Tony Sly, frontman for the popular San Jose punk band No Use For A Name, has died, his label Fat Wreck Chords announced today. No cause of death has been announced. He was 41.
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San Jose rapper Antown’s new video “Living Every Dream” has been out for not even a week and already he’s sneaking up on 10,000 views on Youtube.
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BEAU DOWLING on July 31, 2012
Seeing San Jose’s Culo A Boca live for the first time can be loosely akin to seeing Gwar live for the first time: it requires just as much time spent trying to figure out their costumes and obscene props as their music.
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Joe Sib became a household name in DIY punk rock after starting Sideonedummy Records in 1995 in Los Angeles, releasing albums by Flogging Molly, 7Seconds, MXPS, Gogol Bordello and many others. Sib has also gained recognition for his spoken word and comedy act, where he tells tales of punk rocking and skateboarding,…
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Just last week, I was at a bar ordering a drink, and when the bartender turned around to set it down on the counter, I saw that he had a tattoo covering his entire inside forearm recreating a screen from the old Donkey Kong arcade game. For some reason, the first thing…
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Ugly Winner’s new album, Inside Your Wave, is bigger, louder and packs more of a punch then their 2010 album, Minutes, Years & Never.
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Earlier this year, Evan Jewett moved to New York, leaving San Jose indie rock fans mourning the loss of his two bands, Worker Bee and Family Room.
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After canceling two shows at Avalon last month, Salmon have finally decided to play their first show in five years on Saturday, July 28 at 9 Lives in Gilroy, which is appropriate considering that the band started out in Gilroy.
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“From sunset Friday to sunset Saturday, your mind had to be on nobody but God,” says Phife Dawg, remembering weekends at his grandmother’s house growing up, in last year’s documentary about A Tribe Called Quest, Beats, Rhymes and Life. “So I had to sneak and watch Soul Train. I had to sneak…
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Like so many others, I’ve been hopelessly hooked on the Misfits’ unique brand of punk for a long time. Almost a complete mythology in and of themselves, Danzig’s songs for the band impossibly blended romance and gore, pop harmony and gutter hardcore.
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