Tag Archives: Charli XCX
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Charli XCX and Troye Sivan announce Sweat Tour, Chase Center date in SF
Charli XCX performs at The Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 2, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Troye Sivan and Charli XCX are teaming up on a co-headlining arena tour. The 21-city tour kicks off on Sept. 14 in Detroit, MI and wraps up in Seattle on Oct. 23. The two…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Tiësto brings the party to a boil on ‘Drive’
Tiësto, “Drive.” There’s rarely this little uncertainty over the commercial viability of an album that has yet to be released. Dutch DJ Tiësto (Tijs Verwest) has been releasing songs from new album Drive since 2020. Combined, the five bangers he’s released have accrued more than 3.5 billion streams, led by…
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Eat, sleep, rave: Flume and Fatboy Slim give Portola Festival its groove on Day 1
Flume performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Sep. 24, 2022. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — The inaugural Portola Festival brought dance vibes old and new to Pier 80, nestled amid old shipyards in a once mostly abandoned and now-burgeoning neighborhood just downwind of Chase Center. An industrial…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Charli XCX levels up her production for ‘Crash’
Charli XCX, courtesy. Terrence O’Connor Charli XCX has made it abundantly clear she has no intentions of creating the same album twice. Her breakthrough came a decade ago via collaborations with Iggy Azalea and Icona Pop, but collaborations are about the end of the similarities between her music then…
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Charli XCX chronicles the first COVID-19 surge through a creator’s lens in new doc
Charli XCX IN “Alone Together.” A brief intro filmed during her 2019 headlining tour immediately sets the scene for “Alone Together,” a new documentary by Charli XCX that’s meant as a pairing for 2020’s made-at-home album How I’m Feeling Now. On the introspective deep dive, a chirpy Charli XCX is shown…
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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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The 75 best albums of 2020: 75-61
The best albums of 2020 include Washed Out, the Mountain Goats, Ethan Gruska, Tom Petty, Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown, Logic, The Strokes, Moses Sumney, Fleet Foxes, Willie Nelson, Yves Tumor, Nicolas Jaar, Ed O’Brien, Charli XCX and Blackpink. After nearly a decade of living through 2020, we’re finally…
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REVIEW: Charli XCX shares a future pop diary while sheltering in place on ‘How I’m Feeling Now’
Charli XCX and her band of collaborators have been leading the charge of pushing pop music headlong into new territories over the last few years, using the latest and greatest in PC Music (aka bubblegum bass) production techniques. However, it was a bit of a surprise to hear she…
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REVIEW: Charli XCX charts a new course at the Fox Theater
Charli XCX performs at The Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 2, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. OAKLAND — If Charli XCX wanted to make a point about where she is in her career, the alt-pop star made it at her sold-out show at the Fox Theater with a set…
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REVIEW: Taylor Swift plays snake queen at Reputation Tour stop in Santa Clara
Taylor Swift performs on the Reputation Stadium Tour at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on May 11, 2018. Photos: Steve Carlson. SANTA CLARA — On her 2017 album Reputation, “the old Taylor” Swift is dead. But on the Reputation Stadium Tour, which arrived at Levi’s Stadium Friday for…