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Mike Huguenor on January 25, 2018
AFTER SPENDING six months in San Jose, HXXS needed something to happen soon. “It was a pretty desperate time,” says Gavin Neves. HXXS (pronounced “Hexes”) got their start in Portland, Oregon, where Neves and bandmate Jeannie Colleene met and began writing together. But just as things were picking up for them, a…
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Spiller might have started in Eugene, Oregon, but the band is made up of members from San Jose, Maui, Lake Tahoe and Hong Kong. A band made up of transplants and nomads, their sound is equally nomadic and exploratory, including elements of ’90s indie rock like Karate and Tortoise, swelling choruses of…
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André Jaquez on November 30, 2017
The band from San Jose was formed back in 2012. The trio of singer and guitarist Jared Richard, Paul Cingolani on bass, and Jeff Lemas on drums creates a power rock sound infused with hard rock, blues and the rawness of garage rock. Audiobender has been putting in the work to build…
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Life Size Models is going all in. The San Jose-based group’s forthcoming EP, Home Made, is meant to show fans that the band are taking things seriously. “We want to make this a career,” frontman and singer Chris Seymour says. It shows. The polished five-song set has shades of The Strokes, Clap…
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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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Starover Blue know their music isn’t going to get bottles popping in the club, and that’s fine with them. The dreamy synth pop band got started in San Jose back in 2007, when singer and guitarist Kendall Sallay met keyboardist Dirk Molitz at SJSU. At the time, Kendall was studying opera and Dirk…
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Those who know a bit about San Jose indie rock quartet Get Married will tell you that the band was formed as a tribute group before evolving into a rock-a-doo-punk outfit. The group’s first several shows consisted of strictly Elvis Presley songs.
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Joowan Kim wants to pioneer a new kind of American art music. He derides concert hall compositions as either reheated European classics or cultural appropriation pieces, like “Tibetan yak herding songs,” which he compares to wildflowers ripped from their native field and put into an expensive vase. After emigrating from South Korea…
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As a genre, hip-hop is all about taking the past and pushing it into the future. It’s about the meshing of sounds together. Before his untimely passing earlier this year, A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg summed it up succinctly in an interview with the blog I Am Hip Hop: “If you…
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Miranda Lee and Gemma Rose first sang together in a fifth grade choir in the tiny Iowa town of Fairfield. They went to different schools, so they didn’t reconnect until a mutual friend’s birthday party during college. There, they became instant, vocal soulmates over their shared passion for obscure harmonies.
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