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Melissa Hartman, Daphne Morales, Lindsey Smith, Stacy Torres, Nick Veronin on August 24, 2016
San Jose’s Pride celebration returns this weekend with a massive dance party and parade through downtown. Also, Australian rockabilly punks The Living End play The Ritz, San Jose pop punk outfit Callsign tears through a blistering set at Art Boutiki, Tower of Power bring their signature, horn-heavy sound to the final Music…
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Explosions in the Sky’s new record, The Wilderness, is the band’s most critically acclaimed collection in years—and for good reason.
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Avi Salem on August 21, 2016
For Michael Franti, the word “soulrocker” represents much more than just the title of his ninth studio album. In many ways, it also describes the role he’s played as a creative leader and positive force behind the genre-defying, signature sound of Michael Franti & Spearhead, a group that has promoted social and…
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Miranda Lee and Gemma Rose first sang together in a fifth grade choir in the tiny Iowa town of Fairfield. They went to different schools, so they didn’t reconnect until a mutual friend’s birthday party during college. There, they became instant, vocal soulmates over their shared passion for obscure harmonies.
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In one of the higher profile shows hosted by BackBar SoFa in recent months, veteran Bay Area rapper Too Short performed to a near capacity crowd last night. After a series of opening acts and a crowd-moving set by San Jose’s very own DJ Goldenchyld, the Oakland emcee took to the stage,…
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Nick Veronin, Stacy Torres, Melissa Hartman on August 17, 2016
It’s not every week you get the chance to see one of Oakland’s biggest hip-hop exports, one of the world’s biggest porn superstars, the creator of a generation-defining sitom and the anchor of basic cable’s most trusted name in fake news. What’s the deal with that? This week the South Bay has…
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Gazing up from the orchestra section of the California Theatre and observing the ornamental lattice work flanking the stage, you would be forgiven for mistaking the South First Street landmark for The Fox Theatre in Oakland. After all, the theater was built by the very same architects who erected the Fox.
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The last time Kevi Ford hung out with childhood pal Justin Bieber, the Canadian megastar quite literally shit himself. The Biebs, standing atop a table in a Vegas nightclub, soiling his white leather Dolce and Gabbana pants after apparently succumbing to food poisoning. Bros being bros, Ford couldn’t resist cracking wise about…
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On a night drive in 2013, Seattle-based surf-rock group La Luz was driving home from a show when their van spun out on some black ice. The van smashed into a divider on the highway. They were safe but rattled. After calling AAA, the four-piece were sitting in the van awaiting a…
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It’s buried deep in the heart of every boom-bap beat; it’s churning hot at the center of every rip-roaring rock & roll riff; and it’s slyly creeping in the smoky shadows of every soulful R&B jam. As we argued last week, jazz, and the music from which it sprang—the blues—are the purest…
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