Trumpeter and composer Peter Evans formed this group in 2017. They are experimental and fun, with a bucketload of influences and stylistic diversity. They also have an enjoyable light show. The sound is somewhere between experimental jazz and electronica—but accessible. …
Hip hop artist Gianna Farren will be performing in part of a series that includes an interview and artist meet and greet. Farren has a smooth, West Coast style where, according to her website, “ballsy bars collide with melodic vocals.” …
Washington DC-based pianist Vienna Teng is a Bay Area native raised in Saratoga, returning home to kick off her end-of-the-year tour dates. Born to Taiwanese immigrant parents, Teng began playing classical piano at age five but says she had a …
Tiffany Pollack has lived several lives. First, she was a foster daughter, then a teenage mother. At one point, she was even a mortician. However, after moving to New Orleans in 2005, Pollack got a taste for music and never …
Few knew what to expect when Robert Fripp reactivated the pioneering progressive rock band King Crimson in the ’80s. Between 1969 and 1975, the group went through a myriad of lineups and styles. But ’80s King Crimson fused complex polyrhythms …
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It’s tempting to call communication a lost art. But it wouldn’t be accurate. We’ve always been bad at it. These days it’s just more obvious.
In 1905, Henri Matisse painted wife Amélie in Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat). The tip of her nose is lemon yellow, the nostrils and bridge a mixture of grays and greens. Her face, hat and dress all form …
It’s been a decade since the arrival of “Take Me To Church,” the crossover hit single that made Hozier a worldwide star and established the native of Wicklow County in Ireland as a new artist to watch on the music …
The engine of the hospitality industry is powered by the youthful energy of its workforce, guided by the wisdom of the veterans, who call the shots and funnel talent into position.
Last week, Laurene Powell Jobs interviewed House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi on stage at the California Theatre in downtown San Jose. Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park sponsored the event.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
When Chai Met Toast, a gentle folk-pop band from Kerala, India, got their start in 2016 and began releasing singles the following year. The group’s accessible and cheery music is sung primarily in English, though more than a dozen singles …
A cool, post-hardcore/shoegaze revival is happening in the underground indie scene. Fell Off is a semi-newish alt band from Seattle that takes the city’s grunge history and infuses it with modern melody while keeping the long hair and ripped jeans …
Stockton native Chris Isaak soared to critical acclaim (if not commercial success) with his 1985 debut album, Silvertone. Some well-placed uses of his music (think Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet) brought Isaak’s music to a broader audience, enthralling them with …
Before embarking on a remarkably successful literary career, Australian novelist Liane Moriarty worked in advertising and marketing. However, she developed book-writing inclinations in the early millennium and pursued a master’s at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her first novel, Three …
Legendary guitarist, harp blower, vocalist and bandleader Andy Santana is a part of Bay Area music history. He’s started and employed most of the top blues acts in the South Bay, but now he’s ill and needs help from the …
Downtown Mountain View becomes a two-day amusement park for lovers of the arts. In addition to the spectacle of street painters decorating the asphalt along California Street between Castro and Hope, more than 400 artists and makers will display their …
While later audiences criticized the emergence of Baroque music as excessively dramatic, maudlin and insincerely emotional, the genre helped establish a Western musical tradition. Modern pop songs are written in a single key with full instrumentation because of innovations made …
