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Wallace Baine on October 25, 2018
It’s been more than two years now since music fans have had to wake up every morning in a world without The Purple One. The seven-piece tribute band When Doves Cry came together in Sacramento several months before Prince’s death and now stands as one of the best opportunities to still hear…
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Julia Canavese on October 17, 2018
Miami-based hip-hop group ¡Mayday! brings its dynamic sound to The Ritz in support of its newly released South of 5th album. Led by emcees Wrekonize and Bernz, ¡Mayday! is defined by its experimental spirit and sound, making the group’s music difficult to categorize but fun to listen to. This latest album dips…
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Nick Veronin on October 10, 2018
The Satori goth club has been keeping South Bay dance floors weird for 12 years now. The first venue to host the recurring dance night was Club Savoy north of downtown San Jose. From there it moved to the Blank Club and now lives at The Ritz. As the creepiest night of…
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Wallace Baine on October 4, 2018
If you’re suffering a bit from seen-it-all ennui on the live music front, we just might have the antidote. The sounds of Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha are likely novel to most Western ears. Starting from a foundation of Ukrainian folk music, the one-man, three-woman group throws in all kinds of musical textures from…
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Nick Veronin on September 27, 2018
Because he’s polite, Andrew Savage obliges and dutifully answers the question he’s been asked many times before during this most recent cycle of interviews. The singer and songwriter for New York based art-punk-ramshackle-rockers Parquet Courts explains that he and his bandmates connected with producer Brian Burton—a.k.a. Danger Mouse—after Burton reached out to…
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Estefany Gonzalez on September 5, 2018
Founded in Story City, Iowa, by singer and guitarist Parker Griggs, Radio Moscow got their first big break after Black Keys guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach got a hold of the band’s demo and produced their self-titled debut LP. Channeling the heavy, bluesy, psych-rock sounds of legendary power trios like Cream, The…
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Mike Huguenor on August 29, 2018
All across Latin America, people would give a limb for the chance to see Dread Mar I in a room the size of the Ritz. The Argentinian reggae star normally plays amphitheaters—places the size of Shoreline Amphitheatre. On YouTube, his videos have tens of millions of views. Some, like 2010 hit “Tu…
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Andrew Lentz on August 29, 2018
Borrow your cool uncle’s buckskin jacket or funky aunt’s peasant dress and get ready for the hippest happening since the South Bay’s very own Chocolate Watchband helped ignite the mid-’60s garage rock scene. Across three gem-packed albums, Los Angeles quintet Mystic Braves effortlessly re-create the magic of psych-pop’s golden age, from vocal…
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Chiptune and 8-bit bands are nothing new. The sonic textures of early Nintendo and Sega Genesis games have inspired countless millennial musicians to approach the genre in numerous ways, cobbling together songs with crunchy lo-fi tones or reimagining classic video game soundtracks. Bit Brigade rearranges the iconic scores of games like Mega…
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Andrew Lentz on August 15, 2018
Any rock nerd can form a cover band, but how many tribute vehicles are fronted by an actual guitar hero? As Zakk Sabbath, Black Label Society main man and on-again-off-again Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde does an inspired take on Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi’s classic riffs. Wylde, a multi-tasking savant, also does…
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