To celebrate their 30th anniversary as a band last year, J-punk pioneers Shonen Knife finally released a full album of Ramones covers, Osaka Ramones. The anticipation came not just from the fact that their Ramones covers that had been floating around for years (“I Wanna Be Sedated,” “Suzy Is A Headbanger,” etc.)…
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Boston electro duo Sonnymoon generated a lot of buzz when they played San Jose in June, and left a lot of people who missed their show at the Pagoda chomping at the bit to see them. That explains why tickets are already being snapped up for the group’s return on Friday, Aug.…
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AARON CARNES on August 6, 2012
For the sixth installment of the Uncanny Valley of the Heart’s Delight, hosts Corpus Callosum bring Oakland gospel-folk group Whiskerman in to headline. Band leader Graham Patzer is perhaps best known as the younger brother of the two Judgment Day string players. Whiskerman—which actually has big brother Lewis on cello—is so vastly…
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Anyone whose knowledge of Detroit hip-hop begins and ends with Eminem would do well to study up on Slum Village. The story of this crew is one of the strangest in modern hip-hop, a sprawling saga that begins in the same world of Motor City battle rap that 8 Mile made famous,…
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Tony Sly, frontman for the popular San Jose punk band No Use For A Name, has died, his label Fat Wreck Chords announced today. No cause of death has been announced. He was 41.
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BEAU DOWLING on July 31, 2012
Seeing San Jose’s Culo A Boca live for the first time can be loosely akin to seeing Gwar live for the first time: it requires just as much time spent trying to figure out their costumes and obscene props as their music.
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Just last week, I was at a bar ordering a drink, and when the bartender turned around to set it down on the counter, I saw that he had a tattoo covering his entire inside forearm recreating a screen from the old Donkey Kong arcade game. For some reason, the first thing…
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“From sunset Friday to sunset Saturday, your mind had to be on nobody but God,” says Phife Dawg, remembering weekends at his grandmother’s house growing up, in last year’s documentary about A Tribe Called Quest, Beats, Rhymes and Life. “So I had to sneak and watch Soul Train. I had to sneak…
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Like so many others, I’ve been hopelessly hooked on the Misfits’ unique brand of punk for a long time. Almost a complete mythology in and of themselves, Danzig’s songs for the band impossibly blended romance and gore, pop harmony and gutter hardcore.
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Rob Crow is known for doing pretty much whatever he wants. Besides his long tenure in the popular indie band Pinback, this includes bands that only the hippest of the hip have even heard of, and for all most of us know, may or may not have existed in our own space-time…
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