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Brad Kava on October 20, 2016
The longtime blues musician and South Bay native John Garcia has died. The Grammy-nominated guitarist—who performed with the likes of John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Paul Simon and Bonnie Raitt passed away over the weekend in Gilroy, where he was born.
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The blues is a beguiling art form. Tangled up in this country’s legacy of slavery and oppression it is first and foremost a folk tradition. It requires no formal training to play and can be sung without instrumental accompaniment. And yet, its simplicity often obscures its power and scope.
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Entering the final stretch of one of the most divisive presidential election cycles in American history, it can be difficult to conceive of a political point of view beyond the polemic that mainstream cable news has been feeding us for the past year. But for Ian Anderson, it’s hard to understand exactly how…
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Sean McCourt, Justin Tonel, Nick Veronin on October 19, 2016
This week brings the folk-infused, prog-rock sounds of Jethro Tull to San Jose, as founding frontman Ian Anderson looks back on a long and storied career. Also, in another blast from the past, Al Anderson, of Bob Marley’s original band, The Wailers, comes to The Ritz. This, plus Gift of Gab, a Halloween-themed…
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It’s the end of an era. This year’s 10th annual Treasure Island Music Festival marks the final lineup on the man made island in the middle of the bay. A massive housing development and infrastructure project in the works for decades is breaking ground soon at the festival’s normal location—the Great Lawn along…
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Jacob Pierce, Justin Tonel, Nick Veronin on October 12, 2016
A taste of alt-rock from the past and a look at the future of the genre. This week, She Wants Revenge are back for more. It’s been 10 years since the L.A. duo’s breakout hit, “Tear You Apart,” and they are on the road to celebrate. Also, The 1975 are rolling through…
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With a voice like absolutely no other and a sense of rhythm that often stretches the very definition of the term, Danny Brown is one of the strangest and most electrifying figures to have emerged from hip-hop’s underground.
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The second night of C2SV 2016, which coincided with October’s South First Friday event, proved exactly what the SoFA District is capable of when all the cultural forces in the South First Street Area band together.
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After a day spent discussing San Jose’s potential to become the 21st century city, it was time for music and drinks on the first day of C2SV. Attendees explored architecture and design firms in San Jose’s SoFA District before heading to The Ritz, Cafe Stritch, BackBar SoFa and MACLA for a cocktails and a…
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Melissa Hartman, Taylor Jones, Tad Malone, Justin Tonel on October 5, 2016
Computing power, our valley’s contribution to modern times, is now shifting into a higher gear, disrupting and reinventing just about everything we know. Once a year, Creative Convergence Silicon Valley—C2SV—hosts independently organized discussions about the rapid march of technology and related subjects, such as privacy, diversity, gender and economic inclusion. Also this…
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