Reflecting on Sidney Gish’s “No Dogs Allowed” as an anxious and awkward 20-year-old Irem Kurtdemir October 11, 2024 Creative Writing, Album Review Your morning begins with a day-old cup of coffee. The bitter taste of hardwood and ruthlessly closed doors. You scrub the floorboards of your mind, try to rid yourself of the stench of your second overdue assig...
My thoughts on “When a Thought Grows Wings” Sophia Shen September 13, 2024 Album Review What happens when the Asian-Canadian thought daughter of our generation goes through a breakup? Luna Li's latest and greatest LP When a Thought Grows Wings (2024) provides a lush, heart-shattering answer. Captu...
BRAT: a shiny, lime green breakdown Gwen Tam July 23, 2024 Pop, Album Review, Reviews, women in music 1 Comment “Who the fuck are you? I'm a brat when I'm bumpin' that.” This summer has been colored lime green and it’s all Charli xcx’s fault. Charli xcx’s latest album BRAT (2024) has taken over the pop mu...
Love like religion: A Dollface album review Katie Hulse March 18, 2024 Creative Writing, Album Preview, Album Review, Columns and Opinions, folk, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Music Composition, Opinion, Pop, Reviews, women in music, women's music 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...
plum blossom (revisited) tour- a reflection into the past Ashley Mauldin December 15, 2023 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews What were you like at seventeen? The answer to that question is often one filled with an awkward pause before replying with some form of “I was naive and didn’t understand love,” or “I was still ...
Chronicles of a Diamond – Black Pumas, an album review Megan Darzynkiewicz December 7, 2023 Album Review, Opinion, R&B, Reviews, Rock 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...
The complexity of love and loss in the Beatles’ “Now and Then” Gianna Caudillo November 28, 2023 News, Album Review, Reviews, Rock 1 Comment “One, two…,” counts Paul McCartney, but he is not about to launch into a rollicking, “Well, she was just seventeen! You know what I mean!” This McCartney count-in is more methodical, of lower timbre, ...
Why you should be digging Dijon: an Absolutely album review Katie Hulse November 19, 2023 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, indie, R&B The electrically honest debut album titled Absolutely (2021) moves in mysterious ways and pulsates with such raw emotion that it feels like the music is bursting free from Dijon’s safekept psyche. With th...
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We: A Lyrical Exploration of Mitski’s New Album Michelle Johnson-Wang November 8, 2023 Album Review, Contemporary Folk, Creative Writing You can’t live in this house anymore. There’s more mold than grout between your bathroom tiles. The foundations are rotting and slowly sinking into the earth. You asked your landlord to do something about i...
“Jazz!! is!! back!!:” The release of Laufey’s “Bewitched” and thoughts on the future of the genre Gianna Caudillo October 10, 2023 Album Review, Classical, Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, indie-pop, Jazz, Music Consumption, Opinion, Reviews 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...
HANNAH SHARES APERTURE WITH THE BAY Nico Chodor September 25, 2023 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco Support from Miloe & Lance Redeker primed what became Hannah Jadagu’s stage through and through. She breezed into the city Wednesday night, immediately following her show at the Echo 24 hours prior, to pl...
Ultra Q Reunites with Hockey Dad for Rickshaw Nostalgia Nico Chodor September 11, 2023 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Australian surf rock duo Hockey Dad fathered Jakob Armstrong, Chris Malaspina, Enzo Malaspina, and Kevin Judd through their first full US tour when the boys still went by Mt. Eddy in 2018. Five years later, Jak...
From Gay Head to Goldenrod: the first decade of the Women’s Music Movement in song Gianna Caudillo September 5, 2023 Album Review, Berkeley, folk, music, Music History, Oakland, Reviews, Rock, women's music, Women's Music Movement Commercial rock and roll has always been a boys’ club. From the success of songs that glamorized abuse and the gross fetishization of women, such as the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” or the Beatles’ ...
SASAMI thinks that nature has feelings too!! Samantha Friedland March 24, 2023 Album Review, folk, indie, indie scene, LGBTQ+, music Take a large scoop of heavy metal, a teaspoon of electronic demon sounds, a dash of indie rock and folk music, blend it all together on the floor in a cabin in the woods, and you get the sophomore album, Squeez...
Contemplating the tenderness of Natalia Lafourcade’s De Todas las Flores Natalia Girolami March 2, 2023 Album Review Natalia Lafourcade’s newest album De Todas las Flores (2022) is Lafourcade’s first full record of original music in seven years. Her last album containing original work was Hasta la Raíz which was released...