HardRockChick

My Musical Adventures

The Prodigy Packs a Punch, with Tenderlions @ T...

When I was getting over grunge, I spent about a year engrossed in the club kid scene in Austin in the mid nineties. Prodigy’s Fat of the Land had just...

May 29, 2009
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The Pretender: Foo Fighters @ The Forum, 10/13/11

I wasn’t supposed to be here. My summer in LA was supposed to end in August; but I was having so much fun pretending to be an LA resident that...

October 14, 2011
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The Presets @ Mezzanine, 10/6/08

Last time The Presets were in town, I had to bail last minute because I was sikamikanico. Pissed me right off. Luckily they came back, and guess what? Sick again…but...

October 6, 2008
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The Presets @ Mezzanine

On 5/21/08. Buy tix here.

February 24, 2008
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The Old Days: Days of the New, Nova @ Avalon Sa...

“The shelf in the room has been so true I can hide in the shelf in the room” I remember hearing this song on the radio in 1998, when I...

April 29, 2010
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The Octopus Has No Friends: Opeth, Mastodon, Gh...

“Take your heart into your hand Always Take your heart into your hand Always I’m on my way back home I’m on my way back home” ~The Octopus Has No...

May 1, 2012
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The Number of the Beast: The Battle of San Bern...

My piece for GRAMMY.com can be found here. A few more things: -This was ‘musical adventure’ number 666 for me…on Friday the 13th. -3 hours to get there and 3...

September 16, 2013
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The Nightwatchman @ Swedish American Hall, 7/20/07

I’ll admit that the first time I heard The Nightwatchman album, it took a bit of reaching for me to reposition Tom Morello’s space in my head, where he had...

July 22, 2007
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The New U2 Single Sounds Like NIN?

OK, I’ll admit it doesn’t sound like normal U2, but this song is thematically so full of suck that this comparison must be squashed instantly. New U2 Single Sounds Like...

January 19, 2009
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