A jester’s surprise: The Garden hits The Regency Ballroom Maya Banuelos December 3, 2022 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews In one of their final stops on the Horseshit on Route 66 tour The Garden gave their first of two nights at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom on November 29th. Despite a notably lackluster energy from the band ...
The A-Side Sessions Presents: Kid Hastings Natalie Gott and Maya Banuelos April 27, 2022 Interview, Multimedia LA-based Kid Hastings took over the A-Side Sessions on an episode filmed in July 2020. After the long wait, Kid Hastings is ready to prove to the A-Side audience that acoustic music doesn’t have to be boring....
The A-Side Sessions Presents: Griffen Castillo Sunny Sangha and Maya Banuelos April 19, 2022 Interview, Multimedia Griffen Castillo is a singer/songwriter/rapper based in the East Bay. Last fall, the A-Side Sessions producer, Joe, overhead them singing on the UC Berkeley Memorial Glade. The two struck up a conversation abou...
The A-Side Sessions Presents: Celine Euphoria Sunny Sangha and Maya Banuelos March 26, 2022 Interview, Multimedia The cover girl for our 11th print issue, Celine Euphoria, plays an energetic and exciting A-side session. Filmed during a chilly night in Berkeley California, Celine’s performance was the total opposite. She ...
Q&A: Ultra Q’s Jakob Armstrong talks upcoming EP “Get Yourself a Friend,” return to live music Maya Banuelos November 16, 2021 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview After nearly two years without live music and over a year since their last release, Oakland-based punk band Ultra Q has returned to the Bay in anticipation of their third and upcoming EP Get Yourself A Friend,...
Blood, sweat, and tears: Ultra Q at the Bottom of the Hill Maya Banuelos November 16, 2021 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews If there is one band I could credit for being there throughout my teenage adolescence, it would be Ultra Q. Under their former title Mt. Eddy, Chroma became the soundtrack to the angst of my high school yea...
Cross-continental overlaps: From minyo to cumbia Maya Banuelos May 17, 2021 Reviews When it comes to the vast world of music, sometimes I feel like I have seen and heard most of everything. Yet, the world continues to prove me wrong by my discoveries of genre-bending I never would have thought...
Behind the opening sequences: Exploring J-rock and pop Maya Banuelos April 21, 2021 Creative Writing Any anime fan is well aware of the effect that a good opening song has on a show’s experience. The satisfaction of starting the new romance anime everyone has been raving about and being met with a bubble-pop...
Social Media and The Music Industry’s New Chaotic Form of Normalcy Maya Banuelos March 27, 2021 Columns and Opinions, Reviews As we approach the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, examining the impact of social isolation on mental health has become pivotal as we process the year we have spent quarantined. For artists, the faults ...
The ‘Teenage freak’ to ‘Deadhead’ Pipeline: Finding Authenticity with the Dead Maya Banuelos March 5, 2021 Columns and Opinions Within the past month as I have been rewatching the 1999 television drama Freaks and Geeks, I am reminded of the first time I watched it and became introduced to the Grateful Dead. As I now watch high scho...
