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Payje Redmond on July 27, 2017
Ren Geisick has been singing since she was a child, but it wasn’t until adulthood that she fell in love with jazz. Geisick earned a degree in jazz vocal performance from Cal State-Long Beach, where she fine-tuned her talent and sound. The past couple years she has performed with Dolce Musica throughout the…
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Yousif Kassab on July 27, 2017
Bay Area O.G. Andre Nickatina returns to San Jose with more tales from the Fillmore. The guy has been doing it for longer than your favorite SoundCloud rapper has been alive, but don’t think his age has rusted his wit or his tongue. Even the passing of time won’t stop him from…
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Inside a coffeeshop in a well-heeled part of the South Bay, you were taking several napkins to wipe your face and clean your designer glasses where the rest of us would like to get creamer, milk, and sugar/sweetener—gross! You didn’t purchase anything, but it would probably be alright if you patronized this…
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Yousif Kassab on July 27, 2017
Just last month, Joshua “Mad Illz” Carrasco—founder of the Grind Time rap battle league—decided to sell his once-dominant platform. This report came coupled with the news that Carrasco didn’t have much confidence in the art form and the industry it spawned. “Battle rap is dying,” he said. “Dirtbag” Dan Martinez begs to…
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Yousif Kassab on July 27, 2017
The jazz is coming back to Palo Alto as the Stanford Shopping Center hosts the 31st annual Summer Jazz Concert Series, produced by SFJAZZ. This Thursday, the Oakland-based horn ensemble Brass Magic takes the stage. Informed by a wide range of musical styles, including world jazz, pop, hip-hop and electronic, Brass Magic…
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San Jose rock band Red Fences will be celebrating their debut full-length album, The California Sea, with a release party. Spearheaded by frontwoman Dana Kelley, the group evokes memories of great female-fronted bands, like Garbage, while also introducing elements totally their own. On “The Joker,” they meld funky, wah-wah chka-chkas and electronic…
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Yousif Kassab on July 21, 2017
Sunnyvale is about to get a healthy dose of prog and deep house when 3LAU returns to Pure. The Las Vegas producer’s set is sure to include material from the flurry of singles he’s been releasing over the past year, along with songs from the most recent entry in his mashup series—last…
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Dead Heads, assemble! Photographer Susana Millman will be commandeering Streetlight Records this Friday to present her new book featuring a collection of up close and personal photos of The Grateful Dead. Her husband, Dennis McNally, who wrote the band’s biography and worked as publicist for them for over a decade before Jerry…
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Richard von Busack on July 21, 2017
Some will remember The Seeds as the one-hit AM radio wonders responsible for “Pushin’ Too Hard,” a 1966 pop song about a girl who needs to back off. The tune is thick with the political anxieties of the time and in his new documentary, The Seeds: Pushin’ Too Hard, director Neil Norman attempts…
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Girl, would you please slow down racing your black Maserati all over town. I could not believe you cut off our therapist on Los Gatos Boulevard on her way to our home. You drive like a kama-crazy every time I see you around, which is often. Uptown, downtown—you’re everywhere, driving like you’re…
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