Maybe it’s just a plot to keep American indie kids from getting even more depressed, but Scottish shoegazers the Twilight Sad had a hell of a time getting visas for their new U.S. tour, which comes to the Blank Club in San Jose on Wednesday, March 7. Things got so bad that…
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The 50th issue of the acclaimed, Brooklyn-based Wax Poetics magazine is dedicated to Prince, and to honor the occasion, Stones Throw’s DaM-FunK created a Prince mix. But tonight at the Pagoda Lounge in San Jose, DJ Cutso of the Bangerz will do him one better by spinning a Prince tribute.
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How big is heavy metal in San Jose? Gigantor. Megadeath and Motorhead filled the San Jose Event Center with rabid metal fans last night. Our photographer caught the action from the pit.
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Aaron Carnes on February 22, 2012
At one show on their Cambodian tour last year, South Bay all-girl rock band the Like Me’s played for over 5,000 people. This was less than two years after their first show ever—at Iguanas Taqueria in San Jose. Their bass player, Helena Hong, had only just started playing the bass four days…
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Clifford Coulter was there for San Jose back when mainstream pop culture was still asking for directions. A soul-jazz innovator and multi-instrumentalist, Coulter’s 1970 debut album was the polar opposite of “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”—funky, rootsy and ahead of its time, it was firmly grounded in the South…
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Is the Oakland-based rapper Kreayshawn an Internet conspiracy or an absurdist comment on the state of popular culture? With a penchant for warped beats, chirpy hooks, and colorful baubles that combine Harajuku with the hood, the 22-year-old born Natassia Zolot has confounded the same Internet that gave birth to her. She performs…
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San Jose’s nightlife has a high tolerance for bad taste—eurotrash masquerading as pop, cheesy nightclubs with aspirations beyond their zip code, and most importantly: lacking a single decent place to listen to electronic music. For those of us who’ve lost interest in making the + 100 mile roundtrip trek to San Francisco,…
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Beau Dowling on February 20, 2012
By all accounts, Lemmy Kilmister should be dead. He drinks a fifth of Jack Daniel’s a day, been smoking since he was 11 and eats only meat and cheese. Anthrax’s Scott Ian put it best when he said Motorhead is one of those metal bands that’s cool for the punks to like.…
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Beau Dowling on February 17, 2012
Metal bands can be ridiculous, self-absorbed and even downright outrageous. Sometimes, the genre needs to be reminded to have a sense of humor and not take itself so seriously. Sometimes, a band like San Jose’s Metallingus comes along and does just that.
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Few metal bands have inspired a rabid following like Iron Maiden. So for their newly announced 2012 world tour, which comes to Shoreline in Mountain View on August 3, the band has come up with something unusual, maybe even unprecedented, to reward its fans for their loyalty.
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