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...
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...
The delays, the freeways, and the gays Madeline Heinemann November 15, 2024 Creative Writing My shins were burning as I sped-walked through UC Berkeley’s tree lined north campus, down and up the paved path as my “Slow Jams” playlist queued Cat Stevens in my ear, attempting to calm me down so no o...
SLCHLD in Seattle: she likes spring, we both prefer winter Jenai Johns-Peterson November 6, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Creative Writing, R&B It’s my second year living in California, but Seattle is my home. The bulk of my memories are there, the “growing up” stage of my life still contained in Seattle’s crisp, chilly air. I see my homesickne...
Reflecting on Sidney Gish’s “No Dogs Allowed” as an anxious and awkward 20-year-old Irem Kurtdemir October 11, 2024 Creative Writing, Album Review Your morning begins with a day-old cup of coffee. The bitter taste of hardwood and ruthlessly closed doors. You scrub the floorboards of your mind, try to rid yourself of the stench of your second overdue assig...
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...
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We: A Lyrical Exploration of Mitski’s New Album Michelle Johnson-Wang November 8, 2023 Album Review, Contemporary Folk, Creative Writing You can’t live in this house anymore. There’s more mold than grout between your bathroom tiles. The foundations are rotting and slowly sinking into the earth. You asked your landlord to do something about i...
Another reason they shouldn’t have given me a license: Screaming in the suburbs when there’s nowhere to go but the highway Cole Haddock December 21, 2022 Blog, Creative Writing I got to drive a car a few weeks ago. I was so rusty, I smacked the side window on an unmoving wall. It made me realize how many months it’d been, and suddenly all I wanted to do was drive. Of all the things ...
Give me my ticket stub or give me death! Jackie Greene November 21, 2022 Creative Writing, Oakland, Opinion, Satire Photo by Gary Friedman I had the wonderful pleasure to see Grace Jones at the Fox Theater for the immensely convenient price of zero dollars. As instructed by the contest-holders, I went to the box office ...
Could I beat my most listened to artists of 2022 in a fight? Adrian Ceja November 21, 2022 Creative Writing 2022 is almost over and that means a flurry of Instagram stories showing everyone’s most listened to music of the year is fast approaching. I use Apple Music rather than Spotify, so I do not get the artistic ...
Mexicans in Madrid: coming full circle in a Spanish club Karla Limon November 12, 2022 Creative Writing, music As a brown Mexican-American, Spain h...
“Thank u, next” to racial identity: pop star Ariana Grande’s record of racebending Nadia Laswi November 9, 2022 Creative Writing, Opinion 1 Comment I asked 40 people: what race is Ariana Grande? The answers were inconclusive, with answers ranging from Latina, Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern. The pop artist, known for her ponytail hairstyle and whistle t...
Sad Woman September: A case study for hyper-specific playlist making Sabrina Herrera September 30, 2022 Blog, Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing, Multimedia In my life I have met two types of people: those who intricately craft a playlist, who will put their life and soul into this playlist, and then those with one mega playlist. For the former there is no such thi...
Sex, drugs, and segregation: the influence of Black artists and the history of rock ‘n’ roll Nadia Laswi September 23, 2022 Black Culture, Creative Writing, Music History, Rock To an angsty teenager, nothing is more appealing than music that repulses adults, alludes to sex and drugs, and was at one point, banned in the city of Santa Cruz. Rock music, and what it represents, not only d...