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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
The accomplished Ukranian-American pianist Anna Dmytrenko takes the stage for the second concert of the Steinway Society’s 25th season. The Juilliard-trained Dmytrenko plays works by Medtner Rachmaninoff and Barber on her recently released debut album. She has performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center and the Salle Cortot…
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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
Marshall Mathers was still going by MC Double M in 1991. That was the year Nathan Feuerstein was born into a broken home in the small town of Gladwin, Michigan—about 150 miles north of Detroit. But by the time Feuerstein was a pre-teen, Mathers had firmly cemented his fast-rapping, maniacal alter-ego, Eminem.…
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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
The Sacramento-based production and party promotion outfit It’s Relative PR hosts the recurring ’90s Nite party at The Ritz. The event features DJs spinning hits by the likes of Sugar Ray, C&C Music Factory and ’N Sync. It’s Relative is also behind the Emo Night Tour—where a live band covers songs by…
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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
Some people think of the ukulele as a souvenir, says the Hawaiian born uke virtuoso Taimane. She doesn’t take offense. In fact, she likes it, as it sets audience expectations low. That’s when she comes in and blows minds. With well over two decades of experience on the diminutive “underdog of instruments,”…
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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
In its time, the Cactus Club (1988-2002) did everything that a rock & roll club should: It pissed off the neighbors, the city and square authority figures all over San Jose. It also served as the glue holding together the city’s local music scene, drawing rising midsize headliners and giving regional groups…
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Bill Kopp on October 23, 2019
Over the course of its three decades performing, progressive metal outfit Dream Theater has periodically created concept albums. Their 1999 LP, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, was the band’s first concept album and marked the debut of Jordan Rudess as the group’s keyboardist.
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It puzzles me how you have enough clout to work for a premier comedy club. A couple of weeks ago, I attended your impromptu sidewalk interviews, during which you trash-talked a prior interviewee. Afterward, you walked me over to a co-worker who told me she would send me an email with a…
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Nick Veronin on October 16, 2019
Holding court over his kit, drummer and composer Kendrick Scott proves that percussion is about so much more than keeping time. On his 2016 composition, “Philando,” the Houston-born musician improvises over an ambient drone and a recording of the Philando Castile shooting, heightening the emotional narration of Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds with…
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Mike Huguenor on October 16, 2019
It was 60 years ago this Sunday that KFJC first broadcast from a broom closet at Foothill College. In six decades that followed, the humble station has become synonymous with adventurous tastes and documenting the bleeding-edge of underground music, both at home and on location around the world. In the process, KFJC…
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Conor Agnew on October 16, 2019
Mark Farina has been spinning records for a long time. Born and raised in Chicago, the tastemaking Bay Area transplant helped shape the San Francisco electronic scene in the early ’90s. Whether you find him at the helm of a pulsating house mix or weaving together a more downtempo groove, it is…
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