In 1998, 98.5’s KOME became KFOX, and gone was all the angst and sexual frustration of the decade’s music, switched out for the musty, “feel good” vibes of our parent’s generation. To help harken back to the good ol’ days, streetwear line Mishka’s fourth release in their Radio Friendly Unit Shifter series…
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Fully recovered from that racist fruit vendor incident, and even 30 Minutes or Less, comedian Aziz Ansari brings his “Buried Alive” tour to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts on July 19.
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Chicago’s DMN Ology has been spelling his name about six different ways since he came up in the Chicago hip-hop scene in the ’90s. It’s not so much that he’s into Satan—although devils and demons do pop up in the imagery of his songs—it’s that “Demon” was his nickname growing up, a…
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Maybe it’s just a plot to keep American indie kids from getting even more depressed, but Scottish shoegazers the Twilight Sad had a hell of a time getting visas for their new U.S. tour, which comes to the Blank Club in San Jose on Wednesday, March 7. Things got so bad that…
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The 50th issue of the acclaimed, Brooklyn-based Wax Poetics magazine is dedicated to Prince, and to honor the occasion, Stones Throw’s DaM-FunK created a Prince mix. But tonight at the Pagoda Lounge in San Jose, DJ Cutso of the Bangerz will do him one better by spinning a Prince tribute.
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Beau Dowling on February 20, 2012
By all accounts, Lemmy Kilmister should be dead. He drinks a fifth of Jack Daniel’s a day, been smoking since he was 11 and eats only meat and cheese. Anthrax’s Scott Ian put it best when he said Motorhead is one of those metal bands that’s cool for the punks to like.…
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Beau Dowling on February 17, 2012
Metal bands can be ridiculous, self-absorbed and even downright outrageous. Sometimes, the genre needs to be reminded to have a sense of humor and not take itself so seriously. Sometimes, a band like San Jose’s Metallingus comes along and does just that.
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The Japantown Beer Walk sold out early on Saturday, signaling a success for organizers and leaving many people who showed up hoping to purchase tickets on site crying in their beer somewhere else.
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Steve Palopoli on February 8, 2012
Andy Kuntz remembers when arcade games suddenly became the hottest nostalgia item in Silicon Valley. It was during the dotcom boom, when the coin-op craze was gone and seemingly forgotten, and home consoles already ruled the video-game industry. Kuntz and his brother, Chris, were running T Minus One, a company that rents,…
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One might expect that the accordian is a dying art, or even be cheering its demise. But there’s a player from the Bay Area who’s earning comparisons to the squeezebox greats—and not only that, but his inventive, fiery style is enough to get even the haters pumped about the accordian. He’s Andre…
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