While it will most certainly dominate the local arts page headlines, San Jose Jazz Summer Fest isn’t the only hot ticket in town this weekend. Sango, a Seattle-bred producer and DJ, performs at The Continental, Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy trade killer licks at The Mountain Winery and Ben Harper is reunited with…
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The Warped Tour debuted in 1995, making the traveling alternative music festival as old as its average attendee. And while punk acts have teeter-tottered in mainstream popularity in the intervening decades, the festival is still going strong with a mix of legacy acts and newer bands.
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Melissa Hartman, Stacy Torres, Nick Veronin on August 3, 2016
Music in the Park returns this Thursday with the L.A.-spawned cultural melting pot that is Ozomatli. That same night, Barbra Streisand, one of the last true lounge singer legends, looks back on her long and bedazzled career with a performance at SAP Center. Back in town for its 22nd year The Vans…
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Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann—along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti—rolled through their old Grateful Dead stomping grounds, Shoreline Amphitheatre (which Bill Graham allegedly designed to resemble the band’s iconic “Steal Your Face” logo from above. Naturally, Deadheads young and old turned up in force, many without tickets…
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It’s comforting to think of identity as something constant, something stable that retains itself over time. But in reality, almost every cell in our bodies gets periodically replaced, meaning that over time we all become different people—at least on an atomic level. Rather than being stable, identity is fundamentally unstable; rather than…
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John Flynn, Melissa Hartman, Daphne Morales, Tad Malone, Stacy Torres, Nick Veronin on July 27, 2016
So many heavy-hitters are coming to town this week. In addition to Adele at the Shark Tank, Ziggy Marley at the Mountain Winery, and co-headliners Korn and Rob Zombie descending on Shoreline Amphitheatre, we also have funnymen Jim Jefferies and Joel McHale, the MLS All-Star Game at Avaya Stadium, Mayer Hawthorne at…
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This past weekend marked the beginning of festivities in the run up to Thursday’s big game between the MLS All-Star squad and London’s top-ranked Arsenal Football Club. While the San Pedro Square Market has been hosting a number of events, the marquee pre-party came Monday, as Florida party rapper Flo Rida and Mexican…
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Tad Malone on July 20, 2016
Since its release, first as an album and then a musical, Green Day’s Tony- and Grammy-winning American Idiot—a tale of political and adolescent alienation—has become a part of the contemporary canon. City Lights Theater’s new adaptation adeptly packs the sprawling, Broadway-sized rock opera into an intimate black-box theater, without losing any of…
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Dan Pulcrano on July 20, 2016
In the run up to the 1980s, New York had the Ramones and New York Dolls, Detroit contributed MC5 and The Stooges, London called in with the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Los Angeles blew up with Black Flag and X. Northern California’s contribution to the genre outpunked the bunch with…
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John Flynn, Tad Malone, Stacy Torres, Nick Veronin on July 20, 2016
This week, witness the production that pushed pop punk over the top to claim its rightful place in the Western canon. Green Day’s American Idiot comes to City Lights Theater in San Jose’s SoFA District. Jill Scott brings her retro jazz, neo-soul and hip-hop sensibilities to The Mountain Winery. Toxic Summer drops…
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