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Alec Adams on February 2, 2022
Incorporating anime aesthetic into your musical act isn’t exactly new; lo-fi hip hop and emo bands have been putting anime girls on the cover of their album art for years. But metal bands are historically more interested in appearing “metal.” Not so for Oakland’s Lucrecia, a prog-metal band who self-describe as “otaku…
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Addie Mahmassani on February 2, 2022
Though deeply inspired by her late collaborator Prince, Judith Hill wants the world to know she is much more than a tabloid-making protégé. On her latest album, Baby, I’m Hollywood!, the Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist subverts the expectations that come with her LA upbringing and showbiz roots, telling her story with depth and vulnerability.…
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Mike Huguenor on January 26, 2022
It only took a moment for Cole Kakimoto to fall in love with hardcore. One night, while still in middle school, he followed a friend to see her sister’s boyfriend’s band play a church on the eastside of San Jose. “I was expecting like a concert or something, because I had never…
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Alec Adams on January 26, 2022
Rock music can be a fascinating and intricate genre with plenty of room for sonic exploration. But at the end of the day, it’s at its best when listeners can just throw up the horns and bang their head to some tasty licks. Phoenix, AZ native Lucust French understood this when he…
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Elliott Sky Case on January 26, 2022
Sometimes music feels like a soundtrack to the movie of our lives. And sometimes life feels like a cartoon. The Queen’s Cartoonists exist to score those moments. The Queens, NY-based sextet plays in front of a video projection of the TV shows and movies they cover, matching slapstick speeds as they run…
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Alec Adams on January 26, 2022
The nostalgia around the 1990s has created such a fog that no one seems to know what actually happened in the era anymore. All anyone can remember is flannels, cheap rent and the movie Office Space. It sounds fun as hell in our heads though, and why should we be in such…
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Jay Edgar on January 26, 2022
Is it summer yet? While we’re stuck in the wicked doldrums of January, sometimes a warm, sunny day will surprise the valley. Friday’s looking to be one of those days, as producer duo ARMNHMR bring their breathy, festival-ready brand of EDM to the San Jose Civic. ARMNHMR’s big, soaring interludes lead into…
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Jay Edgar on January 26, 2022
Ever since the ascendance of “New Music” in the 1970s, the Japanese music industry has carved its own tradition, taking western influences and making them uniquely their own—and producing some of the most sought after vinyl in the West. Named in honor of ‘80s city pop legend Tatsuro Yamashita, Love Talkin’ is…
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Bill Kopp on January 19, 2022
The Supersuckers have made a career out of not being serious. How else to explain a body of work that includes songs like “Pretty Fucked Up,” “Born With a Tail” and “I’m a Fucking Genius”? In their 34 years as a band, the heavy-metal-meets-outlaw-country group started by bassist/vocalist Eddie Spaghetti has, in…
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Mike Huguenor on January 19, 2022
Comedy fans on San Jose’s southside are used to taking at least one freeway on-ramp for a night out. Luckily, however, the Branham Lounge, resplendent home of the fireside drink, has been bringing some of the best in Bay Area comedy down south. This Sunday, the very funny San Jose native Drea…
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