Columns and Opinions

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

One day during the Outside Lands music festival in August of 2022, my dad and I were walking around with little of a plan. The artists we were interested in seeing were all playing later in the day, so we found...

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...

Support from Miloe & Lance Redeker primed what became Hannah Jadagu’s stage through and through. She breezed into the city Wednesday night, immediately following her show at the Echo 24 hours prior, to pl...

Lil Baby embarks on his first stadium tour, delivering an electrifying show at the Oakland Arena. He proves he is a powerful force in music and provides a challenge to the previous notions of men in rap being b...

The winter season has become synonymous with Spotify Wrapped season, wreaking havoc upon us trembling listeners, fearful of what our Wrapped will unearth. Maybe you listened to Your Best American Girl by Mitski...