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(Photo: Kevin Berne)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Sid and Nate come back slightly drunk and then some, the family sits down to dinner (including three of the children) and Sid starts to entertain them. Sid is entertaining, and he is clearly better at it drunk, and Lily is having a great time, and so are we, and that’s the problem. The more joy he brings, the less joyful his life becomes — and Lily’s — and finally all those who love him. Hiatt, Hall, Fusco and Ticotin bring this all off without seeming to even wind up. It just happens. It’s the high point of a fine production, but even better, it haunts every joyful moment after it with real fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shotgun Players’ production of Aphra Behn’s \u003cem>The Rover\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real fear also courses through the Shotgun Players’ production of Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy, \u003cem>The Rover\u003c/em>. Set in Naples during carnival season, it’s a fast, sharp farce with a nasty, vicious edge, dexterously directed by M. Graham Smith with a brilliant sound design by Theodore J.H. Hulsker. At times it’s hard to tell what brings the characters more pleasure: love or inflicting pain. It’s a toss up for the audience, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11041096 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rover\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(from right to left) Wilmore (Jeremy Kahn) and Hellena (Caitlyn Louchard) find joy as Don Pedro (Dan Saski) looks on in ‘The Rover’ at the Ashby Stage. (Photo: Pak Han)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Well, come on, not really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We might root for the central couple, good Florinda and her steadfast Captain Belvile. But it’s the rover, Captain Wilmore, who intrigues. And not just us, but also Florinda’s sister, Hellena, scrapping life in the convent for a different kind of God. That this God’s a sick dick — that he mistakenly tries to rape his good friend’s fiancée, seduces a wily and experienced courtesan to the point of despair, and whose only redeeming feature is an animal’s ability to survive — well, that’s the type of joy you get in Restoration Comedy. But what a pleasure Wilmore the rover is, and Jeremy Kahn’s performance catches this demi-god in all his sleazy wonder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its season of women playwrights, Shotgun seems concerned with selling Behn’s feminist credentials, and she was a woman ahead of her time. But she was also an artist \u003cem>of\u003c/em> her time and the Restoration playwrights (Behn, Congreve, Sheridan, Farquhar) understood that most people are corrupt. And so she comes to a disturbing conclusion about joy: In Behn’s world, you must learn to forget every kind of injustice if you want any kind of happiness. That’s joy with an undertow, which is where it belongs, submerged and gasping for air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ghost Quartet\u003c/em> runs through October 31, 2015 at the Curran Theater in San Francisco. For tickets and information visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcurran.com\">www.sfcurran.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ah, Wilderness!\u003c/em> runs through November 8, 2015 at the Geary Theater in San Francisco. For tickets and information visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.act-sf.org\">http://www.act-sf.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Rover\u003c/em> runs through November 15, 2015 at the Ashby Theater in Berkeley. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every time I think of joy, I think of the post-punk band Joy Division: That its members named the band after a concentration camp brothel where Jewish prisoners serviced SS officers is just the first of a series of tragic gestures that ended with lead singer Ian Curtis swinging from the rafters of his Manchester flat, a suicide at the age of twenty-three. It all makes for one grotesque, ironic joke. And yet the band’s music — somber, jagged, haunted — is full of joy. It suggests that joy isn’t a state unto itself, something pure and cut off from the world, but rather the remains of fear, hatred, and our own savage sense of survival. It is an after effect, what we wish for after the violence of the world has had its way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere is this savagery better expressed than in Dave Malloy’s brilliant and terrifying song cycle, \u003cem>Ghost Quartet\u003c/em>. You couldn’t ask for a more suitable setting than the empty Curran Theatre, presently undergoing a full-scale renovation. With the vast auditorium—silent and stately—looming in the background, it’s as if the performers and the audience, relegated to the tiny bit of land of the stage, are floating in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By necessity, musical theater often relies on simple stories simply told. But Malloy is a master of complex narrative techniques. The composer effortlessly takes four stories, spanning the 14th to the 21st centuries, and twists them until they seamlessly blend into each other. He achieves this without explaining them out. Instead, he relies on the emotion of the moment and our ability to piece together converging patterns, very much like how an astronomer might explain the order of the stars to a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we get two sets of sisters, a Rose and Pearl seven centuries apart, who are connected by a 19th century Roxie whose dead sister is also a Rose. That they are all connected by murder is just the beginning of their nightmares. How Malloy and his talented performer-musicians shepherd these tragic stories towards a communal and joyful end is a wonder that is as simple as it is majestic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ghost Quartet\u003c/em> isn’t alone, though. Throughout the Bay Area, theater companies large and small have been taking a torturous path to joy. Perhaps in anticipation of the coming season\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>we should take these as warning signs of the difficult times to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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One could say that Nate and Essie are the ideal that Sid and Lily just miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Ah_Wilderness_07_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11041094 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Ah_Wilderness_07_web-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sid Davis (Dan Hiatt, pictured in orange suit) indulges the Miller family with food gags at the dinner table in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!, performing at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater through Sunday, November 8.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Ah_Wilderness_07_web.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Ah_Wilderness_07_web-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sid Davis (Dan Hiatt, pictured in orange suit) entertains the Miller family in Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Ah, Wilderness!’ at ACT’s Geary Theater. (Photo: Kevin Berne)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Sid and Nate come back slightly drunk and then some, the family sits down to dinner (including three of the children) and Sid starts to entertain them. Sid is entertaining, and he is clearly better at it drunk, and Lily is having a great time, and so are we, and that’s the problem. The more joy he brings, the less joyful his life becomes — and Lily’s — and finally all those who love him. Hiatt, Hall, Fusco and Ticotin bring this all off without seeming to even wind up. It just happens. It’s the high point of a fine production, but even better, it haunts every joyful moment after it with real fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shotgun Players’ production of Aphra Behn’s \u003cem>The Rover\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real fear also courses through the Shotgun Players’ production of Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy, \u003cem>The Rover\u003c/em>. Set in Naples during carnival season, it’s a fast, sharp farce with a nasty, vicious edge, dexterously directed by M. Graham Smith with a brilliant sound design by Theodore J.H. Hulsker. At times it’s hard to tell what brings the characters more pleasure: love or inflicting pain. It’s a toss up for the audience, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11041096 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rover\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/8.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(from right to left) Wilmore (Jeremy Kahn) and Hellena (Caitlyn Louchard) find joy as Don Pedro (Dan Saski) looks on in ‘The Rover’ at the Ashby Stage. (Photo: Pak Han)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Well, come on, not really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We might root for the central couple, good Florinda and her steadfast Captain Belvile. But it’s the rover, Captain Wilmore, who intrigues. And not just us, but also Florinda’s sister, Hellena, scrapping life in the convent for a different kind of God. That this God’s a sick dick — that he mistakenly tries to rape his good friend’s fiancée, seduces a wily and experienced courtesan to the point of despair, and whose only redeeming feature is an animal’s ability to survive — well, that’s the type of joy you get in Restoration Comedy. But what a pleasure Wilmore the rover is, and Jeremy Kahn’s performance catches this demi-god in all his sleazy wonder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its season of women playwrights, Shotgun seems concerned with selling Behn’s feminist credentials, and she was a woman ahead of her time. But she was also an artist \u003cem>of\u003c/em> her time and the Restoration playwrights (Behn, Congreve, Sheridan, Farquhar) understood that most people are corrupt. And so she comes to a disturbing conclusion about joy: In Behn’s world, you must learn to forget every kind of injustice if you want any kind of happiness. That’s joy with an undertow, which is where it belongs, submerged and gasping for air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ghost Quartet\u003c/em> runs through October 31, 2015 at the Curran Theater in San Francisco. For tickets and information visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcurran.com\">www.sfcurran.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ah, Wilderness!\u003c/em> runs through November 8, 2015 at the Geary Theater in San Francisco. For tickets and information visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.act-sf.org\">http://www.act-sf.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Rover\u003c/em> runs through November 15, 2015 at the Ashby Theater in Berkeley. 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"title": "Music This Weekend That Isn't Your Friends Dressing Up Like the Ramones",
