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Nick Veronin on May 29, 2019
Unlike the many thousands of Gen X-ers who were indoctrinated into the cult of Jerry by their blissed-out parents, John Mayer stumbled upon The Grateful Dead late in life. The story goes like this: In 2011, Mayer came across the Dead on Spotify. It changed his life, man… Several years later, in…
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Bill Kopp on October 5, 2018
If Black Sabbath didn’t single-handedly invent a particular kind of heavy rock, the Birmingham, England group certainly refined it. Beginning with the band’s self-titled 1970 debut, Black Sabbath proved itself as an exemplar of a bluesy, doom-laden and melodramatic kind of proto-metal.
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Mike Huguenor on September 19, 2018
It’s hard to imagine the last 20 years of music without the era-defining The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Winning five Grammy awards the year it was released, the first solo album by the ex-Fugees singer laid the groundwork for pan-African American albums like Kamasi Washington’s The Epic and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp…
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Estefany Gonzalez on September 6, 2018
Dave Matthews Band has been putting out top-notch jam rock for well over two decades. Combining ultra-dextrous musicianship with pop sensibility, the group has never dumbed down its songwriting to satisfy the masses. Rather, they found a way to bring everybody along for a proggy ride on tracks like “Satellite,” where mathy…
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Wallace Baine on August 4, 2018
It’s a been a long and often bizarre journey from the crunchy power pop of “Buddy Holly” to the perplexing, Twitter-prompted take on Toto’s “Africa”—but after 25 years of flying their dork flags high, Weezer is still belting out gooey vocal harmonies over cranked guitars. What’s more, this summer Rivers Cuomo and…
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Dominoe Ibarra on July 26, 2018
This year’s Endless Summer Tour is headlined by tour founder and Oakland emcee G-Eazy. He’ll be joined by Philadelphia trap star Lil Uzi Vert. Though the tour is slated to hit 32 cities as it makes its way across the country, this Mountain View stop is sure to be one of the…
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It’s hard to say exactly what Halsey meant when she posted three emojis—a cloud, a tornado and a water droplet—on the Instagram of her recent ex-boyfriend, G-Eazy. Flirtation? Throwing shade? Perhaps she’ll clarify when she brings her Hopeless Fountain Kingdom Tour to Shoreline just two days before Gerald and Co. roll through…
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Nick Veronin on July 5, 2018
Some rock stars hate interviews and only reluctantly chat to the largest outlets after some serious badgering from their publicist. Others, like Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz, seem to genuinely enjoy chopping it up with strangers.
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Unlike the many thousands of Gen X-ers who were indoctrinated into the cult of the Jerry by their blissed-out parents, John Mayer stumbled upon the Grateful Dead later in life. The story goes like this: In 2011, Mayer came across the Dead on Spotify. It changed his life, man… Several years later,…
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Nick Veronin on June 21, 2018
Post Malone is coming to the Bay Area with special guests 21 Savage. While some critics have accused Postey of being an unabashed culture vulture, the man responsible for “White Iverson,” “Congratulations” and “Rockstar” has continued to rack up hits—and it’s not hard to understand why. Dude clearly has an ear for…
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