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Sounds Like: You Had To Be There Festival
The Menlo Park area is the consummation of the Bay Area’s worst inclinations. It’s home to the Meta headquarters and next door neighbors with Stanford University. Its few headlines come from Stephen Curry’s notorious anti-housing development NIMBY-ism and an adjacent zip code with the highest median housing price in the…
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Mount Eerie @ Warsaw, 11/19/2024: Review
In a culture dominated by high energy and short-attention spans, Phil Everum’s band Mount Eerie commands us to be still and listen. No more is this visible than “Demolition,” the 12-minute penultimate song on the record, which consists of hypnotic drones, wind sounds, claps of wood blocks, and stream-of-consciousness poetry…
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horsegiirL @ Brooklyn Steel 10/25/2024
I rolled up to the ticket counter at Brooklyn Steel covered in silver. An unusual amount of girls clobbered to pick up tickets, peculiar for a digital age, and I wondered why. I felt overly self-conscious in my getup, wearing quite a loud rave look with carved cheekbones and a…
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Hotline TNT: New York City’s Greatest Band
The first time I saw Hotline TNT perform was during the summer of 2022 in my hometown of San Diego, California. After discovering that the band was fronted by Will Anderson (a.k.a. Flip Sandy) of the legendary Vancouver band Weed, I immediately bought tickets to their closest show, despite knowing…