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"content": "\u003cp>Every Halloween, an increasing number of local bands decide to dress up and pretend to be a band they’re not. Over at \u003cem>SF Weekly\u003c/em>, Jessi Phillips has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2015/10/28/under-the-cover-bands-of-darkness-halloween-tribute-shows-roundup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fine roundup\u003c/a> of these Halloween cover-band shows, including bargain-basement tributes to the Cure, Prince, Devo, Thin Lizzy, Sleater-Kinney, David Bowie, Bikini Kill, the Ramones and many more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what if your tastes run counter to pure novelty? As usual, there’s more music happening in the Bay Area this weekend than one might know what to do with. Here are our picks — which don’t require a costume for entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, Oct. 29: Danzig at the San Jose Civic\u003c/strong>. The king of horror-punk doesn’t need to dress up for Halloween — as the former lead singer of the Misfits, Danzig essentially \u003cem>is\u003c/em> Halloween. When he’s not out \u003ca href=\"http://www.stereogum.com/560502/danzig-defends-kitty-litter-pic/news/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shopping for kitty litter\u003c/a>, he’s still one of punk’s most captivating, bellowing dramatists. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ticketmaster.com/danzig-san-jose-california-10-29-2015/event/1C004F0FD8DD708D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041849\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/KoolKeith-400x235.jpg\" alt=\"Kool Keith. (Photo: Social Hall SF)\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11041849\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/KoolKeith-400x235.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/KoolKeith.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kool Keith. (Photo: Social Hall SF)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, Oct. 30: Kool Keith at Social Hall SF\u003c/strong>. We’ll be the first to admit that Kool Keith has delivered his share of spotty shows (a particularly phoned-in concert at the Maritime Hall after his epic \u003cem>Black Elvis/Lost in Space\u003c/em> in 1999 still stings), but the twisted genius of the man born Keith Thornton is worth the risk. Styled as a Sun Ra / George Clinton for the 21st century, the producer and rapper is a true American original, here promising “the return of Dr. Octagon,” his 1996 gynecologist alter-ego. \u003ca href=\"http://www.socialhallsf.com/events/detail/281421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, Oct. 30: ROVA Sax Quartet at Center for New Music, San Francisco\u003c/strong>. The ROVA quartet are a Bay Area institution that we often take for granted; in fact, they’re soon journeying on a European tour to bask in the appreciation of overseas audiences. Before they go, Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs and Jon Raskin perform compositions both new and decades-old at this intimate space which, along with presenting the city’s most daring new music, nobly gives 100% of the door’s proceeds to the performers. \u003ca href=\"http://centerfornewmusic.com/calendar/rova-sax-quartet-pre-tour-concert/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Oct. 31: HBK Gang feat. Kehlani at the Warfield, San Francisco\u003c/strong>. Richmond’s homegrown hip-hop collective has already seen hits with Sage the Gemini’s “Red Nose” and “Gas Pedal,” and a steady creative output from rapper Iamsu (who KQED \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/03/24/a-day-in-the-life-with-breakout-bay-area-rappers-hbk-gang/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profiled last year\u003c/a>). But there’s no disguising this year’s star: \u003cstrong>Kehlani\u003c/strong>, raised in Oakland and poised on the precipice of stardom. With a huge fan base and a catalog of raw, honest songs, the 20-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/28/live-review-kehlani-crests-the-tsunami-of-stardom-at-slims/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dazzled us in a sold-out show\u003c/a> earlier this year; this is the second of two sure-to-be-packed nights. \u003ca href=\"http://www.axs.com/events/292473/heartbreak-halloween-featuring-sage-the-gemini-kehlani-iamsu-tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Oct. 31: Death at Oakland Metro\u003c/strong>. One of the more surprising comeback stories in recent history belongs to this trio of black brothers from Detroit, whose proto-punk style might have been lost to the dustbin of history were it not for rabid 45 collectors and the good taste of Drag City Records. Now, with three albums and \u003ca href=\"http://drafthousefilms.com/film/a-band-called-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one documentary\u003c/a> to their name, the band has transcended the “Bad Brains before there was Bad Brains” storyline. Hear powerful songs like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl3FstCc_OY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politicians in My Eyes\u003c/a>” when they come to Jack London Square. \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandmetro.org/event/221999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSaturday, Oct. 31: Howard Wiley at Cafe Stritch, San Jose\u003c/strong>. There’s no Bay Area saxman quite like Howard Wiley, who graduated from Berkeley High’s esteemed jazz program and has been an independent force of nature since. In the mid-aughts, Wiley released \u003cem>TwentyFirstCenturyNegro\u003c/em>, an incredible album whose centerpiece “Big Daddtay’s Boogie” deserves \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBweGW7p_60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more YouTube views\u003c/a>. Lately, he’s worked with the jazz vocalist Tiffany Austin in an inspired pairing; on Saturday in San Jose, he promises a “Halloween Spectacular.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafestritch.com/event/howard-wiley-halloween-spectacular/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/grimes-2016-400x247.jpg\" alt=\"Grimes. (Photo: The Fillmore)\" width=\"400\" height=\"247\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11041850\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/grimes-2016-400x247.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/grimes-2016.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grimes. (Photo: The Fillmore)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Oct. 31 and Sunday, Nov. 1: Grimes at the Fillmore, San Francisco\u003c/strong>. Like Joanna Newsom and Bat for Lashes before her, the electronic pop musician Grimes (neé Clare Boucher, from Montreal) is often branded as an elfin faerie or forest waif or [insert lazy descriptor from the critic’s favorite fantasy novel here]. She’s been \u003ca href=\"http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/48744769552/i-dont-want-to-have-to-compromise-my-morals-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outspoken about this type of infantilization\u003c/a>, and, as if to kick back, recently started making fantastic \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIi57zhDl78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out-and-out jams meant for Rihanna\u003c/a>. Her newest video, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv9YoYCKNoE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flesh Without Blood\u003c/a>,” is just two days old — a perfect red carpet for her shows at the Fillmore. \u003ca href=\"http://thefillmore.com/event/grimes-with-nicole-dollanganger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunday, Nov. 1: David Conte’s 60th Birthday Concert, San Francisco Conservatory of Music\u003c/strong>. One of the last students of the great Nadia Boulanger, David Conte is a composer of remarkable tenderness who serves as chair of composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He’s also turning 60, and he’s celebrating it in style; to wit, with world premieres of his “Sinfonietta for Eleven Instruments” and “American Death Ballads,” as well as 24 preludes and a dance suite by SFCM alumni. The afternoon concert is free. \u003ca href=\"http://calendar.sfcm.edu/index.php?eID=1257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every Halloween, an increasing number of local bands decide to dress up and pretend to be a band they’re not. Over at \u003cem>SF Weekly\u003c/em>, Jessi Phillips has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2015/10/28/under-the-cover-bands-of-darkness-halloween-tribute-shows-roundup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fine roundup\u003c/a> of these Halloween cover-band shows, including bargain-basement tributes to the Cure, Prince, Devo, Thin Lizzy, Sleater-Kinney, David Bowie, Bikini Kill, the Ramones and many more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what if your tastes run counter to pure novelty? As usual, there’s more music happening in the Bay Area this weekend than one might know what to do with. Here are our picks — which don’t require a costume for entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, Oct. 29: Danzig at the San Jose Civic\u003c/strong>. The king of horror-punk doesn’t need to dress up for Halloween — as the former lead singer of the Misfits, Danzig essentially \u003cem>is\u003c/em> Halloween. When he’s not out \u003ca href=\"http://www.stereogum.com/560502/danzig-defends-kitty-litter-pic/news/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shopping for kitty litter\u003c/a>, he’s still one of punk’s most captivating, bellowing dramatists. