Though its been moved from its original namesake location, the Treasure Island Music Festival is still going strong. This year’s fest boasts a hip-hop and dance-heavy lineup. Performers include A$AP Rocky, Pusha T and Aminé—all hot off studio releases this year. Also on the bill are a pair of interesting team-ups: Diplo…
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Yousif Kassab on October 11, 2018
Featuring a mix of performances by local school groups, Bay Area-based professional musicians and national headliners, the Silicon Valley Jazz Festival returns this weekend. Saturday kicks off with a trio of performances by student musician groups from Tierra Linda Middle School, CSM and Stanford before the U.S. Air Force’s Commanders Jazz Ensemble…
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One of the founding fathers of gangsta rap and a West Coast legend, Ice Cube tops the bill of How the West Was Won. Featuring a bevy of ’90s hip-hop heavyweights, including Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Too Short and Warren G, it’s going to be like taking a roll down memory lane in the…
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Wallace Baine on October 10, 2018
Music is a part of the scenery wherever you go in Ireland, but that’s especially true in Galway. In this beautiful city on Ireland’s craggy west coast, traditional Irish music flourishes in clubs and academies and in the streets.
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Carissa Kauwell on October 10, 2018
Whether you’re looking for a rare pressing by a favorite artist or just hoping to thumb through crates alongside like-minded vinyl lovers, Streetlight Records’ annual Record Swap is the place to be this weekend. Spilling out of the record store and into the parking lot, there is sure to be a healthy…
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Nick Veronin on October 10, 2018
The Satori goth club has been keeping South Bay dance floors weird for 12 years now. The first venue to host the recurring dance night was Club Savoy north of downtown San Jose. From there it moved to the Blank Club and now lives at The Ritz. As the creepiest night of…
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Jeffrey Edalatpour on October 10, 2018
Girl, and boy, put your records on at MACLA’s Classic Tracks: Migrating Rhythms. Artist Carlos Rolón (whose pseudonym is Dzine) has installed a record player and sound system ready to play your favorite albums. If you happen to be in the neighborhood without a stack of vinyl on hand, he’s also collected…
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For my whole life, the story our family told about our great uncle’s death was that it was from a car crash. He was 21, a UC Berkeley engineering student at the time. When we’d go to great-grandma’s house, his room was untouched from the year he died. His textbook was still…
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Bill Kopp on October 5, 2018
If Black Sabbath didn’t single-handedly invent a particular kind of heavy rock, the Birmingham, England group certainly refined it. Beginning with the band’s self-titled 1970 debut, Black Sabbath proved itself as an exemplar of a bluesy, doom-laden and melodramatic kind of proto-metal.
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Carissa Kauwell on October 4, 2018
Opera Cultura is celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month with Canto: New Voices, a concert featuring the winner from the national Canto Online Vocal Competition, Virginia Hesse. Hailing from Texas and boasting an impressive list of notable stage credits, Hesse, a coloratura soprano, will perform along with another finalist in the competition, Michael…
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