by
Steve Palopoli on October 8, 2012
Critics have been carping for literally decades about Madonna being too old, too out of touch, too fake and too lightweight. Time and again, they fail to understand her continued success.
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Madonna took over HP Pavilion and drew two massive crowds to downtown San Jose over the weekend for her MDNA tour.
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Aaron Carnes on October 8, 2012
The term “nerdcore”, or nerd-rap, seems almost inherently gimmicky. Yet, when it comes to Mega Ran (Aka Random)—who wears this title proudly—he is nothing, if not completely authentic. He stops at Streetlight Records for an in-store on Oct. 12.
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Johnny V’s hosts an evening of some of the club’s best regular DJs to help raise money for bartender Ben Bremer (from Language Arts Crew) and local DJ Spencer Balona (aka $penmoney) who were stabbed by a man outside of the club—who they had removed for causing problems with their patrons.
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Rod Bastanmehr on October 3, 2012
Madonna IS, for better or worse, regarded (both high and low) as the Queen of Pop, and, contrary to popular belief, the title does mimic the sound her veiny arms make when stuffed in cheerleading garb, flailing left to right. One gets the very real sense when looking at Madonna in 2k12…
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Rod Bastanmehr on October 3, 2012
Madonna has long since earned her title as the Queen of Pop, with an enduring legacy marked by constant reinvention and an uncanny ability to stay relevant—even in a music world that finds itself increasingly indefinable.
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Aaron Carnes on October 2, 2012
Like a whole generation of art-pop icons from the 1980s—Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Grace Slick—UK singer Florence Welch, who performs as Florence and the Machine at Shoreline on Oct. 5, strikes a delicate balance between tense, over-the-top theatrical rock and infectious, bread-and-butter pop hooks.
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With the instant availability of studio manipulation and infinite overdubbing possibilities, a lot of the current indie bands have lost the rawness that was standard in the late 80s/early 90s lo-fi era. Froadz continues that tradition with all the elements of an experimental guitar-driven post-rock outfit, while still maintaining that raw underground…
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In 1993, underground Southern Californian punk band The Offspring, which play the San Jose Civic on Tuesday Oct. 2, went mainstream when their third album, Smash, came out. Since then, they’ve had a string of singles and platinum records.
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We’re still waiting for confirmation from the Events Center at San Jose State University, but according to “the boss” Rick Ross, he’ll be stopping at the venue on Nov. 30 with Wale and Machine Gun Kelly on his Maybach Music Group Tour.
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