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Author Anthony Vega

Anthony Vega

Flamango Bay talks mangoes, name changes, and the mundane

Anthony Vega
December 6, 2019
Interview, Multimedia, Photos
This past Halloween night, we found ourselves in a backyard-turned-venue in Berkeley just a couple hours before a show hosted by Flamango Bay, an East Bay-based alternative rock band. Friends and band members a...

Brockhampton’s live show continues to evolve

Anthony Vega
November 13, 2019
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
There aren’t many firsts for me when it comes to Brockhampton (BH) shows. I’ve been to over 10 of their shows, and, at the risk of sounding pretentious, I pretty much consider myself a self-proclaimed veter...

Choker’s first ever show review

Anthony Vega
March 10, 2019
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
I would just like to preface this by saying that if you plan on attending a later stop on this tour and don’t want to have the experience ruined by knowing the setlist in advance, don’t read this. I am awar...

Choker’s new three-part miniseries is an experimental amalgamation of various genres and immense talents

Anthony Vega
February 8, 2019
Album Review
What captivates me the most about being a supporter of up-and-coming artists is when you find one like Choker, one who you just seem to know is going to be someone someday. I felt the same way about Kevin Abstr...

Jorja Smith snatches hearts at the Regency

Anthony Vega
April 30, 2018
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
Selling out the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco is no easy task. Up-and-coming UK R&B powerhouse Jorja Smith managed to do so without even having a full-length commercial LP under her belt yet. Smith has ...

Miguel loses his Greek Theatre virginity by selling out Berkeley

Anthony Vega
April 17, 2018
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
What do Latin dance moves, sexual gestures, and a silky voice have in common? They’re all characteristics of the electric live performance of R&B powerhouse Miguel, as his stop in Berkeley expressed in ab...

Prince in the 2010s: 4 modern songs that capture the spirit of The Purple One

Anthony Vega
March 24, 2018
Columns and Opinions
April 21st of this year marks two years since the death of legendary singer Prince Rogers Nelson, who we all knew by his ever-present stage name Prince. Since then, many established and upcoming artists have pu...

Drake and Travis Scott teamed up with a Twitch streamer to play Fortnite

Anthony Vega
March 15, 2018
News
After a week of Drake dropping hints about playing the rapidly growing PVP shooter Fortnite with renowned Twitch streamer Ninja, he finally hopped on a stream last night to play alongside one of the world’s b...

Vince Staples drops new track “Get the Fuck Off My Dick”

Anthony Vega
March 9, 2018
News
Vince Staples could not have dropped this new track at a more opportune time. The Long Beach native has always been a controversial figure, often taking to Twitter to argue with and/or roast people who disagree...

Love Your Parents was Brockhampton’s biggest and best tour yet

Anthony Vega
March 9, 2018
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
Brockhampton’s March 3rd and 4th shows at The Warfield for their Love Your Parents Tour marks my 5th and 6th time seeing them as a group. How much America’s favorite boyband has blown up since I first saw K...

BROCKHAMPTON’S SATURATION III is their third ‘Album of the Year’ contender in 2017

Anthony Vega
December 20, 2017
Album Review
The highly anticipated conclusion to the trilogy of albums that has springboarded American boyband BROCKHAMPTON into the eyes and ears of the public is finally here. The finale, SATURATION III, has all the char...

Jaden Smith’s SYRE exceeds expectations

Anthony Vega
November 21, 2017
Album Review
The first time I ever became aware of Jaden Smith’s existence was when I watched Pursuit of Happyness (2006), starring him and Will Smith, for the first time as a child. I encountered him again in The Karate ...

Frank Ocean: the most subtle icon of the contemporary moment

Anthony Vega
October 18, 2017
Columns and Opinions
Frank Ocean is hardly the traditional celebrity. In an age where the internet dominates the media and technology is more than accessible, it is now simpler than ever for figures in popular culture to be the sub...

BROCKHAMPTON stops by Social Hall SF twice for their first-ever tour

Anthony Vega
October 4, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
BROCKHAMPTON is a hip-hop super-collective with 17 members, composed of singers, rappers, producers, designers, and videographers. They are an aggregate of close friends who have come to be a polarizing group o...

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