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Dw. Dunphy
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The co-founder of Pink Floyd offers bombast and protest during Philadelphia tour’s opening night.
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Annie Zaleski
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We had the chance to see Franz Ferdinand’s current U.S. tour. Here’s our review!
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Thierry Côté
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It is easy in the post-rickrolling era to forget the level of popularity that Rick Astley achieved during his late-1980s peak. With 40 million records sold, 8 UK and 5 US…
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Thierry Côté
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Back in 2009, when Maxwell’s critically acclaimed BLACKsummer’snight marked the singer’s return following an eight-year hiatus from the music industry and served notice that he remained a stunningly singular creative…
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Thierry Côté
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Flow 93.5 has long been Toronto’s pre-eminent R&B/hip-hop radio station, but in recent years it has begun to tweak its format to move away from contemporary/Top 40 hits in favour…
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Ted Asregadoo
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Rush’s busts out the deep cuts in a 40 year retrospective concert.
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Thierry Côté
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For a group that once loudly and proudly proclaimed that they were reapplying for the job of best band in the world, U2 have faced their share of humbling challenges…
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Annie Zaleski
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Lloyd Cole is the type of songwriter who incites travel, perhaps because he himself is nomadic and restless–a musical omnivore who’s traversed sparse folk, Velvet Underground-esque rock, electronica and dour jangle-pop (to…
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Thierry Côté
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Nearly a decade removed from Ryan Adams’s most prolific year, when he released three full-lengths over seven months (while leaving countless other recordings in the vaults), it can often seem a…
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Matt Wardlaw
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Kenny Loggins and the Blue Sky Riders returned to Cleveland. We were there.
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Angela Zimmerman
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Outside Lands came and went last weekend, blowing in and out of the Golden Gate Park with the signature stomp, rock, and dazzle that’s it’s become equanimous with since Another…
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Angela Zimmerman
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High Sierra Music Festival is easily one of the happiest places on earth. People return year after year (after year). They bring their kids. They fill up inflatable pools. They…
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Chris Holmes
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The only thing I experienced last night that was more intense than Tomahawk was the near-Biblical thunderstorm I drove through on the way home.
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Scott Malchus
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The Gaslight Anthem and a 1200 of their dedicated fans came to the Ventura Theater for a two-hour show of righteous music from the Jersey band.
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Angela Zimmerman
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Alt-J (so named for the neato triangle you can make using your keyboard—∆) headlined a sold-out show at the Fillmore the other night. The band got together in 2007 at…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Les Claypool is truly a singular artist. He’s transcended his various projects over the decades to become a sound, a style, a genre, all his own. When Primus was signed…
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Dan Wiencek
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A Silent Film talks about America, having fun onstage and rattlesnakes. (Not in that order.)
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Annie Zaleski
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Midge Ure has engendered quite a bit of goodwill over the years, thanks to a long musical career spanning myriad genres. In the 70s and 80s alone, the Scotland native…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Partying for three days straight in single digit temperatures? Who wouldn’t be at least a wee bit trepidatious about uncomfortable at best, unbearable at worst, conditions for a music festival?…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Just before Christmas, the Motet lit up a little pocket of San Francisco, bringing a much-needed boost of merriment to a holiday season that felt to me more sad and…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Only Leonard Cohen could transform a space as impersonal and corporately stamped as the HP Pavilion into a dazzling concert hall on a tired Wednesday night. Suburban yuppies filed in…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Last week, Woods had the honor of being among the first bands to play San Francisco’s newest venue: The West Coast outpost of New Orleans’ legendary Preservation Jazz Hall. “The…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Most people even a little familiar with indie rock know the story of Jeff Mangum. As the man behind Neutral Milk Hotel, one of the 90s more brilliant and original…
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Angela Zimmerman
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The Polyphonic Spree have only released three full-length studio albums in the 12 years since their inception, but I don’t think that relatively limited output has in any way impeded…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Beats Antique pulled out some special treats for their sold-out show at Oakland’s Fox Theater this past weekend. The glitz, glamour, and expansive performance could be credited in part to…
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Angela Zimmerman
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The Pimps of Joytime lit up Divisadero Street in San Francisco this past weekend, playing back-to-back sold-out shows at the pristine sounding Independent and giving all the patrons in attendance…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Earlier this week, I saw Iggy Pop and the Stooges perform live at the Warfield to an audience of about 2,000 people. The band was supposed to swing through San…
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