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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts: 9/3/15-9/9/15
Author: Dakin Hardwick
Outside Lands 2015: 19 Instant Gig Reviews
Every year Outside Lands gets bigger and better. This year was a great year for a lot of reasons – it was an excellent, diverse and well-paced line up. They also switched up the set-up of the grounds this year, opening up walkways, adding more bathrooms and in general, making a much more comfortable festival experience. The weather was amazing, as well. None of the usual ice cold and overcast OSL, this year was all about having fun in the sun. I also got to see a slew of excellent sets of music & comedy!
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Outside Lands 2015: Eight Quick Questions with Jen Kirkman
Jen Kirkman is one of the funniest people out there right now. She’s also incredibly hard working… Her first book, I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself is a work of epic genius, and she seems to be the MVP of Comedy Central’s @midnight. She just premiered a special on Netflix called I’m Going To Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), which you can view the trailer to here.
Or, if you prefer to view people without a screen, she’s performing a stand up set at Outside Lands on Friday, as well as participating in Friday’s Uptown Showdown and Saturday’s ASSSCAT. (Click here for her Outside Lands schedule) If you aren’t coming out to the park, you can catch her on the road, as well. Those dates can be found here.
Spinning Platters had the pleasure of chatting with her recently. Continue reading “Outside Lands 2015: Eight Quick Questions with Jen Kirkman”
Top 10 60’s Bands From The Bay Area That Were More Influential Than The Grateful Dead
Unless you are living under a rock, you’ve heard that The Grateful Dead are playing a pair of “farewell shows” in Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. There is an obscene amount of hype over these shows, and they’ve sold about 8 trillion tickets for them. Not bad for a band that NOBODY knows any songs by unless you are a fan. The Dead were a huge cult band, but really didn’t do much to change popular music has a whole. The 60’s were a great time for music in the Bay Area, and there were a lot of bands that were way more important, in my own humble opinion. Feel free to get angry, but here’s a list of 10 undeniably talented bands from the Bay in the 60’s.
Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 6/25/15-7/2/15
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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 6/11/15-6/17/15
Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 6/4/15-6/10/15
Summer is ready when you are! And so is the first proper bay area outdoor music festival!
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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 5/21/15-5/28/15
Do you like reading my weekly show suggestions? Wanna listen to me play records all night? Come to Doc’s Lab on Saturday Night! Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 5/21/15-5/28/15”
Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 5/14/15-5/21/15
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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 5/7/15-5/14/15
Because nobody WANTS to be a responsible adult…
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