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CHOICESS B CHOICE BY: Y: Aaron Carnes Amulya Datla Al Roberts Roberts Heather H eather Zimmerman
ETIENNE CHARLES
JONATHAN RICHMAN
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JONA JONATHAN ATH THAN RICHMAN RICHMA AN Café S Café Stritch, tritch, Sa San an Jose Wed, W ed, 8pm, $10
barely months, In bar ely six mo nths, CCafé afé SStritch tritch some incredible has hosted som me incr edible Theree wa was, shows. Ther as, of course, that infamous secret Builtt to Spill show, inf amous secr ett Buil show, theree have but then ther h also been alt-rock bands like al t-rock o heavyweights Grouplove, great Gr ouplove, jazz gr eat SSteve teve TTurre ur u re indie-darlings Veins. and indie-darlin indie darlin ngs Bad V eins eins. Up next: Jonath Jonathan an Richman, arguably who is ar guablyy one of the best performers alive—and perf ormers alive e—and legendary nfluence on punk in terms of his iinfluence rock/new rock/new wave via his ’70s band, around Modern Lovers. Lovers. But he’s he’s all ar ound scenes amazing. His sce enes in 1998’s Something Abou About ut Maryy are are so
good, they ar are re among the best moments in any of the Farley Brothers movies. Br others mov vies. Live, nowadays, it’s it ’s just him, his acoustic guitar, guitar, backed usually backe ed by TTommy ommy o Larkins on the cocktail cocktaail drum kit. He’s He’s endearing, hilarious, end dearing, suave and childlike just full of ch hildlike innocence that like may seem lik ke an act, but totally isn’t. (AC) isn ’t. (A C)
Jose, ending ending with a costume show.. The contest aand nd ffashion ashion show summer SStarlight tarlight Cinemas series closes also close es with this annual event, keeping and in kee eping with the theme, will screen scr een Zo Zombieland. ombieland. (AD)
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Blackbird T Blackbird Tavern avern a Wed, W ed, 9pm m $10-$15
South First S Street, treet, San Jose Wed W ed 5pm;; free frree
Blackbirdd TTavern aims to match its Blackbir avern a menu to its i live music; trumpeter bandleader Charles’’ and band leader Etienne Charles ffourth ourth release, release, Cr Creole eole Soul, is already already a musical ffeast east of its own. own The risingg star star,, a native of TTrindad, rrindad, builds on many influences inspir inspired ed by his isla island and rroots, oots, amping up the energy straightenergy g of R&B and str aightahead jazz from jazzz with rhythms fr om throughout throughout the CCaribbean. aribbean. (AR)
aree back to take over Zombies ar Downtown San S Jose with the rreturn eturn of thee annual Zombie-OZombie O kickss off Rama. This yyear ear the night kick with a ffair, air, complete coomplete with comic book selections, selectioons, food food trucks, trucks, prize booths and live music by Picture Atlantic. San Jose’s Jose’s Pi icture A tlantic. The Crawl from Zombie Cr aw wl then leaves fr om Goree P Park Gor ark at 6pm and makes its throughout way thr ough hout downtown San
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Chrom Chromatic matic Coff Coffee, ee, Santa Clar Claraa Thu, 6:30pm, 6 $5 Theree iiss something ter terrifying Ther rifying about the way way Vancouver, Vaancouverr, Canada’s Canada’s Lié approaches it’s appr oaaches punk rrock. ock.. Really it ’s more more ’80s of an ’8 80s post-punk trio,, though not strange quite aass str ange as some of those old bands. ItIt’s ’s just really really dark and really really scary. theree is a lot of ener energy scary y. And A ther gy in They’ree angry—as any those songs. s They’r good punk p band should be—but th lea the lleadd singer i just j t sounds d haunted, h td possessed possesssed even.. Her voice is heavily distorted. belts distorte ed. With each line she bel ts chords out,, it ssounds like her vocal chor ds aree abo about ar out to burst in flames.. In other words, pretty hard. wor ds,, Lié rrock ock pr etty damn har d. ItIt’s ’s powerful, powerf ful,, consuming, but stripped (AC) C) down to t the essence. (A
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Caffé S Café Stritch, tritch, San Jose Free Fri,, 8pm, Fr ee wheree the sublime If a place exists wher imagination children ima agination of childr en and the stark star rk rrealities ealities of adulthood adulthood coexist, soundtrack the soundtr ack for for this bizarre bizarre juxtaposition juxt taposition would be penned by Sann Francisco’s Francisco’s Foxtails Brigade. Lead singer sing ger Laura Laura Weinback Weinback channels the wide-eyed dreamy wid de-eyed de eyed dr eamy longings of a child, child perfect butt executes it with near perf ect operatic precision. ope eratic pr ecision. Her band is a phenomenal group phe enomenal chamber-pop gr oup with violins, viol ins,, drums and guitars that create create sweeping swe eeping emotional pieces, which, combined com mbined with Weinback’s Weinback’s descriptive lyrics, conjuree images of blanket fforts lyric cs,, conjur orts (AC) C) andd late night bedtime stories. (A