Josh Perkins is the “JP” in San Jose’s JP and the Rhythm Chasers. The band’s repertoire focuses on music from around WWII, with an emphasis on the various incarnations of swing that existed during that time.
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A couple years back Berkeley DJ, True Justice played a show he’d never forget—opening for Biz Markie in San Jose on Cinco de Mayo. He had such a good time he wants to do it all over again. Getting Biz Markie to come play isn’t exactly the easiest thing to, but that…
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Adam Yauch, member of legendary hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys, has died this morning after succumbing to cancer. The 47-year-old known as MCA formed the group, then a punk band, with Adam “Ad Rock” Horowitz and Mike “Mike D” Diamond in the late 70s.
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Legendary singer-songwriter and alternative-nation poet laureate Leonard Cohen announced the details of the North American leg of his 2012 world tour today, including a show at HP Pavilion in San Jose Nov. 7.
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John ‘Juan’ Maclean’s early electronic music was cold, angular, and removed from the blend of arpeggiated disco and romantic synthpop that colored releases like “The Future Will Come” and “Everybody Get Close,” The Juan Maclean’s most recent album. As the title might suggest, things have gotten warmer, with live instrumentation adding more…
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After the last-minute cancelation of the Bassnectar show in Santa Cruz that was scheduled for tomorrow, the EDM producer posted a message on his Facebook page calling city officials “shameful” for they way they treat artists, fans and the music community and announcing two new shows at The Catalyst, May 6 and…
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Apparently, Santa Cruz city officials are unwilling to deal with a little extra bass from San Jose-raised electronic music producer Bassnectar, a former UCSC student scheduled to play a sold-out at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium tomorrow. The show was cancelled today with a two-sentence explanation on the venue website.
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Does X have anything left to prove? The band put L.A. punk on the map with their 1980 album Los Angeles, and went on to basically found the punker-to-folkster Americana crossover moment (that’s bigger than ever today) with their side project the Knitters in 1985. In between, they put out probably the…
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Almost hidden away amid rows of trees, a block from DeAnza Boulevard, the Cupertino Public Library is about as far as one can get from the thousands of screaming, writhing fans at the festivals and stadiums that Bassnectar plays around the country, and the world.
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AARON CARNES on May 1, 2012
Mixing anarchist crust-punk with rural, jug-band folk music wasn’t anything particularly planned out for the members of Santa Cruz’s Blackbird Raum. In fact, they never gave much thought to being a band, at least not in the early 2000s when they were all living like bohemians and squatting in abandoned buildings. Playing…
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