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Estefany Gonzalez on September 6, 2018
Dave Matthews Band has been putting out top-notch jam rock for well over two decades. Combining ultra-dextrous musicianship with pop sensibility, the group has never dumbed down its songwriting to satisfy the masses. Rather, they found a way to bring everybody along for a proggy ride on tracks like “Satellite,” where mathy…
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Mike Huguenor on September 5, 2018
With a voice that falls somewhere between Aaliyah and Rihanna, Tinashe is a pop superstar in the making. She may not be a household name in America yet, but in plenty of places around the globe the former child star is already a major success, placing high on the charts with her…
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Mike Huguenor on September 5, 2018
In an age when Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders have all held positions of authority, it’s comforting to know that at least hips don’t lie. Shakira, she of throaty vocals and diminutive height, brings this eternal truth to the SAP Center in all its slinky glory. El Dorado, her…
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Estefany Gonzalez on September 5, 2018
Founded in Story City, Iowa, by singer and guitarist Parker Griggs, Radio Moscow got their first big break after Black Keys guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach got a hold of the band’s demo and produced their self-titled debut LP. Channeling the heavy, bluesy, psych-rock sounds of legendary power trios like Cream, The…
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Bill Kopp on September 5, 2018
Los Lobos is an American treasure. Formed in East L.A. in the early 1970s, the band has always drawn from across the entire spectrum of American music. While the group’s Latino roots invite easy comparison to groundbreaking acts like Thee Midniters, El Chicano, Malo and Santana, the group (whose name means “the…
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I’m a down-on-her-luck type who never wins anything—raffles, free samples, the lottery, you name it—so standing next in line behind someone who pays it forward took me by surprise. It was at the chain coffee shop on the corner of McKee Road and Capitol Avenue in San Jose. You, wearing a baseball…
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Andrew Lentz on August 29, 2018
You could find worse ways to ease into the Monday holiday than hanging with one of South Central Los Angeles’s most talented. With his proper debut, Victory Lap, Nipsey Hussle has culled years’ worth of mixtape ideas—which copped everything from West Coast funk (think “Hussle in the House”) to G-house and Philly…
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Wallace Baine on August 29, 2018
Talk about tight: Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bass player Jack Casady have been jamming together since they were scrawny teenagers in Washington, D.C. That’s close to 60 years. In the psychedelic ’60s, both Jorma and Jack climbed aboard the Jefferson Airplane. Their blues duo act Hot Tuna co-existed with the Airplane for…
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Wallace Baine on August 29, 2018
The bands, the synth patches and the haircuts that came and went with the 1980s all come rushing back in this grab-bag show designed to evoke the best of the Max Headroom years. Among the groups on the bill: A Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung, Boys Don’t Cry, Missing Persons, Bow Wow…
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Mike Huguenor on August 29, 2018
All across Latin America, people would give a limb for the chance to see Dread Mar I in a room the size of the Ritz. The Argentinian reggae star normally plays amphitheaters—places the size of Shoreline Amphitheatre. On YouTube, his videos have tens of millions of views. Some, like 2010 hit “Tu…
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