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Jennifer Wadsworth on August 28, 2013
Touted as Dave Chappelle’s biggest comedy comeback since retreating from the white-hot spotlight of his eponymous Comedy Central show eight years ago, the 15-city Live Nation-Funny Or Die Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival will put the reclusive entertainer in front of some of the largest audiences in standup history.
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Ozzy Osbourne’s notorious drug-fueled career in 70s and 80s is the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll cliché—how is the guy still standing after more than 40 years? What isn’t cliché is the performance Black Sabbath delivered Monday night at a nearly sold out Shoreline Amphitheatre.
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After an 18-year break between studio albums, Black Sabbath did what’s expected for an aging iconic rock band looking for a comeback in 2013—they recruited super producer Rick Rubin to record their new album.
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The Mayhem Festival roared into Shoreline Amphitheatre on Sunday with a full day of metal and hardcore, headlined by Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Mastadon and more.
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Jennifer Wadsworth on June 25, 2013
The South Bay’s summer music lineup heats up this week with the arrival of the interesting mix of one of pop music’s biggest divas, tripped-out R&B and eardrum-blasting metal.
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While LL Cool J might not be knocking out hits like he did early in his career, the veteran emcee has orchestrated one of the biggest hip-hop shows of the summer concert season with the Kings of the Mic Tour, also featuring Ice Cube, Public Enemy and De La Soul.
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Aaron Carnes on May 15, 2013
Since 1994, LIVE 105’s BFD festival has been a staple for exposing new artists to the Bay Area. The Killers, Imagine Dragons, MGMT and Foster the People all played the festival before they were well known. Even AFI performed—on the local-band stage—well before they hit the national spotlight.
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Bob Dylan is back on the road this summer, this time with Wilco and My Morning Jacket coming along for a show billed as the “Americanarama Festival of Music.”
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Aaron Carnes on October 2, 2012
Like a whole generation of art-pop icons from the 1980s—Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Grace Slick—UK singer Florence Welch, who performs as Florence and the Machine at Shoreline on Oct. 5, strikes a delicate balance between tense, over-the-top theatrical rock and infectious, bread-and-butter pop hooks.
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Sean McCourt on September 26, 2012
Incorporating a host of musical styles and influences, such as reggae, rock, punk and hip-hop, the Dirty Heads produce a sound that evokes a vision of what one could imagine it’s like hanging out in their hometown of Huntington Beach on a breezy summer evening.
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