Rock Bottom bring a taste of San Franicsco’s Mission District to the Caravan tonight (May 10th) with their brand of “sleaze rock ‘n’ roll.” We caught up with singer/guitarist Alex Kieth for an interview before the show.
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AARON CARNES on May 9, 2012
It’s been almost a year since James Fenwicke and the rest of the original Mumlers lineup parted ways with singer-songwriter Will Sprott. So far, life after the Mumlers hasn’t been a bad thing for Fenwicke. It’s meant that Plantain, a side project of his since 2008, now gets his full attention.
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Legendary singer-songwriter and alternative-nation poet laureate Leonard Cohen announced the details of the North American leg of his 2012 world tour today, including a show at HP Pavilion in San Jose Nov. 7.
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Does X have anything left to prove? The band put L.A. punk on the map with their 1980 album Los Angeles, and went on to basically found the punker-to-folkster Americana crossover moment (that’s bigger than ever today) with their side project the Knitters in 1985. In between, they put out probably the…
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Almost hidden away amid rows of trees, a block from DeAnza Boulevard, the Cupertino Public Library is about as far as one can get from the thousands of screaming, writhing fans at the festivals and stadiums that Bassnectar plays around the country, and the world.
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“About five years ago, these bizarre dark songs started creeping into my head,” says Catherine Pierce. “I don’t know what shifted.” Before that, she and her sister Allison, who’ll open for Coldplay Friday and Saturday at HP Pavilion in San Jose, had been toiling in a folky obscurity since their 2000 debut,…
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After doing everything from Lard to his Mojo Nixon cowpunk album to hours and hours of spoken word, Jello Biafra’s solo escapades have never sounded as much like the Dead Kennedys as they do now. Apparently spurred by the onset of his 50th birthday, Biafra put together his first real solo band,…
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It’s been 15 years since Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker recorded together as Latryx. But after performing on each other’s solo releases, they’re back in the studio for a new Latryx album, and they’ve signed on the South Bay’s most successful hip-hop crew the Bangerz to produce some of the tracks.…
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This was the set list at Radiohead’s show last night at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. For a full review, go here.
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Like the Black Keys if they weren’t basically a pop band, or John Spencer Blues Explosion without the retro obsessions, Hot Snakes were what rock and roll sounds like stripped down to its bubbling primal ooze.
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