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Metro Staff on December 30, 2019
Over the course of seven full-length records, San Jose skate punks Jonny Manak and the Depressives have built a reputation for living fast, playing fast and skating fast. None of that’s really changed—except for the fact that frontman and bandleader Manak has put down the bottle and picked up his skateboard. You…
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Mike Huguenor on August 29, 2018
Long before electric scooters filled the streets, Jonny Manak at the Depressives were one of the tried and true staples of downtown San Jose. A homegrown ’77-style punk powerhouse, Manak and Co. have both the energy of the Hives and the California street pedigree of Rancid. And with recent songs like “Cold…
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The SoFA Street Fair is returning for its second straight year since awakening from its decade-long hibernation last September. The Fair’s original reign, which lasted from 1992 until 2001, bookended one of the most exciting eras in the history of downtown San Jose—at least for fans of alternative art, music and culture.
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Jonny Manak of Jonny Manak and the Depressives (full disclosure: Metro’s former in-house rock star) loves garage and punk rock with equal passion, at least that’s what his music suggests. He strings together bits of garage and surf from the 50s and 60s, early pissed-off punk rock from the late 70s and…
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