series captured the imagination of America, the British were worming their way into our collective consciousness through rock & roll. From The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Kinks on to Oasis, Blur and Pulp, our allies across the pond have…
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Camille Miller on August 1, 2017
The Cadillac Three are a Southern rock coalescence of three childhood friends with a knack for sentimentality while also keeping their country cool. Singer-guitarist Jaren Johnston, drummer Neil Mason and lap-steel player Kelby Ray released their first full-length album for Big Machine Records in 2016 and the long-haired trio have more in…
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