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Nick Veronin on October 4, 2018
After a rough day at work, when the news cycle makes you want to punch someone in the face, there’s nothing quite like the cathartic power of punk rock. That’s where Vitamin X come in. This quartet of crazy Dutchmen has been blowing out speakers and inspiring circle pits for two decades…
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Wallace Baine on October 4, 2018
Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza… Yeah, they’re cool and all. But you could almost buy a decent car for what it takes to get in the gates at these festivals. On the other hand, admission to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass—which gives you more than 80 top-flight acts in Americana, country, rock, bluegrass and blues in…
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Wallace Baine on October 4, 2018
If you’re suffering a bit from seen-it-all ennui on the live music front, we just might have the antidote. The sounds of Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha are likely novel to most Western ears. Starting from a foundation of Ukrainian folk music, the one-man, three-woman group throws in all kinds of musical textures from…
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Carissa Kauwell on October 4, 2018
Indulge your senses by attending the U.S. premiere of Dystopian Dream at Stanford. This memorizing performance features contemporary dance paired with choreography, live theater and music, and encompassess themes of loss, isolation, surrender and continuity. Composer Nitin Sawhney collaborated with international hip-hop duo Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez to create this new…
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I never thought it would get to this point, but here we are. You’ve gone full MAGA and—dare I say—borderline Nazi. The signs were there. When you were discharged from the Marines, you had some white supremacist symbols branded into your skin. But then you went to therapy, learned how to keep…
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Bill Kopp on September 27, 2018
If Deep Purple had done nothing more than record “Smoke on the Water,” the band would have earned a place of honor in rock history. Though the riff-based classic (with a true-story lyric about a fire at a Montreux, Switzerland concert venue) has become a cliche among musicians and fans alike, there’s…
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Nick Veronin on September 27, 2018
Because he’s polite, Andrew Savage obliges and dutifully answers the question he’s been asked many times before during this most recent cycle of interviews. The singer and songwriter for New York based art-punk-ramshackle-rockers Parquet Courts explains that he and his bandmates connected with producer Brian Burton—a.k.a. Danger Mouse—after Burton reached out to…
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Pop punk aficionados, rejoice. Chicago’s Fall Out Boy is coming to town following the release of Mania, their highly anticipated seventh studio album. Mania is the fourth album Fall Out Boy has sent to the top of the Billboard 200 chart, and the supporting tour features special guests Machine Gun Kelly and…
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Julia Canavese on September 27, 2018
To say that Beyoncé and Jay Z are a power couple is a stadium-sized understatement. Each with over 20 Grammy Awards to their name, together they have sizzled across stages, studio albums and social media feeds. Their On the Run II tour will bring spectacle and complicated love into focus at Levi’s…
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Wallace Baine on September 27, 2018
Some people don’t need an excuse to wander into Willow Glen’s most infamous dive bar. But if the Willow Den isn’t already a part of your daily routine, you might want to stick your head in for this rowdy Saturday-night party, sponsored by the awesome Latina women’s social club, Las Bandidas. Live…
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