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Alec Adams on September 22, 2021
Poor House Bistro has got to be among San Jose’s most underrated concert venues. Since 2005, SAP Center’s next door neighbor has been shelling out rock solid cajun-inspired comfort food, while still finding time to keep vital blues and jazz alive in the South Bay. On Saturday, they host Chris Cain, San…
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Jay Edgar on September 22, 2021
East Bay virtuosos Wander have earned a reputation for their cosmic, epic instrumental post-rock, flowing from twinkly tranquility to distorted intensity and back with seamless precision. While fans are eagerly awaiting the release of their fourth LP, Home, the shredders will offer a preview at their first live show since 2020. They’re…
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Bill Kopp on September 15, 2021
Though rooted in acoustic flamenco guitar, the music of Mexico City-based duo Rodrigo y Gabriela is open to—and draws from—the entirety of popular and traditional music. Across more than two decades, six studio albums, three live releases, three EPs and countless live dates across the globe, Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero have…
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Jay Edgar on September 15, 2021
Singer-songwriter Amy D has cultivated a unique sound from a variety of sources. Pulling from jazz, reggae, world and neo-soul traditions, the songstress has gained a following for her insane vocal talents and heartfelt lyrics. Like so many in the neo-soul canon, D’s vocals create a breezy, uplifting energy, backed by far-out…
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Mike Huguenor on September 15, 2021
Despite sharing a name with the famous singing cowboy, Roy Rogers is in fact a singular musician: no one else on Earth plays the slide guitar quite like this Redding bluesman. His speed, expression and melodic sensibilities are renowned worldwide. As a session man, Rogers has played with everyone from Santana to…
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Kyle Martin on September 15, 2021
The newest exhibitions at Triton Museum include the works of San Francisco-based Chinese artist Dora Duan and Sacramento-based French artist Robert-Jean Ray. A photographer and a painter, respectively, both are celebrated artists in their own right. Born in China, Duan studied at the Academy of Art University of San Francisco and started…
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Jay Edgar on September 15, 2021
By marrying a variety of Latin American rhythms—including Mexican and Colombian cumbia, bossa nova, bolero and tango—with rock, soul and R&B, La Santa Cecilia have created a sound that’s truly pan-American. The LA-based sextet initially reached a larger audience in 2013 with their anti-migra protest hit “Ice el Hielo.” Then, in 2017,…
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Grace Stetson on September 15, 2021
From bread baking to gardening, all kinds of skills were perfected over the pandemic. Award-winning pianist Clarie Huangci, however, has been honing her craft since she was just nine years old. The youngest participant to ever receive Second Prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Huangci has won first prizes…
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Kyle Martin on September 8, 2021
San Jose legends Suenatron headline this year’s Chile, Mole, Pozole festival at the Mexican Heritage Plaza on the East Side. The band’s brothers, Mexia and Giovanni Hernández, have both inherited talent and musical influence from their father, the famous Hernán Hernández of Los Tigres del Norte. In Suenatron, they take hints of…
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Few artists get to have a career spanning 60 years, but Persian pop star Googoosh has earned each of them. In the 1970s, the iconic singer was like the Iranian Edith Piaf, a romantic and ever-present voice in the popular consciousness, inspiring love letters, women’s hairstyles and fashion shoots. Before that, she…
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