Opinion
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Insert Foot is Safe in Sound for venue safety guidelines people will probably ignore
Insert Foot is Safe In Sound. Original image: Participants take part in a COVID-19 transmission risk assessment study on Aug. 22, 2020 in Leipzig, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images. The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) and Event Safety Alliance (ESA), in partnership with three other groups with long names…
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Insert Foot: How ‘Friends’ and its Top 5 lists endures is beyond reason
Insert Foot vs. the “Friends” top-5 lists. You want to hear something really horrifying? Sure you do. I just heard a story of a young woman from this century who argued and almost broke up with her boyfriend last week. The life-altering (not really) dispute started with a conversation over their…
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Insert Foot: What’s old is new, and what’s new is … Bennifer?
Bennifer is… back? So Bennifer is a thing again. Tom Jones’ new record just hit No. 1 in Britain. “Mortal Kombat” is the No. 1 movie in America. Genesis just announced a reunion tour in the U.S. Yes, that Genesis. Not in the biblical sense, though it’s not clear…
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Insert Foot: Serj Tankian thanks President Biden for acknowledging truth
INSERT FOOT on the Armenian Genocide, which happened. All (well, maybe not all, but we in the media exaggerate, sometimes) the music sites have headlines this Saturday afternoon referring to System of a Down singer Serj Tankian. Great, I thought. New music? Outrageous quote? He’s switching gender and running…
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Insert Foot: Make your list, check it twice, and get back out there for live music
If Goose thinks he’s getting to cover Alanis, he’s in for a big surprise, because Insert Foot is vaxxed and ready for concerts. The crew at RIFF got the call this week … or maybe last week, but we got it: live music is back. Like fighter pilots in…
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Insert Foot: Making classic music a family affair for these famous siblings
Insert Foot Vs. National Siblings Day. Saturday was Siblings Day, which we celebrate by posting photos on social media of siblings harmoniously pretending to get along, not trading blows and not throwing a deceased parent’s false teeth at each other at a funeral home. Don’t ask. I didn’t meet…
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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…
