The Treasure Island Music Festival returned to San Francisco with two days of music, featuring Atoms for Peace, Beck, Major, Lazer, Sleigh Bells and many more.
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Sean McCourt on October 22, 2013
For more than three decades, Slayer has lingered at heavy metal’s more extreme outposts, earning a reputation for aggressive audio assaults matched only by survival stories and broken bones in notorious mosh pits at the band’s live shows.
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Handsome Hawk’s Horrorween welcomed the Halloween party season with a night of psychobilly featuring with the Koffin Kats, Hayride to Hell and The Memphis City Murder Men at the Blank Club.
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Paramore stopped in San Jose on Friday for its biggest local gig to date at SAP Center with Metric and Hellogoodbye. Photos by Metro photographer Geoffrey Smith II.
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Rod Bastanmehr on October 15, 2013
Somewhere Between ego and anxiousness lies Kanye West, the self-appointed rock star of modern hip-hop. His Yeezus Tour, stopping at San Jose’s SAP Center on Oct. 22, is his first solo tour in five years, and in a way this feels like the most appropriate time for him to revisit his favorite…
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Seminal alt-rock group the Pixies recently announced a rare Silicon Valley tour stop arriving this February.
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For most bands, it takes years of gigging and building a local following before they’re ready to embark on their first tour. Berkeley’s psychedelic indie-folk band Big Tree went about this whole process in reverse order. For five years they jumped around from location to location, doing a lot of touring in-between,…
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Years from Now, people will be likely be talking about that “one time Iggy and the Stooges played St. James Park in San Jose” for a couple thousand music fans. For those of us that were there for it—year zero for C2SV Music Festival—it’ll be a badge of honor for years to…
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The anthem of punk rock is based on the Bunny Hop. To prove it, Iggy and the Stooges guitarist James Williamson deconstructed “Search and Destroy” during a talk Saturday at the C2SV tech and music conference, breaking down chord by chord the 1973 hit off their album “Raw Power” while the audience…
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“HEL-LLLLO?” says Evan Dando, his unmistakable husky voice filling my receiver. Then he calls to someone in the same room: “Am I talking into the right side of this thing?” On the other side of the line, I cannot for the life of me figure out what he’s talking about. The phone?…
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