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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
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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 ...

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