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ticketmaster.com/danzig-san-jose-california-10-29-2015/event/1C004F0FD8DD708D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041849\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/KoolKeith-400x235.jpg\" alt=\"Kool Keith. (Photo: Social Hall SF)\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11041849\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/KoolKeith-400x235.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/KoolKeith.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kool Keith. (Photo: Social Hall SF)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, Oct. 30: Kool Keith at Social Hall SF\u003c/strong>. We’ll be the first to admit that Kool Keith has delivered his share of spotty shows (a particularly phoned-in concert at the Maritime Hall after his epic \u003cem>Black Elvis/Lost in Space\u003c/em> in 1999 still stings), but the twisted genius of the man born Keith Thornton is worth the risk. Styled as a Sun Ra / George Clinton for the 21st century, the producer and rapper is a true American original, here promising “the return of Dr. Octagon,” his 1996 gynecologist alter-ego. \u003ca href=\"http://www.socialhallsf.com/events/detail/281421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, Oct. 30: ROVA Sax Quartet at Center for New Music, San Francisco\u003c/strong>. The ROVA quartet are a Bay Area institution that we often take for granted; in fact, they’re soon journeying on a European tour to bask in the appreciation of overseas audiences. Before they go, Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs and Jon Raskin perform compositions both new and decades-old at this intimate space which, along with presenting the city’s most daring new music, nobly gives 100% of the door’s proceeds to the performers. \u003ca href=\"http://centerfornewmusic.com/calendar/rova-sax-quartet-pre-tour-concert/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Oct. 31: HBK Gang feat. Kehlani at the Warfield, San Francisco\u003c/strong>. Richmond’s homegrown hip-hop collective has already seen hits with Sage the Gemini’s “Red Nose” and “Gas Pedal,” and a steady creative output from rapper Iamsu (who KQED \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/03/24/a-day-in-the-life-with-breakout-bay-area-rappers-hbk-gang/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profiled last year\u003c/a>). But there’s no disguising this year’s star: \u003cstrong>Kehlani\u003c/strong>, raised in Oakland and poised on the precipice of stardom. With a huge fan base and a catalog of raw, honest songs, the 20-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/28/live-review-kehlani-crests-the-tsunami-of-stardom-at-slims/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dazzled us in a sold-out show\u003c/a> earlier this year; this is the second of two sure-to-be-packed nights. \u003ca href=\"http://www.axs.com/events/292473/heartbreak-halloween-featuring-sage-the-gemini-kehlani-iamsu-tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Oct. 31: Death at Oakland Metro\u003c/strong>. One of the more surprising comeback stories in recent history belongs to this trio of black brothers from Detroit, whose proto-punk style might have been lost to the dustbin of history were it not for rabid 45 collectors and the good taste of Drag City Records. Now, with three albums and \u003ca href=\"http://drafthousefilms.com/film/a-band-called-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one documentary\u003c/a> to their name, the band has transcended the “Bad Brains before there was Bad Brains” storyline. Hear powerful songs like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl3FstCc_OY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politicians in My Eyes\u003c/a>” when they come to Jack London Square. \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandmetro.org/event/221999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSaturday, Oct. 31: Howard Wiley at Cafe Stritch, San Jose\u003c/strong>. There’s no Bay Area saxman quite like Howard Wiley, who graduated from Berkeley High’s esteemed jazz program and has been an independent force of nature since. In the mid-aughts, Wiley released \u003cem>TwentyFirstCenturyNegro\u003c/em>, an incredible album whose centerpiece “Big Daddtay’s Boogie” deserves \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBweGW7p_60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more YouTube views\u003c/a>. Lately, he’s worked with the jazz vocalist Tiffany Austin in an inspired pairing; on Saturday in San Jose, he promises a “Halloween Spectacular.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafestritch.com/event/howard-wiley-halloween-spectacular/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/grimes-2016-400x247.jpg\" alt=\"Grimes. 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She’s been \u003ca href=\"http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/48744769552/i-dont-want-to-have-to-compromise-my-morals-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outspoken about this type of infantilization\u003c/a>, and, as if to kick back, recently started making fantastic \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIi57zhDl78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out-and-out jams meant for Rihanna\u003c/a>. Her newest video, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv9YoYCKNoE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flesh Without Blood\u003c/a>,” is just two days old — a perfect red carpet for her shows at the Fillmore. \u003ca href=\"http://thefillmore.com/event/grimes-with-nicole-dollanganger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunday, Nov. 1: David Conte’s 60th Birthday Concert, San Francisco Conservatory of Music\u003c/strong>. One of the last students of the great Nadia Boulanger, David Conte is a composer of remarkable tenderness who serves as chair of composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He’s also turning 60, and he’s celebrating it in style; to wit, with world premieres of his “Sinfonietta for Eleven Instruments” and “American Death Ballads,” as well as 24 preludes and a dance suite by SFCM alumni. The afternoon concert is free. \u003ca href=\"http://calendar.sfcm.edu/index.php?eID=1257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Fellow broke humans of the Bay Area! How’s your week going so far? Still trying to choose a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/10/26/dress-up-time-six-costume-ideas-from-the-twisted-minds-of-kqed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halloween costume\u003c/a>? Stuck in limbo deciding between “\u003ca href=\"http://www.yandy.com/What-Is-The-Color-Dress-Costume.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Dress\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"http://www.costumeish.com/products/costumes?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=6464838019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lion Killer Dentist\u003c/a>’’? (Please. Please listen. You’re better than either of those things.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are, however, among those choosing to blow this week’s lunch money on, um, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.costumeish.com/collections/adult-costumes/products/deez-nuts-for-president-2016-costume?variant=6693338819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deez Nuts costume\u003c/a>, never fear — here are some places to be this week that won’t break your piggy bank even further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know the rules: Nothing over $20. BYO fun-sized candy bars (or find a kid and go trick-or-treating, the finest of all penny-pinching holiday traditions). Here’s this week’s \u003cstrong>Cheap Date.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wednesday, Oct. 28: \u003ca href=\"https://ca.evanced.info/mountainview/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=11748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sugar Skull Decorating for Dia de Los Muertos\u003c/a>, Mountain View. \u003c/strong>Celebrate Day of the Dead by practicing the delicate art of the \u003cem>calavera\u003c/em>, or sugar skull decoration. Young people ages 16 and up are welcome. All you need is a shoebox (or some other way to cart your work of art home) — the Mountain View Public Library will have the rest. \u003ca href=\"https://ca.evanced.info/mountainview/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=11748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free; details \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://ca.evanced.info/mountainview/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=11748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, Oct. 29: \u003ca href=\"http://www.freightandsalvage.org/kamau-bell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KALW Presents Kamau Right Now!\u003c/a> at Freight & Salvage, Berkeley. \u003c/strong>The Berkeley comedian known for his whip-smart takes on politics, race relations, and more — all of which he offered to uproarious laughter at The Cooler’s launch party last month — takes the stage in his hometown for a live radio broadcast. \u003ca href=\"http://www.freightandsalvage.org/kamau-bell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$20; details here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, Oct. 29: \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/nightlife/creatures-of-the-nightlife-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peaches Christ hosts ‘Creatures of the Nightlife’ at the Cal Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>, SF. \u003c/strong>What do you get when you cross San Francisco’s queen of all queens with the spooky side of science? Well, a drag show and costume contest, for one, along with a “haunted hall” of curiosities (like skulls), squid dissection, and monster makeovers. This one’s 21+. $10–$12; \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/nightlife/creatures-of-the-nightlife-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, Oct. 30: \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/935089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Total Trash Halloween Bash at 924 Gilman\u003c/a>, Berkeley. \u003c/strong>If the Bay Area’s seemingly ever-increasing number of squares in suits is getting you down, a solid weekend of punk, rockabilly, and undefinable yet loud-and-screamy retro weirdness is the antidote. Luckily, that’s what Total Trash Productions puts on every year: This kickoff night stars SoCal vets Redd Kross and New Jersey pizza-punk OGs (yes) Personal and the Pizzas. $15; \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/935089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, Oct. 30: \u003ca href=\"http://www.bottomofthehill.com/20151030.html#.VjALtH6rTIU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scissors for Lefty and Fritz Montana\u003c/a> at Bottom of the Hill, SF. \u003c/strong>A night of sweaty, dancey, blues-inflected indie rock from two staples of the local scene, at one of the last pretension-free live music rooms in the city. What’s not to like? $10 – $12; \u003ca href=\"http://www.bottomofthehill.com/20151030.html#.VjALtH6rTIU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Oct. 31: \u003ca href=\"http://brownpapertickets.com/event/2359394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mystery \u003cem>Mystery Science Theater 3000\u003c/em>\u003c/a> at the New Parkway, Oakland. \u003c/strong>Grab your best pals — be they human or lo-fi, early ’90s robot — and head downtown for a night of riffing, one-liners and sometimes sophomoric, always hilarious commentary, aka the stuff MST3K dreams are made of. Trivia (with prizes!) will reward your knowledge of all things Tom, Crow, and Joel and/or Mike ahead of the episode, which is TBD. (Fingers crossed for\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EGwvwX2X44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Rowsdower\u003c/a>.) $8; \u003ca href=\"http://brownpapertickets.com/event/2359394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Oct. 31: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/141008396251169/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Beetlejuice!