Columns and Opinions

November 22nd marked another full year that has passed since Kanye West dropped one of his greatest pieces of work, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). With MBDTF, Kanye created an introspective masterpie...

Cooking and music have always been my favorite hobbies. I have loved to cook before I could even reach the counter and picked up my first instrument when I was four year old. When I listened to the iconic recor...

“I told her that I loved her, She told me that she boo’d me, Man flog gnaw that was trippy, they wanted Frank but it was just me lil' ol' Drizzy” You’ve seen all those tweets, sympathizing poor mil...

To make it clear, I’ve gotten high less than 10 times, and during the handful of times I’ve had a bad trip, only music can calm me down and stop me from feeling like I’m sinking into myself. Electric Gues...

Your days in college are a robust experience where you might find your “study session” turns consensual makeout. Given that you are most likely in your late teens or early twenties, making out with music is...

Kanye West has always thought of himself as a prophet of sorts, a conduit destined to receive divine inspiration from God himself.  This belief, or dare I say delusion, that he has been chosen by the creator h...

In 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a series of six concertos, now considered a pillar of the classical music canon. The power and grace with which Bach crafted and melded each melodic line remains unparallele...

Ravi Shankar is a giant in both Indian classical and world music. From a well-respected, professional family in India, he started his career in the arts as a dancer and later moved to intensive training in lear...

This July saw the death of an absolute legend, João Gilberto — Brazilian singer, songwriter, guitarist and pioneer of an entire music genre. In honor of him, I hope to make the Berkeley student body more aw...

Peter Edward Baker, better known as Ginger Baker, passed away on October 6, 2019 at age 80.  The drummer, known most for his membership in late 60s psychedelic band Cream, had been suffering from health iss...

Regardless of someone’s degree of Beatles fandom, a look at the cover of their final recording reveals a deeper familiarity with the world culture overall. Abbey Road, 1969’s greatest contribution to music,...

When Paloma Macias walks into a room, she is hard to miss. She struts in, clad in a faux fur coat and bright pink hair as if straight out of a Doors song. She’ll introduce herself as if she’s famous, and li...

Cupcakke, the beloved female rapper known for making sexually explicit songs, unafraid to be herself in music and on social media, was recently silenced by YouTube, as her latest song, "Squidward's Nose," does ...

All my life I have been fascinated by the Soviet Union's history mainly because my parents were growing up as it was unfolding. I’ve sought out various mediums of art — documentaries, films, and photographs...

Growing up as a closeted indie kid means I’ve spent many nights being dramatic and crying to Bright Eyes and Elliott Smith, stressing out about some high school dramas that I was convinced would last forever ...