If it weren’t for recent alternative hitmakers The Naked and the Famous and Silversun Pickups, the main stage at BFD 2012 on June 2 at Shoreline Amphitheater would feel like a 1990s time machine. Jane’s Addiction, Garbage and Cake will headline the festival, Live 105 has announced.
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“About five years ago, these bizarre dark songs started creeping into my head,” says Catherine Pierce. “I don’t know what shifted.” Before that, she and her sister Allison, who’ll open for Coldplay Friday and Saturday at HP Pavilion in San Jose, had been toiling in a folky obscurity since their 2000 debut,…
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Aaron Carnes on April 25, 2012
Mountain View’s Dogcatcher will play at San Pedro Square Saturday, April 28, the first show in a monthly series called Daydream Nation that will last until August, and comes out of Bill O’Brien (of Save Alternative)’s efforts to showcase exceptional emerging Bay Area and San Jose artists.
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After doing everything from Lard to his Mojo Nixon cowpunk album to hours and hours of spoken word, Jello Biafra’s solo escapades have never sounded as much like the Dead Kennedys as they do now. Apparently spurred by the onset of his 50th birthday, Biafra put together his first real solo band,…
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Stanford is bringing back its historic Frost Amphitheater in a big way on May 19 when Modest Mouse will play a show that could represent the beginning of a comeback for the 75-year-old venue, which once hosted music greats like Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. The last major artist to…
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It’s been 15 years since Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker recorded together as Latryx. But after performing on each other’s solo releases, they’re back in the studio for a new Latryx album, and they’ve signed on the South Bay’s most successful hip-hop crew the Bangerz to produce some of the tracks.…
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To say that the Bay Rising Tour is “environmentally conscious” would be a laughable understatement. It is in fact completely human-powered, with San Francisco bands Rupa & the April Fishes and Shake Your Peace biking 200 miles to play 11 shows around the Bay Area over 10 days. They will be carrying…
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There’s a certain symmetry to the alpha and omega of Santa Clara’s Avalon Nightclub. Mike Beard, who has booked hundreds of shows there though his Man Down Productions, remembers when Avalon owner Mike Jafari first transformed what used to be the DJ-dance spot Backbeat into a live music venue back in 2003.
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“Obviously, people are going to make assumptions based on who my father is,” says Salvador Santana. To put it another way, they’re not expecting the son of Latin-rock superstar Carlos Santana to be collaborating with Del the Funky Homosapien, GZA from Wu-Tang Clan, or Mellow Man Ace, younger brother of Cypress Hill’s…
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The edgier acts at Mountain Winery have almost always been the openers, but Sarah Silverman will buck that trend when she brings her always-offensive-to-someone stand-up act to the 2012 summer series on June 23. The complete lineup, with shows from May 25 to October 6, was announced this morning.
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