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Art by Anais Roatta Here at B-Side, your local student music publication, we delve deep into the music we love in order to understand its evocative power and cultural necessity—we celebrate music’s capa...

With 11 beautiful, soulful, and intense tracks, Cupid Deluxe (2013)  compresses the feeling of giving to someone who can never be pleased—the constant chase for validation, for proof that your love means som...

  Plucked her eyebrows on the way, Shaved her legs and then he was a she She said “Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side”   Long before stars and models like Hunter Schaffer and La...

Nor-Cal based artist Megan Claire released her first single “I-5” nearly a year ago. That year had been filled with live shows, a brief stint in Los Angeles, the finding of a full band, and overall growth a...

“It’s a shame I’m not a religious person because I think I would’ve made a great preacher. So, Berkeley, will you let me take you to church?”  With those electrifying words in the latter half of her...

Skydiving off of a building. Skinny dipping with your best friend. Committing arson in the dead of night. Have you done any of these actions that I cannot legally condone? No? Well, neither have I. This, howeve...

Gayathri Krishnan is an artist on the rise hailing from the City of Angels who is capturing the attention of audiences everywhere with her luscious, captivating voice and her unique approach to the artistry of ...

19-year-old self-taught producer, singer-rapper, and multi-instrumentalist Portraits Of Tracy from Baton Rouge, Louisiana released her new project, Drive Home, this past May 26th, 2023. Dubbed an “audio n...

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...

I arrived at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco accompanied by the jittery flutter of anxiety that whispered *you're going to miss Odie's set you're going to miss Odie's set you're going to miss Odie's set.* Howe...

Late this past Saturday night, April 29,  Boiler Room hosted a sold-out event in collaboration with party-starters Fake and Gay in San Francisco at The Midway. With a sensational line-up of twenty three artist...

Note: To read this article properly, listen to the correct music while reading. This could include Jackie Shane, Little Richard, Billy Wright, Esquerita, or  Big Mama Thorton. For a Spotify playlist, click he...

I arrived just in time to hear the first strums of her acoustic guitar. I hurried to the front of the general admission floor and then I saw her in all her beauty, dressed in the coolest yellow corset top desig...

Take a large scoop of heavy metal, a teaspoon of electronic demon sounds, a dash of indie rock and folk music, blend it all together on the floor in a cabin in the woods, and you get the sophomore album, Squeez...

  Chappell Roan in her music video for "My Kink is Karma" “It's not fun. It's not hot. It's not interesting. It's boring.”  These were the words that Chappell Roan used to describe her experien...