Laufey: The Evolution of a “Goddess” Ivonne Liang April 17, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Jazz, Local, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco Smoke continued to linger in the air from Grace Enger’s intimate acoustic set, setting a mysterious mood. People of all ages, but most notably girls with ribbons in their hair were seated in anticipation. Shr...
Reachin’ through time: Digable Planets at The Fillmore Lucy Gleeson February 8, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Touring the 30th anniversary of their first record Reachin’ (1993), Digable Planets returned to the stage once again on Saturday night, after having disbanded in 1995 due to a disillusionment with the music i...
LADYSLIPPER MUSIC: Records & Tapes By Southern Women Gianna Caudillo January 29, 2024 Music History, Contemporary Folk, Country, folk, women's music, Women's Music Movement Note: This article has been digitized from its original print form in the Fall 2023 issue of B-Side. Original print layout can be viewed at bottom. A Brief History of the Women’s Music Movement The year...
Your New Favorite Hour of the Week: UC Jazz’s Noon Concerts Julian Shea November 5, 2023 Jazz, Berkeley, Local Every Thursday, if you are lucky, you might hear music flowing out of lower Sproul, just audible above the tablers and unexpected meetings between friends. And if you have the time to follow your ears down into...
A Bewitching Night With the Reviver of Jazz: Laufey Ashley Mauldin October 11, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Girls in lacy skirts and dresses were standing next to their friends or partners in crewnecks, hair ribbons flowing in the Sunday night breeze. According to my friend William in the photo pit, this crowd had st...
“Jazz!! is!! back!!:” The release of Laufey’s “Bewitched” and thoughts on the future of the genre Gianna Caudillo October 10, 2023 Album Review, Classical, Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, indie-pop, Jazz, Music Consumption, Opinion, Reviews In early 2021, a friend of mine sent me a link to a TikTok accompanied by an innocuous message somewhere along the lines of, “Thought you’d like this.” Intrigued, I clicked, and a curly-haired girl in a p...
An Enthralling Monday Evening with Bruno Major Ashley Mauldin September 13, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews You wouldn’t expect for a line to be all the way around the block filled with young adults dressed in flowy skirts, florals, and oversized sweaters to be in SF on a Monday night in September. But with Bruno M...
From indie pop to Afrobeat: The Listening Dolls at Neck of the Woods Sophia Shen August 16, 2023 Afrobeats, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, Music History, Rock, San Francisco The Devil works hard, but LA-based music organization The Listening Dolls works harder. The Listening Dolls, co-founded and directed by SF native Martine Kolderup-Lane, was born late last year through the jo...
Contemplating the tenderness of Natalia Lafourcade’s De Todas las Flores Natalia Girolami March 2, 2023 Album Review Natalia Lafourcade’s newest album De Todas las Flores (2022) is Lafourcade’s first full record of original music in seven years. Her last album containing original work was Hasta la Raíz which was released...
“The Other Woman” has always been Black: Lana Del Rey’s viral cover of Jessie Mae Robinson’s masterpiece Gianna Caudillo February 24, 2023 Black Culture, Columns and Opinions “2023 is the year of female rage,” says the caption on a TikTok showing a conventionally attractive white woman, eyeliner done like Priscilla Presley’s, dress straight out of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)...
Angels, sunsets, and a rollercoaster of emotions in Taiwan Miles Bishop November 29, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene In my six months of traveling, and after watching four seasons of Atlanta on FX, I’ve begun to feel more and more that life isn’t real, or at least parts of it. Music has helped me tremendously with homesic...
Elujay Hypnotizes His Hometown Crowd with a Captivating Performance Tovah Popilsky April 27, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos On Saturday night, Elujay performed a sold out show at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco in order to showcase his new album and perform some crowd favorites. Elujay, who grew up in Oakland, was excited to be back a...
In a Trance: Hiatus Kaiyote at the Fox Ansley Stotelmyre March 31, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews On Thursday March 17th, Hiatus Kaiyote came all the way from Australia to perform at the Oakland Fox Theater, giving a rare and magical performance of a lifetime. Their jazz, funk, and soul fusion intertwined w...
The Night That Cured Me—Thundercat Revisited at the Warfield Lex Andersen December 9, 2021 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos Walking out of the Warfield covered in sweat and tears, I was fully prepared to cancel all therapy appointments, attack the pile of clothes that had been haunting my bed, and even go as far as to do a morning ...
Brijean’s album Feelings makes a dreamy debut Kennedy Rogers March 5, 2021 Interview Bay Area locals and UC Berkeley alumni, Brijean Murphy and Doug Stuart released their debut album, Feelings on February 26, 2021 with Ghostly International. The album incorporates various styles with most not...