Best Acts at Primavera Sound LA
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Arca: She/Her/It/They/Them
Arca, our extraterrestrial goddess. Arca knows no limits and chooses to defy every border within music. Arca is a legend. A Venezuelan artis...
Festival Diary: A Primavera Sound Experience
The iconic Primavera Sound festival finally made its way to Los Angeles, California on the weekend of September 16th-18th. For two decades Primavera Sound has been spreading music throughout the world. The fest...
JOJI and I: A Concert Diary
Although Joji, takes the term "concert" quite loosely, he delivers on every aspect, with the addition of t-shirt launching, surprise guests, and a McDonald's DoorDash containing Fillet-o-Fish. With a loud, come...
An interview with Chicago musician Tasha on songwriting, tour, and self-love
On May 25th, Chicago musician Tasha performed at the historic Bottom of the Hill, in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood. The second to last performance as a part of her Spring 2022 tour, I got the chan...
“What’s this fondness I’ve found?” – on shaping Tasha’s Tell Me What You Miss the Most
When I first listened to Chicago musician Tasha’s 2021 sophomore album, Tell Me What You Miss the Most, I was stuck in my childhood bedroom - a bedroom whose personality did not match that of the teenager who...
Wide Awake! with Parquet Courts
The Fox Theater on the night of the 27th was swarming with bodies, milling in to the large hall as Parquet Courts embraced the stage, greeting the audience with their instruments as a flashing, orange hue pulse...
Raveena—A Human Ray of Sunshine—Spreads Her Light Over Oakland
A couple days ago, Raveena and her opener, Fana Hues, delivered a stunning performing to their audience at the New Parish Oakland. Their performance, full of joy and light, left the audience beaming by the end ...
Any Shape You Take: Indigo De Souza at The Great American Music Hall
On Thursday, March 21st Indigo De Souza performed at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, mesmerizing a fairly quaint venue packed with screaming fans. Indigo’s music has a unique rhythmic quality ...
Still Feeling Woozy after a Night Groovin’ at the Warfield
This past Monday night at the Warfield in San Francisco, Still Woozy and company gave their audience the performance of a lifetime. The night's concert consisted of three hour long sets featuring Legwurk, Walli...
TV Girl Disappoints on 6 ½ Year French Exit Anniversary Tour
Six years after the release of their debut album French Exit, indie pop band TV Girl has gained a cult following, due in large part to their success on TikTok. The hit song, “Lover’s Rock” was nothing sho...
Nameless, Faceless yet Utterly At Home: Courtney Barnett at the Fox
The night of December 12th at the Fox Theater in Oakland proved a stormy one, both literally and figuratively, as rain relentlessly showered concert-goers while Sunday blues and upcoming finals loomed ominously...
Miss Americana’s White Feminism is Once Again “Nothing New”
If you are like me, who happens to be a huge fan of Taylor Swift while also having a borderline masochistic relationship to sad music, then you were probably counting the days for Red (Taylor’s Version), spec...
The Anti-Grimes Manifesto
A SPECTER IS HAUNTING THE INTERNET — THE SPECTER OF GRIMES!
Thus Piper Samuels introduces her program for the reorientation of justice-seeking music listeners towards new electronic-pop artists.
A specter...
It’s the 18th Anniversary of Elliott Smith’s death: Here are Just 7 Musicians that He’s Influenced
It’s been 18 years since we lost the legendary singer-songwriter, Elliott Smith. Although he died shortly after I was born, I’ve always related to his music, since his music is often intimate and conversati...
Spotify Blend: Sweet Dreams Really are Made of Nightmares
Spotify Blend is the newest feature on Spotify. It syncs your music taste with whoever you send the Spotify blend link to and generates a playlist with similar songs you each would like. It has a song compatibi...