Come taste the bands: My musical evolution
Music became a way for me to sort out my emotions and my identity — and what better way than to wax poetic with classic rock?
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Greta Van Fleet lives up to its reputation at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Greta Van Fleet clearly has some talent when it comes to both performance and musicianship even if lacking in authenticity and originality.
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Greta Van Fleet gives hard rock howl on ‘Anthem Of The Peaceful Army’
Six years since its forming, Greta Van Fleet is finally breaking the hard rock scene with debut full-length album Anthem Of The Peaceful Army. Its first two EPs were released last year, but this 11-song compilation contains a deeper look into the hard Americana rock base of the group.
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Sisterhood: A playlist
Cutting Room Floor
Most of my adolescence was defined by a deep delve into music of the late-20th century, music that I considered to be the basis of pop culture as I knew it.
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California kaleidoscope
“Elsewhere” — the concept was perhaps only a figment of my green imagination, but it often stemmed from thoughts I couldn’t help thinking.
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The Soundtrack of My Childhood
Cutting Room Floor
I found out on the train ride home from Lake Tahoe, where I had spent the weekend. In honor of him, I listened to his music on shuffle, old and new, Highway Companion to Damn the Torpedoes, and watched golden fields of fried grass and stark black cows run past my window. “Square One” consoled me as I traced streams into orange forests. “Rebels” scored the train’s trek across a Sacramento bridge. Tom Petty was dead, and I wasn’t crying. I was remembering.
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Back to his place
(In)secure
Friday night found me, as it often does, at a fraternity house. The room smelled like sweat and cheap alcohol, and the floors were sticky with Keystone Light. Across the room from a table littered with empty Solo cups, the two of us swayed our hips next to each other
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Festival dispatch: BottleRock in Napa Valley
BottleRock, Napa Valley’s young addition to the California music festival scene, took place May 29-31. Now in its third year, BottleRock remains utterly unpretentious, catering to an older demographic and to families. The absence of twentysomething music snobs was rather relaxing. Instead, the feeling of a slightly bourgeois suburban family
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OK Go take tomfoolery to stage, claim Slytherin in San Francisco performance
As an experience that is equal parts aural and visual, OK Go’s show at the Warfield on Saturday night testified to the characteristic balls-out decadence behind the group’s DIY anti-minimalist vibes. Even before descending upon the ravenous crowd, the pregame frenzy catalyst — which came in the form of a
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ArCATypes: A critical analysis of the Bieb’s sagging pants
I’ve been thinking a lot about this strange hybrid creature I like to call the Celebrity Mocker, which combines mocking celebrity with being celebrity. I know, right?
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