It was to be my twelfth show in fifteen days, and it was definitely the ‘wildcard’ show. I’ll admit it, I know very little about Devo. I blame it on an unfortunate coincidence in timing- I vaguely remember seeing the video for ‘Whip It’ when I was very young, probably around 10 years [...]
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Whip It : Devo, Reggie Watts @ The Regency Ballroom, 11/6/09
I’m a Little Bit Country and a Little Bit Punk: Mickey Avalon, Beardo, Ke$ha @ Slim’s, 11/5/09
2 years and 8 months ago, a fledgling HRC wrote about her first Mickey Avalon show at Popscene. Since then, I’ve seen him three other times, with DJ AM (RIP), with Andre Legacy and Dirt Nasty, and with Beardo. I may be a mostly rock/metal/industrial chick, but truth be told I was raised [...]
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Acid Trip, Velvet Tongue: Puscifer, Uncle Scratch’s Gospel Revival @ Fox Theater Oakland, 11/4/09
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Maynard James Keenan brought his side show to Oakland for the first of two nights of high brow/low brow entertainment. It proved to be a night unlike any other.Earlier this year, I had to miss the LA Puscifer shows due to a family emergency, so it was nice to be able to make up [...]
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Scream Queen: Rob Zombie, Nekromantix, Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures @ San Jose Event Center, 11/3/09
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I always wanted to be a scream queen. And, for one night in San Jose, my wish was fulfilled. Only the director was singing on stage and I was screaming unfilmed from the rail.My experience really couldn’t have been more different from the Halloween Zombie show on Saturday in LA. This was [...]
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Industrial Theater: Skinny Puppy, VVerevvolf Grehv, EUSTACHIAN @ The Regency Ballroom, 11/1/09
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This was the perfect ending to Halloween weekend. What started with black metal in a dive bar, and climaxed with Rob Zombie on Halloween, was tied up neatly with Skinny Puppy.I literally woke up in LA, drove straight home, typed up my review, and hopped back in the car to go to the show. [...]
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Halloween in Hollyweird: Rob Zombie, Nekromantix, Captain Clegg @ The Palladium, 10/31/09
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It would be the perfect Halloween: a Saturday night, daylight savings time ended and gave us an extra hour, a full moon, and Rob Zombie. HRC decided to roadtrip to LA by herself for a whirlwind 36 hour adventure.Perhaps I had better start from the beginning. White Zombie was my first metal show. [...]
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Fantastic Four: Secrets of the Moon @ Thee Parkside, 10/30/09
It was going to be a quick in/out. Germany’s best kept secret, black metalers Secrets of the Moon, would open the night at my local dive metal bar Thee Parkside. I planned to swoop in with my warm up Halloween costume, and duck out before Divine Heresy and Moonspell.At our precise 9pm arrival [...]
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“Everyone is a story”: Valient Thorr, Hightower, Nihilist @ Annie’s Social Club, 10/29/09
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The smell of unwashed boys is thick in the air as I enter Annie’s Social Club. Nihilist is on stage, and the sparse yet meaningful crowd is all eyes on the stage. Immediately my radar goes off….guitarist and drummer have major X factor. I can’t describe it here, but you just know [...]
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HardRockChick Interviews Jesse Dayton / Captain Clegg from Rob Zombie’s Halloween II
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Continuing on with part 2 of what should be 4 entries in my Zombie week, I recently had the opportunity to interview Texas singer/songwriter Jesse Dayton. Dayton’s Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures will be opening for Rob Zombie on his tour, set to kick off today in Phoenix. Captain Clegg and the [...]
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Thinking Woman’s Metal: Pelican, Black Cobra @ The Independent, 10/27/09
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After probably five failed attempts at seeing local metal duo Black Cobra, I finally made it to a show. Man, had I been missing out. First off, these two guys are loud. It should be illegal for two people to make that much noise with only a drum set, guitar, and screams….at [...]
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Rob Zombie: Tour and Album updates….and HRC’s one little question
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So I got to participate in a teleconference with Rob Zombie yesterday. It’s kind of a weird concept- a bunch of interviewers call in and are allowed one question with the man himself. I get it- they want to kill a bunch of interviews with one stone, but I also kinda don’t- there’s [...]
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We Demand an Apology from Ms. Cheney
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My quick letter to this organization that calls themselves ‘Keep America Safe‘ who recently said offensive things about two of my favorite rock stars, Trent Reznor and Tom Morello:To Whom It May Concern:I can distinctly remember when I heard that ‘March of the Pigs’ was used to torture prisoners at Gitmo. I was appalled [...]
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This Shit Will Fuck You Up – Combichrist, Informatik, Everything Goes Cold @ DNA Lounge, 10/25/09
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I couldn’t go to see Zombichrist and not dress like a zombie. So I threw on some makeup and scared some neighbors on my way out and some tourists on my way into DNA Lounge.Everything Goes Cold started as soon as I had perched myself in the balcony. They sounded ok….neither offensive nor [...]
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Doom & Art Room: UFOMAMMUT & Acid King @ Varnish, 10/24/09
Last night really couldn’t have been more different from Friday even though it was in the same genre.To get to Varnish, an art gallery nestled in the heart of SoMa, you have to maneuver one of SF’s shantytowns. The smell of urine abounds, shopping carts must be dodged, and tents and boxes line the [...]
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Let Loose at Slipknot w/ Deftones @ San Jose Event Center, 10/23/09
There’s something exciting about rushing out of work right at 5 on a Friday, transforming into my metal attire, and hitting the road for the hour long trip to San Jose. I’m maximizing the weekend and I’m about to enter uncharted HRC territory: a new venue in a new city with bands I’d somehow [...]
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Interstate Love Song: Stone Temple Pilots @ The Fox Theater Oakland, 10/21/09
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For some reason, Stone Temple Pilots never make it on the list of ‘my bands’. Why is that? I pretty much know every word to every song. I go see Weiland or the DeLeo brothers anytime they are near. What’s the deal?I can distinctly remember seeing the video for ‘Plush’ in [...]
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A Hard Drive: All That Remains, Lacuna Coil @ The Regency Ballroom, 10/18/09
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I know three things about the bands playing tonight going into this show: 1. Lacuna Coil are from Italy2. They are fronted by an attractive female3. All That Remains has a female bassistSince I write Hard Rock Chick and like Italy, it seemed appropriate enough.I only caught the very tail end of Maylene and the [...]
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Earthquake of Sound: A Place to Bury Strangers, These Are Powers, All the Saints, Geographer @ The Independent, 10/17/09
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On the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, those of us at The Independent experienced earth-shaking sound.Let me start by saying that, every once and a while, there are evenings where there are multiple conflicting shows in the Bay Area, but this one took the cake. Treasure Island Festival, Jesus Lizard (which I [...]
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Otherworldy Dark Metal: Satyricon, Toxic Holocaust, Chtonic @ Slim’s, 10/10/09
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Last night, metal lovers from Taiwan, Portland, Norway, and San Francisco joined forces. My path into this show was bumpy….I was supposed to get in on the Bleeding Through guestlist (their PR firm actually responded to me….life of small-time blogger…sigh), but they dropped off the tour Friday morning. That didn't leave me any [...]
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