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Author Gianna Caudillo

Gianna Caudillo

Managing Editor

I like jazz. Musician, writer, photographer.

An audience’s view of Haley Heynderickx

Gianna Caudillo
October 12, 2024
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Country, indie, San Francisco
Haley Heynderickx is always up. Her speaking voice curls up at the corners, lilting and genuine, like peeling wallpaper about to reveal something greater hidden behind. Delightful sentiments drift out of her mo...

RACE SELLS RECORDS: An observational study of jazz album art in the mid-1950s

Gianna Caudillo
September 4, 2024
Music History, Black Culture, Jazz, Musicology, Print Edition
The jazz section in a used record store. Haphazardly sorted bins. Thin cardboard smooth against your fingers as you shuffle the albums like playing cards. Smell of dust, faint crackling in the background. Brigh...

Robbie Robertson’s Best Score nomination is a historic first for Indigenous representation

Gianna Caudillo
February 28, 2024
News, Indigenous Representation, Oscars
Since the Oscar nominations came out, everyone’s been talking about Martin Scorcese’s epic Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), a historical drama that centers on the Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma. The movi...

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...

It’s a basement blitz with the Lemon Twigs!

Gianna Caudillo
December 17, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Rock, San Francisco
San Francisco’s glitter-faced, mini-skirted, tailor-made crowd is alive and well, and the place to find them is in the Castro, clad in cheeky Beatles buttons and stomping through neon-lit basements in velvet ...

The complexity of love and loss in the Beatles’ “Now and Then”

Gianna Caudillo
November 28, 2023
News, Album Review, Reviews, Rock
1 Comment
“One, two…,” counts Paul McCartney, but he is not about to launch into a rollicking, “Well, she was just seventeen! You know what I mean!” This McCartney count-in is more methodical, of lower timbre, ...

“There’s Something About the Women!:” Warmth pervades Irene Young’s book release at the Freight & Salvage

Gianna Caudillo
November 27, 2023
Reviews, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Contemporary Folk, Jazz, Local, Music History, Women's Music Movement
When looking back at my frantically scratched notes in a pocket-sized address book I had brought to the 7pm celebration of Irene Young at the Freight & Salvage on November 19, one sentiment stands out in pa...

“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...

From Gay Head to Goldenrod: the first decade of the Women’s Music Movement in song

Gianna Caudillo
September 5, 2023
Album Review, Berkeley, folk, music, Music History, Oakland, Reviews, Rock, women's music, Women's Music Movement
Commercial rock and roll has always been a boys’ club. From the success of songs that glamorized abuse and the gross fetishization of women, such as the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” or the Beatles’ �...

Hey, hey we’re the Punk-ees: the unlikely influences of punk

Gianna Caudillo
March 16, 2023
Columns and Opinions, Music History, Opinion, Punk, Rock
The public’s lasting perception of 60s pop-rock band the Monkees sounds a little like this: a Neil Diamond impersonator screaming out to a group of picnicking families, “How many of you remember a Saturday ...

“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
1 Comment
“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)...

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