Musings on the state of punk at The Garden’s West Coast Tour Emmanuelle Mphuthi October 21, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Oakland, Political It was a cool Saturday evening when my friend Sabrina showed up to my apartment, white face paint and black eyeliner in hand. We excitedly applied the white base, our eyes flickering between the mirrors in the ...
Racist Grrrl: the politics of race and anger in punk feminist movements Emmanuelle Mphuthi December 28, 2022 Black Culture, Columns and Opinions, Music History, Opinion, Political, Punk, Rock 4 Comments Gunk zine issue 4 by Bikceem Ramdasha Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that originated in the 1990s in the Pacific Northweast of the United States, although some argue the genre truly sta...
L.S. DUNES leave San Francisco begging for more at Bimbo’s 365 Club Emmanuelle Mphuthi November 20, 2022 Blog, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Rock, San Francisco This Wednesday, the 13th of November, a friend and I navigated the tumultuous Bay Area public transport system to attend an L.S. Dunes concert in San Francisco. We’d purchased the tickets a few months earlier...
Three Cheers for the Return of My Chemical Romance: wowing Oakland Arena for the first time since 2007 Emmanuelle Mphuthi October 17, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews (Gerard Way photographed by Luis Rosales) On October 5th at around 5:30pm, my boyfriend and I made our way towards Oakland Arena to see My Chemical Romance. We’d been waiting for this ...
