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Yousif Kassab on November 21, 2018
Ranchero singer Pepe Aguilar is bringing La Dinastía Aguilar to San Jose with this week’s performance at the Shark Tank. Aguilar will be performing alongside his son Leonardo and his daughter Angela. Both have some serious pipes of their own. All told, the performance will include the Aguilars, Christian Nodal, 12 mariachi,…
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Wallace Baine on November 21, 2018
Fans of singer-songwriter (and Bay Area native) Aisea Taimani and his band Minor Islands have lots to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. The socially conscious performer comes to the Art Boutiki with his debut full-length album, Closer to Home, set to drop Thanksgiving Day. As the son of immigrants from the Polynesian…
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Yousif Kassab on November 21, 2018
Each year around turkey time, the Give Thanks festival rolls into town with a lineup of high-profile electronic acts. This time around they’ve put together a tight trio of shows featuring Swedish progressive house producer Alesso (headlining on Nov. 21), moombahton master Dillon Francis (playing Nov. 23) and Canadian dubstep act Excision…
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Bill Kopp on November 21, 2018
Fleetwood Mac was one of the most popular bands of the 1970s and ’80s. The soft-rock group’s landmark 1977 album Rumours is the sixth biggest-selling album in history. The group’s breezy, uptempo sound of that era glossed over internal drama: Fleetwood Mac has always had a revolving-door lineup, and there are twice…
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It was nice to get an invite to your place after not seeing you for a few months. You’re my favorite brother—at least that’s the impression the rest of the family has—and I’d had the uneasy feeling that we were falling out of touch, even though you only live about an hour…
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Wallace Baine on November 14, 2018
It’s both an alliterative masterpiece and a musical extravaganza. Hailing from Australia, the Ten Tenors—none of whom are named Pavarotti or Domingo—have been performing worldwide for more than 20 years. Celebrating their latest recording, Wish You Were Here, the Tenors dive into both the classical repertoire and the contemporary canon, tackling such…
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Wallace Baine on November 14, 2018
Everyone in the greater South Bay can remember where they were on the evening of April 5, 2012. That was, of course, the day when San Jose R&B singer and former Oak Grove High homecoming king DeAndre Brackensick was eliminated from competition on season 11 of American Idol. He soon after toured…
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Metro Staff on November 14, 2018
When it comes to sad clowns, Weary Willie—Emmett Kelly’s iconic caricature of a down-and-out, Depression-era hobo—may be the first image that crops up in the contemporary imagination. But the O.G. of all sad clowns is undoubtedly Pagliacci. In Ruggero Leoncavallo’s beloved Pagliacci, a theater troupe stages a production that hits too close…
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Bill Kopp on November 14, 2018
RISING OUT OF Sweden’s vibrant metal scene in 2006, Ghost has carved out a unique place in the rock landscape. Fronted by songwriter and vocalist Tobias Forge, the band is populated by musicians known only as Nameless Ghouls (Forge’s identity was only revealed in 2017). Wedding showmanship in the tradition of Alice…
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Avi Salem on November 14, 2018
Robert Toher is something of a musical voyager. For nearly two decades he’s navigated the perimeters of the musical landscape, from playing in punk bands as a teen in the late ’90s to his central role in the genre-bending bands Apse and ERAAS in the 2000s and 2010s. Similarly, Toher’s musical stylings…
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