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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
Richmond Virginia metalcore outfit Bad Omens blend melodic vocals and ethereal keys with crunchy, soaring guitar leads and throaty screams—using personal despair and inner demons to inspire defiant songs of hope and transcendance. They are currently touring behind their 2019 full-length, Finding God Before God Finds Me. Direct support comes from Oh,…
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Metro Staff on January 30, 2020
Do you miss the old Kanye? Chop-up-the-soul Kanye? What about Carson Daly, Blink-182, the Backstreet Boys and Korn? C’mon. If “Freak on a Leash” comes on the radio, are you really gonna touch that dial? Point is, Popgang Presents and The Ritz are taking it all the way back to the golden…
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Metro Staff on January 22, 2020
After reuniting in 2014, South Bay alt-rock veterans Strata are poised to release their first proper full-length of new material since 2007’s commercially successful Strata Presents the End of the World. So far, the band has only released a pair of teaser trailers on YouTube, featuring a clip of a new song and…
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Anne Gelhaus on January 22, 2020
In all of its nightclub iterations over the last few decades, the space that is now The Ritz has always made room for the Reverend Horton Heat, and with good reason. Considered by many to be the godfather of modern rockabilly and psychobilly, the right reverend and his band have been heating…
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Wallace Baine on January 15, 2020
It’s hard to fathom, but the musicians who played alongside the legendary Bob Marley during his creative heyday in the 1970s are still upright and making music. The Wailers, circa 2020, continue to create their rastaman vibrations with bassist Aston “Family Man” Barrett, guitarist Junior Marvin and guitarist Donald Kinsey—all of whom…
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Matei Predescu on January 15, 2020
This Los Angeles tribute band—made up of session musicians and veterans of the music industry—draws on its collective experience and deep love of Linkin Park to produce faithful re-creations of the SoCal rap-rock titans’ catalog. Formed in 2017 in the wake of Chester Bennington’s untimely death, In the End takes its responsibility…
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Metro Staff on January 15, 2020
The Bay Area’s independent music community will remember the life and work of Murray Bowles. A longtime South Bay denizen, Bowles died at his Sacramento home in early December. The late Bowles was known well in the Bay Area, and his photos were celebrated around the world. The musician and photographer played…
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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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Metro Staff on December 30, 2019
The Circus of Sin, the South Bay’s weirdest burlesque and variety show, has been putting butts in seats, and on stage, for more than three years now. Since its inception, it’s been held at the Caravan Lounge, but it appears that the event’s mastermind, King Patrick Eugenio, has graduated out of his…
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Metro Staff on December 18, 2019
The Limos will always have a spot in the hometown hall of fame, and not only because they’ve put out a number of truly great songs. The guys also throw awesome parties. And given that this is the 10th annual installment of the alt-electronic duo’s XXXMas, it’s sure to be extra lit.…
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