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Live 105 KITS Announces Not So Silent Night 2013 Line Up (#NSSN2013): Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Alt-J, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Lorde, and more

November 4, 2013 by Jason DeBord Leave a Comment

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Live 105 FM KITS San Francisco is holding their annual, two-night concert event at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California again this year, slated for December 6th and 7th.  While Night #1 was announced last week, Night #2 was just announced today.  Here is the full line-up for both nights…  Friday night, December 6th will feature Kings of Leon, Vampire Weekend, Queens of the Stone Age, AFI, Arctic Monkeys, and Capital Cities.  The just announced Saturday night line-up on December 7th will be Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Alt-J, Lorde, Bastille, and The Neighbourhood. [Read more…]

Filed Under: "On Tour" Dates & Announcements, AFI, Alt-J (∆), Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Bastille, Capital Cities, Kings of Leon, Live 105, Lorde, Not So Silent Night (NSSN), Phoenix, Queens of the Stone Age, The Neighbourhood, Vampire Weekend Tagged With: #nssn, #NSSN2013, 2013, AFI, alt-j, announcement, annual, Arcade Fire, arctic monkeys, artist, bastille, Capital Cities, christmas, city, Concert, december 6, december 7, holiday, Kings of Leon, line-up, live, live 105, live 105 kits, Lorde, Neighbourhood (The Neighbourhood), news, not to silent night, Oracle Arena, Phoenix, pre-sale, Queens of the Stone Age, radio, radio station, sale, tickets, tour, Vampire Weekend

Super Freestyle Explosion with Stevie B, Lisa Lisa, Exposé, Debbie Deb, Shannon, Trinere, Johnny O, Nu Shooz, Pretty Poison, Stacey Q at HP Pavilion | San Jose, California | 6/29/13 (Concert Review)

June 30, 2013 by Jason DeBord 6 Comments

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It’s not often that you attend a non-festival concert with ten (!) different music artists performing on the same stage in one night, all in the span of about three and a half hours.  It was a pretty special event at the HP Pavilion in San Jose last night, with the Super Freestyle Explosion turning out about 7,000 fans of the predominantly Latin, electronic/synthesizer/samples-centric, and mostly mid-80s era genre of music.  Representing the relatively short-lived but highly influential music scene and style for the evening was Stevie B, Lisa Lisa, Exposé, Debbie Deb, Shannon, Trinere, Johnny O, Nu Shooz, Pretty Poison, and Stacey Q.  Really a remarkable line-up, to the credit of promoter ITP Records/Pacific Concert Group, for pulling together such a vast roster of artists to play through a series of highly recognizable hits to those who grew up with the music or perhaps rediscovered it later.  Of course, pulling off such an event in such a time frame requires some concessions and trade offs, but in my opinion they found a near perfect balance to make for an incredible evening of 80s freestyle nostalgia.

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Filed Under: Concert Reviews, Debbie Deb, Exposé, HP Pavilion, Johnny O, Lisa Lisa, Live Rock Music, News, & Events, Nu Shooz, Pacific Concert Group & ITP Records, Pretty Poison, San Jose California, Stacey Q, Stevie B, Trinere Tagged With: 2013, 80s, 98.1 KISS FM, Ann Curless, announcement, california, Concert, Concert Review, dance, Debbie Deb, electronic, event, Exposé, florida, freestyle, Gioia Bruno, gold circle, HP Pavilion, itp records, jade starling, Jeanette Jurado, Johnny O, june 29, latin freestyle, Lisa Lisa, Music, new york, Nu Shooz, pacific concert group, Phoenix, Photo, photography, photos, Pop, Pretty Poison, preview, sale, San Jose, Shannon, show, ssq, Stacey Q, Stevie B, ticketmaster, tickets, Trinere, video, videos, vip, youtube

Super Freestyle Explosion (Stevie B, Lisa Lisa, Exposé, Debbie Deb, Shannon, Trinere, Johnny O, Nu Shooz, Pretty Poison, Stacey Q) Hits California, Arizona

June 18, 2013 by Jason DeBord 2 Comments

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The Super Freestyle Explosion will be hitting the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California on June 29th, US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona on August 2nd and Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento on July 27th with an amazing line-up of popular artists that are immediately recognized by fans of the electronic dance/pop music of the 80s, much of which originated in Florida and New York.  The massive line-up includes Stevie B, Lisa Lisa, Exposé, Debbie Deb, Shannon, Trinere, Johnny O, Nu Shooz, Pretty Poison, and Stacey Q.  [Read more…]

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Another Planet Entertainment Announces Outside Lands Line-Up, Tickets On Sale Now

April 21, 2013 by Jason DeBord Leave a Comment

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Another Planet Entertainment has announced a stellar line-up for their annual Outside Lands 3-Day festival in San Francisco at Golden Gate Park, running August 9-11.  Headliners include Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, Kascade, Vampire Weekend, Pretty Lights, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hall & Oates, and more.  3-Day tickets are on sale now. [Read more…]

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Phoenix at Freeborn Hall, U.C. Davis | Davis, California | 4/2/2013 (Concert Review)

April 3, 2013 by Jason DeBord 2 Comments

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Thomas Mars, vocalist for French alternative rock band Phoenix, was a man of few words in-between songs at their Coachella headlining warm up gig at Freeborn Hall at U.C. Davis last night, but the show was extremely interactive.  By the second song of their approximately hour and a half set, he was already at the edge of the stage, leaning into the audience.  By the time the high energy show came to an end, he’d sung one song on the front rail of the all standing/GA venue, made his way deep into the crowd sometime thereafter, and eventually crowd surfed atop the sold out capacity crowd.  It was among their first live shows in several years, and they played a lot of material from their highly anticipated forthcoming fifth studio album, Bankrupt!, due April 22nd.

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Filed Under: Another Planet Entertainment, Concert Reviews, Davis California, Freeborn Hall, Live Rock Music, News, & Events, Mac DeMarco, Phoenix Tagged With: 2013, album, another planet entertainment, bankrupt, christian mazzalai, Concert, Concert Review, davs, deck d'arcy, freeborn hall, high resolution, indie, laurent brancowitz, live, mac demarco, Music, Phoenix, photograph, photos, review, set list, setlist, thomas mars, U.C. Davis

Phoenix Returns To North America for Coachella and Additional Dates to Support New Album Bankrupt!

February 8, 2013 by Jason DeBord Leave a Comment

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French alternative rock band Phoenix will be returning to the United States for the first time in two years to make an appearances as one of the headlining artists at Coachella, as well as headline their own gigs outside of the annual Indio festival.   Their fifth studio album, Bankrupt!, is due in the Spring as well through Glassnote Records.  Following these dates, they will embark on a world tour headlining additional festivals in Europe.

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2013 Concert Artist Line-Up Announced; Preview of Bay Area “Fauxchella” Possibilities

January 24, 2013 by Jason DeBord 1 Comment

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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, presented by Goldenvoice, has announced their 2013 line-up of artists and bands performing at the annual music event in Indio, California.  Featured artists include New Order, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phoenix, The Stone Roses, Blur, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The xx, Phoenix, Modest Mouse, Lou Reed, Metric, Of Monsters and Men, Johnny Marr, Moby, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Vampire Weekend, Jurassic 5, Hot Chip, Postal Service, Social Distortion, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and more.  For residents of Northern California, like myself, are just as excited about the announcement, in that though we may not make the trek to Southern California, we have the benefit of what has been dubbed “Fauxchella” by SpinningPlatters.com…  with concert venues in the San Francisco Bay Area playing host to many of the bands adding on their own headlining shows on dates just before and after the famous festival event.

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