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Avi Salem on May 17, 2018
Matt Beilis may be the only singer-songwriter who has opened for both Inspectah Deck and REO Speedwagon. After trading in his cushy job in the finance sector for a gig in a piano store, he began uploading original compositions to YouTube, where he caught the attention of celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Ryan…
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Hello, Metro. I see you on a weekly basis, never miss a week, never a beat. I don’t always agree with you but you always have interesting things to say. You tell me about movies coming out, great places to party on the weekend, which bands are coming to my city, which…
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Wallace Baine on May 11, 2018
If for no other reason, Bill Withers achieved pop-music immortality by giving the world “Lean On Me,” the moving anthem to intimacy and loyalty that has been comforted people since its heyday as a No. 1 hit in 1972.
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Avi Salem on May 10, 2018
Back in 2010, when sisters Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf dropped out of school to form electro-dub duo Krewella, the Illinois natives hardly predicted the explosive success they would see from their debut studio album, Get Wet—which climbed the Billboard Top 200 chart all the way No. 8 in 2013. After headlining performances…
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Avi Salem on May 10, 2018
In their three years together as a band, the Echo Park-based members of Cheap Tissue have taken their origin story and transformed it into a mantra: punk rock straight from the gutter. Formed under a fire escape next to a dumpster, the band pays homage the proto-punk and garage rock outfits that…
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Mike Huguenor on May 10, 2018
Hot Snakes a tendency to show up in dire times. In the early 2000s, the San Diego all stars released a trio of dark, vaguely threatening punk albums that followed closely on the heels of Y2K, 9/11 and the Iraq War. Then, in 2005 they disbanded. Now, as we slip through the…
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Yousif Kassab on May 9, 2018
Things are looking up for Hot Flash Heat Wave. With an Outside Lands performance on the horizon and a SXSW set safely in the books, guitarists Nathan Blum, Adam Abildgaard and bassist Ted Davis have no complaints.
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I saw you approach that woman waiting for the train. She was tall, slender and stunningly beautiful. Her body language seemed that of a resting lioness, fierce and striking. Your body language, however, was that of a newly birthed fawn. Shaking and quivering, you walked over to her wearing wrinkled plaid, fading…
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Nick Veronin on May 3, 2018
After lighting up Levi’s Stadium last May and marking the 30th anniversary of their seminal album, The Joshua Tree, Irish modern rock megastars U2 return to San Jose on their Experience + Innocence Tour. The run of shows comes on the heels of their latest album, 2017’s Songs of Experience. The album…
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Mike Huguenor on May 2, 2018
Within the world of heavy metal there is a magic word. Some people may listen to metal for years—decades—and never hear it spoken. But once it’s heard, it is impossible to go back. It is a single word capable of changing reality entirely, twisting the once-familiar into something mystic, epiphanic, otherworldly. That…
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