Tag Archives: Outside Lands 2014
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Q&A: Eric Rachmany of reggae rockers Rebelution reflects on SF homecoming, new music
Santa Barbara reggae-rock band Rebelution released Falling Into Place, it’s sixth album in nine years, in 2016. But the band’s follow-up record is already in the works, singer-guitarist Eric Rachmany said. Rebelution will be hitting the studio sometimes this autumn. Rebelution at Outside Lands Music Festival 6:50 p.m., Sutro stage…
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Q&A: Vance Joy is today’s singer-songwriter, tomorrow’s librarian
Vance Joy performs at Live 105’s Not So Silent Night at Oracle Arena on Dec. 8, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — James Keogh could have been a lawyer; he’d completed the degree for it. Or he could have been a successful, yet underpaid, footballer in Australian rules football.…
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Q&A: Night Terrors of 1927 prone to accidents, accidentally starting bands
Night Terrors of 1927, courtesy. Jarrod Gorbel is having a hard three days. For reasons that will soon become clear, the leading vocalist of SoCal anthemic pop duo Night Terrors of 1927 (which includes Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett), has been waking up on the wrong side of the…
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Q&A: The Bots ride the gravy train with Damon Albarn
The Bots perform at the 2014 Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco. Two-member brother garage punk band The Bots dressed for a slumber party – a very loud slumber party – for their Sunday opening set at Outside Lands. Drummer Anaiah Lei (17) wore an oversize…
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Interview: L.A. sisters Haim find connection with the City by the Bay
Haim, courtesy. The three sisters in Los Angeles’s Haim have only performed two headlining shows in the Bay Area, but San Francisco holds special significance to them. Bassist Este (28) briefly held a job working for Ghirardelli Chocolate at the famous square — “I wouldn’t be here right now if…
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The Haim sisters on their favorite show, touring with their parents and the L.A. bar circuit
Haim on a hotel bed. Courtesy. In 2013, Haim were my golden goose. I’d been trying to get an interview since the release of their Forever EP. I had a feeling they would eventually become successful and wanted to get my foot in the door early. At first I…
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Outside Lands a homecoming for performers with Bay Area ties
The Bay Area artists performing at Outside Lands 2014. Clockwise from top left: Watsky, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, Finish Ticket, Brothers Comatose, Trails & Ways, Tycho, Mikal Cronin and The Tumbleweed Wanderers. Rendering: Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Outside Lands is just one of dozens of summer music festivals that spring…
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Rapper/wordsmith Watsky the first to raise his hand
George Watsky is not a household name like, say Macklemore, but that may begin to change following his performance at the Outside Lands Music Festival in his native San Francisco. After all, Macklemore was a relative unknown when he took the festival stage three summers ago. I spoke to…
