by
AARON CARNES on January 18, 2012
Jazz-indie-rock is a genre few bands claim to play, but San Jose’s Contra Ville embrace this mismatch of styles. Lead vocalist/guitarist Mitch Waldman and saxophonist Brendan Carroll stumbled on the odd mixture by accident. Waldman, who writes most of the music, listens to a heavy dose of neo-psychedelic indie rock bands like…
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It’s time to make this clear once and for all: Ricky Reed is not a joke. Ricky Reed is not a clown. Most importantly, Ricky Reed is not an act. “Ricky Reed is real.”
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Attendees at the Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate Park this past August, were lucky enough to catch the new-look Shins perform a couple of fresh tracks featured on their upcoming record, which they recently announced will be released in March.
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Andre Nickatina and Dru Down, two of the best rappers to come out of the Bay Area during the 1990s golden era, are bringing 20 year’s worth of drug, sex and hood rhymes to Agenda’s three-day weekend bash on Sunday night.
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Clay Parton and Troy Kooper have worked together under the banners of several different names (Breast and El Buzzard), but the latest incarnation, Parton Kooper Planetarium, stands out from the others. The songs on their album “glass & bone” are ghostly, rich in harmonic depth and tend to smolder in the mind…
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Sometimes Tuesdays are downright terrible. That’s how DJ Clint Westwood remembers them being in downtown San Jose last spring. “The Sharks were losing the playoffs,” he says. “All of downtown was in a lull.”
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Before they begin the European leg of their tour with the Sounds at the end of the this month, Campbell’s Limousines have posted two covers for free download at their website, thelimousines.com.
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Megadeth has had a lot of ups and downs over the years, which is probably fitting for a band that started basically as a grudge after Dave Mustaine got thrown out of Metallica. It’s been one crazy story after the other, but the craziest yet may be that Megadeth is back in…
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One of the best things about Coachella is most bands performing at the festival stop in the Bay Area before or after the Southern California event. With the festival extended to two weekends for the first time this year, we should see even more performers ditching the desert for quick gigs in…
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Coachella is making its two-weekend debut in 2012 with another fantastic lineup topped by Radiohead, The Black Keys and Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
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