\u003c/em> Halloween Party\u003c/a> at Virgil’s Sea Room, SF.\u003c/strong> Yes, the sequel’s actually happening — \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2015/film/news/beetlejuice-2-sequel-winona-ryder-tim-burton-michael-keaton-1201567607/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winona said so!\u003c/a> — but if you can’t wait that long, put on some Harry Belafonte and calypso-groove your way on over to the patio of this laid-back bar. Costume contest at midnight — bonus points, we’re guessing, for pulling off \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj_inlzsDhQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shrunken Head Guy\u003c/a>. $3 – $5; \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/141008396251169/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunday, Nov. 1 – Monday, Nov. 2: Day of the Dead, all over the Bay Area. \u003c/strong>Nurse your post-Halloween hangover with one of the fine processionals and parties taking place in \u003ca href=\"http://www.dayofthedeadsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.santarosadiadelosmuertos.org/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa\u003c/a> and beyond. Remember, though, this is a holy holiday — traditional Mexican face paint very welcome. 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Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Memnon#/media/File:Belzoni_memnon_halage_1816.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ozymandian:\u003c/strong> a reference to Shelley's sonnet \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/672/\" target=\"_blank\">Ozymandias\u003c/a>,\" which essentially boils down to \"we're all going to die and be forgotten.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sapokanikan:\u003c/strong> the name of a Lenape village that was located where Greenwich Village stands today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Florry Walker:\u003c/strong> the name of a woman Australian Impressionist Arthur Streeton had an unrequited thing for. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/a-florry-of-activity/2007/06/12/1181414292500.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2\" target=\"_blank\">Restorers found\u003c/a> her name etched beneath \u003cem>Spring\u003c/em>, one of his pastoral paintings. And that's not the only cool thing about the artwork; it was shot through with bullets 14 times during a rowdy party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Tobias and the Angel\u003c/em>:\u003c/strong> a painting from the 1500s linked to Titian. It was widely\u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1498587/Remarkable-Titian-portrait-is-revealed-after-20-year-restoration.html\" target=\"_blank\"> derided by the art world\u003c/a> and its authenticity was questioned. After passing through many hands of unimpressed owners like Tsar Nicholas I, it ended up in a London garage where it weathered the Blitz. Many years later, X-rays revealed Titian's actual work, a portrait of a woman and her child hidden underneath the much-maligned top layer, which turned out to have been painted by one of Titian's pupils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18731\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Hidden Masterpieces\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.hiddenmasterpieces.com/van-gogh/\">Hidden Masterpieces\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Patch of Grass\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>: In \"Sapokanikan,\" Joanna sings \"Beneath a patch of grass, her bones the old Dutch master hid.\" She's referring to the painted-over portrait of a peasant woman \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93209918\" target=\"_blank\">scientists discovered\u003c/a> beneath van Gogh's \u003cem>Patch of Grass\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arion: \u003c/strong>the immortal horse and child (it's complicated) of Demeter, the ancient Greek goddess of the harvest and fertility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rharian:\u003c/strong> a field located in Eleusis, Greece, which was believed to be where the first plot of grain was grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18742\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-1440x929.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-960x619.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_nightjar#/media/File:Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_(1885-1897).jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nightjar:\u003c/strong> a type of nocturnal bird that is known for its camouflage, the \"boom\" sound that accompanies its diving, and its torpor (a sort of hibernation to withstand low temperatures and lack of food). Newsom likens their hiding amongst dead leaves and laying eggs in the ground to soldiers trying to stay hidden from the enemy and burying land mines. They used to be called goatsuckers because an ancient myth alleged that nightjars suckled from nanny goats, leading to a lack of milk and blindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hotdogging:\u003c/strong> to show off; to perform stunts or tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potter's field:\u003c/strong> a burial place for unknown or indigent people. Newsom uses the term to describe Washington Square Park, which sits on top of an estimated 20,000 bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18733\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Major_John_Purroy_Mitchel_circa_1918_in_his_pilot_gear.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-18733\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Major_John_Purroy_Mitchel_circa_1918_in_his_pilot_gear-400x506.jpg\" alt=\"Major Mitchel in his pilot gear around 1918. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"250\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Major_John_Purroy_Mitchel_circa_1918_in_his_pilot_gear-400x506.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Major_John_Purroy_Mitchel_circa_1918_in_his_pilot_gear.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major Mitchel in his pilot gear around 1918. Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Major_John_Purroy_Mitchel_circa_1918_in_his_pilot_gear.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Purroy Mitchel: \u003c/strong>the 95th mayor of New York from 1914 to 1917, he was the second youngest to serve and became known as “The Boy Mayor of New York.” After losing a bid for reelection, he joined the Army and died after falling out of a plane due to an unfastened seatbelt during a training exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Simulacreage:\u003c/strong> a portmanteau of “simulacra” and “acreage.” According to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/26/precious-mettle\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, it's \"a coinage previously unknown to Google.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chabot:\u003c/strong> In \"Waltz of the 101st Lightborn,\" Joanna sings, \"I had a dream that I walked in the garden of Chabot, and those telescope ruins.\" She's referencing the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabot_Space_and_Science_Center\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a> in Oakland, California. The observatory's namesake Anthony Chabot worked in mining in Nevada City, California — Joanna's hometown — and invented the first hydraulic mining tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Treaty_of_Penn_with_Indians_by_Benjamin_West.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18730\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Treaty_of_Penn_with_Indians_by_Benjamin_West-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Tamanend negotiating with William Penn. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Treaty_of_Penn_with_Indians_by_Benjamin_West-800x557.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Treaty_of_Penn_with_Indians_by_Benjamin_West-400x278.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Treaty_of_Penn_with_Indians_by_Benjamin_West-960x668.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Treaty_of_Penn_with_Indians_by_Benjamin_West.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamanend negotiating with William Penn. Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamanend\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>King Tamanend:\u003c/strong> a 17th century chief of a Lenni-Lenape tribe, best known for his peaceful negotiations with William Penn and other English settlers in Pennsylvania. Called \"the affable\" and a \"Patron Saint of America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>debride:\u003c/strong> \u003cspan class=\"s1\">the removal of damaged tissue or foreign objects from a wound.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>amora obscura:\u003c/strong> a pun on \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura\" rel=\"nofollow\">camera obscura\u003c/a>, a predecessor to the modern camera which means \"dark room\" in Latin. She swaps out \"room\" for \"love.