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Summer Fest Preview: Jeff Hamilton Trio
Jeff Hamilton thinks it’s kind of funny that musical diversity at jazz festivals is getting so much attention in the last few years. He’s been playing them for longer than most of the artists at this...
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Tape Mastah Steph Returns To South Bay For Stones Throw Records
As a member of the iconic South Bay hip-hop group Subcontents, Tape Mastah Steph was an integral part of the emerging underground hip-hop scene in San Jose back in the ’90s. Today, he still is, even...
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Skrillex Paves The Way For Identity Festival
With Electronic Dance Music still emerging as a genre, Skrillex’s set at Outside Lands last weekend was probably the best free publicity the Identity Festival could ask for going into its return to...
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Interview: Derek Jameson Headlines San Jose Pride
San Jose native Derek Jameson is known for songs that fuse hard beats with naked emotion. One of the biggest weaknesses of club music is its tendency toward dehumanized, assembly-line blandness, but...
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Review: “Weird Al” Yankovic at Mountain Winery
If his show at Mountain Winery last night taught us anything, it’s that nobody has followed Weird Al’s career like Weird Al. The guy must have a hell of a clipping service, because he seems to have...
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Making Sense of This Weekend’s Rock the Bells
For five years running now, Rock the Bells has been the South Bay’s biggest rap show. It’s also the strangest megatour of the 21st century; since its debut in 2004, it’s reinvented itself almost every...
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Steve Caballero To Pay Tribute To Tony Sly; Memorial Fund Established
The death of No Use For A Name lead singer Tony Sly on July 31 left family, friends and fans stunned and grieving. At Sly’s funeral at St. Joseph Cathedral in San Jose, NOFX frontman Fat Mike, head of...
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E-40 Says City of Mountain View Kept Him From Performing at Shoreline Rock...
Last week we wrote about the fact that several homegrown Bay Area rappers, including E-40 and Too Short, were oddly absent from the Rock the Bells lineup at Shoreline over the weekend, despite the fact...
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Preview: Big Business at Blank Club
People listen to stoner rock for a lot of reasons, but not usually for the lyrics. But Big Business is no ordinary stoner band, as one might suspect with any band whose core members are also in the...
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Fall Concert Highlights in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley hosts a strong lineup of fall concerts with some of the biggest names in pop, indie rock and electronic music and the debut of SVSX. Wobbleland Aug. 31, 7pm; San Jose Civic; $50-$70....
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Ready to Die: Why Iggy And The Stooges Matter Now
Iggy And The Stooges could be playing oldies shows in Vegas or at the Mountain Winery like their contemporaries. Instead of reliving their glory days, the four-decade-old group is enjoying the peak of...
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The Lemonheads’ Evan Dando Weighs in on the Band’s Sweet-Sour Sound, Rumors...
“HEL-LLLLO?” says Evan Dando, his unmistakable husky voice filling my receiver. Then he calls to someone in the same room: “Am I talking into the right side of this thing?” On the other side of the...
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All Time Lou: A Look at Four Classic Lou Reed Live Releases
Probably the only person who would think that Lou Reed dying is funny would be Lou Reed himself. Best known for fairly humorless songs about mainlining heroin and shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather,...
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Morrissey to Open U.S. Tour in San Jose
Despite releasing his autobiography last year, Morrissey is more of mystery than ever. After climbing to rock icon status after only five years with the Smiths, he’s risen and fallen in the pop-culture...
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With New Music on the Way, Morrissey Starts Latest Tour in San Jose
“I NEVER liked Morrissey,” sang John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats once, “and I don’t like you.” That was on “Anti-Music Song,” one of Darnielle’s early four-track songs from the ’90s, but by 2002,...
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Review: Morrissey Opens Tour in San Jose, Fans Completely Freak Out
Did they just kill Morrissey? That’s what I’m thinking as I watch the craziest end to a concert I’ve ever seen in my life unfold. Moz, opening his 2014 tour at the San Jose Civic on Wednesday night,...
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Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker Bring California Love to BottleRock
Could there be a better act to play the uniquely Northern California festival BottleRock than Santa Cruz’s own Camper Van Beethoven, with their conjoined twin band Cracker in tow? After all, Camper is...
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Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Is Transcending Expectations
After Yaa Gyasi’s first novel, Homegoing, won a number of top awards, the book world might have expected a follow-up that would be similar to this sprawling piece of historical fiction, which traced a...
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Seized Up Open for Fear at the Ritz
Not long before he’d become frontman for the iconic Santa Cruz hardcore band Bl’ast, Clifford Dinsmore saw legendary punkers Fear play in San Francisco. This was almost a year before Fear and its...
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