Talib Kweli's Idle Warship Comes to Pagoda

February 10, 2012 - by Aaron Carnes

Idle Warship plays the Pagoda Lounge in San Jose on Saturday, Feb. 11.

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Here's how you know you've made it in the music business: You've stayed strong for three decades on your own terms, on your own time, by your own rules, and over that time your influence has only grown.

It's a needless chore attempting to count the number of bands Ray Stevens II has been in. There are just too many. He's most famous for being a part of the legendary early '80s San Jose skate punk bands Los Olvidados and The Faction.

Braaaaaains! And bathing suits? Combining elements of rock, funk and hip hop, Zombie Pool Party gets funky fresh and is the perfect band to perform when the place looks dead.

Join SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery as they host a Rock Hop evening with Picture Atlantic, Dogcatcher, Briertone, and Girl Named T.

The first annual Rockage festival is a first-of-its-type mashup of cutting-edge underground music and hardcore gaming culture, featuring 20 bands over two days, and non-stop free play for an encyclopedic array of classic video games.

Some of the centerfold DJs try to downplay their pin-up years in a bid to be taken seriously. Roxanne Dawn is having none of that. After modeling for Playboy, she got her start as a professional DJ at a Playboy party.

Location to be announced. Inspired by San Francisco's The Great Pillow Fight, playful citizens of San Jose will be holding a mass pillow fight at high noon on the Sunday before Valentine's Day.

Ska isn't quite the force it was in the late '90s, when it dominated alternative airwaves with frustrating insistence, but the benefit of the ska bubble bursting is that it separated the two-stepping lifers from the pretenders.

Amidst a haze of sepia-tinged delirium, the swirling reverb-cloaked concoctions of Toronto, Canada's Memoryhouse exist to soundtrack the indelible moments residing in the obscure backrooms of memory.

Groove to the smooth sounds of an Valentines oldies lineup: Jersey City's finest, Grammy-winning The Manhattans, 60's favorites The Intruders and The Persuaders, along with soul music icon Gene Chandler, brown-eyed soul pioneers The Midniters, Latino soul group Tierra, Motor City's The Originals, and Eddie Holman.

The Branham Lounge brings you Whiskey Wednesdays, every Wednesday. Enjoy an extended happy our on whiskey, including $3 Dickel's Whiskey, $5 Jack Daniels, $5 Jim Beam, and deals on all of our Whiskey. Featuring DJ Clint Westwood of the Whiskey Avengers, Language Arts Crew, Trashkannon, and Insolence.

The group disbanded 1997, only to reform in 2002 and have released two albums since. Prong, while generally left off of the pop charts, has been cited as an influence by many top acts such as Korn, Demon Hunter, and Nine Inch Nails.

San Jose Bike Party is a unique South Bay experience that draws thousands of bicyclists out for a night of bicycling in San Jose and beyond. Each monthly ride features a different theme, starting location and route.

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Music & Clubs

Madonna Adds Second HP Pavilion Concert

Feb 10, 2012 by Matt Crawford
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Promoters are preparing for a high turnout for Madonna’s just-announced world tour. A second concert at HP Pavilion was announced today. Madonna will perform October 6 and October 7 at HP Pavilion. Tickets for both shows go on sale Monday, February 13. The first concert was announced Tuesday amid controversy from M.I.A.’s… » Read More

Japantown Beer Walk Makes its Debut Saturday

Feb 10, 2012 by Tomek Mackowiak
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Fifteen breweries will present seasonal offerings, along with classic beers from Japan, at the first Japantown Beer Walk is this Saturday, February 11th. The Japantown Beer Walk is the brainchild of Jack’s Bar owner Jordan Trigg and his events coordinator Charlie Mann, the Beer Walk grew out of Win Walk and it’s… » Read More

Talib Kweli and Res of Idle Warship to Sign at Streetlight

Feb 10, 2012 by Steve Palopoli
Idle Warship will sign autographs at Streetlight Records at 4:30pm Saturday.

