On the way home from Levi’s Stadium last night, my mind was swimming as I mulled over exactly what I made of everything I’d just witnessed.
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Welp… It’s that time again. We humbly present to you, dear reader (and listener) the fourth Metro Silicon Valley podcast, which we are tentatively calling SV411. In this ‘cast, Metro Managing Editor Josh Koehn and A&E Editor Nick Veronin discuss this week’s issue.
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Acclaimed jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen has always connected with Brazilian music, though it took moving across an ocean for her to realize it. “I heard it growing up in Israel,” she says, noting that she often encountered samba tunes with Hebrew lyrics in her native Tel Aviv. “I just didn’t know it…
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Yousif Kassab, Nick Veronin on May 10, 2017
This week’s Hit List features an international man of comedy, a primer on heavy metal music, Three Bad Jacks and a brand new local production of one of the ballet’s best known stories.
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Nick Veronin and Josh Koehn on May 4, 2017
Well, we done did it again. Metro managed to pull together its second-ever podcast. This week on the ’cast—for the issue of May 3, 2017—editors Josh Koehn and Nick Veronin discuss: Cinco de Mayo and the irresistably danceable new sound coming out of the valley, Cumbia Bass; the region’s first-ever health clinic…
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Vicente Serna on May 4, 2017
Jose Cervantes plays it fairly straight in the traditional cumbia band he started with his younger siblings and a best friend from middle school. All of the players in Corazón Salvaje are millennials, who grew up skateboarding and listening to punk and hip-hop. But instead of mashing everything up into a genre…
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Diana San Juan, Vicente Serna, Nick Veronin on May 4, 2017
Mateo Gonzales presses play and the track springs to life. The window on his laptop shows various layers of composition scrolling by. There’s a sample of Bobby Day’s “Rockin’ Robin.” The trilling whistle of the early rockabilly hit leaps from the small computer speakers, as do the more tinny rhythmic elements: the high…
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Nick Veronin, Benjamin Siepak on May 3, 2017
“This is ground zero,” says rising Vallejo rapper Nef The Pharaoh. He’s talking about the Bay Area. “We are the mecca. Hip-hop might have started in New York, but the Bay Area gave it its style. We gave it its slang.” And with The Chang Project and the soon-to-be-dropped The Big Chang…
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Nef The Pharaoh remembers the exact moment he decided he wanted to become a rapper. At the tender age of 4, the young Pharaoh—born Tonee Hayes in Vallejo—saw the surreal Hype Williams-directed video for Busta Rhymes’ 1997 track “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See.”
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Metro has long discussed starting a podcast, only to turn our attention to other pressing concerns (usually lunch). But in an effort to better reach readers and tell our story—that is, the story of life, art and news in Silicon Valley—we’ve decided to take the long-overdue plunge. Our first podcast, recorded April…
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