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Karla Kane on January 20, 2016
Sim Castro, leader of San Jose band The Albert Square, says in some ways his group’s new album, I (Assume I) Know What I’m Doing, is “a record about fear.” Over the course of its 13 tracks, Castro ponders, among other things, “fear of growing up and not having your shit together;…
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YEAR-END LISTS typically hew to the comfy round number 10. And although Top 10 has a ring to it, Silicon Valley’s melting pot of musical talent fused genres, collaborated, innovated and turned out so many great LPs and EPs this year that it became a nearly impossible task to narrow it down…
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Two of the South Bay’s most prominent punk bands, the Albert Square and the Pillowfights, are calling it quits. It’s not entirely a coincidence that they are playing their final show together—they’ve shared many bills over the years, including some of their very earliest and even a recent West Coast tour. “It…
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