Tag Archives: BRMC
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REVIEW: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club bends genres at the Fillmore
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Photos: Gary Chancer SAN FRANCISCO — East Bay natives Peter Hayes and Robert Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are very hard to put into a box. For a few songs they’re a psychedelic rock band, led by Been’s deep, hypnotic vocals and silhouetted by…
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Q&A: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club free from the shadow of grief
Courtesy: Tessa Angus As Black Rebel Motorcycle Club was recording 2013 album Specter at the Feast, the trio was still reeling from the 2010 death of one of their own. Michael Been, the father of frontman Robert Levon Been, had died suddenly at one of their shows. The elder Been,…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club preserve impactful rock with Wrong Creatures
There’s no point in denying it: Rock music has been usurped. While the reasons for this are tenfold, the lack of overt originality within the scene has remained a detractor from the style’s ongoing relevance within popular culture—especially in contrast to all the boundary-pushing within the hip-hop community. Indeed,…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery
Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the best…
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Photos: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Death From Above 1979, Deap Vally shake walls at SF gig
Photos: Diana Cordero SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area’s Black Rebel Motorcycle Club headlined a strong, gritty show Saturday at The Masonic. In their usual somber style, the band did a rundown of their most influential songs, from their eponymous debut B.R.M.C all the way to Beat the Devil’s Tattoo and 2013’s Specter…
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Q&A: BRMC’s Robert Levon Been on his fear of playing his dad’s songs
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, courtesy: James Minchin. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has a sold-out show coming up at the Fillmore on April 22, but it was a different performance I was more interested in. Robert Levon Been is stepping in his late-father Michael Been’s shoes and joining his father’s bandmates…
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BRMC’s Robert Levon Been joins his father’s bandmates to bring back The Call
The Call with Robert Levon Been, courtesy. Seminal ‘80s Santa Cruz rockers The Call disbanded in 2000 when frontman-bassist Michael Been decided to focus his energy on his son’s fledgling career. So in a roundabout way, Robert Levon Been is returning the gesture, when he briefly steps away from…
