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Yousif Kassab on August 3, 2017
Famed guitarists and songwriting duo Rodrigo y Gabriela have been doing this for awhile. Across their 17-year career the rock and new flamenco players have released five studio albums, performed at countless festivals and even played a set for Barack Obama during his presidency. Their self-titled sophomore LP was just re-released with…
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Yousif Kassab on August 2, 2017
Visual albums can be unforgiving. They generally take an exponential amount of time and effort to create compared with their audio-only counterparts. And with the exception of Prince’s Purple Rain and Beyonce’s Lemonade, few such efforts have succeeded in pulling in viewers beyond an artist’s core fanbase.
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Yousif Kassab on July 27, 2017
Bay Area O.G. Andre Nickatina returns to San Jose with more tales from the Fillmore. The guy has been doing it for longer than your favorite SoundCloud rapper has been alive, but don’t think his age has rusted his wit or his tongue. Even the passing of time won’t stop him from…
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Yousif Kassab on July 27, 2017
Just last month, Joshua “Mad Illz” Carrasco—founder of the Grind Time rap battle league—decided to sell his once-dominant platform. This report came coupled with the news that Carrasco didn’t have much confidence in the art form and the industry it spawned. “Battle rap is dying,” he said. “Dirtbag” Dan Martinez begs to…
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Yousif Kassab on July 27, 2017
The jazz is coming back to Palo Alto as the Stanford Shopping Center hosts the 31st annual Summer Jazz Concert Series, produced by SFJAZZ. This Thursday, the Oakland-based horn ensemble Brass Magic takes the stage. Informed by a wide range of musical styles, including world jazz, pop, hip-hop and electronic, Brass Magic…
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Yousif Kassab on July 21, 2017
Sunnyvale is about to get a healthy dose of prog and deep house when 3LAU returns to Pure. The Las Vegas producer’s set is sure to include material from the flurry of singles he’s been releasing over the past year, along with songs from the most recent entry in his mashup series—last…
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Dead Heads, assemble! Photographer Susana Millman will be commandeering Streetlight Records this Friday to present her new book featuring a collection of up close and personal photos of The Grateful Dead. Her husband, Dennis McNally, who wrote the band’s biography and worked as publicist for them for over a decade before Jerry…
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