music

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...

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”  -Jim Rohn Recently, this quote was brought back up to me by a friend of mine; I think it holds a degree of truth. Just taking a gli...

I was enjoying my daily walk to campus, music blasting, the autumn sun warming my rosy cheeks at 12:38 PM on October 15th. At 12:39, my chest heaved, my knees buckled, and my phone slipped through my sweaty fin...

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...

"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...

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...

I’m always first in line to any concert, and it was no different for HOMESHAKE’s November 4th show at the Regency in San Francisco. I was greeted by two burly men––well, seemingly burly, as they were bu...

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 ...

What would a summer in NYC be without a music festival luring in audiences from all across the Tri-State area? The sun could not shine as bright around here without Gov Ball each year! As a local growing up ...

Last week, I attended DoLab’s Lightning in a Bottle (LIB) festival. The festival was located at Buena Vista Lake, California and spanned a whole five days from May 22-27, 2024. Dubbed “mini-Burning Man,” ...

Do Lab’s Lightning in a Bottle festival, an immersive 5 day experience filled with music, art, yoga, dance, and more, kicks off this month at Buena Vista Lake, California on May 22 to May 27, 2024. Lightning ...

Do Lab’s Lightning in a Bottle festival kicks off this month, coming to Buena Vista Lake, California on May 22 to May 27, 2024. The immersive 5 day experience filled with music, art, yoga, dance and other act...

Last Thursday (April 11, 2024), I had the privilege to catch a performance by the band SUN ROOM as they made a pit stop in Northern California, playing two shows in Sacramento and Berkeley. This weekend, th...

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...