San Jose-based emcee Cola—not to be confused with the San Jose-based indie rock outfit, Cola— is preparing to release a new mixtape, titled House Shoes. No firm date has been given for the release, but his publicist says it should drop in mid-December. That’s the album’s art work up above.
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San Jose-based alternative quartet Citabria have released a new song and accompanying music video. The song premiered on Live 105’s Soundcheck program a couple weeks ago. The band has been performing the song live for a while, and played it during their set at Cafe Stritch during the C2SV festival earlier this month. Check…
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Avi Salem on November 2, 2016
People kind of know us now for playing ‘Turn Down For What,’ for better or worse, but we only play ‘Lil Jon’ if we feel 100 percent comfortable.” That’s not entirely what you’d expect to hear from Grant Goodrich, the bassist for San Francisco-based sextet Battlehooch, a spacey and psychedelic rock &…
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Taylor Jones, Justin Tonel, Nick Veronin on November 2, 2016
Do you know the way to San Jose? How about San Francisco? Tony Bennett is coming to town, and we heard he left something there a while back. The 90-year-old living legend plays the City National Civic this Saturday. If rock & roll is more your style, you might consider heading over…
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You’d be forgiven for not knowing what is going on in San Jose music right now. You’d be forgiven for thinking that in fact nothing is going on in San Jose music, or that “San Jose” and “music” aren’t really words that go together at all. We are, after all, the 10th…
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With the spookiest of holidays falling on a Monday this year, Silicon Valley Halloween events are ramping up for the weekend prior with a variety of daytime and late-night parties. We’ve collected as many of them as we could. Plan your weekend with our handy Halloween Guide. Also this week: “Oasis: Supersonic”…
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Traditionally speaking, mariachi as a musical form comes from a specific place. It is played on specific instruments, and its practitioners often limit performances to specific spaces within a specific region. However, while the New York-based Mariachi Flor de Toloache certainly respect the traditions of their art, they are far from a traditional…
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As the vocalist in a politically charged rock band, one might assume that Dominic Miranda would be eager to put in his two cents as it relates to candidacy of Donald Trump. But that’s not really the case. “I’ve tried to stay away from criticizing Trump,” Miranda says. “It’s too easy and everybody…
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Joowan Kim wants to pioneer a new kind of American art music. He derides concert hall compositions as either reheated European classics or cultural appropriation pieces, like “Tibetan yak herding songs,” which he compares to wildflowers ripped from their native field and put into an expensive vase. After emigrating from South Korea…
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Sean McCourt on October 21, 2016
With a well-deserved reputation as one of the hardest working bands in rock & roll, the Supersuckers have been on the road for nearly three decades now, blazing a path across stages around the world. But that all came to an abrupt halt in June of last year, when singer and bassist…
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