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Bill Kopp on December 11, 2019
Pop stars and genres of popular music come and go. But a select few performers manage to endure floating above the rapidly flowing stream contemporary culture. Johnny Mathis has stayed aloft for more than 60 years now.
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John Flynn on November 20, 2019
These days, Patton Oswalt’s primary job is being a dad. But even after starring in the Pixar hit Ratatouille, shining in indie darlings like Young Adult and regularly stealing scenes on network sitcoms, Oswalt maintains a love of the stage.
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Wallace Baine on November 6, 2019
North of the Rio Grande, even after three decades together, Caifanes is still only well known to a cult-like rock-en-Español audience. But in their native Mexico, the band ranks among alt-rock’s greatest acts, combining ambitious themes of progressive rock and grand U2-style melodies with Latin rhythms and Spanish lyrics. Formed in Mexico…
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Matei Predescu on November 6, 2019
Since its inception in the 1970s, NJPW has dominated the professional wrestling scene in Japan, achieving a level of popularity comparable to America’s favorite Spandex-and-glitter slugfest, the WWE. NJWP’s accompanying trading card game, Kings of Pro Wrestling, has helped transport the franchise to international audiences. New Japan makes its debut in the…
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Kenny Ngo on October 30, 2019
Hailing from Australia’s Gold Coast, house music DJ and producer Fisher performs at the San Jose Civic on Halloween this Thursday. A professional surfer before he switched career paths in 2017, Fisher has produced a number of top-ranking club bangers, including “Ya Kidding,” “Crowd Control” and the international smash, “Losing It,” took…
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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
Marshall Mathers was still going by MC Double M in 1991. That was the year Nathan Feuerstein was born into a broken home in the small town of Gladwin, Michigan—about 150 miles north of Detroit. But by the time Feuerstein was a pre-teen, Mathers had firmly cemented his fast-rapping, maniacal alter-ego, Eminem.…
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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
This ain’t your grandfather’s rock opera. The 50th anniversary tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s take on Jesus’ last days sports a contemporary look—including a clean-shaven Christ (Aaron LaVigne)—that uses updated production values to crank up the spectacle and appeal to today’s audiences. The story, told from the perspective of…
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Bill Kopp on October 23, 2019
Over the course of its three decades performing, progressive metal outfit Dream Theater has periodically created concept albums. Their 1999 LP, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, was the band’s first concept album and marked the debut of Jordan Rudess as the group’s keyboardist.
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Bill Kopp on October 16, 2019
Midwestern rockers REO Speedwagon played together for more than 13 years before the band scored its first top 10 single. That song, “Keep On Lovin’ You” marked a new beginning for the group. And REO Speedwagon’s durability has been proven over and over again ever since: Nearly 40 years after that single…
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Wallace Baine on October 9, 2019
Nobody does enormous on-stage multimedia cube structures quite like deadmau5. The acclaimed Canadian DJ and glowing mouse helmet collector has been performing with his giant cube for close to a decade, but this year he’s unveiling “Cube V3”—the latest iteration of his mind-blowing stage show. According to tour scuttlebutt, the cube requires…
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