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1 Obscure Gem of the Week #9: A Podcast and Interview With EdwardCor
This week's installment of Obscure Gem of the Week will be featured in podcast format. This week's feature is EdwardCor, also known as Eddie Trager, a solo electronic artist from Los Angeles. Just click the link below to listen, complete with an interview with EdwardCor and clips from the EP . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Obscure Gem of the Week #8: Russian Circles – “Malko” - Mark Moritz-Rabson
The band Russian Circles shares its name with an ice hockey drill. But I've found that this doesn't really describe the group too well; the best way to find out the philosophy of the band is to say their name aloud: Russian Circles, Rush In Circles. Their music does just . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 PAC Performances Successful - Tyler Finn
The Music@Menlo Concert was a phenomenal display of three world-class pianist's talent. It was held on January 16th at 4:00 pm at the Menlo-Atherton PAC. Pianists Alessio Bax, Anne-Marie McDermott and Wu Han played selections of chamber music from Claude Debussy, Sergei Rachmaninov and Maurice Ravel. "[They're] fantastic, between the . . . (Continue Reading)
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1 Obscure Gem of the Week #7: If These Trees Could Talk – What’s In the Ground Belongs to You
If these trees could really talk, they’d be proclaiming the awesomeness of this virtually unknown band from Akron, Ohio. If These Trees Could talk play surprisingly simple music given their exceedingly long band name and song titles. Well, “simple” is probably the wrong way to describe it – “linear” would . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Obscure Gem of the Week #6: Collapsar – “Drilling Holes Through Space” - Mark Moritz-Rabson
Pretty much nobody knows about Collapsar, which actually means “collapsed star”. And since the band has broken up, few people will learn of them. But the select few who DO know Collapsar know them as a technical-instrumental-math/prog metal band unlike almost anything out there today. They play music that is . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Obscure Gem of the Week #5: Cloudkicker – Beacons & [[[]]] - Mark Moritz-Rabson
Cloudkicker is Ben Sharp from Columbus, Ohio. For me, the name Cloudkicker alone was intriguing enough to interest me in the music. I was not disappointed at all. Cloudkicker/Ben incorporates a guitar technique known as “djent” in most of his music, which comes from the noise normally made by a . . . (Continue Reading)
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1 Maroon 5 Hands All Over Tour - Lindsay Keare
Maroon 5 has been at the top of my must-see-in-concert list for years. This past Sunday I finally got to check them off. The Greek Theater on the UC Berkeley campus, where the show was held, is a fantastic venue. Ryan Tedder, the lead singer of OneRepublic and one of the . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Obscure Gem of the Week #4: The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Black Bubblegum” - Mark Moritz-Rabson
From the start of the video for “Black Bubblegum”, you can tell that the song certainly is not standard Dillinger Escape Plan fare. For those who don’t know, TDEP plays music ranging from frenetic mathcore (check out “43% Burnt”) to bizarre, groove-fueled post-hardcore (“Milk Lizard”). But “Black Bubblegum” is neither . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Obscure Gem of the Week #3: Jesu - Mark Moritz-Rabson
To make up for last week's absence, this week I’m doing an extra-special feature: one band, not just one song. That band is Jesu, the brainchild of Justin Broadrick (former vocalist of the British industrial band Godflesh). Jesu play post-rock: almost ambient upbeat music yet with an undeniably sludgy and . . . (Continue Reading)
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1 Carrie Underwood: Play On Tour - Jake Meyers-Snowball
First of all, yes, I did go to a Carrie Underwood concert. My girlfriend is Underwood’s #1 fan, her tour came to San Jose, and I bought tickets. That is the way life works. I would like to emphasize that I am not whipped, nor am I a wuss or . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Obscure Gem of the Week #2: Ulver – Christmas - Mark Moritz-Rabson
Ulver are a Norwegian band who were once renowned for their “true” black metal, way back when the genre was still blossoming in the 1980s and 1990s. But as is the case with the majority of bands in the genre, their music wasn’t very good at all. Fortunately, Ulver saw . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Brad Paisley Makes a “Splash” at Shoreline - Anna Luke and Stephanie Sabatini
In a six hour, double-staged display of country music, Brad Paisley tore up the night in his H20 tour concert at Shoreline Amphitheater. While Justin Moore, Darius Rucker, and Paisley himself brought in the true country buffs, new artists such as Steel Magnolia, Josh Thompson, and Easton Corbin attracted the . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Obscure Gem of the Week #1: Maserati – Monoliths - Mark Moritz-Rabson
Each week, I’ll be featuring a song from an unknown or fairly unknown band that I personally feel is a great song that a lot of people should know more about. The first feature of the “Obscure Song of the Week” column is an instrumental Georgia band known as . . . (Continue Reading)
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1 Green Day fan Stephanie Johnson does it again - Rachel Fox
Senior Stephanie Johnson showed up early for Green Day’s concert this past Saturday and stood ticket-less outside of Shoreline Amphitheatre, only to have a roadie hand her row-2 tickets 20 minutes before the doors opened. In August of last year, Stephanie was pulled on stage to sing “Are We the . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 A Slice of Summer: Remembering BFD 2010 - Regina Mullen
As it does every year, Live 105.3’s BFD music festival marked the beginning of summer with an explosion of spilled beer, masses of sunburned and tattooed skin, endless fist pumping, and some really quality music. With school almost upon us, BFD 2010 will be looked upon with nostalgia as a . . . (Continue Reading)
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