Rob Zombie’s Halloween Hangman

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 2 months ago.]

Have fun playing!

Genre(s): Rockin' Things To Do

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My Last.fm graph

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 2 months ago.]

Last.fm users, create your own here: LastGraph

Genre(s): Rockin' Things To Do

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Top 5 Places to find out about upcoming shows

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 2 months ago.]

“Hard Rock Chick…how do you find out about all of the wonderful shows you go to?” Well, my dear readers, let me bestow some knowledge unto you.

iConcertCal: So it’s a bit odd to use- install the feature and then turn on the visualizer to use it. But- it’s the most personalized with the least amount of effort involved. It is, however, disheartening when Kelly Clarkson pops up as a recommendation just because you have 1 silly song in your music library. Shhhh…..

Last.fm: One step up from iConcertCal, this one will recommend music and shows to you based on what you are listening to- thus you can find out about new artists. You can also see what upcoming shows are popular in your area, and what people are saying about them. I also like it because it will show me a history of everything I have been too. Good thing it doesn’t show me the amount of money I spent doing it…

JamBase: The most extensive in listing everything available on a given day. Beyond that, it’s not very useful.

Venue/Ticket site alerts/emails: Sign up for alerts or emails from your favorite venues or everyone’s least favorite ticket site, Ticketmaster. This is the best way to avoid missing out on on sale times.

And last but not least…moi. Check out my weekly Wednesday show recommendations and ticket sales alerts- where I’ve filtered through all of these sources and done the legwork for you!

Honerable Mention: TechCrunch posted about a new site called Songkick. We’ll see how it works for me.

Genre(s): Top 5

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Fool’s Gold Tour: Kavinsky, Kid Sister, A-Trak, DJ Mehdi, Peanut Butter Wolf @ The Roxy, 10/19/07

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 2 months ago.]

It is only appropriate that we see the Fool’s Gold Tour during a trip to LA- the city of many fake things that somehow seem to have value. While I admit that I have a head full of LA stereotypes, it is the place I very well should call home. It’s full of rock ‘n roll and sunshine.

It’s my first trip to the Sunset Strip, and to the famous Roxy. While I have from time to time complained of feeling old at SF shows, nothing can compare to white hip-hop night at the all ages Roxy. The people watching began as we waited a long time at Will Call for this sold out show.

It’s my friend’s birthday, so we start off the night with 2 shots of Patron and 2 Coronas. That’ll be $40, thank you. I was so pissed that it took me several more shots to get over this. Perhaps the drinks cost so much because they are letting underage people drink there? The tiny stamp they put on your hand was never used by the bartender.

Peanut Butter Wolf starts the night off with his Mike Relm-esque DVD scratching early ‘90s hip hop showcase. Everyone is excited as soon as they see a second of the classic videos for songs- from TLC to 2 Live Crew, Technotronic to Bel Biv Devoe. How do these kids that weren’t even born you know all of these videos? I didn’t know some of them, and I watched a lot of MTV and BET back in the day. It was a really fun nostalgic set. There were some unexpected things thrown in there- like a very early Cure song and the currently overplayed Daft Punk.

Next was Kid Sister with her high energy set. The tiny Lil’ Kim meets M.I.A. up and comer pulls off some fantastic dance moves, girly lyrics, and early ‘90s style with some grown up and heavier than expected beats. She’s been gaining steam with the Kanye West guest appearance on her album, and a large MySpace following. Her obscenely long fake nails are her trademark, and she waved them proudly in the air. She really knows how to handle a crowd.

The later half of the show was definitely different as it was straight DJs and became more of a club atmosphere. A-Trak and DJ Mehdi set up next to eachother, and played a high energy hip hop and techno set that caused a dancing frenzy. A la Girl Talk, the stage filled up with crazy dancers, blocking the view of the DJs from us slightly more well behaved audience members. In a testament to the strange hybrid of things going on in the club, there were crowd surfers and Mohawks. This was causing me to have an existential identity crisis. The one mixed media component of this set was the cardboard likenesses that kept popping up of the DJs, like they were giving speeches for an election through their sets.

Kavinsky ended the evening, with a Justice and Daft Punk heavy set. Thankfully he played the awesome Killing in the Name of RATM track that I heard at Daft Punk. By this time, everyone was sweaty, drunk, and wound up- and Kavinsky delivered a perfectly balanced set. He ended the night by joining in on the crowd surfing.

To cap off the party atmosphere, the DJs and Kid Sister came and chatted and took pictures with the crowd. We had to be swept out of the club, as if proving that we may be older, but we can hang to the end with the rest of the youngin’s.

P.S. Very interesting fashion…

Genre(s): Live and In The Flesh

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Just announced: Tool!

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 2 months ago.]

Finally- I will be able to cross them off my list. Tool is coming to Bill Graham Civic on December 11th.

Genre(s): Just Announced

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rockin’ you soon

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 2 months ago.]

On sale Sunday @ 10am:

ZZ Top @ The Warfield, 11/4/07

also that weekend, Trail of Dead and Dethklok will be playing at UC Berkeley on Nov. 2nd

Genre(s): Rockin' You Soon

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rock out SF

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 2 months ago.]

Thursday/Oct. 18: Control Release Party
Friday/Oct. 19: The Fiery Furnaces @ The Independent
Saturday/Oct. 20: Fool’s Gold Tour @ Mezzanine
Sunday/Oct. 21: T.S.O.L @ Slim’s
Monday/Oct. 22: The Pogues @ The Fillmore
Tuesday/Oct. 23: Bodog Battle of the Bands @ 12 Galaxies
Wednesday/Oct. 24: Autolux @ The Warfield

Genre(s): Rock Out SF

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MusicPortl

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 2 months ago.]

Most music blog aggregators focus on mp3 blogs. Free mp3s are great and all, but there’s finally one that covers more. MusicPortl scours the web for a wide variety of info sources on the artist of interest. Then it makes a page full of the info.

Genre(s): Rockin' Sites

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Top 5 Tribute Bands

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 2 months ago.]

AC/DSHE

Mini Kiss

Evolution (Journey)

Lez Zeppelin

Excercise One (Joy Division)

Genre(s): Top 5

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In the beginning…GWAR

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 2 months ago.]

Circa 1985

Genre(s): In the beginning...

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