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Aaron Carnes on March 27, 2012
When Laura Weinbach laments that “I’m Not Really In The Christmas Mood This Year,” on the song her group Foxtails Brigade released in December, she expresses a sentiment often felt, but rarely expressed in song—Christmas isn’t what it used to be. The San Francisco band will bring their holiday tidings of bad…
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Dredg, Case in Theory and Beta State packed the house at Avalon last week. Our photographer Joe Aguirre was there to catch the action.
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San Francisco super DJ J Boogie has started off this year releasing a crazy barrage of sound—New Orleans bounce, East Indian bhangra and electro-funk remixes for the single “It’s On Fire” with his group J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science. He performed every day at South By Southwest, and then at Miami’s Winter Music…
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No matter how big Christian music gets in the South Bay, few outside the scene seem to take it all that seriously. But at the current rate of expansion, there’ll be around 2.3 Christian metalcore bands for every man, woman and child in Silicon Valley within the next three years.
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A huge “South Bay Urban Block Party” is set for April 22 at 7th and Martha in downtown San Jose. Exact details have yet to officially be released, but headliners are expected to include local hip-hop legend Peanut Butter Wolf, as well as Planet Asia, Zion I, Locksmith and Sahtyre.
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South Bay fans may wonder where Will Sprott and the Mumlers have been. The singer-songwriter known for sparking the South Bay’s wave of freak-rock a few years ago hasn’t been nearly as ubiquitous here since he moved to the East Bay. But he’s been perhaps busier than ever, doing six tours last…
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Roach Gigz’s scrubby, pestilent moniker betrays him. Unpolished and more than a little wily, the twenty-three year old rapper doesn’t immediately jump out as the figurehead for an entire movement—until you remember that he’s from the Bay Area, a place that finds its heroes amongst the hardscrabble.
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Tyga, the Compton rapper and youngest signee to Lil Wayne’s Young Money crew, will make an appearance in San Jose this Saturday at Fiesta Nightclub.
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Aaron Carnes on March 21, 2012
For a year and a half after he started his one-man electronic band Seabright, San Jose’s Justin Morales was writing and recording in his bedroom, turning down every live gig offered to him. Finally, in 2007, he took the leap and played his first show at On the Corner Music in Campbell.
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Aaron Carnes on March 20, 2012
Music and fashion have always been closely linked, especially when looking back at an era. Local promoter Chris Esparza and Studio Glam hair stylist Liz Damron wanted to emphasize that connection at this weekend’s Retro Pop show at San Jose’s Landmark Ballroom.
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