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On the Road to Coachella, Dum Dum Girls Create Era-defying Pop Colored by...
It’s a new album and a new start for Dee Dee Penny and her brainchild the Dum Dum Girls. Though it’s fair to say that each of her three albums has been its own departure, 2010’s I Will Be introduced...
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Skate-punk Band the Faction Reunites at the Blank Club This Week
Skate-punk wasn’t just another hyphenate subgenre of good, old early ’80s punk rock; it was made by skaters, for skaters. In fact, San Jose’s the Faction, who formed in 1983 as part of the first wave...
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Joan and the Rivers: United by Music, Pizza and Beer
Some bands’ sounds are fueled by past loves and worldly turmoil, others by pizza and beer. Joan and the Rivers are an experimental three-piece rock band from San Jose—and a trio of kindred spirits....
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Strata Returns to the Stage at Blank Club This Weekend
When a band calling itself Day Maker played at last month’s So Long San Jose Skate event, band members didn’t announce who they were, or that it was their first show together in seven years—or that...
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Buzzworthy Locals Fritz Montana Play Blank Club
Many bands plug away for years, playing house parties, clubs and smaller halls before they ever reach a stage inside an arena, assuming they even reach such a stage at all. But the South Bay-bred...
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Scissors For Lefty Return From Break, Bring New Album, ‘Bangs & Lashes,’ To...
San Francisco’s campy glam-poppers, Scissors For Lefty, may have been under the radar for the past six years but to say the group took a “break” isn’t entirely accurate. Since the band’s last EP,...
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All Female Ramones Cover Band, The Hormones, Play Benefit Show For Local...
The Hormones, a Bay Area-based all-female Ramones tribute band, headlined The Blank Club this weekend. The benefit concert was held to raise funds for local Roller Derby teams. Metro photographer Greg...
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Seattle Electro-Pop Trio NTNT Come To Blank Club
Ever since he was a boy, Dustin Brown has understood that music is his calling. And though he struggled with formal lessons in his youth, it is clear that he has found his voice as the frontman of...
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Blank Club Owner Shutting Venue, Opening New, Unnamed Rock Club In SoFA District
Last week, as soon as I saw Corey O’Brien standing on the southeast corner of First and San Salvador—right outside the former F/X The Club—I knew what was happening. Through the open doors workers...
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Happy Body Slow Brain To Play Blank Club
Fresh off a plane from New York City, Matt Fazzi of the locally bred Happy Body Slow Brain, says it’s good to be home for the holidays. Though he now lives in Queens, NYC, Fazzi grew up in San Jose and...
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