The future arrives in San Jose this week. Perfume, one of the biggest J-Pop bands in at least a generation, comes to the City National Civic in support of last year’s Future Pop. Massive, relentless and ever-expanding into new territories, Future Pop is the culmination of nearly 20 years of pushing pop…
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I’m a sucker for competition. The uncertainty of who will be victorious between evenly matched opposing forces is what propels us, the common man, into overpaying for the Comcast Sports Package. It is even more exhilarating when you get to see that level of competitiveness in person, even if those competitors suck.…
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C.J. Prusi on April 4, 2019
This L.A.-based emcee has dropped eight albums since his 1997 debut, F’Real—including classics like Murs for President (2008) and Have a Nice Life (2015). The man is unstoppable, and still melancholy as hell. His last release, A Strange Journey into the Unimaginable (2018), runs the gamut from heartbreaking to hilarious, as he…
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Erika Rasmussen on April 4, 2019
There are some birthday parties you don’t want to miss. The Gardenia Society kicks off this inaugural event—a celebration of the late, great Billie Holiday—with live jazz and blues, plus visual art from watercolor painter James Gayles. Donations will be taken to benefit the Gardenia Society’s programs, which include scholarships and grants…
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C.J. Prusi on April 4, 2019
Though they’ve transitioned from a glossy, Warped Tour-ing electro-punk quartet to a party-rocking DJ trio, Cash Cash’s love for good, old-fashioned rock & roll can still be heard in “Belong,” their collaboration with early-aughts emo heartthrob Dashboard Confessional. This New Jersey production crew first broke out in 2008 with their sugar-coated techno-pop…
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Nick Veronin on April 4, 2019
Pixelated tones and PBR tall boys are on the menu this Thursday at the Caravan. Los Angeles-based synthwave producer Scott McClure brings his mix of stuttering, John Carpenter basslines, soaring Final Fantasy textures and Crystal Quest flourishes to 98 Almaden Ave. Sharing the bill is San Jose’s very own Dead Mall, the…
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There was a time when it made sense for the Dwarves to exist. Founded in the mid-’80s, they began in Chicago as a brash garage-psych outfit. By then, shock rock was nothing new and the hardcore scene had already formed as a razor-sharp splinter of the punk movement.
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C.J. Prusi on April 4, 2019
The Changing Same holds true to its mission of hosting the most promising rising stars at the bleeding edge of soul, funk and R&B. This Thursday, the weekly party brings Parisian beatsmith Arnaud Antoine Rene Bernard, known by most as Onra. He is perhaps best known for his 2010 LP, Long Distance—which…
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Listen, I’ve met people with agoraphobia. One of them was so afraid of the outdoors that he holed himself up in a tiny cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains for literally three years, venturing out only when enough of his friends spent days coaxing him out of hiding long enough to go…
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Bill Kopp on March 27, 2019
Acoustic guitar trios are nothing new. But in the hands of the musicians calling themselves the California Guitar Trio, the instrument is approached in a unique way, and the sounds created are subtly different.
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