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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2021 features a list of 13 inductees, including Tina Turner, JAY-Z, Foo Fighters, Carole King, Todd Rundgren and The Go-Go's.

Todd Inoue May 8, 2021Updated: May 12, 2021, 6:53 pm Anderson .Paak (left) and Bruno Mars of music group Silk Sonic perform during the Grammy Awards broadcast March 14. Photo: Theo Wargo With vaccinations more widespread, pandemic restrictions loosening and summer on the horizon, think of this year’s Chronicle-curated Asian Pacific American Heritage Month mixtape as a safe, socially distanced barbecue. There are grown folks dropping knowledge (Lyrics Born & Cutso, the Year of the...

Justin Bieber has added a Jacksonville show to his Justice World Tour 2022. The tour was originally scheduled for this summer but was moved back a year because of COVID restrictions at some venues. Seven dates were also added to the tour, including a stop at Jacksonvilles VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Ticket prices were not released. A release announcing the show states that tickets for the new shows will go on sale later this month. Bieber has previously played sho...

Hanna doesn’t think there’s a tension between her activism and her career as a musician. For the legendary rocker, art and politics are inseparable, part of a broader mission to make the world more beautiful and more inclusive. Or, as she puts it, “It’s actually all the same fucking project.” [Design by Seth Bogart] One of your latest projects is Tees4Togo, a T-shirt company that you started in 2018. You’ve been an advocate your entire career—what inspired you to create this brand...

Notes from Lime City: ‘Hang in there, kiddo, you are valid and worthwhile!!’ Transgender Visibility in Midcoast Maine — An Interview with Natalie Oldham by Becca Shaw Glaser Natalie Oldham For more about Natalie, listen to her music projects, The English Muffins Band and Rotundo Sealeg on bandcamp.com, and find her frog and tarot accounts on Instagram: @toddandblinky and @midcoasttarot. On Trans Day of Visibility this year, Natalie Oldham, a mu...

1988 (Maybe) Courtney Love meets Kurt Cobain for the first time at Old Town punk club Satyricon, kicking off one of rock’s most tumultuous and significant pairings. In a 2012 interview with Fuse, Love says she met Cobain at the club after reading spoken-word poetry with garage rockers Dharma Bums in 1988. Other accounts push the date to 1989 or 1990, when the two wrestled over control of the jukebox after a Nirvana gig. ILoveMakonnen 1990s DIY hits its stride, and Portland is a damp, divi...

Poly Styrene Doc Pays Tribute to the Person Behind the Persona The punk rocker’s story feels eerily familiar in a modern era of celebrity culture backlash. Showing at DOXA. Frederick Blichert is a freelance journalist and film critic. His writing appears in Vice, Paste Magazine, Xtra, Motherboard and elsewhere. Reach him here. SHARES Watch the trailer for ‘Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché’ above.  This article is part of a Tyee Presents initiative. Tyee Presents is the special sponsored co...

May 4, 2021 Solidarity Not Silence have released a new song called “This is Sisterhood”. The song features Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill as well as The Tuts, Petrol Girls, Colour Me Wednesday, Personal Best, and Choir Noir. All of the proceeds from the song will go to benefit the legal defense fund for Solidarity Not Silence. They have also released a music video for the song that was created by Gingerdope. Check out the video below.

If youre still holding on to the tickets you purchased for either the scheduled 2020 or 2021 shows, no worries — theyll be honored on the new date. And if you just discovered that Bikini Kill is coming to Miami, youre also in luck: Tickets go on sale to the public today at 1 p.m. For the uninitiated: Olympia, Washington-based Bikini Kill led the early-1990s riot grrrl movement, which served as a direct response to the misogyny festering in the punk and DIY scenes. Hanna, Kathi Wilcox, and ...

Aidin Vaziri April 28, 2021Updated: April 28, 2021, 9:40 pm Filmmaker John Waters hosts the 2017 Burger Boogaloo music festival at Mosswood Park in Oakland. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle 2017 Burger Boogaloo, an annual music festival that typically takes place over the Fourth of July weekend at Oakland’s Mosswood Park, is scheduled to return as Mosswood Meltdown — but not until 2022, organizers announced Wednesday, April 28. Last year, Oakland’s Total Trash Productions, whi...