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...

Orchestral stadium rock and roll. As B-Side’s resident music major (and rockstar), when the opportunity to cover The Who Hits Back Tour was generously extended to our publication, I knew it was meant for me. ...

When Katie Jacoby was 15, she emailed The Who asking to perform the violin solo in “Baba O’Riley” at their upcoming show at the Wachovia Center in 2007. While Jacoby never received a response, 15 years la...

Recently, I’ve been spending a great deal of my algorithm-guided time online obsessing over the idea of absolution. I’m not the only one. Over the past couple of months, there’s been an alarming rise in i...

Everything nice but Isaac Wood, that is. I am at the back of a line. A long line. Hopping off at BART’s Powell Station, I was not expecting this many people; an amused feeling of surprise crawls its way ac...

To an angsty teenager, nothing is more appealing than music that repulses adults, alludes to sex and drugs, and was at one point, banned in the city of Santa Cruz. Rock music, and what it represents, not only d...