Against All Logic, unhinged: 2017-2019
It’s here. 2017-2019, the newest Nicolas Jaar project, under his alias Against All Logic, dropped on February 7th, 2020. For those unfamiliar, Nicolas Jaar is one of electronic music’s most fascinating fig...
Album Review: King Krule’s Man Alive!
Archy Marshall has grown up. The 25-year-old Londoner behind post-punk act King Krule recently got married, had a baby girl, and moved from South London to Wigan. Hey World!, a short film featuring four new so...
Unapologetic, brash, brilliance: JPEGMAFIA at The New Parish
JPEGMAFIA relishes the stage. Swaggering around as if possessed, a mischievous grin peering out from under his Air Force cap, Peggy (as his fans affectionately call him) is in his element. “Stage presence”,...
Kanye stands in Kanye’s way on Jesus is King
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...
Chicago Transit Authority: 50 years later
Debut albums usually take one of two forms — a stepping stone in the development of an artist, or a creative stroke of genius that is impossible to follow up. Chicago’s debut Chicago Transit Authority is un...
FKA Twigs returns with “Cellophane,” plus a redux review of LP1
FKA Twigs is finally back. Her first new single in three years since 2016’s “Good to Love,” “Cellophane” dropped yesterday morning at 11:30 am. The singer announced the single and upcoming tour dates ...
Marvin Gaye’s You’re The Man: How do you follow up a masterpiece?
Nearly 50 years after its recording, Marvin Gaye’s follow up to his 1971 classic What’s Going On was finally released to the public on March 29, 2019. You’re The Man is just as politically charged as i...
Who has better music taste? Battle of the colleges – Berkeley vs Northwestern edition
It’s 1:45 pm at Coffee Lab & Roasters in Evanston, Illinois and the place is packed with students with espresso drinks, spread out with laptops studying for exams. The Berkeley B-Side wanted to find out w...
A beginner’s guide to Burial
In honor of all the rain we’ve been getting recently, I decided to write this piece as a way to introduce you all to the wonder that is Burial. If the darkness of underground subways, the smell and sound of r...
Ariana grande comes into her own on thank u, next
In a machine as unrelenting as the mainstream music industry, artists often feel as though their selves are drowned out or diluted by the creative army of writers and producers that accompany them in the studio...
Sloppy, short, and just plain weird: Tyler the Creator’s Christmas album
“What the hell is this?” I said to myself after excitedly opening Spotify to see a new Tyler the Creator EP. Hot off his critically-acclaimed release Flower Boy (2017), Tyler had fans eagerly waiting to see...
Not what we want, but what we need – Daughters at Bottom of the Hill
8 years after their supposed swan song, Self Titled (2010), Daughters released their highly anticipated follow up You Won’t Get What You Want on October 26, 2018. On their 2010 album Daughters, the Rhode Isla...
From the dungeon of Barrows: a B-side Halloween playlist
With Halloween upon us, we invite you to join us for an unconventional playlist, filled with haunting songs from a wide variety of artists. This playlist is an attempt to avoid the cliche (albeit classic) Hallo...
A night of catharsis: IDLES unleash at The Independent
“I’m pretty sure we’re going the wrong way!” I yelled to my friend Jack, panting, as we sat on our bikes on top of an utterly ruthless San Francisco hill. After taking BART into the city, we had managed...