In 1998, 98.5’s KOME became KFOX, and gone was all the angst and sexual frustration of the decade’s music, switched out for the musty, “feel good” vibes of our parent’s generation. To help harken back to the good ol’ days, streetwear line Mishka’s fourth release in their Radio Friendly Unit Shifter series…
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On Saturday March 10th, Black & Brown, San Jose’s finest purveyor of thrift store couture will celebrate its seventh anniversary with a spring fashion show titled “Seven’s Bloom.” In anticipation of the evening’s fête de fashion, they’ve released a sleek promo featuring model/musician Biljana Markovski doing her best Guy Bourdin impressions.
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Is the Oakland-based rapper Kreayshawn an Internet conspiracy or an absurdist comment on the state of popular culture? With a penchant for warped beats, chirpy hooks, and colorful baubles that combine Harajuku with the hood, the 22-year-old born Natassia Zolot has confounded the same Internet that gave birth to her. She performs…
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San Jose’s nightlife has a high tolerance for bad taste—eurotrash masquerading as pop, cheesy nightclubs with aspirations beyond their zip code, and most importantly: lacking a single decent place to listen to electronic music. For those of us who’ve lost interest in making the + 100 mile roundtrip trek to San Francisco,…
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Enter the world of ASAP Rocky: a cherubic blonde with gold fronts mouths the word ‘swag,’ preening suggestively. Four heavily medicated twenty-somethings dissolve into a tattered couch, keeping up with a steady rotation of swigs from a Colt 45 and blowing big clouds of milky white smoke from a loose Backwood, their…
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Blackberry peddler and globetrotting producer Wesley Pentz – Diplo to you and I – has outdone himself this time with “Climax,” a “next level electrosoul” track with R&B superstar Usher and occasional Björk-collaborator Nico Muhly on strings.
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When she’s not giving a middle finger to middle America or “glamorizing terrorism,” M.I.A. is living the good life. A very good life, if the tour rider posted today on The Smoking Gun is any indication. While most of her ‘demands’ are hardly cause for a public outcry (there’s plenty more fodder…
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After fading into nowhere in particular, the celestial blues of Mazzy Star will be heard once again. As promised, the California band is releasing a new album this year and traveling the length of their native state, playing at some predictably unusual venues.
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There’s a word for what the Lolita in Lana Del Rey suffers from—and it comes from the author of her avatar, Vladimir Nabokov—the Russian word toska, a “sensation of deep spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause, a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick…
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