HardRockChick

My Musical Adventures

GRAMMY Week: Special Merit Awards honoring Leon...10667

As my cab pulled up to the Wilshire Ebell theater again, I saw a long line wrapped around the building,...

February 3, 2010
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GRAMMY Week: Harvest Moon: Neil Young receives ...10660

After leaving the Social Media Rock Star summit, I stopped by the Staples Center to see what watching rehearsals would...

February 3, 2010
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GRAMMY Week: Social Media Rock Star Summit: Nik...10655

Being the geek that I am, I was actually most excited to attend this event of everything on my agenda...

February 2, 2010
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GRAMMY Week: Music Television: Cue the Music w/...10648

It would be the beginning of my GRAMMY adventure. I had jumped off the plane, checked into my hotel, and...

February 1, 2010
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Miscellaneous Metal: Between the Buried and Me,...10630

I was ‘on call’ for this show. I have read so many love letters from my fellow bloggers about these...

January 19, 2010
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Heavy Enlightenment: Behemoth, Septic Flesh, Li...10625

I’m driving back to SF from LA on about 5 hours of sleep, which is actually pretty normal for me,...

January 18, 2010
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House of Growls: Behemoth, Septic Flesh, Lightn...10620

I’m flying down the 5 at 90 mph, alternating between listening to the bands I would later see that evening...

January 18, 2010
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Dive Punk: Agnostic Front, Death By Stereo, Hig...10616

I live approximately 8 blocks from Thee Parkside, towards the top of Potrero Hill. It’s a weird neighborhood, man…I love...

January 16, 2010
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The Devil's Company: DevilDriver, Suffocat...10602

It would be my first show of the year, and if this set the tone for the rest of 2010,...

January 9, 2010
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Unknown Pleasures: Swann Danger, Guitar vs. Gra...10388

It was my 115th and probably final show of the year. After a year where I’ve been to shows big...

December 20, 2009
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Death Rattle: Black Cobra @ Annie's Social...10384

I was enjoying a rare evening out at a really nice restaurant in Woodside with friends and made it back...

December 19, 2009
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Speed Eraser: The Faceless, Dying Fetus, Beneat...10369

I could describe my final metal show of the year at DNA Lounge as one giant blur that sounded like...

December 14, 2009
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Fade To Black: Metallica, Machine Head, Volbeat...10362

It was at about 2pm when I got the call. As soon as the caller ID popped up that it...

December 13, 2009
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Metal Sludge: EYEHATEGOD, Stormcrow, Brainoil @...10354

It may be five days later, but we’re essentially picking up right where we left off. Cold. Rain. Slightly incapacitated...

December 12, 2009
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Cold As Death: Marduk, Nachtmystium, Mantic Rit...10348

The story really began Sunday afternoon when I purchased a drink at the airport and got back $6.66 in change:...

December 8, 2009
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Death Magnetic: Metallica / Machine Head / Volb...10343

It was through the kindness of someone who I met through my NIN pieces that allowed me to follow one...

December 7, 2009
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Instru-metal: Baroness, Earthless, Iron Age @ B...10314

Let me begin with a quote from a recent thought/anger provoking article written by Stewart Voegtlin of the Village Voice:...

December 3, 2009
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Dazed and Confused: Zepparella, The Dave Rude B...10308

“Tribute bands often reflect what I like about rock ‘n’ roll more than the authentic bands they replicate” -‘Dude Rocks...

November 29, 2009
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The Teaches of Peaches: Peaches, Amanda Blank, ...10303

It was one of those nights that happens about once a month where I wanted to clone myself and attend...

November 28, 2009
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Far Beyond Driven: Vader, Decrepit Birth, Warbr...10297

‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving… I had anxiously been waiting for Vader- the other Polish metal band- to come to...

November 26, 2009
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Red, White, and Green: GWAR, Job For a Cowboy, ...10290

Back in 2006, when I was still new to SF, I went to see GWAR at The Warfield. I had...

November 25, 2009
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Made in Japan: Dir En Grey @ The Fillmore, 11/2...10285

Over the years, Dir En Grey has come up as a band I should check out. I had tried listening...

November 24, 2009
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The Greatest Show on Earth: KISS, Buckcherry @ ...10282

KISS may have very well been my first concert shirt. I have a vague memory of being a little kid,...

November 23, 2009
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Go Forth and Die: Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge ...10274

It was my fourth and final show of what was nicknamed the Mastoklok tour. From the first show of the...

November 22, 2009
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Totally Folking Metal : Ensiferum, Blackguard, ...10268

My night, like this tour, didn’t start off well. While immigration issues forced Hypocrisy and Ex Deo off this tour,...

November 20, 2009
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Keep Austin Weird: Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge...10260

Friday the 13th. Normally, I like this day- but this day was far from normal. My reason for being in...

November 14, 2009
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Houston, We Have A Problem: Dethklok, Mastodon,...10256

As I’m walking to the Verizon Wireless Theater from my hotel, where I’ve just left my mom who frets like...

November 14, 2009
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