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Mike Huguenor on September 29, 2021
San Jose hardcore moves fast. Two thousand people came to see Sunami play their second show. Three years after releasing their first album, Gulch have already announced their final tour. And Spy—a very new band with no music videos and only a four-song, seven-minute EP to their name—has somehow amassed over 17,000…
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Mat Weir on June 30, 2021
On Saturday, June 19, in a San Jose parking lot surrounded by car stereo garages and physical therapist businesses, over 2,000 people swarmed for the underground renegade show RBS—“Real Bay Shit.” The event featured stars of the nationally renowned San Jose/Santa Cruz hardcore scene like Gulch, Sunami and Drain, along with similarly…
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Matei Predescu on January 8, 2020
This local Latinx hardcore band pairs driving, bass-heavy intensity with militant lyricism, which takes aim squarely at socioeconomic inequality, racial injustice and structural violence. Songs like “STS” and “No Compromise” from their 2018 project, Disruptor, condemn creeping fascism and decry societal decay with potent verses that are as formally poetic as they…
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