\" \u003cem>Camera Obscura\u003c/em> was the original Russian title of Nabokov's \u003cem>Laughter in the Dark\u003c/em>. Newsom\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/10/24/448996970/joanna-newsom-on-nabokov-songwriting-and-music-journalism\" target=\"_blank\"> told NPR\u003c/a> that his work has been a huge influence on her writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>Divers\u003c/em> is out now. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dragcity.com/products/divers\" target=\"_blank\">Buy it\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Back in August, I wrote \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/08/10/joanna-newsom-announces-first-album-in-5-years-unveils-sapokanikan-video/\" target=\"_blank\">a breathless post\u003c/a> reporting the news that, after five long years, Joanna Newsom would be releasing new music. \u003cem>Divers\u003c/em> finally hit stores on Friday, but I'm not going to review it. Plenty of people \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/25/joanna-newsom-returns-with-compelling-complex-divers\" target=\"_blank\">already have\u003c/a>, and quite honestly, my take on it would go something like this: \"Omg, you guys! Omgomgomg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, instead, I'm going to do something useful: compile a Newsomian glossary of all the big words and historical terms you'll glean from this album and later use to seem smart in front of your friends!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 526px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Belzoni_memnon_halage_1816.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-18735\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Belzoni_memnon_halage_1816.jpg\" alt=\"The statue that inspired Shelley's sonnet. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"526\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Belzoni_memnon_halage_1816.jpg 526w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Belzoni_memnon_halage_1816-400x260.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The statue that inspired Shelley's sonnet. Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Memnon#/media/File:Belzoni_memnon_halage_1816.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ozymandian:\u003c/strong> a reference to Shelley's sonnet \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/672/\" target=\"_blank\">Ozymandias\u003c/a>,\" which essentially boils down to \"we're all going to die and be forgotten.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sapokanikan:\u003c/strong> the name of a Lenape village that was located where Greenwich Village stands today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Florry Walker:\u003c/strong> the name of a woman Australian Impressionist Arthur Streeton had an unrequited thing for. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/a-florry-of-activity/2007/06/12/1181414292500.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2\" target=\"_blank\">Restorers found\u003c/a> her name etched beneath \u003cem>Spring\u003c/em>, one of his pastoral paintings. And that's not the only cool thing about the artwork; it was shot through with bullets 14 times during a rowdy party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Tobias and the Angel\u003c/em>:\u003c/strong> a painting from the 1500s linked to Titian. It was widely\u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1498587/Remarkable-Titian-portrait-is-revealed-after-20-year-restoration.html\" target=\"_blank\"> derided by the art world\u003c/a> and its authenticity was questioned. After passing through many hands of unimpressed owners like Tsar Nicholas I, it ended up in a London garage where it weathered the Blitz. Many years later, X-rays revealed Titian's actual work, a portrait of a woman and her child hidden underneath the much-maligned top layer, which turned out to have been painted by one of Titian's pupils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18731\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Hidden Masterpieces\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/vangogh1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.hiddenmasterpieces.com/van-gogh/\">Hidden Masterpieces\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Patch of Grass\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>: In \"Sapokanikan,\" Joanna sings \"Beneath a patch of grass, her bones the old Dutch master hid.\" She's referring to the painted-over portrait of a peasant woman \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93209918\" target=\"_blank\">scientists discovered\u003c/a> beneath van Gogh's \u003cem>Patch of Grass\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arion: \u003c/strong>the immortal horse and child (it's complicated) of Demeter, the ancient Greek goddess of the harvest and fertility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rharian:\u003c/strong> a field located in Eleusis, Greece, which was believed to be where the first plot of grain was grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18742\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-1440x929.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_1885-1897-1-960x619.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_nightjar#/media/File:Caprimulgus_europaeus_-Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_(1885-1897).jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nightjar:\u003c/strong> a type of nocturnal bird that is known for its camouflage, the \"boom\" sound that accompanies its diving, and its torpor (a sort of hibernation to withstand low temperatures and lack of food). Newsom likens their hiding amongst dead leaves and laying eggs in the ground to soldiers trying to stay hidden from the enemy and burying land mines. They used to be called goatsuckers because an ancient myth alleged that nightjars suckled from nanny goats, leading to a lack of milk and blindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hotdogging:\u003c/strong> to show off; to perform stunts or tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potter's field:\u003c/strong> a burial place for unknown or indigent people. Newsom uses the term to describe Washington Square Park, which sits on top of an estimated 20,000 bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18733\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Major_John_Purroy_Mitchel_circa_1918_in_his_pilot_gear.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-18733\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Major_John_Purroy_Mitchel_circa_1918_in_his_pilot_gear-400x506.jpg\" alt=\"Major Mitchel in his pilot gear around 1918. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/450828660/451403477\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new James Bond movie tends to mean a few things: a new villain, two new Bond girls (one of whom may or may not be painted gold), and — perhaps most dependably — a new song playing behind the opening credits. Fifty years of Bond films has left much music to be analyzed, and the Oxford University Press does just that in a new book called \u003cem>The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR’s Scott Simon caught up with the two Stanford University professors who wrote the book: Adrian Daub, who teaches German Studies, and Charles Kronengold, who teaches music. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Simon: It seems fair to assert that \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/88186965/dame-shirley-bassey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dame Shirley Bassey\u003c/a>‘s “Goldfinger” remains the best-known Bond theme. Did that song break the mold — or make the mold, I should say?\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11033220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 399px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/JAmes-Bonds-Songs.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/JAmes-Bonds-Songs-399x600.jpg\" alt='\"The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism\" by Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold' width=\"399\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11033220\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The James Bond Songs:\u003cbr>Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism” by Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adrian Daub:\u003c/strong> It did. This is the song that everybody’s been trying to copy ever since, and it’s the standard that listeners hold these songs up to on whatever level of consciousness. You listen to a new song every two or three years, and on some level you ask, “Is this measuring up to what Shirley Bassey did with ‘Goldfinger’?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the things you point out in this book is, some of the best-known recording artists of their time have done a James Bond song — and yet, if you do a greatest hits of that artist, that Bond song is not necessarily there. Why do you think that is?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charles Kronengold:\u003c/strong> I think it’s because there are so many constraints put on you when you’re writing a Bond song, or singing a Bond song, that you have to feel yourself compromise — kind of pulled in two or three directions at once. I mean, if you’re a lyricist, having to use a ridiculous word like “Moonraker” or “Thunderball” is not going to make your life any easier or pleasanter. It’s not necessarily going to be your best work, so the records don’t necessarily add up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Simon: The first Bond film to star Roger Moore, after the long reign of Sean Connery\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> is\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> 1973’s \u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Live and Let Die\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> — and the title theme is performed by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15158238/paul-mccartney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul McCartney\u003c/a>. Do you think there’s a little bit of composer autobiography in this song?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daub:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I think it would have been hard to hear that in the mid-’70s — from someone who \u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003cem>used\u003c/em> to say, “Live and let live,” but the world around him changed — and not think of the man at the mic.