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Nick Veronin on April 20, 2018
Local artists, high-flying wrestlers and Silicon Valley musicians will converge with tasty food trucks, cold beer and other creative vendors in downtown San Jose this Sunday, as the biannual SoFA Street Fair returns with its yearly spring installment. This year the spring fling features four outdoor stages and 12 indoor venues—including The…
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Mike Huguenor on April 19, 2018
For more than 10 years now, Record Store Day, the annual celebration of locally owned, brick-and-mortar music shops, has stoked the passions of music lovers all over the country. Every year, artists release new and previously unheard music, along with bootlegs and reissues—often in collectable formats, including vinyl and cassette.
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Jaleny Reyes on April 19, 2018
Featuring works by European and North American composers—and a performance by a Korean pianist—the Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose presents a globetrotting musical journey. Led by conductor Emily Ray, the concert will feature a first-ever performance of “Narcisse,” by American composer Robert McCauley. Canadian composer Marjan Mozetich will showcase contemporary work,…
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Kristin Lam on April 19, 2018
With almost 2 billion views on YouTube and collaborations with some of today’s biggest stars—including Cardi B—this Puerto Rican singer and rapper is poised to ride his brand of catchy, Latin-tinged trap tunes to the top of the American charts. Bad Bunny comes to San Jose this week on his first North…
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Mike Huguenor on April 12, 2018
Dark, brooding and atmospheric, Punish the Blind is the first full-length by local black metalheads ColdClaw. On it, the San Jose band mix thrash, death and black metal to create a space as forbidding as the grim death march that adorns the record’s cover. Beginning with an unaccompanied guitar intro, the album…
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Bill Kopp on April 12, 2018
Jean-Michel Jarre built his music reputation on the strength of a series of groundbreaking 1970s albums. His second release, 1977’s Oxygène, pioneered the use of analog synthesizers in a melodic context and is widely viewed as an enduring influence upon today’s electronic artists.
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Jaleny Reyes on April 12, 2018
During this three-day interactive festival, the Community School of Music and Arts will celebrate the intersection of music and technology. Performers include The Flashbulb, Daniel Berkman, Hurd Ensemble and a live collaboration between Paul Dresher and Joel Davel. Attendees will also be able to participate in hands-on workshops and panel discussions, where…
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Wallace Baine on April 11, 2018
The end of the road for the Righteous Brothers came suddenly and unexpectedly in 2003, when Bobby Hatfield—the tenor in the duo, and the voice in the immortal love song “Unchained Melody”—died of a heart attack shortly before a performance with his longtime partner, Bill Medley.
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Hey Doofus, we all saw you standing in front of everyone’s view of the stage at the Luke Combs concert at the Civic, daring anyone that had the audacity to ask you and “miss sweet thang” to sit down and enjoy the show like everyone else. The floor was open, dress circle…
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Mike Huguenor on March 29, 2018
Though they never quite achieved mainstream success, Prong has always lived at the intersection of genres. As an early developer of both industrial and groove metal, they had a major hand in shaping heavy music throughout the ’90s and early 2000s, influencing everyone from Nine Inch Nails to Lamb of God, and…
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