Opinion
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Insert Foot: Lil Nas X bringing Satan back to the ridiculous masses
Insert Foot and Lil Nas X vs. the real Satan The pandemic must be over, the economy is obviously soaring, and everything is A-OK, situation normal, we’re all fine here … how are you? I’m great. Because Satan is back. I waxed nostalgic a while back over America again…
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Insert Foot: Demi Lovato’s ‘California sobriety’ delusional and dangerous
Insert Foot Vs. “California sober” and Demi Lovato. Demi Lovato is as famous for confronting personal issues as for music, which is theoretically great. If it makes people uncomfortable, well … more people probably need to be uncomfortable. Life is sloppy cake and smearing pretty frosting on top just…
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Insert Foot: Seven months to Outside Lands 2021; choose your danger well
Insert Foot wants to go to Outside Lands. We’re on the clock, Bay Area. So get your shot together. Seven months. That’s how long we have until Outside Lands 2021, featuring Tame Impala, Lizzo, The Strokes, Tyler The Creator, Vampire Weekend, and more … on Halloween Weekend, Oct. 29-31.…
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White youth subcultures and Black music in “Northern Soul” and “Quadrophenia”
Film stills from “Quadrophenia” (left) and “Northern Soul.” I might as well kick off this occasional series on music and the movies with a claim bound to annoy someone: Despite the status of 1979’s “Quadrophenia” as the classic film about the English mod scene, 2014’s “Northern Soul” is an…
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Insert Foot: Mumford & Sons’ Winston Marshall really inserted his foot last week
Insert Foot vs. Winston Marshall and the rule of responsible stupidity. Original photo: Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Don’t you hate it when someone, whose work you enjoy, does something really stupid? This week it was Mumford & Sons banjo player Winston Marshall, who last week tweeted to right-wing journalist Andy Ngo,…
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‘Long Live Rock…Celebrate the Chaos’ a love letter to music festivals we miss
Long Live Rock…Celebrate The Chaos, courtesy. Is rock dead? The question, seemingly an early point of new documentary “Long Live Rock…Celebrate the Chaos,” only works rhetorically. “Long Live Rock…Celebrate the Chaos” Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Halestorm and more, director Jonathan McHugh Watch Now @ Home Cinema, Abramorama, March 12…
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Insert Foot: NFT sounds confusing, but could be beautiful music for artists’ bank accounts
INSERT FOOT and NFTs. Original image courtesy: Karolina Grabowska. My editor sent me an important message today. Get to the bottom of this NFT stuff. Right … NFT … No (Freaking) Tony. On it. Wait, what? Apparently, NFT refers to an exciting new method by which musicians—“artists,” as my…
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Insert Foot: What’s that sound? Music (but coronavirus is still goin’ round)
Insert Foot vs. music in the park. I heard something the other day so stunning that I nearly went and crashed my car. Well, maybe not that bad. It wasn’t like one of my daughters told me I’m becoming a grandpa, which would certainly run me off the road…
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Guest column: Destroy Boys’ Violet Mayugba on outside perceptions
Destroy Boys, courtesy. Editor’s note: The last time Violet Mayugba of the Bay Area’s Destroy Boys checked in with us, nearly a year ago, she (like everyone) was trying to adjust to the pandemic lifestyle. The music the band released back then strangely fit the newly uncertain times, even if…
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Insert Foot: Soundgarden’s fight discredits the magic of distant rehearsal rooms
Insert Foot wants Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell to get along. It’s truly awful and terribly ironic what’s going on between the surviving members of Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell, the widow of late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell. “This column writes itself, right?” Insert Foot. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Cornell just sued…
