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Jay Edgar on October 20, 2021
Seven years out from Salad Days, and we’re still living in Mac DeMarco’s world. The Canadian normcore icon’s lazy, stoney guitar and fat, cloudy synths on record captivated a generation of hipsters, stoners and dirtbags, and this weekend he’s heading to Stanford to put the next generation of hipsters, stoners and dirtbags—er,…
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Mat Weir on October 6, 2021
After 19 years together, a band can go through a lot of changes. Over the past two decades, LA punks The Bronx went from indie stars to a major label only to go independent again. They’ve lost members, gained a couple more and even started a mariachi side project—Mariachi El Bronx—that has…
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Katie Lauer on September 29, 2021
Fans will have less than 24 hours to soak in the new Brandi Carlile album In These Silent Days before the singer-songwriter takes the stage on Friday, but if lead single “Right on Time” is any proof, it’ll be another country-pop-rock powerhouse of cathartic high notes and comforting lows. A virtuoso at…
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Jay Edgar on August 18, 2021
Perhaps best known for the mid-aughts mega club hit “Changes” featuring the consummate British dance singer Laura V, Chris Lake has proven adept at churning out absolute club bangers and elevating up-and-coming musical talent. Spinning a breezy, highly accessible vision of house music, Lake has several charting club hits and a Grammy-nominated…
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Mike Huguenor on July 7, 2021
In just a few short years, Oakland musician Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, aka Fantastic Negrito, went from busking in a San Francisco BART station to collecting his first, second and then third Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Among other accomplishments, surely 2020’s Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? was the first Best…
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Conor Agnew on October 9, 2019
Bob Dylan, arguably the greatest songwriter of all time, is fast approaching the sixth decade of his career. In the ’60s and ’70s he was a folk balladeer, an obnoxious rock & roll revolutionary and everything in between. In the ’80s and ’90s he was hit or miss. But at the end…
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Matei Predescu on July 11, 2019
Odesza’s arrival at the newly renovated Frost Amphitheatre on Stanford’s campus will showcase the venue’s newly minted facilities and frame the duo’s versatile approach to electronic music. Their use of provocative samples and unconventional production combined with pop-influenced singer-songwriting elements blurs the boundaries between house, techno, electronica and indie rock. The Seattle-based…
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