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Motorhead

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Cult icon and head of the world’s loudest band, Lemmy brings Motorhead to the San Jose State Event Center Thursday

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Kreayshawn

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Bay Area Performer Kreayshawn spoofs the very idea of 15 minutes of fame at Studio 8 this weekend

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Chris Pounders Films With David Lynch, Advances in Battle of the Bands

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The vocalist and guitarist of San Jose pop-punk band Pounders—which won a round of the Battle of the Bands at 9 Lives in Gilroy last week, and will compete in the semi-finals in March—has had his hawk for a few years now.

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Talib Kweli comes to Pagoda

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Doing the unexpected is nothing new for Talib Kweli and Res, the duo behind alternative R&B/hip hop group Idle Warship, which comes to Pagoda Lounge in San Jose on Saturday.

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Dibiase Guests at Treatment Club Night

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SoCal producer prodigy Dibiase remembers when L.A. became a beat mecca in 2005. Flipping his own first beats as a teenager growing up in Watts, he wasn’t too long out of high school when he started getting invited to events like Sketchbook.

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John Doe Brings Punk Idealism to Redwood City

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John Doe performs at Club Fox in Redwood City on Thursday, Feb. 2.

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Wilco

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A lot of rock stars want to be outlaws, but their heroes are tragic cowboys; Wilco's Jeff Tweedy was almost one of those country-rock train wrecks.

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Dan P and the Bricks

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Third-wave ska legends Dan Potthast of MU330 and Slow Gherkin thought they had put skanking behind them years ago. But it all came back to them in 2009, when Potthast joined up with four ex-Gherkin members and his fellow MU330 bandmate Matt Knobbe to form Dan P and the Bricks

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Contra Ville

San Jose's Contra Ville embraces the mismatch of styles known as jazz/indie/rock.

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Swagger Like Us

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Wallpaper breaks big with hip-hop humor, and Ricky Reed gets real.

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Maceo Parker

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Maceo Parker has played with some of the most iconic and eccentric personalities in music history

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Punk as Folk

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Satire is no joke for the weirdsters of Bobby Joe Ebola

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Language Arts Crew

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The crew's kicks off its new album this Saturday at the Blank Club in San Jose.

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Hidden Shane

Morgan Hill's Shane Dwight returns from Nashville for NYE with his best and most personal album yet

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Gill Life

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San Jose's Gillbillies add a dose of outlaw chic to surf-rock genre

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Bragging Rights

Why hip-hop needs Jay-Z and Kanye West's epic spectacle

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94.7 Wild Jam

If you're looking to get game-day conditioning for New Year's Eve, 94.9's Wild Jam live show has proved to be an adequate annual training ground

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Kottonmouth Kings

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Stoner-rap-rockers Kottonmouth Kings have switched gears completely, putting out all their music on their own label

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Hop and Roll

Please Do Not Fight positions their holiday Rock Hop as the local alternative to Not So Silent Night

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Gift Therapy

Ah, Nevermind. Although the Pixies’ Trompe le Monde, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ BloodSugarSexMagik and A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory were all released on the same day in 1991 as Nirvana’s breakthrough album, only Nevermind received the 20th-anniversary box-set treatment this year.

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