Parquet Courts meets Talking Heads on new LP
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Sympathy for Life is the brisk walk to the sprint that was Wide Awake! and has some of the most David Byrne-friendly production of their catalogue.
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Pigeons Playing Ping Pong frontman Greg Ormont expresses love for fans, discusses big plans for future shows
It’s clear that Pigeons Playing Ping Pong prides itself on making each show different — an admirable quality. But the group knows its limits.
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Half Alive dazzles crowd with meticulous choreography, smooth music
With its eccentric, funk-inspired sound, lyrical prowess and well-crafted dance moves, Half Alive delivered an excellent show to the San Francisco masses.
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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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‘American Utopia’ is optimistic in intentions, falls in execution
With David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia,’ the legendary, musical powerhouse of the late 20th century returns with his first solo release in over a decade.
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‘20th Century Women’ paints intimate, personal portrait of women: An interview with writer-director Mike Mills
If writer-director Mike Mills’ last feature film, 2010’s “Beginners,” is a portrait of his father — who at 75 years old came out of the closet — then his newest film “20th Century Women” is a tribute to his mother, who admired President Jimmy Carter and wore clanking bracelets around the
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Tunesday: Spooky tunes
Though it seems like Berkeley’s full of Halloween spirit already — creepy clowns trolling the streets, hellish midterms all month — take the eerie autumnal mood to the next level by listening to these spooky tunes for this week’s Tunesday. “Psycho Killer” by Talking Heads A Talking Heads classic, “Psycho
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The Berkeley music scene: a breakdown from your summertime disc jockey
Sweaty from all of that commuting to and from your summer internship, job, classes or daily CREAM “appointment”? How about getting sweatier in a way that’s far more enjoyable than trying to cram onto a BART train during rush hour?
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Read Some Books: Music Edition
“Waging Heavy Peace” by Neil Young As an old man, Young is taking a look back at his life in his new autobiography. His tone is conversational and curt, and one doesn’t realize right away that it is Young writing until he opens a paragraph with, “I remember one day
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