Tag Archives: The Knocks
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – March 8
Anna Shoemaker, courtesy. This week’s Tuesday Tracks span rock (Bobby Mahoney), punk (Moonraker), metal (Hollow Front), TikTok pop (Mia Rodriguez) and some songs that defy categorization (The Knocks, Anna Shoemaker). Hollow Front, “The Price of Dreaming” — Let’s kick the week off with some metal, shall we? Featuring screamed…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Sept. 1
Clockwise from top left: The Knocks, Tinlicker and Helsloot, Sebastian Mikael, Black Pistol Fire, Mise en Scene and Crooked Colours. Every week, there’s more new music waiting to be discovered. Summer is coming to an end, but that’s hardly noteworthy when everyone’s still stuck at home. COVID is here…
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Rachel Goodman’s top 25 alt-rock and alt-pop songs of 2019
Rachel Goodman’s favorite alt-rock and alt-pop songs of the year for 2019 include The Dandy Warhols, The Knocks, Nilüfer Yanya, Strand of Oaks, Sharon Van Etten, Better Oblivion Community Center, Kirin J. Callinan, Mikal Cronin, The New Pornographers, Jenny Lewis and Cigarettes After Sex. Rounding up my favorite songs…
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SnowGlobe Music Festival waves goodbye to 2016 with lasers and bass
Photos: Brandon Jernigan SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Despite the extreme cold, thousands of fans still showed up in droves to the fields surrounding Lake Tahoe Community College last weekend for the 6th annual SnowGlobe Music Festival. The three-day event, held in the High Sierra and surrounded by firs and pines, is…
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Photos: Ian Young’s Top 16 concerts of 2016
Photos: Ian Young By all accounts 2016 was a shitty year. But amid the chaos were much needed distractions in the form of live music. This year I traveled to Iceland, Chicago, Indio, Los Angeles and Seattle to attend 110 shows and eight festivals, watching and photographing more than 250 bands. Here’s…
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INTERVIEW: The Knocks are the kings of collaboration
The Knocks. Courtesy photo. The Knocks may be among the most popular, sought-out production teams in the world. But in the universe of Justin Bieber, Ben “B-Roc” Ruttner and James “JPatt” Patterson are observers like everyone else. Bieber is such a fan that he invited the electronic duo to open…
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NYC production duo The Knocks dish on their creative process
The Knocks. STAFF photo. Even if you haven’t yet heard of The Knocks, chances are your favorite artists have. From 2010, when Chiddy Bang sampled several of their songs to various collaborations that followed, Ben “B-Roc” Ruttner and James “JPatt” Patterson began a trek that turned them into one…
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Photos: Seven great sets from Outside Lands 2016 Day 2
Radiohead performs at Outside Lands 2016. Che Holts/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Eight years after headlining opening night of the inaugural Outside Lands Music Festival, Radiohead returned Saturday to the event with a two-hour set that showed their range of abilities. Because of the way the event has grown and…
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Outside Lands 2016: Artists from near and far converge on Golden Gate Park
Click to view the full map The 72 music performers at the 9th annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival next month represent at least 10 countries and 16 of the United States. Despite the absence of Asian and South American artists, as well as the classical penguin stylings…