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Grace Stetson on October 20, 2021
If the pandemic has taught society anything, it’s the importance of being straightforward. Comedian, former talk-show host and all-around jokester Chelsea Handler took that lesson to the bank, branding her latest tour: “Vaccinated and Horny.” The comedian—perhaps best known for her quick quips on late night show Chelsea Lately, her Netflix documentary…
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Alec Adams on October 13, 2021
Can-co, Should-Co, Wilco! Not content with simply turning in 10 classic albums and calling it a good career, Chicago’s indie rock sextet are back touring their 2019 release Ode to Joy. They were supposed to tour it in 2020, but apparently something big came up that year which prevented it. Ode to…
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Alec Adams on September 8, 2021
Any title applied to Pat Benatar seems inadequate. “Pop icon,” “Rock legend”—none of them do justice to her cultural footprint. Benatar tells truths that have lived rent free in the heads of music fans for decades. Love absolutely is a freaking battlefield! And just when music journalists thought they had her pinned…
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Jay Edgar on September 1, 2021
At the end of an intense summer, many may be reaching for that trusty “chill beats to study and relax to” playlist—but they should really be finding some warm beats to vibe out on. A classically trained pianist, MitiS keeps piano central to his bass music production and creates just that: a…
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Mike Huguenor on August 25, 2021
Mexico City’s Rock en Espanol legends Caifanes llevar la rock to San Jose this weekend. Since 1985, the moody and exploratory band have been combining gothy British new wave and prog rock with Latin rhythms and textures to create their own unique spin on Latin rock. Though the group originally broke up…
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Bill Kopp on July 28, 2021
When the pandemic forced touring musicians off the road in March 2020, few thought the disruption would last more than a few months. Now over 16 months later, life is still only incrementally returning to something approximating normal.
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Anne Gelhaus on February 12, 2020
It’s hard to fathom how many “scenes from a hat” Ryan Stiles and Greg Proops have done, given that they’ve been appearing on Whose Line is it Anyway? since its original BBC incarnation in 1989. After more than 30 years of improvising comedy sketches for small screens on either side of the…
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Bill Kopp on January 22, 2020
The name might be a trifle misleading: this Utah-based classical crossover group features a pianist (Jon Schmidt) but he’s just one-fourth of the lineup. The Piano Guys also include Steven Sharp Nelson on cello and two producers, Paul Anderson and Al van der Beek. Like Postmodern Jukebox (another act operating on the…
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Kenny Ngo on December 11, 2019
After years of spinning up remixes and nabbing choice production credits—remember Major Lazer’s ridonkulous 2013 banger, “Bubble Butt?”—Los Angeles DJ Valentino Khan finally has an EP of his own. Khan released House Party on Diplo’s Mad Decent label over the summer. The collection blends trap, dubstep, moombahton and hardstyle together into an…
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Wallace Baine on December 11, 2019
Broadway director Neil Goldberg has assembled a dazzling cast of acrobatic performers, singers and dancers for this theatrical spin on the holiday season. On consecutive nights at the San Jose Civic, Cirque Dreams Holidaze will feature glitzy and colorful penguins, snowmen, toy soldiers, reindeer and other yuletide pomp, along with tons of…
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