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 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...

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...

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...

Midterm season isn’t over just yet – so here are some of the best playlists to help you focus on your studies. 1. Jazz Instrumental If you don’t already know who Kenny G. is, I implore you to check...

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 ...

It is officially finals season here at UC  Berkeley, and sometimes it seems the only thing tougher than finding a free seat in one of Berkeley’s twenty-seven libraries is choosing the soundtrack to your stud...

If you’ve ever lurked in the digital swamp that was the Internet during the 2000s to early 2010s, chances are, you have encountered, in some form, Vocaloids and Vocaloid music. The ever-present, blue-pigtaile...

After a breakup, any music lover immediately takes to Spotify to begin crafting a flawless playlist that truly encapsulates the pain of heartbreak. Only a master can perfect the ideal mix of lyrics, artists, an...

  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...

If someone asked me what I wanted to eat for my last meal, I would say forget the food. Play these 5 classic freestyles and I'll rest peacefully.  Jokes aside, the 5 freestyles listed here merely reflect th...

The first time I heard the Black Pumas was when their song “Colors”  popped up on my Spotify Discover Weekly. Since then, it’s become an absolute star on my playlists, with its building chorus and messag...

Elliott Smith is one of the most intrinsically devastating and crucial indie-folk musicians to date, known for his lyrics of absolute despair. The only thing more twisted and heartbreaking than his music is the...

I don’t want to write about music. What is music when the pulse of a homeland is extinguished by the looming threat of more bombings and more death? Music is the rhythm of a mother rocking her baby to slee...

In early 2021, a friend of mine sent me a link to a TikTok accompanied by an innocuous message somewhere along the lines of, “Thought you’d like this.” Intrigued, I clicked, and a curly-haired girl in a p...