The San Jose Civic hosts Wilco Saturday, January 28, for the first of the band’s three sold-out Bay Area Shows.
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The night before Wallpaper played the Blank Club on Saturday, they were in L.A. With Wallpaper signing with Epic and on MTV, industry types are all over Ricky Reed right now. But halfway through the Blank show, he took stock of the situation and declared that “just like I knew it would,…
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Counterculture and cupcakes collide on Saturday in Santa Clara, when former Psycho Donuts mastermind Kipp Berdiansky brings his new foray into dessert weirdness—this time, the mobile, customized cupcake truck known as Project Cupcake—to the Starving Musician for a launch party that will feature music from San Jose’s reigning kings of ska, Monkey,…
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AARON CARNES on January 18, 2012
Jazz-indie-rock is a genre few bands claim to play, but San Jose’s Contra Ville embrace this mismatch of styles. Lead vocalist/guitarist Mitch Waldman and saxophonist Brendan Carroll stumbled on the odd mixture by accident. Waldman, who writes most of the music, listens to a heavy dose of neo-psychedelic indie rock bands like…
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It’s time to make this clear once and for all: Ricky Reed is not a joke. Ricky Reed is not a clown. Most importantly, Ricky Reed is not an act. “Ricky Reed is real.”
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Sometimes Tuesdays are downright terrible. That’s how DJ Clint Westwood remembers them being in downtown San Jose last spring. “The Sharks were losing the playoffs,” he says. “All of downtown was in a lull.”
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Before they begin the European leg of their tour with the Sounds at the end of the this month, Campbell’s Limousines have posted two covers for free download at their website, thelimousines.com.
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Megadeth has had a lot of ups and downs over the years, which is probably fitting for a band that started basically as a grudge after Dave Mustaine got thrown out of Metallica. It’s been one crazy story after the other, but the craziest yet may be that Megadeth is back in…
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Maceo Parker has played with some of the most iconic and eccentric personalities in music history. As James Brown’s sax man, he helped write the rules of modern R&B. As the musical director of George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic, he led a sonic revolution in the ’70s. As part of Prince’s band, he’s helped…
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It’s been nearly three decades since original lead singer David Lee Roth recorded with Van Halen. But despite years of turmoil, breakups, reunions and more breakups and reunions, Diamond Dave is back in the studio with his old bandmates. They’ll be taking their tour in support of the record to HP Pavilion…
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