­
https://berkeleybside.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Bside_New_Header.jpg
Search
  • About
  • Issues
  • Join Our team
    • Executive Staff
  • Music History
    Random
    • Racist Grrrl: the politics of race and anger in punk feminist movements

      Noah Larsen
      December 28, 2022
      Black Culture, Columns and Opinions, Music History, Opinion, Political, Punk, Rock
      5 Comment
    Recent
    • Eternalizing Electronica for Emotional 20-Somethings

      Jojo Pak
      May 4, 2025
      1
    • When Worlds Collide: Music Sampling as a Contact Zone

      Jessica Balderas
      April 30, 2025
    • Kind of copied: Jazz as conceptual art

      Mary Luce
      April 9, 2025
    • women in music
    • Local
    • Black Culture
    • Cultural Commentary
    • LGBTQ+
    • Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
  • Productions
  • Contact
  • site logo

Uncategorized

Home
Uncategorized

America’s musicians have a lot to protest about

Noah Larsen
November 22, 2020
Columns and Opinions, Uncategorized
America has a lot to protest about. What better way to reach people than through song?  For over a century, artists in the United States have been crafting songs to deliver a message of change to the p...

Dua-ing Again in time for Studio 2054

Sara Florez
November 3, 2020
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Multimedia, Photos, Uncategorized
Can you ever go wrong with Dua Lipa? After releasing her second album Future Nostalgia (2020) in March, Dua released a remixed version just five months later featuring Gwen Stefani, Madonna, Mark Ronson, and J...

Slowing Down the Tempo In These Too Fast of Times

Paulette Ely
November 3, 2020
Creative Writing, News, Uncategorized
Whenever I like a track, I ask my most musically-manic-mate, Ivan to send me songs that sound similar. Ivan is basically like a Spotify algorithm in human form, knowing the ins and outs of what makes people fe...

Clipping are masters of 2020 horror in new LP

Noah Larsen
November 1, 2020
Album Review, Reviews, Uncategorized
Clipping’s new album Visions of Bodies Being Burned (2020) has one hell of a story to tell you. Released on the 23rd of October, the album serves as a sequel to last year’s LP There Existed an Addiction to...

5 Albums That You Missed This Year

Sravya Gadepalli
November 1, 2020
Columns and Opinions, Uncategorized
Though this year has been an absolute whirlwind of unexpected events, it has been an incredible year for music. From psychedelic music to rap to flamenco to rock, 2020 did not disappoint. With all of these new...

Television Tunes: Ramy

Sravya Gadepalli
October 29, 2020
Columns and Opinions, Uncategorized
Warning: This article contains a few spoilers from Ramy Seasons 1 & 2 Well into the second season of Ramy, a series following an Egyptian-Muslim’s spiritual journey, we find Ramy’s sister Dena fall ...

Revisiting Sufjan Stevens’ Age of Adz in the era of hyperpop

Noah Larsen
October 12, 2020
Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews, Uncategorized
As I was scrolling through the #sufjanstevens tag on TikTok (as one naturally does), I clicked on a high-quality video in which user @boyjr.69 covers Sufjan Stevens' indie hit song “Mystery of Love” in the...

The A-side Sessions presents: No Room No Sweetener

Natalie Gott
October 11, 2020
Interview, Multimedia, Uncategorized
On a Saturday afternoon that felt far too brief, the longing for live music was put to ease as solo artist Juhuhn Kim of No Room No Sweetener plays the debut set of our mutli-media series, The A-side Sessions....

Kyle reminisces on his youth with latest album

Amber Ellertson
October 11, 2020
Album Review, Reviews, Uncategorized
Rapper and singer Kyle, from Ventura, CA, recently dropped his fourth album, See You When I am Famous!!!!!!!!!!!! (2020). A mix of new and old styles, SYWIF is a collection of songs which both remind of us of ...

DGD’s Afterburner will light up your quarantine

Amber Ellertson
August 12, 2020
Columns and Opinions, Uncategorized
If there’s anything that living in the age of COVID-19 has taught me, it’s that there really is no shortage of creativity in the human spirit. Look on any social media page and you’ll find people at home...

BLM! Albums of Experience

Stanley Quiros
July 30, 2020
Columns and Opinions, Uncategorized
Black lives matter! Black songwriters, musicians, and artists are an integral part of American music history. Jazz, blues, and rock music were all founded by Black people, and all around the world, regardless ...

Shannon Shaw and drunken Santas: A winter wonderland

Natalie Gott
December 28, 2019
Uncategorized
I’m still not sure how Muni or cable cars work, but that sure as hell didn’t stop me from following the call of Shannon Shaw like a siren. The trek to Bimbo’s 365 from the East Bay on a Thursday night is...

Tash Sultana shows Berkeley the power of a solo artist

Natalie Gott
October 10, 2019
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Uncategorized
When I saw Tash Sultana’s name posted on campus a few weeks ago, my heart skipped a few beats and I immediately flashed back to the first time I heard her. I was living out some teen movie love-fling, studyin...

High Maintenance meets Higher Education: the best places to listen to the HBO show’s soundtrack in Berkeley

Julius Miller
April 10, 2019
Film, Multimedia, Uncategorized
Disclaimer: Please go watch High Maintenance so that in 20 years, you can say you watched the show of our generation while it was live. High Maintenance captures people, it captures the idiosyncratic yet th...

Sloppy, short, and just plain weird: Tyler the Creator’s Christmas album

Everett Williams
December 1, 2018
Album Review, Uncategorized
“What the hell is this?” I said to myself after excitedly opening Spotify to see a new Tyler the Creator EP. Hot off his critically-acclaimed release Flower Boy (2017), Tyler had fans eagerly waiting to see...
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5
    • 6

More

  • About
  • Contact
  • Executive Staff
  • Issues
  • Join Our team
  • Privacy Policy
  • Productions
Watch on TikTok

Spotify

 

  • About
  • Issues
  • Join Our team
    • Executive Staff
  • Music History
    • women in music
    • Local
    • Black Culture
    • Cultural Commentary
    • LGBTQ+
    • Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
  • Productions
  • Contact