Eulipia Restaurant, once a South First Street institute, was recently replaced by Café Stritch, a new eatery that will also host live music starting with a free show on March 27 with the Hive Dwellers.
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Few local bands have married musical sophistication with sweaty garage punk quite as seamlessly as San Jose’s Hard Girls. Their new album Isn’t it Worse, available for download and cassette, but not vinyl until early next year, is their best recording to date. It’s 28 minutes of unique and accessible punk rock.
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Music is always a good Christmas gift, but as record stores continue to disappear, it’s getting harder to find options outside of iTunes download cards. Bands are still making physical albums these days—CDs, vinyl records, and the latest retro trend, cassette tapes. San Jose has lots of bands that have put out…
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Who would have thought that three guys sitting around watching the Damon Wayans military comedy Major Payne would be make for such a good music video?
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Mike Huguenor, known as the longtime lead singer/guitarist for local indie-jangle-pop group Shinobu, has released his first entirely solo EP with all instruments—excluding a trumpet part on the opening song—performed by himself.
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Mike Huguenor is the former frontman of Shinobu, the now defunct San Jose indie rock band with a range self-described as “simplistic to annoying.” Within the scene however, they’re considered “unsung punk rock heroes.” But if you take a look at Huguenor’s output since the band’s dispersal, it’s obvious that he’s worked…
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