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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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With ‘Salutary,’ San Jose band Pericardium pumps out an eclectic mix of metal, rock and psychedelia
The past year and a half has been a roller-coaster ride for San Jose’s Pericardium. The young rock act has transitioned from a keys- and violin-heavy amalgam to a standard four-piece with two guitars, a bass and drums. And while the musical stylings of the band have morphed along with the lineup changes, the inspiration and drive to create out-of-the-box sounds has remained the same More
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In the music world, PK is a San Luis Obispo–based (by way of Santa Cruz) quintet fusing anomalous and varied time signatures, vocals akin to a softer version of Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba, and a savvy use of breakdowns and bounding beats. More
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A visit to JJ's Blues in Santa Clara
The lone singer was bathed in soft red light, an acoustic guitar perched on his knee. He swayed to a mellow beat and sad lyrics. Gene Washington, also known as Mr. Blues, sat on a stool on the raised stage at venerable blues haven JJ’s Blues, a snifter of brandy in his hand. 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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Reggae great David Hinds sounds off on the past and present of roots reggae
It's tour time for Steel Pulse. Plane tickets have been booked, backup singers hired and hotel reservations made. David Hinds is in Birmingham, England. In less than two weeks, he’ll be in San Francisco, kicking off the latest leg of the tour. But after 35 years as frontman for the iconic roots-reggae set, he’s got the process down to a science and is a sea of calm amid the last-minute preparations. More
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Will Sprott breaks down their new album, track by track
THE Mumlers' debut record, 2007's Thickets and Stitches, launched the ambitious San Jose band onto a national stage. Besides attention from Rolling Stone and NPR, it was the album that launched a thousand blog posts. The consensus: Ambitious. Fascinating. Soulful. Distinctive. And above all, unpredictable. More
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How a computer program figured out what you like to listen to
LAST THURSDAY, Dominican University of California in San Rafael hosted a very different kind of town hall meeting. While no fundamentalists were apparent, a near-religious fervor pervaded the lecture hall for the latest Pandora “Get-Together,” hosted by the popular Internet radio and music-discovery service. More
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The joys of lagging behind in an analog wonderland
I still make tapes. Step into my car, and there are cassette tapes all over the floor. I suppose that’s weird, but weirder still is that they’re not just from older artists of the golden cassette era, like Bruce Springsteen and Huey Lewis. More
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A preview of Bruce Springsteen show April 1 in San Jose More
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