Music History

As a young student, I vividly remember the daily ritual of walking to my middle school. It was the perfect opportunity to plug in my headphones, let the music take over, and shut out the rest of the world. In t...

In a land where children defend themselves by throwing pebbles at tanks, where holding the Palestinian flag is not only banned but met with violence, and where Israeli soldiers and settlers may break into your ...

Hans Zimmer. John Williams.  Alan Menken: These are all composers that most people know off of the top of our heads when it comes to film scores. These men are the powerhouse of the movie music industry, and a...

The public’s lasting perception of 60s pop-rock band the Monkees sounds a little like this: a Neil Diamond impersonator screaming out to a group of picnicking families, “How many of you remember a Saturday ...

Gunk zine issue 4 by Bikceem Ramdasha Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that originated in the 1990s in the Pacific Northweast of the United States, although some argue the genre truly sta...

On the first day of the UAW strike, nestled at the corner of Bancroft St. and College Avenue, post-docs, GSIs, and academic researchers organized and gathered, parading signs with the words “UAW ON STRIKE” ...

When my abuela was a little girl, her mother allowed her to play with the neighborhood kids in the street under one condition: she must be home by tea time, which was three o’clock on the dot. She told me the...

Shock rock is exemplified by acts like Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson*, Screaming Lord Sutch, and Arthur Brown. Its foremost derivative, horror punk, is populated by bands like Misfits or The Cramps. The Cure, Si...

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...