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Reviews: Daft Punk serves up real robot rock; Vampire Weekend matures and diversifies

Updated: May 17, 2013 2:19pm
Daft PunkRandom Access Memories (Columbia)Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of any given college...

Music institutions survival update

May 15, 2013 3:07pm
SLOW TO SURFACE: We had it pegged to survive the apocalypse. Sadly, the local rock...

Our FYF Fest spillover wishlist

May 15, 2013 3:07pm
Venue bookers and promoters: Take note of these acts playing FYF in late August, most of...

Cosmopolitan tops gay party spot expansion

May 15, 2013 3:07pm
Nightlife promoter Eduardo Cordova has been quiet the past year, waiting for the...

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Justin Tim-blah-lake

Mar 20, 2013 5:12pm
Just 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

Mar 20, 2013 5:05pm
Bands 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...
<p>The Clydesdale, from left, Jason Aragon, Courtney Carroll, Paige Overton and Andrew Karasa</p>

With a new EP and a new energy, The Clydesdale are rarin’ to go

Updated: Mar 27, 2013 3:36pm
Paige 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...
Louis Prima Jr. and the Witnesses perform at the Fremont Country Club at 601 Fremont St. PHOTO: BILL HUGHES

Two new Fremont venues bring an alternative to the alternative

Updated: Mar 20, 2013 4:16pm
The 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

Mar 13, 2013 6:30pm
Various 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

Mar 13, 2013 6:06pm
If 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!

Mar 13, 2013 6:02pm
David 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

Updated: Mar 13, 2013 3:54pm
It’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!

Mar 06, 2013 5:12pm
The 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

Mar 06, 2013 5:09pm
Improv 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...