Tag Archives: Babymetal
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RIFF REWIND 2024: Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and Babymetal
Kendrick Lamar performs during Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2023. Let’s start with the standard history lesson for those of you just joining us: In 2018 I completed a quest to list my top five (or so) songs for every…
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REWIND’s best songs of the year so far, including Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar performs during Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2023. Matt Pang/STAFF. Back in 2018, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I listed my top five or so songs from every year since 1967 in this column. I then went on…
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REVIEW: Babymetal, Dethklok thrill on first of two-night stand at the Masonic
Babymetal performs at The Masonic in San Francisco on April 24, 2024. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Explaining Wednesday night’s bill at The Masonic to someone unfamiliar with the trio of metal acts performing would take some time. Babymetal, Dethklok and DragonForce each have a lore and backstory worthy…
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AFTERSHOCK: Korn, Sleep Token, Turnstile mark the past and greet the future on day 3
Korn performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Oct. 7, 2023. SACRAMENTO — The third day of Aftershock Festival was marked by eclectic takes on hard rock, both from legacy acts like Korn and buzzworthy up-and-comers. The heat subsided a bit but the musical fireworks burned…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Babymetal rules them all on ‘The Other One’
Babymetal, “The Other One.” One of heavy music’s unlikeliest of imports returns after a four-year absence. Su-Metal and Moametal, known better collectively as Babymetal, are back with another collection of kawaii metal on their fourth album, The Other One. While the record still offers plenty of head-banging opportunities and metal…
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REWIND: Take a quick mental health break with Andrew WK and Van Halen
David Lee Roth of Van Halen backstage at Cobo Arena in in Detroit during his “Eat ‘Em and Smile Tour” on Sept. 26, 1986. Photo by Ross Marino/Getty. Look, you all know what’s happening. A draft decision leaked that would not just reverse Roe v. Wade but do so…
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REWIND: Let’s try to find some songs for Easter
Happy Easter! Overtly religious music aside, there are no Easter songs. My theory is that this is because Easter is, if you look at it objectively without the lenses of theology or tradition, the most confusing of holidays. For instance while Jesus’ birthday is Dec. 25, his re-birthday is…
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REWIND: Tour the world through the language of metal
Babymetal performs at The Warfield in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Welcome to RIFF Rewind, the column that living legend LeVar Burton once read. LeVar Burton read something I wrote and I’m going to bring that up at every possible opportunity for the rest of my…
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REVIEW: Bring Me The Horizon traverses the pandemic on ferocious ‘Post Human’
Sheffield, England alt-rockers Bring Me the Horizon have an ambitious plan for the release of their forthcoming album, opting to release the record in three EPs. The first installment, Post Human: Survival Horror, could stand on its own merit. Nine tracks and a host of high-profile collaborations make the record immediately…
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RIFF REWIND 2019: Lizzo, Gary Clark Jr., and Babymetal
Gary Clark Jr. performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 25, 2019. Shawn Robbins/Staff. For those who haven’t been reading this column for its entire two-year run, the reason it’s called “RIFF Rewind” is because for its first year I listed the top five…
