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Grace Stetson on October 13, 2021
While musical styles and trends come and go, the musical creation of a group of friends never goes out of style. Formed back in 1974, Spyro Gyra has combined jazz, R&B, pop and funk for well over 40 years, earning them global standing, over 10 million albums sold and 5,000 shows played—and…
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Dan Pulcrano on October 13, 2021
Once dismissed as pop rockers with a gimmicky name, over their 51-year run, the hard working Doobie Brothers advanced a deep catalog of classics, from anthemic gems like “Listen to the Music,” to the folky “Black Water” and Michael McDonald’s yacht rock masterpieces. With McDonald rejoining Simmons, Tommy Johnston and John McFee…
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Alec Adams on October 13, 2021
Lots of blues vocalists have great talent as singers, but the ones who rise above bring with them a real “cigarette smoke, tears in the whiskey glass” pain to their work. An orphaned infant in the Vietnam War, Lara Price discovered her love of music as a child and has been channeling…
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Mat Weir on October 6, 2021
After 19 years together, a band can go through a lot of changes. Over the past two decades, LA punks The Bronx went from indie stars to a major label only to go independent again. They’ve lost members, gained a couple more and even started a mariachi side project—Mariachi El Bronx—that has…
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Mike Huguenor on October 6, 2021
This Sunday, a pack’s worth of charismatic hip hop artists take the stage for Wolf Records’ first-ever label showcase at LVL Uproar downtown. Performers include up and coming San Jose rappers like Deja Carter and LJAME$—both of whom have recently released banging new records—bona fide local celebrity Yonex Jones, as well as…
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Alec Adams on October 6, 2021
“Guitar Foundation of America” is a perfectly descriptive name for an organization. There is absolutely no doubt what this group could be in charge of—they do guitars! It would stand to reason then, that their president would be, in very real terms, the “President of Guitars.” That, my friend, is Martha Masters.…
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Mike Huguenor on October 6, 2021
Tumultuous though they were, there was a lot to love about the 1960s. It was a decade of striking musical and sartorial choices, vital counterculture and a libertory push for sexual and racial equality. In Shout! The Mod Musical, all of these epochal charms get blended into a go-go booted, technicolor revue…
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Mike Huguenor on October 6, 2021
In The Turn of the Screw, a young woman hired to watch over two orphans becomes convinced that they are not alone in their stately English manor. A pair of eerie strangers keep appearing on the grounds, bearing a striking resemblance to the kids’ former caretakers, who died mysteriously. As the mysteries…
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Kyle Martin on October 6, 2021
On Thursday, Mexican Grammy winning rock band Zoé drops in to the San Jose Civic Center to perform songs from new album Sonidos de Kármatica Resonancia. Known for their lively instrumentation and smooth vocals, Zoé’s music is like an audio trip around the world. The band hails from Mexico City, and draws…
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Kyle Martin on October 6, 2021
EDM artist Troyboi is gonna “Buss It” open Thursday night at the Glass House on his college tour this year. Troyboi’s dancefloor-packing sets pair heavy bass and twisting melodic outbursts with a mesmerizingly bright light show. With samples pulling from from Southeast Asia, the U.K. and elsewhere, Troyboi’s mixes have a flavor…
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