TAG: concert

Feb25

Rock The School Bells 6th Annual Conference & Concert Announced (Win Free Tickets Inside)

For the 6th year running, Rock The School Bells has been educating and empowering youth through Hip Hop culture.  This year RTSB returns to the Bay Area on March 9th.

The event provides interactive workshops that cover topics and activities such as lyric writing, graffiti writing, dance styles, DJ fundamentals, entrepreneurship, art and business, social justice, community building, and health.  The workshops are led by a varied group of facilitators who ‘incorporate Hip Hop culture in their own careers and lives’.  Some of the illustrious facilitators for this years event include: Bboy Machine of Killafornia/Rock Steady Crew/SYTYCD, Zulu Gremlin, Rock Steady Crew, Beats, Rhymes, and Life Academy, Skratchpad DJ’s, Funkanometry SF, and the Low End Theory Collaborative.

Aside from the conference, the organization is throwing a concert, which will feature Dibia$e, Rock …

Feb02

Chemical Brothers Screen Live Show Extravaganza For U.S. Audiences (Video)

During the beginning of last night’s nation-wide screening of The Chemical Brothers’ Don’t Think, the first half hour of the mind-blowing, subsonic experience that was the 2 hour concert documentary, my time was spent thinking “How do I stop from hyperbolizing about this in the morning?”. This morning I decided that I didn’t have to.

So, firstly, I’ll ask, for the benefit of others like myself, who as awkward teenagers had to endure being mocked by friends every time Eminem spouted off the line “Nobody listens to techo!” during “Without Me”s long, painful radio run, what happened to that guy’s edge? Career? Anybody? Now, secondly, since the days zit-covered, awkward allergen magnets like myself first glimpsed the visual ride that is the video …

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Jun09

Janelle Monáe x Bruno Mars: Hooligans in Wondaland (San Francisco concert review)

The Hooligans in Wondaland tour headlined by Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe, or should I say, Janelle Monáe and Bruno Mars? No wait, Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe – okay, I’m going with Janelle Monáe and Bruno Mars. Anyway, last night at the Billy Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Janelle Monáe and Bruno Mars performed back to back and anytime two charismatic artists like these two perform, it’s going to be clash of awe.

The question is, who stole the show? Bruno Mars did take the last spot of the night and people (girls) were loving the beach, sugar, pop melodies; I also can’t forget to mention, they really, really, really, loved the three hip thrusts he gave out early in the show (youtube at your own risk). And Janelle …

Oct18

Miike Snow @ The Wiltern 10/15/10

Electroindie outfit serenades LA 

While Miike Snow should be familiar to you, URB reader, I was very surprised to see that it was also familiar to the rest of the hipster-mainstream hybrid subculture—that is, the sometimes-overbearing Hollywood scene. Going to this show, I expected to be greeted with a different kind of crowd (not sure exactly which) but I was greeted with people ready for the club (there were also some on the margins ready for the rave as well). While this by no means had an effect on Miike Snow’s performance, it’s an interesting point of note as it describes the atmosphere of the venue, pointing out the secondary effects of the experience of live music in a shared environment with a particular slice of the Southern California population. It also works well as a provocative introduction.

While I did not pay very much …

Aug23

North Coast Music Festival Ticket Give Away! (Chicago)

Win A Pair of Tix To See The Chemical Brothers, Nas & Damian Marley, De La Soul, Benny Bennasi, Boys Noize and more. 

North Coast Music Festival is giving two lucky winners two 3-day passes. More info after the jump..

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