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Fighting Jacks

San Jose melodic punk-pop combo Fighting Jacks shaped in 2000 around Casey Linstrum, Cory Linstrum, Mike Hoppe, and Mike Wright, who already had a brief history together as users from the ska-punk group Freeto Vessel. Soon after getting the Fighting with each other Jacks, the quartet documented and self-released Inside …

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Xiu Xiu

Acquiring their name from the 1998 Chinese film Xiu Xiu: The Delivered Down Girl, Xiu Xiu created in San Jose, California with Cory McCullough, Yvonne Chen (publisher from the indie zine Zum), Lauren Andrews, and Jamie Stewart. Before developing Xiu Xiu, McCullough and Stewart performed in the music group Ten …

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