Tagged San Jose

Photo by Lily Ramus When I was 13 I ‘discovered’ rock music. The pop music in my iTunes library was replaced by darker and heavier punk rock, and my tights and dresses were swapped with band tees and bl...

There are very few bands I would take a solo trip on BART to San Jose on a Thursday night for. Scratch that--there’s definitely only one. Shannon and the Clams is by far the only band I could justify making a...

Set list: “To Be Alone“ by Hozier “Blame” by Kiva Uhuru I’ve seen Kiva Uhuru play in Berkeley a few times now, and almost every time they cover “To Be Alone” by Hozier. They cites this song...

Xiu Xiu, led by South Bay native and creative genius Jamie Stewart, are one of the most interesting, refreshing, consistently abrasive, and unpredictable bands this side of Death Grips. In some ways, they are t...

It felt as though this turn of events was just a pleasant dream, but as I awoke sprawled across a couch in San Jose with a memory card full of the best pictures I'd ever taken - I realized that I had not o...