Tag Archives: Joan Jett
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REVIEW: Bryan Adams hits from the heart, right to the gut at Chase Center
Bryan Adams performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on July 30, 2023. Jane Hu/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — If you could shout both as strongly and in tune as Bryan Adams, you too might stand a chance at a decades-long career in the music industry. When the Canadian rocker…
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REVIEW: Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison and Joan Jett regale the past at Oracle Park
Def Leppard performs at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2022. Sean Liming/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Wednesday night’s classic rock spectacle at Oracle Park recalled a Day On the Green at the Oakland Coliseum in 1984. The Stadium Tour brought together a co-headlining bill of Def Leppard…
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REWIND: Celebrating International Women’s Day with women who rock
Joan Jett, courtesy. Last Tuesday, March 8, was International Women’s Day. That means I get to list women who rock. I mention women who rock fairly often in this column, so it deserves some explanation: It doesn’t necessarily have to be women who perform rock music. Being a rock…
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REVIEW: Miley Cyrus shape-shifts again as vintage rock hero on ‘Plastic Hearts’
Miley Cyrus, “Plastic Hearts.” Miley Cyrus has covered a staggering amount of musical territory over her seven-album catalog. Each time she reinvents herself, it’s not simply just adding a few new influences; rather, a complete shape-shift that transforms the 28-year-old pop star in every facet. In recent years, Cyrus…
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INTERVIEW: Cherie Currie is fully charged for new album and audiobook
Cherie Currie, Courtesy: Robert Sebree. Cherie Currie is a badass. The former frontwoman for The Runaways burst onto the scene in the mid-1970s with an outsized attitude, an undersized corset, hellbent on injecting some estrogen into the rock and roll patriarchy. Even over the phone from her house in…
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Heart’s return mixed, but Joan Jett rips through the classics at Concord Pavilion
Nancy Wilson (left) and Ann Wilson of Heart perform at a previous stop on the “Love Alive” tour. Courtesy: Kimberly Adamis/Heart. CONCORD, CALIF. — At various points during their 90 minutes or so onstage Friday night at the Concord Pavilion, the Wilson sisters of Heart referred to how long…
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RIFF REWIND: Celebrate Groundhog Day with covers by Joan Jett and Soft Cell
Not Joan Jett. It’s Groundhog Day, which means one thing: It’s my mom’s birthday. Everyone say happy birthday to my mom! Also, it means that a weird giant rodent that looks kinda like a beaver’s slacker cousin gets pulled out of a fake stump by a man in a…
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RIFF Rewind 1988: N.W.A., Public Enemy and … Enya?
The year 1988 was a great year. For example, Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy” came out! And the Taylor Dayne classic “Tell It To My Heart!” Everyone loves both unironically, right? Ok, so not those. But 1988 did give us two of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time in Straight…
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BottleRock 2013 in photos and videos
Moon Taxi performs at BottleRock Napa Valley on May 30, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Check out photos and videos from the first BottleRock Napa Valley Festival at he Napa Valley Expo, held from May 9 to 12, 2013. Want to view all the videos, in order? The playlist is here. Thursday, May…
