Sugarland, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley, Toby Keith, Rascall Flatts and Jason Aldean are the six headliners matched up for the “2012 Country Megaticket” at Shoreline this summer. A limited number of tickets will go on sale for the package this Friday, Februrary 3, at 10am.
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Jeff Tweedy brought his iconic alt-country band Wilco to the San Jose Civic on Saturday night for the first of three sold-out shows in the Bay Area, and expectations were high. After long being one of those bands that seemed to tour perpetually, they’re back on the road after a lengthy (for…
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Reigning biggest metal tour the Rockstar Mayhem Festival has announced its line-up for this year, which features headliners Slipknot and Slayer, along with Anthrax, the Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying, High on Fire and Whitechapel. The 26-date tour begins on June 30 and comes to Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View…
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One of the most intense debates of the late 20th Century still rages on into this millennium. Most likely, neither side will concede and we will forever ponder the question, “Is Punk dead?” While there are convincing arguments on both sides, it is undeniable that there are shining examples that show, in…
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Aaron Carnes on January 25, 2012
Third-wave ska legends Dan Potthast of MU330 and Slow Gherkin thought they had put skanking behind them years ago. But it all came back to them in 2009, when Potthast joined up with four ex-Gherkin members (A.J. Marquez, Matt Porter, Brendan Thompson and Phil Boutelle) and his fellow MU330 bandmate Matt Knobbe…
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One might expect that the accordian is a dying art, or even be cheering its demise. But there’s a player from the Bay Area who’s earning comparisons to the squeezebox greats—and not only that, but his inventive, fiery style is enough to get even the haters pumped about the accordian. He’s Andre…
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The San Jose Civic hosts Wilco Saturday, January 28, for the first of the band’s three sold-out Bay Area Shows.
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The night before Wallpaper played the Blank Club on Saturday, they were in L.A. With Wallpaper signing with Epic and on MTV, industry types are all over Ricky Reed right now. But halfway through the Blank show, he took stock of the situation and declared that “just like I knew it would,…
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Counterculture and cupcakes collide on Saturday in Santa Clara, when former Psycho Donuts mastermind Kipp Berdiansky brings his new foray into dessert weirdness—this time, the mobile, customized cupcake truck known as Project Cupcake—to the Starving Musician for a launch party that will feature music from San Jose’s reigning kings of ska, Monkey,…
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