Rock

I didn’t want to go all the way to San Francisco. It was the first day back from spring break, I was too cold to wear the outfit I’d laid out, and it was starting to rain. I was exhausted and all I wanted t...

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...

Piano-rock/alt-rock band Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards is coming to Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco on 03/31. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview Johnny to chat about music, thei...

  Plucked her eyebrows on the way, Shaved her legs and then he was a she She said “Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side”   Long before stars and models like Hunter Schaffer and La...

I was enjoying my daily walk to campus, music blasting, the autumn sun warming my rosy cheeks at 12:38 PM on October 15th. At 12:39, my chest heaved, my knees buckled, and my phone slipped through my sweaty fin...

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There have been endless trends that rock ‘n’ roll bands have been involved in, ranging from the hazy guitar tones of the late 60s psychedelic era, to 80s glam rock equipped with overloads of hairspray and g...

"The best thing you can say about me is that I have been and I always will be in the twilight zone, and I'm serious. I live a different life. I'm lonely, but it's not just being lonely. It's the things that I s...

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...

I’m always first in line to any concert, and it was no different for HOMESHAKE’s November 4th show at the Regency in San Francisco. I was greeted by two burly men––well, seemingly burly, as they were bu...

San Francisco boasted a striking 97 degrees on Sunday, the last day of the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival and the warmest October 6th the city had ever seen. Despite the excessive heat, the streets s...

My experience on Friday, October 4th, Day 1 of San Francisco’s annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival starts with a harrowing journey, full of twists and turns (literally, physically turning around and w...

Last Thursday (April 11, 2024), I had the privilege to catch a performance by the band SUN ROOM as they made a pit stop in Northern California, playing two shows in Sacramento and Berkeley. This weekend, th...

Skydiving off of a building. Skinny dipping with your best friend. Committing arson in the dead of night. Have you done any of these actions that I cannot legally condone? No? Well, neither have I. This, howeve...

Green Day by Jax Samsell The brisk San Francisco air felt refreshingly chilly to the red-faced, sweaty bodies spilling out of the Fillmore on Tuesday night. On an evening that will go down in Bay Area music...