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San Francisco Chronicle
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Two Outside Lands performers drop out due to illness
Two Outside Lands performers have canceled their upcoming appearances just days before the music festival is set to return to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Both German DJ Koze, who was scheduled for Friday, Aug. 8, and English rock band Wunderhorse, expected to perform on Saturday, Aug. 9, cited health troubles as their reason for dropping out. English DJ Bonobo will now take over DJ Koze's 4:40 p.m. slot on the SOMA stage. Organizers have not announced an artist to replace Wunderhorse's 2:20 p.m. set on the Twin Peaks stage as of Wednesday, Aug. 6. DJ Koze explained he is experiencing 'an acute infection with persistent physical exhaustion and fever,' in an Instagram story posted Tuesday, Aug. 5. Jacob Slater, frontman of Wunderhorse, noted the same day that it is taking longer than expected for him to recover from a recent dental procedure. 'The wound from my tooth surgery is still not fully healed,' Slater posted to Wunderhorse's X account. 'I have been advised that I should not perform for a further 7 days to allow it to heal.' In addition to his Outside Lands appearance, DJ Koze has canceled upcoming appearances at Denver's Civic Center Park on Wednesday, Aug. 6, and Los Angeles' Grand Park on Saturday. Wunderhorse canceled performances at Brooklyn's Warsaw on Tuesday and the Fonda in Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 7. This year's event will also see the launch of the new Duboce Triangle stage, which will open each day with a specially selected fan performance. Fan favorites returning to Golden Gate Park include Dolores', the inclusive queer dance floor; SOMA, the open-air electronic dance music space; and the Latin dance music space, Casa Bacardí.
The Guardian
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us review – party-starting nostalgist is as playful as ever
It's almost surprising that DJ Koze is only now, decades into his career, releasing an album titled Music Can Hear Us. The Hamburg-based producer has long advocated for the idea that music is a living, breathing organism: his dance tracks may be able to whip 70,000-strong crowds into a frenzy, but they're also oozy, globular things that seem to absorb the influence of anything they come into contact with. Koze is tricksy with the press – often making up stories about himself then debunking them years later – but his music is as good a form of memoir than any, each new album documenting his gradual transition from psychedelic oddball to pensive, party-starting nostalgist. Music Can Hear Us picks up roughly where 2018's now-classic Knock Knock left off: for the most part, it's warm and mellow, an album of hazy electropop songs interspersed with thumping house and techno tracks. It feels a little like walking around a city on the Sunday before a bank holiday, stopping at any bar or club you spy on your travels, thanks in part to Koze's deft incorporation of various global dance styles. Die Gondel, with longtime collaborator Sophia Kennedy, layers discombobulated baile funk atop what sounds like a sample of south Asian film music; the Damon Albarn collaboration Pure Love runs Albarn's iconic voice through Auto-Tune and pairs it with hypnotic amapiano, while Brushcutter presents a harsh, 90s take on drum'n'bass. All of this is filtered through Koze's warm lens, and if it doesn't feel quite as refined as Knock Knock – undoubtedly his most pristinely packaged record to date, with none of Music Can Hear Us's shagginess – it's still the kind of journey that only Koze can really take us on.
