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Erika Rasmussen on May 23, 2019
Anamaría—sometimes Ana, sometimes Anita—Tijoux Merino was born in Lille, France to a Chilean family. Politically exiled during the Pinochet dictatorship, her social-worker mother regularly brought her daughter to the office in France. It was there that Tijoux fell in love with hip-hop and picked up anti-colonialist philosophies. After moving back to Chile,…
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Nick Veronin on May 23, 2019
The Baby Boomers have seen a lot in their time. From sitting cross-legged in front of remoteless TVs, watching commercials touting the convenience of canned cheese, microwave dinners, and (one word) plastics, through Civil Rights and Counter Culture movements, to Reaganomics, Slick Willy, America Online, the internet in every pocket and self-driving…
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Anne Gelhaus on May 23, 2019
Purveyors of adult-oriented reggae since the early ’80s, UB40 is known for originals with a political bent (“Rat in the Kitchen” was a veiled reference to Margaret Thatcher), poppy covers of Neil Diamond ballads (“Red Red Wine,” anyone?) and irie versions of Motown hits (“The Way You Do the Things You Do”).…
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Nick Veronin on May 23, 2019
Some love belting out off-key Top 40 hits over a few pints. Others catching the game or playing cornhole with a cold one in hand. When it comes to Japantown watering holes, the former can head to 7 Bamboo Lounge. But locals know that Jack’s Bar & Lounge is the place laid…
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Hey lady, I saw you speed past me on Penitencia Creek Road, passing on my right in a school zone. You were doing about 40 mph in your granite Toyota 4-runner, with a “Baby on Board” sticker in your back window. My first thought was, “What an asshole,” then I thought maybe…
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Two and a half minutes into Life Size Models’ new single “Polar Nights,” something truly unexpected happens.
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Erika Rasmussen on May 16, 2019
Silicon Valley warmed up quickly this spring—just in time for the grand reopening of Frost Amphitheater. New stage and canopy, new audiovisual system, same beloved Frost. Singer-songwriters Jorja Smith and Kali Uchis are the first to play the renovated space for the annual Frost Music & Arts Festival. Smith, a 21-year-old Brit,…
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Metro Staff on May 16, 2019
The late Ruth Tunstall-Grant was a true alternative hero who made a lasting impact on the local creative community. This exhibition celebrates Tunstall-Grant’s life and legacy as an artist and advocate for children’s rights and social justice issues in Santa Clara County. She led the charge on bringing arts education for San…
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Erika Rasmussen on May 16, 2019
Though it was spawned from a roiling fusion of sludgy blues riffs and occult imagery, heavy metal music shares more common threads with Vivaldi and Wagner than with Johnson and John Lee. Case in point: Tobias Sammet’s metal opera supergroup, Avantasia. Led by former Edguy frontman Sammet and featuring the likes of…
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Metro Staff on May 8, 2019
Raul Malo, the former singer and primary songwriter for Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has stayed busy producing solo material—even as his genre-bending country, Tex-Mex and Latin-tinged group have alternated between bursts of activity and hiatus. Recently, the Miami-born Malo (known for such hits at “Here Comes the Rain” and “Crying Shame”) has…
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