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Nick Veronin on May 8, 2019
Since forming in 2006, drummer Logan Kroeber and guitarist-singer Meric Long have released seven full-length albums. Along the way they’ve swelled and retracted in size, and experimented in a variety of styles, including indie folk, psych rock and baroque pop. They come to San Jose on tour behind their latest LP, 2018’s…
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C.J. Prusi on May 2, 2019
Taking a little bit of The Lord of the Rings (Nazgûl robes and enchanted blades), a little bit of Tron (hazy, buzzing keys) and throwing it all in a bubbling cauldron, this Boise synthwave trio craft a truly potent musical potion. The Keeper, The Seer and The Weaver—as they are individually known—have…
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Mike Huguenor on April 25, 2019
That a band like Sales played Coachella this year is pretty remarkable.
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Mike Huguenor on April 17, 2019
About three minutes into “Only Acting,” the lead single from Kero Kero Bonito’s 2018 album Time ‘n’ Place, the whole thing falls apart. Like a CD player trying to read a scratched disc, the track skips on a fragment. A moment later it shuts down, pulling everything into silence. Then comes the…
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Nick Veronin on April 11, 2019
For well over a decade, ’80s- and ’90s-themed alternative music parties—like Atomic, The Workout and Club Satori—have proven a serious draw in downtown San Jose. Live alternative music, especially that produced by Bay Area musicians, has been a harder sell. DJ Cutso and Containher are hoping their new endeavor, Outsider’s Social, will…
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There was a time when it made sense for the Dwarves to exist. Founded in the mid-’80s, they began in Chicago as a brash garage-psych outfit. By then, shock rock was nothing new and the hardcore scene had already formed as a razor-sharp splinter of the punk movement.
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C.J. Prusi on March 27, 2019
Um Yeah Arts presents a screening of Thomas Campbell’s newest skateboarding movie. Self-funded and shot mostly on 16mm film, Ye Old Destruction focuses on the DIY ethos of skating and features a number of guerrilla skate parks, abandoned pools and two vintage cars—a Cadillac and Ford station wagon, which serve as transportation…
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Metro Staff on March 20, 2019
There’s a lot of ’80s nostalgia out there these days, but Com Truise is less nostalgia and more like a person still physically living within the ’80s. The L.A.-based electronic musician is famous for his use of vintage synths and drum machines, patching together atmospheric dance tracks with the equipment of the…
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Nick Veronin on March 13, 2019
Like so many great parties, Electric Feels got its start in Los Angeles. As you might guess from the night’s name—borrowed from one of MGMT’s biggest jams—DJs will be spinning all the electronically infused hits that kept you tuned into Live 105 for the first half of the 2000s: the bouncy spasticity…
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Mike Huguenor on March 6, 2019
One day in 1999, Xavier Dphrepaulezz was driving through L.A. Next thing he knew, he was in a hospital bed. He’d been blindsided by another driver, his car had flipped over and three weeks had passed. His right hand was almost completely paralyzed. Half-atrophied, and held together by steel rods, he was…
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