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...
Anonymity Spawns Creativity in Parannoul’s After the Magic Walker Price February 13, 2023 Album Review, Reviews Parannoul defies definition. The mastermind behind the Seoul-based project lurks beyond shadows, basking in an anonymity that sheds further intrigue onto a project that is more than able to attract it based sol...
Floating through “Icy Blue”: new Chammeili album contemplates change Sophia Shen January 2, 2023 Album Review Characterized by dreamy doubled vocals and temperamental time signatures, Berkeley-based indie band Chammeili’s 2022 record Icy Blue provides listeners with a bird’s eye view of the trials, tribulations, an...
The Magic Of The Buchla 100 Synthesizer: A Night At The Starline Social Club with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Ava Aguiar December 13, 2022 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, producer, and performer originally from Northwest Washington. The artist, who is currently based in Los Angeles, spent her former years at the Berklee college of m...
A Misty Awakening – Kali Malone’s Living Torch Alton Sturgis December 7, 2022 Album Review Kali Malone—a Denver-born, Stockholm-based sound artist, model, and experimentalist—transitions from her organ-centric work to a new artistic era with her LP release Living Torch (2022). Malone’s pre...
You can leave it to Alex G Div Buccieri November 7, 2022 Album Review, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, indie-pop, LGBTQ+, Multimedia, music, News, Reviews Surely, you or someone you know went to the Alex G concert in SF. The event, held Oct. 19 at The Fillmore on a chilly fall Wednesday night, mothered something other than the usually-disquieted Alex G, thanks to...
Far from a Wayside: Bedouine’s third album displays songwriting brilliance Anahit Hovsepyan November 6, 2022 Album Review, Reviews Azniv Korkejian, also known as singer-songwriter Bedouine, pulls in listeners with her poetic lyricism and elegant style. With her third record released just over a year ago on October 22, 2021, Waysides contin...
From the mind of Björk spawns Fossora Jackie Greene October 31, 2022 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews, Rock With no choice but to isolate during the pandemic, many of us, in our collective boredom, spent our days coping with various outlets. Some of us took up new hobbies, like baking bread or crocheting. Others look...
Let Loose with Tank and the Bangas Ansley Stotelmyre April 11, 2022 Album Review, Photos On Friday April 8th, Tank and the Bangas came to August Hall in San Francisco, and gave a performance that left people candidly dancing to their own hearts content with each other, with each individual smiling ...
Molly Nilsson’s Sidereal Message to an Impending World Ally Flygare April 5, 2022 Album Review, Opinion, Reviews Swedish singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson is no stranger to exercising her independence. Writing, producing, and publishing her own music — through her independent record label Dark Skies Association — allo...
An ode to sensitivity: Nilüfer Yanya’s hypnotic sophomore album Painless Liv Bjorgum March 31, 2022 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment Nilüfer Yanya’s ethereal sophomore album Painless (ATO, 2022) chronicles the complexities of loneliness and uncertainty. The Chelsea artist’s brutal honesty adds an edge to her signature dreamy, pop-rock s...
A Miserable Apocalypse: Injury Reserve’s By The Time I Get to Phoenix Alton Sturgis November 18, 2021 Album Review By the Time I Get to Phoenix (2021) is the newest release from Injury Reserve, an Arizona-based experimental hip-hop group. Their first mixtape, Live From The Dentists Office (2015), broke waves as one of the d...
A Race to my Downloads with Alex G Ally Flygare November 17, 2021 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing, Opinion Alex G’s 2010 self-released album, Race, is an ode to the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. Released when Alex was a mere 17 years old, the pains of being a teenager growing up in suburban Havertown...
I don’t know about you, but both my favorite album and I are turning twenty-two: A love letter to 69 Love Songs Baylie Raddon September 7, 2021 Album Review, Creative Writing On September 7th, 1999, a new life was brought into the world. Though only a newborn, it was filled with complexity, somber observation, cynicism, and underneath it all, a guarded sense of optimism. Two days la...
A Conversation with Up and Coming Rapper Kidd Kenn Jax Samsell June 11, 2021 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Reviews Kidd Kenn is an 18 year old rapper from Chicago who is breaking out into the rap game. Kenn is a vibrant personality with bright hair, flawless makeup, and an energy that can undeniably be felt even through Zoo...