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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
It’s been a little over two years since hyphy-heavyweight Keak da Sneak was nearly murdered in Richmond. The man was shot no less than eight times. “Can’t kill hyphy!” were his words two months later, as he dropped Withdrawl, his first album in five years. After recovering from the shooting, Keak, landed…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
The Trims have played melancholic post-punk with pop ambitions for nearly a decade now, and if you’ve ever seen one of their high-energy live performances, you know they’ve got the chops. While frontman Gabe Maciel’s confessional poetry has always been concerned with loss, regret and heartbreak, sonically the band’s latest record Julian…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
The great family norteño band from San Jose known as Los Tigres Del Norte return for a hometown show with their friends, Los Tucanes—another norteño group from Tijuana—and Joss Favela, a rising Sinaloan musician who trades in the traditional Mexican folk traditions of banda and norteño. Los Tigres is among the most…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
A staple of the operatic repertoire, Giuseppe Verdi’s turbulent tale of love, revenge and the power of music, Il Trovatore, comes to the California Theatre. The opera tells the tale of a woman following her own heart despite various and violent patriarchal obstacles and features an emotional, heart-stopping score conducted by Joseph…
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Metro Staff on February 12, 2020
Richmond Virginia metalcore outfit Bad Omens blend melodic vocals and ethereal keys with crunchy, soaring guitar leads and throaty screams—using personal despair and inner demons to inspire defiant songs of hope and transcendance. They are currently touring behind their 2019 full-length, Finding God Before God Finds Me. Direct support comes from Oh,…
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I sat in my favorite coffee shop, avoiding the project on my laptop screen. That’s when I noticed the usually cheerful demeanor of the baristas evaporate, only to be replaced with fear and dread. “Oh God, he’s here,” I heard one of them mutter. I followed their collective gaze to the door…
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I get it. Restocking the lower shelves on your knees is not your dream job. So I waited quietly and patiently three feet away while you arranged products, until you could move the aisle-blocking, diagonally-parked cart at the upscale grocery store. But you went passive-aggressive, grabbing another armload of goods and ignoring…
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Bill Kopp on February 4, 2020
When mainland music fans think of the Hawaiian islands, they may hear Don Ho’s “Tiny Bubbles,” Israel Kamakawiwoʻole’s famed ukulele arrangement of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” or Bing Crosby’s holiday classic, “Mele Kalikimaka.”
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Metro Staff on February 4, 2020
Nearly 25 years into the game and it’s clear that Atmosphere will go down as one of the best hip-hop groups ever. The Minnesota duo’s early albums feature a quick-witted Slug using his silver tongue to couple glib remarks with intricate and braggadocious rhymes, all while producer Ant drops some seriously dope…
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Wallace Baine on February 4, 2020
Bon Jovi fans may always be “livin’ on a prayer” that they’ll somehow find their way back to the 1980s—when party-rock ruled the airwaves and mullets were worn unironically. That may never happen, but at least they have this: A triple bill at the Club Fox, featuring Bon Jovi completists Steel Horse,…
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