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Elliott Sky Case on December 8, 2021
It may already be December, but Halloween is never over for those who truly believe. This Thursday, downtown fixture The Caravan Lounge hosts SHRINE, a certified Goth Nite featuring DJs Hex Embrace, C_Death, and (the most goth name of them all) Julian. Hex Embrace has been spotted spinning all over the Bay…
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Li Patron on August 18, 2021
In late 2019, San Jose artist Melina Alexa Ramirez created what she imagined as a one-off illustration based on a tarot card: local photographer Justin Brown rendered as the Fool.
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Mike Huguenor on August 11, 2021
This weekend, San Jose’s premiere burlesque troupe the Circus of Sin returns to their loving home of the Caravan for “Back to the Van.” Led by MC and occasional wrestler Some Guy, the adventurous Circus of Sin is all about a memorable night out. A typical performance might include drag, exotic dancing,…
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Mike Huguenor on July 14, 2021
Don’t call it the fourth wave. Though it truly never went away, in 2021 ska music is back thanks to a long-awaited critical reappraisal and a generation of new artists and listeners. Here in San Jose, Monkey are an absolute legacy of skankable rhythms and melodies, the Asian Man Records alum having…
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Metro Staff on March 6, 2019
Those who are a part of this city’s nightlife scene know that San Jose is a lot like a small town. People watch out for each other. So when news of Robbie Matthews’ untimely death reached Rachel Warner of The Caravan, one of Matthews’ favourite watering holes, she knew what she had…
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Avi Salem on December 28, 2018
Keep things groovy and psychedelic this holiday season at the always-reliable Caravan Lounge, which presents Holiday Good Times N’ Cheer! with three local heavy hitters: the Magick Blues Band, Casual Vibes and Zack Freitas. Encompassing the realms of psychedelic, garage and folk rock, the night will start out mellow, with the soulful…
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Mike Huguenor on August 29, 2018
Long before electric scooters filled the streets, Jonny Manak at the Depressives were one of the tried and true staples of downtown San Jose. A homegrown ’77-style punk powerhouse, Manak and Co. have both the energy of the Hives and the California street pedigree of Rancid. And with recent songs like “Cold…
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Mike Huguenor on March 29, 2018
The Bay Area has brought some truly brutal music into the world, and San Jose’s Deathgrave carry on that tradition with their mix of grindcore, death metal and good old punk rock. Or, in their own words, “a crude and absurd form of Hell.” “Nimrod,” the opening track from a recent split…
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There’s just something about the horn line that comes in at about the 32-second mark of “All That Glitters”— the lead-off track from North By North’s excellent sophomore album, Last Days Of Magic—that screams The Blues Brothers. But maybe that’s just a symptom of some sort of rock-writer confirmation bias, owing to…
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Nick Veronin on December 23, 2015
James Fenwicke, former multi-instrumentalist for The Mumlers, is coming home for the holidays—and he is bringing the gift of new music with him. Fenwicke—or JF, as he prefers to be called—is returning to his native San Jose from New Orleans, where he recently moved to pursue a degree in the field of…
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