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Kronengold:\u003c/strong> I mean, being an ex-\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15229570/the-beatles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beatle\u003c/a> in 1973 is probably about as weird as being a James Bond who is \u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003cem>not\u003c/em> the guy who was James Bond 10 years earlier. This is Roger Moore, when people are just kind of getting used to the idea that Bond is going to somebody other than Sean Connery. And the idea that Paul McCartney is going to be still around, still making music, but not with The Beatles — what does that mean? Why does he even come to work? Why does he have to do this, and what’s the point of it? And the song brings that out in a really nice way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Simon: What do you hear in the newest Bond theme, “Writing on the Wall” by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/384927706/sam-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sam Smith\u003c/a>? Menace? Danger? Glamour?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kronengold:\u003c/strong> Well, not enough menace and danger for our taste. It seems like they forgot about the swagger and the bite that the best Bond songs have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daub:\u003c/strong> At the same time, there’s one part of it that we really like, and it seems to be the one that everyone else hates — which is when you get to the chorus. You know, a Bond song is supposed to play to the rafters; it’s supposed to yell out the word “Goldfinger” over and over and over again. And that’s the thing that Sam Smith, probably having listened back to the canon, decides not to do. The song builds to this amazing crescendo, and then just kind of ends with this whimper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Simon: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>You say in the book that, in the end, Bond songs are perishable — and that’s OK.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daub:\u003c/strong> Absolutely. A Bond song, from the very first, says, “I will be here. I will be all over the charts. People will be humming me in elevators or in their cars. And then, you’ll forget about me, and there’ll be another one in two years.” A pop song is supposed to stride on the scene with this sort of cocksure sense of, “This is all there is. This is all you should care about right now.” And Bond songs are very honest with us! 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Mostly I consumed it like it was water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People come and, boy, do people ever go. But music has always been there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 10 years since I left the record store for journalism, and especially in the years when I became the conspicuously older-looking person at shows, I’ve often been asked variations on the same question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How in the world do I remain excited about new music?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028548\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 417px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Typing.jpg\" alt=\"Banging out a zine in my bedroom, in 1991.\" width=\"417\" height=\"281\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11028548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Typing.jpg 417w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Typing-400x270.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banging out a zine in my bedroom, senior year, 1991.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a valid question. I remember my mom telling me once, “Your favorite music in high school will be your favorite music for the rest of your life.” A \u003ca href=\"http://www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-listening-new-music-33-218752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study\u003c/a> of online listening habits found that most people stop listening to new music altogether at age 33. And anecdotally, there’s almost universal evidence of people being stuck in the glory days of their youth when it comes to music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those things sound like a curse to me, and not just because I kinda liked the Red Hot Chili Peppers in high school. The curse is: Who wants to listen to the same songs forever? Why would anyone do that to themselves? Who wants to pay increasingly rising ticket prices to see a worse version of AC/DC, the Rolling Stones or U2 in a gigantic arena? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I, for one, don’t want to live in that dusty, stagnant world. But more importantly, I see so many incredible people making such exciting music on a daily basis that I can’t help but be inspired by it. Sure, following music is my job — I’ll give you that. But I see other people do this job, write about the music they liked in high school for a few years, and then quit. “I’m too old,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You are not too old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028549\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"On tour somewhere in Massachusetts, 1995.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11028549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-600x600.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On tour somewhere in Massachusetts, 1995.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I get it. I understand that now more than ever, the spigot of music is on full blast, and this is not necessarily a good thing. It can get really, really overwhelming when you’re bombarded with surprise albums and video premieres and \u003cem>Late Show\u003c/em> performances and Pitchfork reviews and Fader features and NPR First Listens and a gazillion podcasts. (Hence, the surge in “curators” sorting through it all.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I also know that new music naturally has less of an impact on one’s brain at 40 than it did at 14. I’ve felt it myself. To combat this, I’ve developed some methods in recent years to preserve my natural curiosity about music. Some of them are simple common sense, and some of them are ridiculous, but they all help. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>See Live Music\u003c/strong>. This is a no-brainer, but even I have to remind myself of it, despite often going to over 100 shows a year. Not only does seeing a show give you a fresh perspective on the music itself, it takes a solitary recorded-music listening experience and makes it communal. I can hear a song 20 times and then forever hear it differently after seeing it played live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/LRShifive-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"Working at the Last Record Store, where I spent 14 years absorbing everything.\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11028550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/LRShifive.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/LRShifive-400x287.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Working at the Last Record Store, where I spent 14 years absorbing everything.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get Physical\u003c/strong>. Don’t listen solely to digital files. The benefit to a tactile experience with physical media is mentioned in every vinyl- or cassette-revival article for a reason: it’s true. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/i-still-make-tapes/Content?oid=2172953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I still make tapes\u003c/a> for this very reason, but I also buy records constantly. (That record store I quit working at? I still go there three times a week.) Also, CDs are in great supply right now and man, are they cheap. Music shouldn’t arrive beamed into our brains, despite what streaming services try to sell us. If you have a hand in how it’s played, you’re engaging with it on a deeper level. (I don’t recommend going so far as to eat a record, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/eating-a-7-inch-record/Content?oid=2180106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I actually did once\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pay for Music\u003c/strong>. I recently led a \u003ca href=\"http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2015-08-25/how-we-listen-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">panel at the Commonwealth Club\u003c/a> about the declining value of music in the smartphone age, arguing that easy accessibility has diminished our appreciation for music. It’s the same with getting all your music for free. If your investment in music is zero, you’re less likely to be affected by it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be an Explorer\u003c/strong>. Try listening to crazy styles of music that you think you’d never, ever like. Especially seek out older music that’s new to you, or music from other countries. Just today, I came across 15 boxes of obscure disco 12″ singles at the local junk store and even though I’d probably, when pressed, say “I hate disco,” I left with 20 of them. When you immerse yourself in music that’s outside your usual listening habits, you’re sure to be changed. I listened solely to pop-country radio for a week several years ago and came out of it a better person. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028551\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/TheDig-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"It's best to introduce your child to record shopping at an early age, right?\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11028551\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s best to introduce your child to buying records at an early age, right?