Before they play the Pagoda Lounge Saturday night, Talib Kweli and Res of the duo Idle Warship will drop by Streetlight Records in San Jose to sign autographs. The pair’s performance is one of the most anticipated so far this year in the South Bay, thanks to Kweli’s longtime cred in the… » Read More

Movies

Oscar Nominated Short Films

Feb 9, 2012 - by Richard Von Busack

For the Oscar-betting pool on Animated Short Subjects: Note that the big nomina-tions went to retro films (Hugo, The Artist and so on). Thus Moonbat Studios, creators of "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," should be clearing some mantelpiece space. This computer-animated nonesuch opens with nods to the storm scene in Steamboat Bill, Jr., in which the straw-hatted hero is transported to an Oz-like land of living books. » Read More

Albert Nobbs

Feb 2, 2012 - by Richard Von Busack

Based on a George Moore novella, Albert Nobbs has some pluses. It's plausible-ultimately, it's a story of the kind of thing that used to happen all the time. It's a well-staged and beautifully costumed re-creation of 1898 Dublin for Ulysses-philes to daydream over; the silhouettes of women walking the flat sands next to the surf make one think of Gerty MacDowell. » Read More

Cinequest Preview

Feb 1, 2012 - by Richard Von Busack

The Cinequest year never ends. Director Halfdan Hussey tells me that the 22nd edition of the film festival, coming to San Jose Feb. 28-March 11, will once again bring a world of cinema, fans and moviemakers downtown. "Literally, the whole last year was spent working with the team," Hussey says. "The postmortems start in late March, we have a week to wrap it up, and then we're and off and running for the next year. » Read More

The Arts

Walker Evans Photographs

Feb 8, 2012 - by Richard Von Busack

Walker Evans' indelible photos of the Depression have acquired a nostalgia factor, a cruel thing to happen to work made in protest. Today, the pictures of pine-walled cabins and farmers of seemingly untouchable integrity hit you like a Johnny Cash song. The fascination has to be something more than a longing for purity, orderliness and hand-made objects » Read More

South First Fridays Art Walk Preview

Feb 2, 2012 - by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon

South First Fridays Art Walk makes its 2012 debut in the SoFA district with a mix of contemporary and traditional artwork, live music and other entertainment. Several downtown San Jose galleries and businesses open their doors to the public for free during the evening event that starts at 7pm Friday. » Read More

Features & Columns

What's All the BuzzFeed About Jonah Peretti?

Feb 2, 2012 - by Adrianne Jeffries

Jonah Peretti's office has two glass walls, two white walls and no decoration except for a giant, multicolored rectangle, with blue and violet hues fading upward and coalescing into a tight little rainbow wheel at the top. The artist Cory Archangel, a friend of Peretti's, makes these "gradient paintings" with one click in Photoshop, blows them up and sells them for lots of money, Peretti said. It is, in his words, "kind of a joke." » Read More

'Obey Your Master' art show at Exhibit A Gallery

Feb 8, 2012 - by Gary Singh

Whenever he roams, the anti-man-about-town seems to wind up in revelatory situations that directly relate to his teenage San Jose memories. No matter what lies buried and repressed within his personal unconscious, it always comes back. This time he attended the "Obey Your Master" art show at Exhibit A Gallery, an exhibit of work inspired by Metallica songs. » Read More

San Jose Eases up on Medical Marijuana

Feb 2, 2012 - by Josh Koehn

Call it a white flag or common sense, the city of San Jose has given up on trying to establish a revised medical marijuana ordinance. Mayor Chuck Reed put out a memo last week calling on the city to rescind its ordinance after a successful referendum effort delayed implementation of a regulatory programby the city. » Read More

I Saw You

Feb 1, 2012 - by Anonymous

I saw you yet again, packing your child into the car. Every day, you drive your child three blocks to school. Originally, I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you were dropping him off on the way to work, or maybe one of you has a physical condition. » Read More

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