Moombahton and moombahsoul are the hottest new trends in dance music, and the San Francisco DJ known as J Boogie—real name Justin Boland—has a theory as to why. To him, 108 to 115 beats per minute has been a lost tempo in EDM for too long. “It’s not super fast, it’s not…
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Los Angeles-based producer Myndset has remixed everyone from Deadmau5 to Drake, and shared a stage with electro pioneers Steve Angello, Congorock, and Cedric Gervais. He spins at Los Gatos Bar & Grill on Thursday, April 5th. And over at SanJose.com, you can enter to win your very own private party, complete with…
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Adrian Younge loves movie music. He collects soundtracks, especially those from the late 60s and early 70s. So it makes sense that the Wax-Poetics-signed Younge is best known as a musician for his work on movies, namely as composer on the 2009 cult favorite Black Dynamite, which lovingly (and hilariously) satirized just…
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Metro Newspaper’s Best of 2012 issue hit new stands today, highlighting a variety of local talent selected online by readers. From cutting-edge DJs, to old-school blues and cover bands, this is the best of Silicon Valley.
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San Francisco super DJ J Boogie has started off this year releasing a crazy barrage of sound—New Orleans bounce, East Indian bhangra and electro-funk remixes for the single “It’s On Fire” with his group J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science. He performed every day at South By Southwest, and then at Miami’s Winter Music…
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Roach Gigz’s scrubby, pestilent moniker betrays him. Unpolished and more than a little wily, the twenty-three year old rapper doesn’t immediately jump out as the figurehead for an entire movement—until you remember that he’s from the Bay Area, a place that finds its heroes amongst the hardscrabble.
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The new Liquid Restaurant and Lounge sits between an apartment building and a parking lot near San Jose State University, occupying an ordinary orange and yellow building. The exterior looks nothing like the typical nightclub: no flashy neon signs, crystal-clear bay windows and glitzy entryways. Liquid looks more like a Bohemian art…
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Aaron Carnes on March 21, 2012
For a year and a half after he started his one-man electronic band Seabright, San Jose’s Justin Morales was writing and recording in his bedroom, turning down every live gig offered to him. Finally, in 2007, he took the leap and played his first show at On the Corner Music in Campbell.
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Bruce Springsteen, Jay Z and 50 Cent grabbed headlines at SXSW this year, but at its core, the music festival is still a great place for music discovery. This year, the festival seemed particularly active as it peaked into a full-blown Mardi Gras style street party with thousands of St. Patrick’s Day…
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As SXSW reaches its peak, Austin is getting progressively louder, more crowded and beer-soaked. Highlights from the passed two days include blistering performances from Off! and High on Fire at Thrasher’s Texas Style Death Match Party, hip-hop at the Fader Forth, a strong set by Bass Drum of Death, local blues tunes…
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