Music History

What is life without thumping 808s and artificial horns so distorted that they sound more like alien mating calls than instruments? After all, it’s “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” by Skrillex; “Heads ...

The intersectionality of two genres is much more than meshing two separate sounds because subcultures, histories, and aesthetics are ingrained within those sounds. When conjoined, opposing genres can communicat...

Jazz is a strangely unique kind of music. Although to some it might sound like a lullaby, boring or calming, jazz has endless complexities. Because of these complexities jazz complicates the rules of art and mu...

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...

Never, without exception, is there a reason someone should cover The Beach Boys. Of course, I love me a Fiona Apple cover of Across the Universe, but The Beach Boys is a whole different ball game. One weekend a...

  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...

The Internet is invariably filled with discourse in alignment with whatever headlines are trending in an increasingly short news cycle. As I lay in bed this month and swiped aimlessly through different social m...

I share the same taste in music as my grandma.  My grandma immigrated from Korea to the U.S., bringing music and culture with her. When I was little, I remember how I would watch her profile sit in front of...

There have been endless trends that rock ‘n’ roll bands have been involved in, ranging from the hazy guitar tones of the late 60s psychedelic era, to 80s glam rock equipped with overloads of hairspray and g...

"The best thing you can say about me is that I have been and I always will be in the twilight zone, and I'm serious. I live a different life. I'm lonely, but it's not just being lonely. It's the things that I s...

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...

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...

*Content Warning: This piece contains subject matters such as depression, suicide, and substance abuse.  Sex, drugs, and rock and roll seem like the recipe for the “perfect” life, but for some, it’s a...

The jazz section in a used record store. Haphazardly sorted bins. Thin cardboard smooth against your fingers as you shuffle the albums like playing cards. Smell of dust, faint crackling in the background. Brigh...

I have always hated pop punk. A hatred rooted in watching friends undergo their Fall Out Boy eras in middle school and my traumatic viewing of Blink-182’s performance at Coachella in April of 2023; an hour ...