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Metro Staff on February 18, 2020
Enjoy a Big Easy brunch and music from The Sons of The Soul Revivers—all while helping support the upcoming Fountain Blues & Brews Festival, scheduled for June 20 at Plaza de Cesar Chavez. The Morgan brothers—the three-part vocal center of this traditional gospel quintet—have been singing together their entire lives. The group…
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Wallace Baine on February 18, 2020
The Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers take their cues from the immortal Texas power trio ZZ Top. And, in case you’re wondering, the answer is yes—they are rockin’ those famous ZZ beards. The Drinkers (named for an unforgettable song on ZZ Top’s 1973 album, Tres Hombres) headline this big Bay Area tribute-band…
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Metro Staff on February 18, 2020
Brass, beads and beignets are all on the menu as downtown Redwood City is transformed into a fairweather French Quarter. Featuring a marching band procession, a grand marshall and a second line, along with authentic New Orleans drinks and cuisine, the event runs from the early evening until 10pm. Also on the…
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Metro Staff on February 18, 2020
For the past 24 years, The Choral Project has wowed audiences with its mix of classical repertoire and boundary-bending modern choral works. This weekend, TCP returns to Santa Clara for a performance of Art of Sound :: Oceans of Song—a program spanning styles, cultures and featuring the Northern California premiere of “The…
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Metro Staff on February 18, 2020
In the annals of San Jose skate-punk history, one band looms larger than all the rest. Featuring South Bay skateboarding legend Steve Caballero on guitar and Gavin O’Brien—brother to Corey O’Brien, another San Jose pro and owner of The Ritz—fronting the group, The Faction helped launch a subgenre of fast, aggressive punk-rock…
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Metro Staff on February 18, 2020
Born in a small seaport town in Connecticut, 28-year-old electronic music producer and DJ Audien has been making music since 2008. He got his first big break 2012 when he was featured on Armin van Buuren’s A State of Trance compilation and Above & Beyond’s 2012 EDC set. He topped the Billboard…
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Wallace Baine on February 18, 2020
At the same time that other, fussier British rock bands were playing around with classical allusions and 12-minute song suites in the early 1970s, Foghat was keeping it simple with brawny, unpretentious, boogie-based guitar-rock that scored hits with the beer-swilling masses. From “Drivin’ Wheel” to “Fool For the City” and onto the…
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Wallace Baine on February 12, 2020
San Jose Jazz Winter Fest returns to downtown Feb. 14. This year, as always, the festival features a lineup of traditionalists and forward-thinking rule-benders. Here are just a few of this year’s acts. For more info on tickets and the performers, go to sanjosejazz.org.
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
With gently warbling organ, warm tube amps, The Band-esque vocal harmonies and the kind of resonant, straight-to-tape tom-toms that would make Levon Helm swell with pride, these Philadelphia indie-rock veterans prove it’s possible to teach an old pooch new tricks. After tracking Abandoned Mansion in 2014 only to shelve it until 2017,…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
San Jose’s pioneering craft-cocktail bar teams with The Francis Experience Trio for a series of live music, poetry and storytelling—all paired with the bar’s top-shelf libations. As the resident house band, The Francis Experience will back a number of local performers on select Sundays through April. The first installment of The Haberdasher…
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