Tag: 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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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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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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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – History of Coachella
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – History of Coachella 1999 – Two Days, October 9th & 10th 1999, Tickets were $50 per day Headliners – Beck, Rage Against The Machine, Tool Our Pick: Rage Against the Machine, Killing In The Name Fun Fact: The festival’s origins trace back to a 1993 concert that Pearl…
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Intimate Concerts in the Age of CoronaVirus
As we approach month three of social distancing in the wake of a global pandemic, many question the future of music festivals and large concerts. Is this the beginning of the radicalization of more intimate shows? I don’t exactly know the answer to this question, but personally, I would hope so. In the age…