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The Hard Rock Chick Wants to Know: What’s your band’s New Year’s Resolution?  

by hardrockchick [about 2 years, 7 months ago.]

The new year tends to bring laundry lists of new year’s resolutions to us all. Of course, since January is almost over, they’ve all just about been broken.

I was wondering if band’s have new year’s resolutions, so I asked a few. And I realized that bands get to have much cooler resolutions than I do.

“…to drink more wine.”

Xu Xu Fang

“To drink more before passing out.”

Wired Desire

“Our new years resolution is to be a better band, better songs, better shows. To write an album that will be moving and cathartic. To play the East coast and to meet new people and indoctrinate them into our cult all before 2009 smacks in the collective kisser with it’s bear like paw.”

Ludicra

Genre(s): Interviews

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rockin’ you soon  

by hardrockchick [about 2 years, 7 months ago.]

On sale at 10am on Sunday:

Bob Schneider @ The Independent, 3/28

Blind Melon @ The Independent, 4/4

Saul Williams @ Slim’s

Genre(s): Rockin' You Soon

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rock out SF  

by hardrockchick [about 2 years, 7 months ago.]

thursday/january 31: autolux @ the independent **HRC SHOW**
friday/february 1: Peloton @ BOTH
saturday/february 2: hot challenge @ GAMH
sunday/february 3: Lyfe Jennings @ The Independent
monday/february 4: Black Mountain @ The Independent
tuesday/february 5: Velvet Revolver @ The Warfield **HRC Show**
wednesday/february 6: bella vista @ Rickshaw Stop

Genre(s): Rock Out SF

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myspace find: low sea roar  

by hardrockchick [about 2 years, 7 months ago.]

A local gem whose name comes from a Kerouac quote, Low Sea Roar is a 4 piece rock band. They have a female drummer- always a plus! Catch them on Feb. 13th at the Red Devil Lounge.

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Just Announced: Saul Williams @ Slim’s on 3/21/08  

by hardrockchick [about 2 years, 7 months ago.]

Finally!!!

saul williams

Genre(s): I just heard...

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myspace find: dead kids  

by hardrockchick [about 2 years, 7 months ago.]

The Dead Kids myspace kinda freaks me out. But then, their LCD Soundsytem meets The Rapture sound draws me in…

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metal skool  

by hardrockchick [about 2 years, 7 months ago.]

Metal Skool is the ‘longest running metal show’ on the Sunset Strip. You can bet that next time I’m in LA on a Monday, I’m gonna be here. One part glam rock tribute band and one part ‘theater’- Metal Skool has been attracting celebrity ‘crowd participations’ for a long time, which has led to some great videos.

A little background:

w/ Jeremy Piven


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Genre(s): Rockin' Videos

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Top 5: Music Video directors  

by hardrockchick [about 2 years, 7 months ago.]

1. Spike Jonze

Fatboy Slim/Praise You. To put himself in the starring role took something all by itself. And it was very timely, hitting in 1999, right before reality television took off.

Beastie Boys/Sabotage. He took the already cool Beastie Boys and made them cooler.

Fatboy Slim/Weapon of Choice. Two words: Christopher Walken. Two more words: Can Dance.

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Genre(s): Lists

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The cultural relevance of music festivals  

by hardrockchick [about 2 years, 7 months ago.]

I was thinking the other day about music festivals, and how they don’t really appeal to me anymore. I thought about the festivals of the past, and how they sounded so much cooler than what we have going on now. I’m currently reading Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, and he made a statement about how nowadays, counterculture is the mainstream. Perhaps this is why music festivals in the ’60s and ’70s…even the ’80s…seemed much more appealing to me. They were statements of counterculture, showing the mainstream culture their size and scope by congregating all in one festival. Now, festivals are attended by the mainstream, as it’s become a more accepted form of entertainment. Beyond this assumption, it’s possible to tell a story when you look at these now legendary festivals; you can follow the evolution of culture. Or, devolution, depending on how you look at it.

July 1965: Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI

This yearly festival was headlined in 1965 by folk icon Bob Dylan, who was famously booed by the crowds for going electric for his set. It was his first ever electric performance, and it is suspected that the crowd felt that he was abandoning his roots. He was, however, planting roots for many to come after him. This happened at a point in time where rock ‘n’ roll was still regarded as fringe, and folk music was safe…and blurring those lines helped advance rock music.

July 1967, Monterey International Pop Music Festival, Monterey, CA, 200,000 people. $6.50 for seats and $1.00 for field entry.

As the first real rock festival, Monterey is often outshined by Woodstock. The Monterey Festival marked not only the beginning of the hippie movement, and with it, the spread of LSD, but it was also the introduction of the generation’s most important musicians: Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. It was also The Who’s first American performance. The festival is considered to be the tentpole for the Summer of Love, the pinnacle of the hippie movement whose epicenter was Haight Ashbury. The performances by several world artists marked the infusion of Eastern culture into Western culture that occurred during the hippie movement. This was spearheaded by Brian Jones, who introduced Hendrix to the stage, but neither he nor The Stones played the festival.
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Genre(s): Musings

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serj tankian @ The Warfield  

by hardrockchick [about 2 years, 7 months ago.]

On 3/8/08. Buy tickets here.

Genre(s): Miscellaneous

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