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Seeing sounds: An instructional guide to predicting the sound of an album before you listen to it

Mary Luce
April 8, 2025
Glitchcore, indie, International, LGBTQ+, Music Composition, Music History, Opinion, Print Edition, Soul, women in music
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...

When the music plays twice

Mary Luce
April 8, 2025
Black Culture, Contemporary Folk, Cultural Commentary, folk, indie, indie-pop, International, music, Music History, Musicology, Opinion, Print Edition, R&B, Rock, women's music
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...

RACE SELLS RECORDS: An observational study of jazz album art in the mid-1950s

Gianna Caudillo
September 4, 2024
Music History, Black Culture, Jazz, Musicology, Print Edition
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...

Why I hate pop punk

Annie Wynner
September 4, 2024
Opinion, british post-punk, music, Music History, Print Edition, prog-rock, Punk
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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 ...

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