Closing your eyes: A moment alone with Julia Holter’s Something in the Room She Moves Peri Zoe Yildirim-Stanley December 9, 2024 Columns and Opinions, Album Review, Creative Writing, Music Consumption, Opinion For the grand majority of us, listening to music is as easy as opening up your phone, connecting to your various bluetooth devices for proper amplification, and choosing a song. Everything in the world, every...
Glee, they could never make me hate you Sailor Hill December 4, 2024 Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing, music, Opinion Glee is the greatest thing to ever grace a television screen and you can’t change my mind. I’ve decided that 2025 is my year of self-acceptance, but why wait? I’m getting a head start on my resolutio...
The music of my childhood Lu He December 3, 2024 Blog, Classical, Mandopop, Pop Our generation loves pop. Where I grew up, teenagers blared One Direction and Ed Sheeran as they made trips to the beach and every time I recall my middle school years, my memory is tinted with a glow of dazzli...
A quintessential fall album: Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago Anthony Fig November 29, 2024 Album Preview, Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing, folk, Opinion Following the warm weather and constant sunshine of the summer, it is almost ironic how it is followed by autumn, marked with rain, gloom, and for a lot of people, the beginning of a new school year. These elem...
Punk’s Unlikely Grandfather: Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and the legacy of Arthur Rimbaud’s Poetry Micah Petyt November 25, 2024 Columns and Opinions, Music History, Opinion, Punk, Rock An absolute must-read for any French high school student–myself included–Arthur Rimbaud remains one of the most famous French poets, and one of the greatest poets of the Romantic period. When I first studie...
I got sidetracked by the soundtrack: musical lingerings of various films Shannon Cheng October 21, 2024 Columns and Opinions, Film, Staff Pick While going through the Bridget Jones trilogy, I was in awe of the song choices—especially in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), when “I’m Not in Love” by 10cc was played. It was the perfect comb...
Ticket for one! Why you should go to a concert alone Bailey Schroerlucke October 1, 2024 Columns and Opinions I am someone who takes attending concerts very seriously. Foraging through the endless ticket selling sites, checking artists’ Instagrams, and updating my extensive notes app page of upcoming concerts has bec...
Seattle reeks Katie Hulse September 17, 2024 Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, Music Consumption, Music History There’s a corner of the Pacific Northwest that stands to be an incubator for everlong brazen creativity. Washington has and continues to be a place that both attracts and cultivates minds that bend constricti...
Don’t know what music to study to? A geographical guide to the best study soundtracks Megan Darzynkiewicz May 6, 2024 Columns and Opinions, Berkeley, Opinion It is officially finals season here at UC Berkeley, and sometimes it seems the only thing tougher than finding a free seat in one of Berkeley’s twenty-seven libraries is choosing the soundtrack to your stud...
Love like religion: A Dollface album review Katie Hulse March 18, 2024 Creative Writing, Album Preview, Album Review, Columns and Opinions, folk, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Music Composition, Opinion, Pop, Reviews, women in music, women's music Hana Bryanne released her debut album titled Dollface on September 15, 2023, at twenty years old. It was written entirely by Bryanne and produced by Carter Jahn and Maxwell Bienert. Its namesake deriv...
In support of Joe Hisaishi Ashley Mauldin January 18, 2024 Columns and Opinions, News While the night of opulence that the Golden Globes normally dictates didn’t end in complete surprises for me, one category stood out as a great disappointment: “Best Original Score.” From examining the pa...
Why you should be digging Dijon: an Absolutely album review Katie Hulse November 19, 2023 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, indie, R&B The electrically honest debut album titled Absolutely (2021) moves in mysterious ways and pulsates with such raw emotion that it feels like the music is bursting free from Dijon’s safekept psyche. With th...
8 DAYS/14 SHOWS/9 VENUES: A Countercultural Halloweek at Psyched! Fest Nico Chodor November 6, 2023 Cultural Commentary, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Feature, Multimedia, Music Consumption, News, Photos, Punk, Reviews, Rock, San Francisco Psyched! Fest - San Francisco's Independent Festival of Arts, Music, Diversity & Counterculture - opened Wednesday, October 25th at Rickshaw Stop. Brought to you by Psyched! Radio, the multiracial nonprofit...
The Mystique of Elliott Smith’s Demise Katie Hulse October 23, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, folk, indie, indie scene, Music History, Opinion Elliott Smith is one of the most intrinsically devastating and crucial indie-folk musicians to date, known for his lyrics of absolute despair. The only thing more twisted and heartbreaking than his music is the...
Words about words: songs inspired by books and novels Katie Hulse October 17, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, Music Consumption, Music History Words hold immense power, and they often inspire and influence each other over time with the multitudes of organizations and contexts they combine to form. All writings, from lyrics, to poetry, novels...