\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let Music Heal You\u003c/strong>. Those are possibly the most New Age-y four words I have ever typed, but I can’t tell you how many times music has gotten me through breakups, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/mother-of-love/Content?oid=2170595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deaths of loved ones\u003c/a>, stressful patches at work, periods of depression, being broke, and more. I’ve never had a therapist; I have a record collection instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Interact\u003c/strong>. Find local bands you love and support them directly. Send them messages saying how much you like their music and why. Buy their album from them personally at their merch table. I still have handwritten letters from bands who I wrote to as a teenager, which sounds quaint in this social media age, but it’s a basic approach I keep up today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make Lists\u003c/strong>. I’ve found it valuable to chronicle what you’re listening to in some type of list, or diary, or even the occasional social media posting — because you can look back years later and see a snapshot of your life and assess how you’ve grown. Here’s my \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/12/23/your-new-music-editors-top-25-albums-of-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list from last year\u003c/a>. (And if you really want to dig deep, see my top album lists from the years \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2013/12/31/gabes-top-25-albums-of-2013/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2012/12/13/top-25-albums-of-2012/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2012\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2011/12/14/top-25-albums-of-2011/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2010/12/14/top-25-albums-of-2010/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2010\u003c/a>, and lo and behold, the \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2009/12/15/the-top-albums-of-the-decade-2000-2009/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entire decade from 2000-2009\u003c/a>.) It’s OK to be embarrassed by what you once liked, even though you shouldn’t be. You should never feel embarrassed about any music you like, ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Switch Environments\u003c/strong>. I’ve hated albums at home, and then listened to them in the car and fallen in love with them. In the earbud era of today, I still think having a stereo at home is essential, but listening to music while walking, working, exercising, etc. can change the way you hear it completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Share!\u003c/strong> Music is more splintered and fragmented than ever, which is why virtually every conversation about music now \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/520644952179494913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sounds like this\u003c/a>. But don’t just talk about music, or text links to friends — actually make time to sit down and play it for each other. Sharing music with others is essential, and justifies our obsession with it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, here’s to another 40 years, and to keeping an open mind toward whatever unlistenable garbage the kids are listening to when I turn 80. Today, I’m gonna see my dad, hike through the redwoods with my wife, and come home and have a dance party for turning 40. Hey, I’ve got all these new weird disco 12″s, right?\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Today, you read the words of a man who’s turned 40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those 40 years, I’ve had girlfriends, dogs, jobs, cars, hangovers, apartments, and friends. I’ve loved baseball, bicycling, cooking, reading, and local history, and especially my wife and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But music… music has always been there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From singing in church every Sunday to taking piano lessons at age five. From playing saxophone in the school band to rifling through my dad’s Beatles records. From buying my first Run-DMC cassettes to making home recordings with my cousin on a Radio Shack mixer. And that’s only before the age of eight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028547\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/boomboxbeach-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"With my favorite boombox, circa 1984.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11028547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/boomboxbeach-600x600.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/boomboxbeach-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/boomboxbeach-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/boomboxbeach-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/boomboxbeach-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/boomboxbeach-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/boomboxbeach-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/boomboxbeach.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With my favorite boombox, circa 1984.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the age of 10, I was memorizing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ki1EQHuE6I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extended Mozart piano pieces\u003c/a>. By 12, I’d discovered the local \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-last-record-store-santa-rosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">independent record store\u003c/a>. By 13, I’d snuck out of the house to see my first show. By 14, I was making punk mixtapes, playing in the marching band, filing scene reports for \u003cem>MaximumRocknRoll\u003c/em> and singing in a barbershop chorus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 15, I’d started a zine and conducted my first-ever band interview, with Green Day. I’d go on to start my own band at 16, tour the country more times than I can count, and, at 19, begin a 14-year-run working at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-last-record-store-santa-rosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terrific independent record store\u003c/a>, regularly ringing up people like Tom Waits. I played in bands, put out records and left on European tours here and there. Occasionally, I wrote about music for the local paper. Mostly I consumed it like it was water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People come and, boy, do people ever go. But music has always been there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 10 years since I left the record store for journalism, and especially in the years when I became the conspicuously older-looking person at shows, I’ve often been asked variations on the same question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How in the world do I remain excited about new music?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028548\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 417px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Typing.jpg\" alt=\"Banging out a zine in my bedroom, in 1991.\" width=\"417\" height=\"281\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11028548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Typing.jpg 417w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Typing-400x270.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banging out a zine in my bedroom, senior year, 1991.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a valid question. I remember my mom telling me once, “Your favorite music in high school will be your favorite music for the rest of your life.” A \u003ca href=\"http://www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-listening-new-music-33-218752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study\u003c/a> of online listening habits found that most people stop listening to new music altogether at age 33. And anecdotally, there’s almost universal evidence of people being stuck in the glory days of their youth when it comes to music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those things sound like a curse to me, and not just because I kinda liked the Red Hot Chili Peppers in high school. The curse is: Who wants to listen to the same songs forever? Why would anyone do that to themselves? Who wants to pay increasingly rising ticket prices to see a worse version of AC/DC, the Rolling Stones or U2 in a gigantic arena? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I, for one, don’t want to live in that dusty, stagnant world. But more importantly, I see so many incredible people making such exciting music on a daily basis that I can’t help but be inspired by it. Sure, following music is my job — I’ll give you that. But I see other people do this job, write about the music they liked in high school for a few years, and then quit. “I’m too old,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You are not too old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028549\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"On tour somewhere in Massachusetts, 1995.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11028549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-600x600.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/massachusetts.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On tour somewhere in Massachusetts, 1995.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I get it. I understand that now more than ever, the spigot of music is on full blast, and this is not necessarily a good thing. It can get really, really overwhelming when you’re bombarded with surprise albums and video premieres and \u003cem>Late Show\u003c/em> performances and Pitchfork reviews and Fader features and NPR First Listens and a gazillion podcasts. (Hence, the surge in “curators” sorting through it all.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I also know that new music naturally has less of an impact on one’s brain at 40 than it did at 14. I’ve felt it myself. To combat this, I’ve developed some methods in recent years to preserve my natural curiosity about music. Some of them are simple common sense, and some of them are ridiculous, but they all help. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>See Live Music\u003c/strong>. This is a no-brainer, but even I have to remind myself of it, despite often going to over 100 shows a year. Not only does seeing a show give you a fresh perspective on the music itself, it takes a solitary recorded-music listening experience and makes it communal. I can hear a song 20 times and then forever hear it differently after seeing it played live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/LRShifive-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"Working at the Last Record Store, where I spent 14 years absorbing everything.