Outlined or off the cuff: Why both kinds of albums hold equal merit
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While one sort of album isn’t more effective than the other, both planned and unplanned albums each provide drastically different productions of music.
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The Ins and Outs of Outside Lands 2018
Friday was so cold that The Weeknd could hardly feel his face, while Saturday left fans with sunburns that rivaled the red of Florence Welch’s iconic hair.
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Editor’s Note: Outside Lands 2018
With a decade under its belt, Outside Lands 2018 knew what it was doing — repeating multiple artists from its first lineup while also finally managing to have female headliners.
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Beck fights indie rock’s diminishing presence at Outside Lands
Friday night’s headlining slot set an R&B sex symbol against a man best known for robbing Beyoncé of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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Ripe brings joy to dance floors, as Boston 7-piece stays primed for picking
“Joy In The Wild Unknown” is an apt name for the debut LP by Ripe, a band that posits exuberant dance energy as the foundational basis for its music.
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Music and the moon: A playlist for the solar eclipse
To make your eclipse experience that much better, we at the Clog have composed a playlist full of songs to compliment this rare event. Get ready to jam out and have your jaw drop.
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First City Festival shines in Monterey
Monterey in the ’60s was well-known for a three-day music festival. Jimi Hendrix performed, as did the Who and Janis Joplin. This Woodstock-of-the-West experience continues today in the scenic coastal town with First City Festival, a two-day music festival boasting a well-curated lineup, an old-school carnival and even a swamp
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Beck’s ‘Morning Phase’ album dawns with old influences
By this point in his 12-album, 21-year recording career, Beck has been called a lot of things — but never truly “consistent.” Since rising out of the primordial soup of early ’90s anti-folk, he has deftly shown himself to be a Jack of all genres, dabbling with similar proportions in
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Clever Covers: Beck Reimagines Bowie
If you read my last post about The Piano Guys, you saw how two ambitious musicians worked together to cover popular tunes on a small scale, using nothing more than a piano and cello. Today, we take a 180 degree turn — and talk about a cover tune on the
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Inside Outside Lands: 2012 Recap
They came. They saw. They most likely got cold due to all the fog. Our arts staff, Sarah Burke, David Bradford and Ian Birnam recap the best of Outside Lands 2012. Passion Pit Passion Pit played just as the sun was setting. Behind them glowed the orange and pink watercolor
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