San Jose’s nightlife has a high tolerance for bad taste—eurotrash masquerading as pop, cheesy nightclubs with aspirations beyond their zip code, and most importantly: lacking a single decent place to listen to electronic music. For those of us who’ve lost interest in making the + 100 mile roundtrip trek to San Francisco,…
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Searching for new and exciting music can sometimes be an arduous task. Most of the radio stations that inhabit our airspace rely on tired playlists that are incessantly repeated ad nauseam. Commercial radio can turn even a good tune into something resembling a flavorless breaded cutlet by constantly repeating the same thing…
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Enter the world of ASAP Rocky: a cherubic blonde with gold fronts mouths the word ‘swag,’ preening suggestively. Four heavily medicated twenty-somethings dissolve into a tattered couch, keeping up with a steady rotation of swigs from a Colt 45 and blowing big clouds of milky white smoke from a loose Backwood, their…
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Many people would assume that any festival promising to combine old-school video games with experimental electronic music has one main target audience: nerds. Also, geeks. Personally, I was betting on plenty of hipster crossover, as well. But I was genuinely surprised at the diverse crowd that the new Rockage festival drew to…
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The Japantown Beer Walk sold out early on Saturday, signaling a success for organizers and leaving many people who showed up hoping to purchase tickets on site crying in their beer somewhere else.
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With the first Rockage festival coming up this weekend, Grand Fanali Presents has released a trailer for the festival that gives the South Bay a first look at its retro-gaming-meets-electro-music style. Watch it below.
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Fifteen breweries will present seasonal offerings, along with classic beers from Japan, at the first Japantown Beer Walk is this Saturday, February 11th.
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When she’s not giving a middle finger to middle America or “glamorizing terrorism,” M.I.A. is living the good life. A very good life, if the tour rider posted today on The Smoking Gun is any indication. While most of her ‘demands’ are hardly cause for a public outcry (there’s plenty more fodder…
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Steve Palopoli on February 8, 2012
Andy Kuntz remembers when arcade games suddenly became the hottest nostalgia item in Silicon Valley. It was during the dotcom boom, when the coin-op craze was gone and seemingly forgotten, and home consoles already ruled the video-game industry. Kuntz and his brother, Chris, were running T Minus One, a company that rents,…
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Featuring hand-drawn designs by artist Joey Mirandilla, SDR Clothing Company (Seize x Defend x Rule) held a launch party Friday at Pagoda Lounge in downtown San Jose. The event featured a red carpet, several DJs and a surprise appearance by 49ers tight end Delaney Walker.
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