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Gary Singh recalls the city's history as a site for counterculture musical festivals in the ’60s
SINCE LOCAL ROCK history keeps rearing its Medusa-like head these days, allow me to throw some more gasoline on the fire. Since 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock as well as the Altamont circus, people in San Jose’s neck of the woods are exhuming fond memories of two local festivals that preceded those more legendary get-togethers. More
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THE BOULDER CREEK ART & WINE FESTIVAL takes place Saturday–Monday (May 23–25), noon–6pm daily, in downtown Boulder Creek, Highway 9. Admission is free More
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A dreadlock-flailing singer appeared onstage at the Santa Clara club One Step Beyond in April 1989, proving that rock still had urgency, life and territory to explore. Along with another breakout band of that era, the Replacements, Jane’s Addiction tore up the set list, lived for the moment and embodied—rather than performed—rock & roll. More
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Last Friday, the debut of Left Coast Live brought hordes to see music all over downtown San Jose. Two outdoor stages kicked off the event in the SoFA district, with everyone spilling into numerous bars and spaces during and after. More
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Fee Waybill remembers the band's feisty origins
Is there some reason that the most sarcastic bands in the history of rock music have come from the Bay Area? Most of them arose from the original punk era in the mid-to-late-’70s, less than 10 years after San Francisco’s Summer of Love. But this particularly virulent strain of vicious irony spread not just through hardcore bands like the Dead Kennedys (“Kill the Poor”), Flipper (“Ha Ha Ha”) and the Offs (“Everyone’s a Bigot”), but across the board to the gold-record-selling new wave of the Tubes. More
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Left Coast Live wraps up its five-day festival on Friday with a downtown, musical blowout. The festivities kick off as headliners Lyrics Born, Booker T and Miggs perform at an outdoor stage in the SoFa district. Simultaneously, Mumlers, Good Hustle, Maxx Cabello Jr. and La Colectiva will perform at the Mini Main Stage, located at South First and San Salvador streets. More
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The funny thing about the blues is that despite the sometimes forlorn qualities the music expresses, it’s often the opposite kind of emotions that are most visible, especially in a live setting. As the Metro Fountain Blues Festival got underway last Saturday at SJSU, it was clear that the mood shared by several thousand blues fans gathered was as bright as the sunny skies above. More
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Big music fest debuts next week.
Two years ago, folks from different parts of the local music spectrum gathered to vent their frustrations with what seemed like the entire city of San Jose. They eventually went public with their complaints about how San Jose lost its live-music mojo—and their dream that it could get the beat back. More
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When we walked in, everyone was at the back. Tres Gringos in San Jose is a decent-size club, and yet the crowd was squished in the rear of the building. As we got closer we realized that everyone was on the tiny dance floor. More
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The Montalvo Arts Summer Concert Series at the Garden Theatre, presented by Live Nation was announced this week. The summer music gets under way June 3 with Julio Iglesias, followed by the Wallflowers (June 17). More
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