Category: hard rock
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Are you polyjamorous? Let’s talk genres!

Here are the links related to the most recent podcast episode (7/25). JarFive Chris Cornell’s birthday was 7/20; he would have been 60. Here are link to videos posted by Nancy Wilson (Heart) and Vicky (his wife). Bruce Springsteen is a billionaire. Common and Pete Rock have released a great album, “The Auditorium Volume 1.”…
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The Lesson from the Film on Anvil

JarFive Ed Harcourt performed an in-store set at Fingerprints Music in Long Beach. Also, check out his latest album, “El Magnifico.” Billy Strings released his album “Live Volume 1.” Cigarettes After Sex released their third album, “X’s.” Happy Sundays has released their lineup. The festival takes place in August. I’ll be doing a review of…
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Good Fridaze

JarFive Beyoncé releases “Cowboy Carter.” Arguably the most heavily promoted and written about album year to date, “Cowboy Carter” was released last night. I’m not a huge Beyoncé fan, but I always give her albums a listen. With all the talk of this being a country album, at its core it’s still a Beyoncé album,…
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The Boss at the beach.

JarFive Big Boi and Andre 3000 meet up Even if Big Boi was just showing up to support his former Outkast partner, it immediately conjured hope of a reunion. As André 3000 indicated in an interview on Questlove Supreme (link below), he’s quite content doing his solo gig. So much so that he’s also booked…
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Back to Blogging – 2023 Edition

It’s been a year since my last blog, which was on April 15, 2022. So what happened? Why did I stop before live music really got going? I don’t really have a good excuse, so I’ll give you a bad one: I got bombarded with live music festivals. Shortly, after my last blog, I went…
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Rage at Coachella! And an October wrap up!

Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! Since I haven’t blogged about music in a couple of weeks, I’ve got a lot to go over, and I’ll try to do it as quickly as I can…but first thing’s first… Rage…
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Altin Gun, Intersect, and Vagabon

Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! Altin Gun at Fingerprints Music For the second time this year, I caught a live set from Altin Gun before they headed off to the Desert Daze music festival. Their brand of Turkish…
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Starcrawler, Altin Gun at Fingerprints

Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! Starcrawler at Fingerprints A couple years ago, I’d read (I think it was Kevin Bronson in buzzbands.la) that Starcrawler would be opening for acts that they’re better than. That’s always stuck with me.…
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Closing Out A Long September

Buskerfest 2019 Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! Since the last couple months have been busy, with both music events and work, I’m finally now getting Long Beach’s Buskerfest, which took place back on September 7. I’d previously written…
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KAABOO, Last time around in Del Mar

KAABOO Del Mar Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! This last weekend, I attended the 5th (and my 5th) KAABOO music festival in Del Mar, just north of San Diego. Right from the beginning, something felt a little off…