“What I’m saying is we get ‘Super Freak’ in there and get the audience clapping,” says Dominic “Goldenchyld” Cueto as he cues up the familiar bass line at a rehearsal. It loops as members of San Jose Taiko nod their heads and rearrange themselves, heaving their big drums into the next configuration.
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American Idiot, the musical based on the Green Day concept album of the same name, opened last night at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts with flashy, sneering energy and a whole lot of youthful angst, but not too much beyond that. And maybe that’s okay.
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Now in its sixth year, SubZERO’s reputation for being San Jose’s coolest event hasn’t diminished. In fact, it’s become the day of the year that many San Jose residents invite their San Francisco friends to come down and see that amazing things really do happen here.
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The Bang’s Derek See recently took a momentary break from classic 1960s soul and recorded a solo EP, She Came This Way, an exploration into the psychedelic rock sounds of the mid to late 60s.
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Aaron Carnes on May 29, 2013
Earlier this month, the Limousines walked onto the Subsonic Tent stage at Live 105’s BFD at Shoreline for the fifth consecutive year. This time, however, they were a far cry from the duo that first went viral and gained national attention in 2009 with poppy hooks tailor-made for the meme generation.
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The Treasure Island Music Festival, one of the last festivals of the summer music festival season, arrives October 19-20 with Atoms for Peace, Beck, Animal Collective, Major Lazer and more.
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The summer concerts season will soon be in full swing and the South Bay is playing host to big-name acts from May through the fall.
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While LL Cool J might not be knocking out hits like he did early in his career, the veteran emcee has orchestrated one of the biggest hip-hop shows of the summer concert season with the Kings of the Mic Tour, also featuring Ice Cube, Public Enemy and De La Soul.
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LIVE 105 has been on the forefront of the EDM movement for years, promoting it even back when it was still a niche genre. In recent years at the BDF festival, the Subsonic Tent—an extension of Aaron Axelsen’s electronic music show—has become a bigger part of the festival, encompassing a bulk of…
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The organizers behind the annual Rock the Bells Festival at Shoreline Amphitheatre are making big moves for their 10-year anniversary with the announcement that Eazy E and Ol’ Dirty Bastard will perform in hologram form this year.
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