Author Lily Ramus

Photo by Lily Ramus With finals season approaching, legions of stressed metalheads graduating sometime between 3 weeks from now and 40 years ago, descended upon the UC Theatre on Friday, April 28th. The cre...

“Shrooms, molly, ketamine, pre-rolls!”  As soon as we stepped in line, the Phish experience was off to a raging start. After almost fifteen years, Phish returned to the Greek Theatre in Berkeley Califor...

Photo by Lily Ramus A gloomy storm-tossed Tuesday is a miserable time to leave the house, but a perfect time for some occult doom metal. It was immediately apparent that this verdict reverberated across the...

Photo by Lily Ramus When I was 13 I ‘discovered’ rock music. The pop music in my iTunes library was replaced by darker and heavier punk rock, and my tights and dresses were swapped with band tees and bl...

Orchestral stadium rock and roll. As B-Side’s resident music major (and rockstar), when the opportunity to cover The Who Hits Back Tour was generously extended to our publication, I knew it was meant for me. ...

When Katie Jacoby was 15, she emailed The Who asking to perform the violin solo in “Baba O’Riley” at their upcoming show at the Wachovia Center in 2007. While Jacoby never received a response, 15 years la...

Photo by Jane Tyska/Bay Area News “Old Town Road” blew up during my last semester of high school. As the longest-running No. 1 in Billboard chart history it may as well have been the song my class walke...

*DISCLAIMER: While I break down much of the setlist I am aware that I do not touch on every song they played. This is a conscious choice.*  It had been three years since I bought the tickets in 2019. King G...

Photo by Robert Freeman Ranked 83rd on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” The Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood” lit a fire in the burgeoning psychedelic music community. Part of the folk-...

With a band as prolific and experimental as King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (KGATLW), it is hard to imagine what a self-titled album, an artist’s definition of their sound, might be like. Still, it is surp...

On their fourth studio album, SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound (2021), The Psychedelic Porn Crumpets combine poppy hooks, layered psychedelic textures, and hard riff-based alternative rock, comfortably leaning into a ...