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Aaron Carnes on April 3, 2013
When Derek See and Angeline King started the South Bay R&B girl group the Bang in late 2008, it wasn’t because they had some fleeting interest in 1960s music; the project was the byproduct of a lifetime’s obsession with the golden decade.
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Kung Fu Vampire’s video output has been sporadic these past couple years. That’s something he plans to change in a major way by releasing a video for every song on his new album, Love Bites, which came out Halloween last year. He starts things off with his first video for the title…
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Stanford will celebrate the end of the academic year this spring with MGMT, Delorean and Kuroma at the Frost Music and Arts Festival.
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Aaron Carnes on March 27, 2013
Although they’re brothers, it wasn’t until 2010 that San Jose musicians Raul and Mexia Hernández made a serious attempt to collaborate. The resulting song, “Todos Somos Arizona (We Are All Arizona),” a protest against the anti-immigration law SB 1070 that had just passed in Arizona, quickly earned the duo more attention than…
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Eulipia Restaurant, once a South First Street institute, was recently replaced by Café Stritch, a new eatery that will also host live music starting with a free show on March 27 with the Hive Dwellers.
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For the last couple of years, local emcee Tigga T, aka Tamba McCarthy, has been working tirelessly to get his music heard. Since 2011, he’s released three Mixtapes: Fundamentals (2011), Visionary (2012) and African Boi (2012), and has shot several videos for songs on each release.
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Live 105’s BFD Music Festival returns this summer with Thirty Seconds to Mars, Passion Pit, Silversun Pickups and Awolnation headlining.
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Dan Pulcrano on March 19, 2013
The Limousines were one of the few bands from the South Bay to perform at SXSW last week in Austin. We talked with singer Eric Victorino about his trip to Texas and survival tips for bands hoping to attend next year.
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Dan Pulcrano on March 19, 2013
With thousands of acts filling every possible venue in Austin for SXSW, there was no shortage of photos opportunities at the music festival this year. Metro photographer Jennifer Anderson hit the streets for five days to capture some of the best shows at the fest, including Iggy Pop, Snoop Dogg, the Flaming…
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It’s been three years since East Bay’s all-girl sun-pop group, the Hot Toddies, put out their last record, Get Your Heart On, released on local label Asian Man records in 2010. Now they’re back as a trio with a five-song EP, Bottoms Up, released by Tricycle Records.
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