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Matei Predescu on July 11, 2019
Local guitarist and composer Mason Razavi looms large in the Bay Area jazz scene. His critically acclaimed albums and regular engagements with the San Jose Jazz Festival are a testament to his expertise and sensitivity as an artist. Razavi’s latest project, Quartet Plus, Vol. 2, highlights his creativity as a forward thinking…
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Erika Rasmussen on May 2, 2019
For the past six years, comic books and live music have lived in harmony at Dan Vado’s venue. Vado, who founded Slave Labor Graphics in 1986, opened his combination comics shop and performance hall in 2014. To celebrate six years on Race Street, Sacramento band The Gold Souls will bring their seductive…
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Erika Rasmussen on April 17, 2019
The touring production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash Broadway hit is back in the Bay Area, playing at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre through September. For those Hamilton-heads who can’t make it to San Francisco—or simply want to double their dose of Alexander and Eliza—the San Jose Pop Up Choir will perform all the…
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Mike Huguenor on April 17, 2019
Pop music has changed a lot in the last 60 years, but there’s still something to be said for that little thing called melody. With an ear for the classics, South Bay power-pop group David Brookings and the Average Lookings have a knack for matching soaring melodies to jangly AM chord progressions.…
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Mike Huguenor on February 27, 2019
Maybe you know him from The Search for Animal Chin. Or maybe you know him from “Organism,” his funky boom-bap soul track on the soundtrack to Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland. But if you follow skateboarding (particularly, Bay Area skateboarding), then you know Tommy Guerrero. A member of the original Bones Brigade—along with…
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Wallace Baine on January 30, 2019
These days it wouldn’t be so surprising to hear My Chemical Romance raining softly down from overhead speakers at your local Nordstroms. But before punk was fully incorporated into the Great Corporate American Songbook, a trio of scuzzy East Bay kids in their 20s paved the way with a multi-platinum album called…
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Wallace Baine on January 3, 2019
San Jose dreampop band Frantic Romantic lived another lifetime as Skyway View. Now, with a new name, they’ve refashioned their sound, embracing a more ’90s, achingly romantic alt-pop aesthetic. The band has already drawn attention with its lush, full-throated song “Celestina,” thanks to its trippy animated visuals and the muscular “Among the…
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Avi Salem on December 19, 2018
There’s no place like home for the holidays. Just ask Get Married, San Jose’s local pop-punk six-piece. They’re fresh off of a national tour and a festival appearance in Florida and back home in time for their second annual holiday party extravaganza at Art Boutiki. Supported by San Jose punk staples Stickup…
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Wallace Baine on November 21, 2018
Fans of singer-songwriter (and Bay Area native) Aisea Taimani and his band Minor Islands have lots to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. The socially conscious performer comes to the Art Boutiki with his debut full-length album, Closer to Home, set to drop Thanksgiving Day. As the son of immigrants from the Polynesian…
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Wallace Baine on November 14, 2018
Everyone in the greater South Bay can remember where they were on the evening of April 5, 2012. That was, of course, the day when San Jose R&B singer and former Oak Grove High homecoming king DeAndre Brackensick was eliminated from competition on season 11 of American Idol. He soon after toured…
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