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...
A Love Letter to The Beths Luke Lanterman October 15, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, Photos 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...
“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...
HANNAH SHARES APERTURE WITH THE BAY Nico Chodor September 25, 2023 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco 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’s Big Night Sunny Sangha September 11, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews 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...
Listen to My Spotify Playlist: How Streaming Affects Music Consumption and Culture Ellie Nguyen August 9, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, Music Consumption, Opinion, Political 2 Comments 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...
50 Shades of Grey: Pragmatism and Queertopia in Music Culture Ellie Nguyen August 9, 2023 Columns and Opinions, LGBTQ+, Music History, Opinion, Political At last year’s Outside Lands, Moses Sumney gave a cathartic performance. Clad in latex and a leather skirt, his voice pierced the San Francisco fog, entrancing the audience in his siren song. And it was throu...
The Time I “Lied” on My College Application About Being a Songwriter Adrian Ceja May 19, 2023 Columns and Opinions 17 year-old me was many things: eldest sibling by chance, Taylor Swift enthusiast by choice, a teenager by definition, and liar by the means of my own mind, which I still do not fully understand to this day. I ...
Love and Rapture: A Cinderella Fairytale of A Night With the SF Ballet Dorothy Eck and Nico Chodor April 12, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Opinion, Reviews, San Francisco The San Francisco Ballet’s production of Cinderella takes a modern twist on the classic fairytale, where in place of magic, mice, and wands that go bippity-bobbity-boop, there are Four Fates, colorful spirits...
A song of existence: Mohammed Assaf’s “Dammi Falastini” and rebellion against colonization Anon April 3, 2023 Columns and Opinions, International, Opinion, Political 1 Comment Mohammed Assaf, photo by Ibrahim Alalami A simple song can be integral to a culture, becoming almost second nature to those who value it. Mohammed Assaf’s “Dammi Falastini” is as natural and essential...