Category: Music
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon’s Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to arbitrarily choose an actor and then connect them to another actor via a film that both actors have appeared in together, repeating this process to try and find the shortest path that ultimately leads to prolific…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Tribute to Artists Lost In 2020
Van Halen – Eruption / You Really Got Me Eddie Van Halen Died Oct 6, 2020 Years of jumping around on stage took a toll on Eddie. He had hip-replacement surgery in 1999. He also had cancer in his throat and tongue, which caused him to lose part of his tongue. That cancer claimed his…
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CLOSING TIME VIRTUAL CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS Matt Adams of The Blank Tapes
Matt Adams of The Blank Tapes performs an acoustic performance for Gré Closing Time Virtual Concert. Photography by Kelly Segré
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CLOSING TIME VIRTUAL CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS Henry SoLOMON and Logan Kane of Outside WOrld
Henry Solomon & Logan Kane of Outside World perform at Gré Closing Time concert in August 2020. Gré Closing Time Virtual Concert with Henry Solomon & Logan Kane. Photography by Kelly Segré Henry Solomon, a talented sax player with a bleached blonde fro and very cool pants is a musician originally from the bay area…
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Closing Time Virtual Concert Series presents Egg Drop Soup
Egg Drop Soup is a three piece, all female punk band based in Los Angeles, California. Although they aren’t originally from LA their music has the potential to take the Los Angeles music scene by storm with it’s burning intensity. Together their voices amplify resistance towards the patriarchy, giving that classic girl power spice to…
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Closing Time – Virtual Concert Series presents Rachel Oto
Interview by Holland Deschuymere Photographs & Video by Kelly Segré The first thing I thought when listening to Oto’s music was “Damn, this girl is fierce!” Upon her arrival I was met with someone who is kind hearted and perhaps a little timid at first, but once she started playing her whole demeanor changed, giving…
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Closing Time – Virtual Concert with Hunter LaSalle
Episode 1 of our Closing Time Virtual Concert features Hunter LaSalle. Filmed July 21, 2020 in Palm Springs
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Woodstock 69′
Woodstock began as a recording studio, but then spiraled into what we now know today as one of the defining factors of the 60’s. Two men, Michael Lang and Artie Kirnfeld had the idea to slap a recording studio in Woodstock, New York, but their business partners John Roberts, the man with the trust fund,…
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History of Blatant Sexism in the Music Industry
Women are not only widely underrepresented in the music industry, but also widely disregarded in terms of their worth, meaning if they want to get things done they must take matters into their own hands. Female singers and musicians are exploited constantly because of the way society not only sexualizes women as a whole, but…
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Separating the Art from the Artist
I’m sure there’s a few artists that pop into your head right away when thinking about separating the art from the artist. Many of us struggle with the fact that our favorite songs were made by people who did some terrible things, or acted in a controversial way. When confronting yourself and others on this…
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