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REVIEW: Avril Lavigne brings her hits to Shoreline show
Avril Lavigne performs at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. on May 29, 2024. Onome Uyovbievbo. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Avril Lavigne is in the midst of a renaissance thanks to the rebirth of pop-punk, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. As Lavigne stepped onstage at Shoreline Amphitheatre…
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REVIEW: MOD SUN honors his better half on ‘God Save the Teen’
Mod Sun, “God Save The Teen.” Derek Smith, better known as MOD SUN, is one-half of pop-punk’s foremost power couple, along with fellow singer and fiancé Avril Lavigne. The Canadian artist plays a leading role on his fifth album, God Save the Teen. Not only does the pair collaborate on…
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REVIEW: Machine Gun Kelly flies the friendly skies Oakland Arena
Machine Gun Kelly performs at Oakland Arena in Oakland on July 19, 2022. OAKLAND — At Aftershock Festival in 2021, in the midst of his war of words with Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor, many people booed and threw water bottles at Machine Gun Kelly. Kelly’s Oakland stop in support of Mainstream…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Avril Lavigne finds pop-punk stride on ‘Love Sux’
Avril Lavigne, “Love Sux.” In some ways, the seventh album by Avril Lavigne is a return to the Canadian pop-rocker’s roots. In others, it’s finally reaching the territory she’s strived for from the start. Lavigne has always existed adjacent to the pop-punk moniker, but often, that classification was based on…
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22 albums we’re anticipating in 2022
Row 1: Charli XCX, Camila Cabello, The Weeknd, Khalid, Weezer. Row 2: Janet Jackson, Vince Staples, SPOON, GZA, Sky Ferreira, Row 3: Meg Myers, Rina Sawayama, Eddie Vedder, Black Country, New Road, and My Bloody Valentine. Row 4: Elvis Costello, BROCKHAMPTON, Alt-J, Avril Lavigne, Lykke Li. Not pictured: The…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Girl in Red makes a splash with ‘if i could make it go quiet’
girl in red, “if i could make it go quiet.” The chaos of the world is getting too much for girl in red to take. On her debut album, if i could make it go quiet, she’s not afraid to tell you just this as she begs for the…
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Amelia Parreira’s favorite 20 pop songs of the decade
Like all art, music leaves a cultural imprint representing the events, feelings, successes and failures of the time that birthed it. While various styles of music capture the experience of the groups that listen to it, Top 40 pop speaks for the masses. With 2020 around the corner, let’s…
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REVIEW: Avril Lavigne gets a hero’s welcome at magnetic Fox Theater show
Avril Lavigne performs at The Fox Theater in Oakland on Sept. 17, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello OAKLAND — The sheer number of phones held aloft as the lights dimmed at the Fox Theater Tuesday was a fairly accurate indicator of the buzz in the room for Avril Lavigne’s return…
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INTERVIEW: Avril Lavigne finds strength in her inner warrior for ‘Head Above Water’
Avril Lavigne. Courtesy David Needleman. The lights dimmed at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre. The crowd rose in anticipation. Canadian songstress Avril Lavigne took the stage in a flowing white dress and sang the opening line of the first song on her latest release: “I’ve gotta keep the calm before the storm.”…