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Tad Malone on October 31, 2018
Local prog rock trio Divided by Seven celebrate the release of their new album, The Only Constant, at the Art Boutiki in San Jose. Mixing elements of alternative metal with tricky rhythms and melodic leads, the group recalls the work of late-’90s and turn-of-the-millennium hard rock acts, like Finger Eleven, Alice in…
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Tad Malone on October 31, 2018
Comedy writer and standup comic Gareth Reynolds is best known for his podcast with fellow comedian Dave Anthony, The Dollop—a hilarious walk through the more absurd aspects of American History. The Milwaukee-bred Reynolds most recently wrote for the Netflix resurrection of Arrested Development, and has had a hand in a many of…
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Mike Huguenor on October 31, 2018
Just a few years ago, Kennedy Ashlyn was one half of the up-and-coming goth pop act Them Are Us Too, a group formed when both members were students at UCSC. The duo began touring on summer vacations, and before long had signed with influential goth and experimental label Dais Records. For such…
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Bill Kopp on October 31, 2018
High-concept cover bands succeed when they breathe new life into something old and familiar. Dread Zeppelin started doing it in the 1990s, with its Elvis impersonator meets reggae band take on Led Zeppelin’s catalog. Today Mac Sabbath takes the form to its most bizarre extreme: exploring the proto-doom and heavy metal of…
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To the teenagers in the back row of the theater at a certain 20-screen movie establishment in Sunnyvale: We know what you were up to, and you’re lucky we didn’t get you kicked out of the ‘Venom’ showing. The clink of metal on the floor mystified my date and me at first…
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Estefany Gonzalez on October 25, 2018
Picture the product of a torrid affair between the Top 40 charts and a best of Broadway playlist and you’re likely imagining something close to the poptastic power of Glee co-stars Darren Criss and Lea Michele. While watching Criss make villainous DC comic cameos on CW’s The Flash or Michele murder sassy…
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Wallace Baine on October 25, 2018
German-born pianist Axel Schmitt, a faculty member at Mountain View’s Community School of Music and Arts, has at least one heavy lift on his bucket list: He’s attempting to perform every one of Beethoven’s piano sonatas—that’s 32 total—before the 250th anniversary of the great composer’s birth in 2020. On Sunday, Schmitt presents…
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Nick Veronin on October 25, 2018
Traditionally, mariachi as a musical form comes from a specific place. It is played on specific instruments, and its practitioners often limit performances to specific spaces within a specific region. New York-based Mariachi Flor de Toloache maintain a rotating ensemble of all women performers—all from highly diverse backgrounds—and infuse their western Mexican…
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Wallace Baine on October 25, 2018
It’s been more than two years now since music fans have had to wake up every morning in a world without The Purple One. The seven-piece tribute band When Doves Cry came together in Sacramento several months before Prince’s death and now stands as one of the best opportunities to still hear…
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Estefany Gonzalez on October 25, 2018
No one reps the Yay Area harder than E-40. But with close to 30 full-length solo releases, myriad collaborative projects and a serious knack for coining lyrical lingo, E-40 is sure to leave a lasting legacy in the hip-hop world far beyond the Bay. In addition to coming up with the likes…
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