Anyone who has spent time navigating San Jose’s music scene has likely crossed paths with Clint Westwood, if for no other reason than he’s in so many bands.
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There were so many different slices of San Jose’s nightlife present at San Pedro Square Market this past Saturday night. It wasn’t just because it was Save Alternative’s Daydream Nation’s kickoff show. Really, it was just the perfect venue for Saturday’s show.
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If it weren’t for recent alternative hitmakers The Naked and the Famous and Silversun Pickups, the main stage at BFD 2012 on June 2 at Shoreline Amphitheater would feel like a 1990s time machine. Jane’s Addiction, Garbage and Cake will headline the festival, Live 105 has announced.
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Mary Axe, Campbell’s long running power pop trio, released their debut album, Straight out of Campbell, last year, a full eight years in the making. Now only a year later, they’re calling it quits. There’s no internal conflict or anything. Their bass player, Daniel Joeston is moving to Utah.
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“About five years ago, these bizarre dark songs started creeping into my head,” says Catherine Pierce. “I don’t know what shifted.” Before that, she and her sister Allison, who’ll open for Coldplay Friday and Saturday at HP Pavilion in San Jose, had been toiling in a folky obscurity since their 2000 debut,…
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Bruce Springsteen brought his Wrecking Ball Tour to San Jose earlier this week for his first South Bay show in several years.
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Ben Henderson, one of San Jose’s most beloved singer-songwriters, is departing on an unexpected month long nationwide tour in June with New Jersey indie-folk band, River City Extension. The most unexpected part of it is that Henderson will be playing in River City Extension, filling in for their bass/banjo player, though he…
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Aaron Carnes on April 25, 2012
Mountain View’s Dogcatcher will play at San Pedro Square Saturday, April 28, the first show in a monthly series called Daydream Nation that will last until August, and comes out of Bill O’Brien (of Save Alternative)’s efforts to showcase exceptional emerging Bay Area and San Jose artists.
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After doing everything from Lard to his Mojo Nixon cowpunk album to hours and hours of spoken word, Jello Biafra’s solo escapades have never sounded as much like the Dead Kennedys as they do now. Apparently spurred by the onset of his 50th birthday, Biafra put together his first real solo band,…
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It’s a travesty that as of this morning, there are only 162 comments on the new Fiona Apple single “Every Single Night”, posted three days ago to her SoundCloud page. Looking to flood your respective social media channels with something? Look no further: let the oversharing commence.
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