Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner has a voice like that of a lesser god, demoted because he couldn’t go through the trouble of administering to a needy world. However plaintive the backdrop – alt-country, indie, soul – Lambchop songs all seem like minor pastoral tragedies, strung together with ellipses that transition nicely from…
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Stanford is bringing back its historic Frost Amphitheater in a big way on May 19 when Modest Mouse will play a show that could represent the beginning of a comeback for the 75-year-old venue, which once hosted music greats like Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. The last major artist to…
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Anyone that went to Rockage this past February knows that not only was it really fun, it was unlike anything San Jose has seen before—old School video arcade games and live music in one room all at the same time.
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It’s been 15 years since Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker recorded together as Latryx. But after performing on each other’s solo releases, they’re back in the studio for a new Latryx album, and they’ve signed on the South Bay’s most successful hip-hop crew the Bangerz to produce some of the tracks.…
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With the closing of the Avalon looming, promoter Latin Rock Inc. is rolling out the first in a series of shows featuring Latin-inspired rock ’n’ roll. They’re calling the series, “the Last Days of the Avalon,” in honor of the venue’s impending closure.
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“The Sticky Lab started in 1995 in my mom’s living room,” says Jerry Dalalo, known locally as Jerry D or Jerry Da Hermit, the producer and studio engineer who operates one of the most prolific and unassuming studios in the South Bay, Sticky Lab and its subsequent label, Sticky Note Records. “The…
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To say that the Bay Rising Tour is “environmentally conscious” would be a laughable understatement. It is in fact completely human-powered, with San Francisco bands Rupa & the April Fishes and Shake Your Peace biking 200 miles to play 11 shows around the Bay Area over 10 days. They will be carrying…
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There’s a certain symmetry to the alpha and omega of Santa Clara’s Avalon Nightclub. Mike Beard, who has booked hundreds of shows there though his Man Down Productions, remembers when Avalon owner Mike Jafari first transformed what used to be the DJ-dance spot Backbeat into a live music venue back in 2003.
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The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, San Francisco’s answer to Coachella, returns in 2012 with Metallica, Stevie Wonder, Foo Fighters and Beck headlining.
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Two of the biggest nineties relics went 3D this weekend: the melodramatic blockbuster Titanic, and rapper Tupac Shakur, whose hologram appeared onstage with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg to close out the festivities at Coachella—leaving everyone who witnessed the resurrection of Makaveli scratching their heads.
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