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Justin Tim-blah-lake
Music Stories Comments Mar 20, 2013 5:12pmJust because Justin Timberlake can make you giggle with his box-wrapped dick and is seemingly inhabited by the ghost of James Brown does not give him the goddamned right to hijack both the news...
Charity EP marks return of The Replacements
Music Stories Comments Mar 20, 2013 5:05pmBands of glory returning after years apart rarely equal the power they brought before. The more important the band, the truer that aphorism. Few bands were, and are, more important than The...
With a new EP and a new energy, The Clydesdale are rarin’ to go
Music Stories Comments Updated: Mar 27, 2013 3:36pmPaige Overton has sinus issues. Today, on her day off, every vowel has an accompanying -ng, every laugh morphs into a cough, every answer is shorter and rougher than the last. She sounds nothing like...
Two new Fremont venues bring an alternative to the alternative
Music Stories Comments Updated: Mar 20, 2013 4:16pmThe Griffin didn’t open with a red carpet. Insert Coins didn’t invite celebrity impersonators or Mini Me to its opening. And Beauty Bar likely didn’t introduce itself with a Vegas lounge band.But...
Someone Sent Us This: Various Artists, Cash For Clay
Music Stories Comments Mar 13, 2013 6:30pmVarious ArtistsCash For Clay (self-released)Cancer sucks. And so do the medical bills that go with it. Clay Heximer, drummer for The Mapes and local culture/history advocate, got hit hard when a...
Opening act worth shelling for: Miguel
Music Stories Comments Mar 13, 2013 6:06pmIf you’re like us, you find much of Alicia Keys’ catalog boring. But here’s one incentive to attend her show this week: slow-jam opener Miguel. Like Frank Ocean and Solange Knowles, Miguel paints his...
Review: New David Bowie album!
Music Stories Comments Mar 13, 2013 6:02pmDavid BowieThe Next Day (ISO/Columbia)For countless years, everyone has wanted the newest David Bowie album to be his return to form — to no avail. 2002’s Heathen was marketed as “classic Bowie” —...
Smells like teen spirit: Local rapper Ekoh figures out who he is
Music Stories Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2013 3:54pmIt’s 11 a.m. and there’s a reality show host and a Chippendale and an MMA fighter — and Jeff Thompson has no idea what he’s doing. He spends the first two hours of the afternoon dodging the eye of a...
Save Yayo Taco!
Music Stories Comments Mar 06, 2013 5:12pmThe Friday night after Yayo Taco’s announced closing, the venue, its patio and its parking lot were littered with kids out in support of the last legit all-ages music spot in the valley. The bar and...
@#&%!: Music acts with obnoxious punctuation
Music Stories Comments Mar 06, 2013 5:09pmImprov rock band Moe. is returning to the Hard Rock Cafe this week. It’s also one of several bands that obnoxiously punctuates its name. Other guilty parties:Panic! at the DiscoGodspeed You! Black...