\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11028550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/LRShifive.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/LRShifive-400x287.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Working at the Last Record Store, where I spent 14 years absorbing everything.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get Physical\u003c/strong>. Don’t listen solely to digital files. The benefit to a tactile experience with physical media is mentioned in every vinyl- or cassette-revival article for a reason: it’s true. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/i-still-make-tapes/Content?oid=2172953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I still make tapes\u003c/a> for this very reason, but I also buy records constantly. (That record store I quit working at? I still go there three times a week.) Also, CDs are in great supply right now and man, are they cheap. Music shouldn’t arrive beamed into our brains, despite what streaming services try to sell us. If you have a hand in how it’s played, you’re engaging with it on a deeper level. (I don’t recommend going so far as to eat a record, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/eating-a-7-inch-record/Content?oid=2180106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I actually did once\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pay for Music\u003c/strong>. I recently led a \u003ca href=\"http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2015-08-25/how-we-listen-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">panel at the Commonwealth Club\u003c/a> about the declining value of music in the smartphone age, arguing that easy accessibility has diminished our appreciation for music. It’s the same with getting all your music for free. If your investment in music is zero, you’re less likely to be affected by it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be an Explorer\u003c/strong>. Try listening to crazy styles of music that you think you’d never, ever like. Especially seek out older music that’s new to you, or music from other countries. Just today, I came across 15 boxes of obscure disco 12″ singles at the local junk store and even though I’d probably, when pressed, say “I hate disco,” I left with 20 of them. When you immerse yourself in music that’s outside your usual listening habits, you’re sure to be changed. I listened solely to pop-country radio for a week several years ago and came out of it a better person. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028551\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/TheDig-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"It's best to introduce your child to record shopping at an early age, right?\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11028551\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s best to introduce your child to buying records at an early age, right?\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let Music Heal You\u003c/strong>. Those are possibly the most New Age-y four words I have ever typed, but I can’t tell you how many times music has gotten me through breakups, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/mother-of-love/Content?oid=2170595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deaths of loved ones\u003c/a>, stressful patches at work, periods of depression, being broke, and more. I’ve never had a therapist; I have a record collection instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Interact\u003c/strong>. Find local bands you love and support them directly. Send them messages saying how much you like their music and why. Buy their album from them personally at their merch table. I still have handwritten letters from bands who I wrote to as a teenager, which sounds quaint in this social media age, but it’s a basic approach I keep up today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make Lists\u003c/strong>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Yesterday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eonline.com/news/708264/adam-levine-and-maroon-5-in-talks-to-headline-super-bowl-50-halftime-show\" target=\"_blank\">several sources reported\u003c/a> that the wildly commercially successful American band/coven of pop-rock vampires Maroon 5 has been in talks to play the 50th Annual Pepsi Nike Verizon Subway Viagra™ Super Bowl Halftime Show. That's the loud music and dancing and flashy-lights part of the big game with the padded men and the odd-shaped leather ball, as my lady brain understands it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This (not entirely confirmed) choice caught my attention for a few reasons: One, said Super Bowl will be in the Bay Area for the first time in 30 years. This means that Maroon 5, with \u003cem>The Voice\u003c/em> coach/tattooed demon prince of douchebags Adam Levine at the helm, will be spending some time in our fair city. The band members will dine in our restaurants (ostensibly on food, not the blood of the young), and sleep in our hotels with their human supermodel wives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two, Maroon 5 makes me feel f**cking crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a handful of exceedingly successful figures or groups in pop culture who fall into this category for me: Artists who have made an unfathomable amount of money (as of March, Levine was worth an estimated $50 million) based on creating a product that seems, as its defining feature, to be almost aggressively boring. Powerfully mediocre. Singularly middle-of-the-road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not, mind you, pop music snobbery. On the contrary: I like a lot of pop music, and I find pop musicians fascinating. I will wax poetic about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/08/17/live-review-taylor-swift-regular-super-normal-girl-like-you-and-me-at-levis-stadium/\" target=\"_blank\">the virtues of Taylor Swift\u003c/a> or Beyonce or Justin Timberlake or, hell, the Backstreet Boys until you walk away from me at a party. (That\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2712154/\" target=\"_blank\"> BSB documentary\u003c/a>, btw, gave me more feelings than I was expecting it to. A discussion, perhaps, for another time.) But this isn't about the cheese factor, nor overproduction, nor cloying melodies, generic songwriting, mathematically-calculated-to-sound-triumphant key changes. In the right context, I can love 'em all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you need more proof? For the bulk of summer 2015, I was obsessed with this track, which is the first single off an album by Uncle Ezra Ray, a self-styled \"supergroup\" made up of the Uncle Kracker, the guy from Better Than Ezra, and '90s prince douchebag Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray. \u003cem>Uncle Ezra Ray.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQqL_QowAto\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this is an unequivocally terrible song. The lyrics sound like some poorly translated foreign-language film's idea of American Spring Break. The chorus is repetitive and the breakdown is just the instruments dropping out while McGrath says the moronic chorus again but slower. All of these men are well past their primes. But this is a song that has \u003cem>owned\u003c/em> how terrible it is. It knows what it's made of. It's hilariously, entertainingly bad. It's certainly not boring. And that, for me, brings it back around to enjoyable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare and contrast with this, please:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwK7ggA3-bU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is an unequivocally bad song that thinks it's a \u003cem>great\u003c/em> song. It's going for a \"reggae\"-influenced vibe, but has appropriated that style in the blandest possible way, slapped a non-melody on it, announced \"here is our new reggae-influenced song, which is a very good song\" -- and the world somehow buys it. We give them positive reinforcement for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I noticed you borrow the most watered-down aspects of different genres of music and use them to make \u003cem>your\u003c/em> music,\" says the world. \"That makes me feel like I'm hearing something different but also I am not challenged or threatened at all by this very good song!\" As far as I can tell, this is a Maroon 5 trademark of sorts -- not just changing genres frequently, but tapping into genres historically dominated by black artists, stuffing them through their magically bland Wonka-like sausage machine, and squeezing out an impressively dull and very white kind of musical tapioca. This song spent nine weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beauty of being a music fan -- a consumer of any art, really -- is that people have different tastes, and obviously you're allowed to like whatever the hell you want. What I do not understand: Maroon 5 has had five hit studio records, a singles compilation album, and nine gigantic tours over the course of a dozen years. As of August, they've sold 12.9 million total albums in the U.S. Based on all available evidence, the band is very popular with lots of people, many of whom are happy to pay money for Maroon 5's music, and many of whom will probably be very excited to watch them play the Super Bowl Halftime Show. And yet \u003cem>I've never met a single person who likes Maroon 5.\u003c/em> Meanwhile, Levine's doucheyness has become such a fact of the zeitgeist \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/adam-levines-im-not-a-douche-profile-proves-hes-a-major-1596091413\" target=\"_blank\">that we get blog posts like this\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which brings me to the following plea: I would really like to meet a Maroon 5 fan. I'm basically that kid on the side on the road right now, wondering if anyone else has noticed that the emperor has no clothes. Am I completely insane? Are there clothes there, and everyone else can see them but \u003cem>I can't? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As previously indicated, I am no stranger to insipid pop music fandom; I just want to hear this specific situation explained. If you are a person who likes Maroon 5, please email me at \u003ca href=\"mailto:esilvers@kqed.org\">esilvers@kqed.org\u003c/a>. I promise I won't be mean to you. Unless you're Adam Levine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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