San Jose Jazz Summer Fest will return this summer with iconic funk bassist Bootsy Collins headlining the festival.
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Brandon E. Roos on April 22, 2014
Finally, the hip-hop pendulum is swinging back to the West Coast. After roughly a decade of Southern rappers dominating the charts, the rise of Kendrick Lamar and a handful of other rappers in LA, and the burgeoning success of the Bay Area’s own Iamsu and Sage the Gemini, are creating momentum that…
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With a little more than a month before the June 1 festival at Shoreline Amphiteatre, Live 105 announced today the lineup for its annual BFD Festival with Foster the People and MIA topping the bill.
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With slow, chugging riffs, growling vocals and a penchant for large concept albums, Louisiana sludge metal band Thou have, by their very nature, always discouraged mainstream attention. However, lead singer Bryan Funck thinks Thou’s latest album, Heathen, is their most accessible to date. Granted, the songs are longer, slower and centered on…
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Fifteen years is a milestone for any band, especially for one that formed while its members were still in high school. Local pop-punkers 5606, now in their late 20s, have accomplished a lot in the past decade and a half, including releasing four albums and going on dozens of tours. They celebrate…
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Richard Faulk on April 2, 2014
It’s a new album and a new start for Dee Dee Penny and her brainchild the Dum Dum Girls. Though it’s fair to say that each of her three albums has been its own departure, 2010’s I Will Be introduced the band as a more than competent low-fi act that understood its…
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Jennifer Wadsworth on April 2, 2014
A white pickup pulls up to the Back Bar on South Market Street in downtown San Jose. A couple men hop out, pull a ladder from the truck bed and prop it up outside the storefront. They proceed to take down a black-and-white sign bearing the bar’s name. Minutes later, they hoist…
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Organizers for BottleRock Napa Valley announced the daily lineup for the festival, headlined by The Cure, Outkast, TV on the Radio and Weezer.
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Richard Faulk on March 24, 2014
For 29 years, the Reverend Horton Heat has been the go-to band for rabble-rousing Southern rock that has both feet planted firmly in the sounds of the 1950s.
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For more than two decades, rap duo Blackalicious has been synonymous with Northern California underground hip-hop. Alongside DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker, the duo is part of the Quannum Projects collective and label (one of the most successful indie hip-hop labels to ever come out of the Bay Area).
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