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Jay Edgar on July 7, 2021
Green Day’s 2004 album hit American pop culture like a train, putting much of the country’s marginalized sense of angst under post-9/11 politics front and center. And who better to act out that righteous furor in the brilliant stage adaptation than the teens of today, who’ve only added to their list of…
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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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Aaron Carnes on September 4, 2013
According to Dave Parasite, his band the Parasites were one of about three pop-punk bands in all New Jersey in the late ’80s. “There wasn’t even enough to have a four band pop-punk show,” he says.
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American Idiot, the musical based on the Green Day concept album of the same name, opened last night at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts with flashy, sneering energy and a whole lot of youthful angst, but not too much beyond that. And maybe that’s okay.
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Aaron Carnes on April 10, 2013
The members of San Jose pop-punk band Stickup Kid look more like average college kids than rock stars, yet they could very well be the next band to break out of Silicon Valley and achieve national success.
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Krupted Peasant Farmerz, better known as KPF, is now one of San Jose’s most famous punk bands, with a cult following that spans the globe. But when the band broke up in the ’90s, guitarist Rob Fraser had no idea that would be the case.
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