Alice in Chains – Spinning Platters

Bush with Jerry Cantrell, Candlebox: The ’90s nostalgia remains at Cadence Bank Amphitheater, 9/1/24

I brag more often than I should that I saw Bush the second time they played in New York City, in 1995 at Roseland Ballroom. My concert companion and I weren’t even old enough to drive.

Around the time of the American Tiger King binge during our nation’s “two weeks to slow the spread,” Bush released The Kingdom.

Whenever I noticed, I bounced along to “Flowers on a Grave,” thinking, ‘They’ve still got it.’ Continue reading “Bush with Jerry Cantrell, Candlebox: The ’90s nostalgia remains at Cadence Bank Amphitheater, 9/1/24”

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 10/7/2010-10/13/2010

Rocktober, week 2. Pretty awesome. A few living legends, a few surprises, and a lot of awesome October live music for your pleasure.

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Week in Review: Top 5 Posts from 2/5/10 – 2/11/10

Rooney on Stage — All those people in the crowd? They visited the site this week.

This week at Spinning Platters, we reviewed a few new albums, saw a few shows, and told you what shows to see. Although this post is meant to tell you the busiest new posts of the week, I’d like to mention that we had a strange boost of traffic on an old review of a show by Rooney and Tally Hall. It got mentioned on a Rooney message board, and Rooney fans are spectacularly loyal. Welcome, fans of Rooney! I hope you’re still reading. As for our top five new posts? Continue reading “Week in Review: Top 5 Posts from 2/5/10 — 2/11/10”

Show Review: Alice In Chains and Creature with the Atom Brain at The Fox Oakland, 2/11/2010

Alice In Chains from the balcony of the Fox Theater

When last we left Oakland’s gorgeous Fox Theater, it was at the close of Wolfmother’s final screaming shreds. Two Disney concerts, two Norman Buffalo tribute shows, and one Temptations concert later, the Fox Theater needed to start its new year (having been open since February ’09) off with a bang. It therefore comes as little surprise that the grunge monsters of Alice In Chains were selected as just the right band for the task. Continue reading “Show Review: Alice In Chains and Creature with the Atom Brain at The Fox Oakland, 2/11/2010”

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 2/10/10-2/16/10

53-free-range-chicken-mcnuggets — Friday Night At The Uptown

Since this week gives us both Valentine’s Day and President’s Day, I am going to create a theme to all our recommended shows list: Every single show listed features a performer that has had an affair with a sitting president of a country. The person that guesses which member of which band band for each show listed gets a special surprise! Please leave your guesses under the comments section. Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 2/10/10-2/16/10”

Spinning Platters Podcast: Episode Six – I Can See This Podcast From My House

Episode 6 of the Spinning Platters podcast features guest Laura Hamilton discussing the pros and cons of ticket scalping, and sharing some of our favorite ticket scalping stories. We also do a final preview of the Treasure Island Music Festival. As always, we go off on our crazy tangents, including a socialist rant from a surprising source.

We also discuss the following: Continue reading “Spinning Platters Podcast: Episode Six — I Can See This Podcast From My House”