Reviews

Danny Brown’s new album Old is the story of rap music. It’s the story of Danny Brown too, but he’s just a symbol; a tragic figure for the crumbling colossus that is hip hop, tied up in gold chains and Ni...

Melodic intricacies pour out from the speakers as my eyes transfix on a mash-up of what can only be described as a 1920s Fantasia vibe induced with Lucy singing in the Sky with the biggest Diamond she can get h...

October 8, 2013. 6:30 p.m. U.C. Berkeley. I raced out of class at the pinpoint of sunset. I was about 100 feet from Zellerbach Hall’s infamous theater, where Fiona Apple was scheduled to perform with SoCal ...

Holy Ghost! performing live. Full disclosure: I’m a fan of 80s music, and disco sounds, and most everything DFA Records puts out. So when Holy Ghost! of DFA Records released their new album Dynamics digital...

Who is Boldy James? The rapper is currently a rising star in the hip hop scene. He has already released several mixtapes since 2011, but now he is out with the first single off his upcoming album My 1st Chemist...

It doesn’t get much better than a music festival in Golden Gate Park on a perfect Sunday afternoon--unless it’s free. And the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival always is. Since 2001, Hardly Strictly...

Arriving at the regal Great American Musical Hall in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district on the calm night October 1, I could not have anticipated from the relatively subdued atmosphere of the gathering cro...

B9 released his eponymous LP at the end of last month, on Friday, September 27. Featuring twelve instrumental tracks, the album swirls with the sensations of dubstep, lounge and drone-y introspection.More spe...

Above: A Christopher Van Redman-designed flyer for UC Berkeley's Resound. Below: Bicycle Day drummer rocks the Cloyne Coop Stage at Resound Magazine UC Berkeley's Oct. 4 launch event.First Friday often denote...

Lauryn Hill is back. Not only was she released from jail after being incarcerated due to tax evasion for three months (and paying a sentence of $1 million), but also released a new single this week. The song i...

"The wait is over, HSBers!" announced an enthused Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival staff in their late-night October 3rd newsletter. Those HSBers--or Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival goers--are the longt...

UC Berkeley band String Theory opens the free Sept. 26 night show for UK DJ Max Cooper on Cal's Upper Sproul. http://youtu.be/QsBJ9V0EObo media by Audrey Gertz...

On September 21, approximately 7,000 die hard fans of all ages lined up throughout and around America's Cup Pavilion in San Francisco for Twenty One Pilots, Panic! At The Disco, and Fall Out Boy. They stre...

After a long few months of Bay Area summers, the Saturday of September 21 felt like the first day of seasonal Fall. Waking up to rain after a long Berkeley summer was a bit shocking. I’d almost forgotten a...

It was Labor Day weekend in New York City. Award-nominated EDM festival Electric Zoo was gearing up for another solid lineup of high-profile DJ and electronic acts. Everyone was excited for Saturday’s openi...