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Live at Tamper Room: A French Project, Little Critter, friendship games, and Antlion

Gwen Tam
May 6, 2025
Local, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, music, Punk, Reviews
Fremont, California isn’t typically the place that comes to mind when thinking about the Bay Area music scene. The scene was in San Jose, Berkeley, ...

Eternalizing Electronica for Emotional 20-Somethings

Jojo Pak
May 4, 2025
Cultural Commentary, EDM, Hyperpop, indie scene, International, K-pop, Music Consumption, Music History, personal, Pop, Rap
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What is life without thumping 808s and artificial horns so distorted that they sound more like alien mating calls than instruments? After all, it’s ...

When Worlds Collide: Music Sampling as a Contact Zone

Jessica Balderas
April 30, 2025
Black Culture, Creative Writing, Cultural Commentary, dj, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Music History, Political, Uncategorized
The intersectionality of two genres is much more than meshing two separate sounds because subcultures, histories, and aesthetics are ingrained within ...

In the garage with SOBO: Inside Berkeley’s Student Music Scene

Shannon Cheng
April 30, 2025
Berkeley, indie scene, Interview, Local, Local, music, San Francisco
Live music is foundational to Berkeley, from the performances at the history-filled 924 Gilman to the frequent band nights near campus. I have grown f...

Kind of copied: Jazz as conceptual art

Mary Luce
April 9, 2025
Black Culture, Cultural Commentary, From The Archives, Jazz, Jazz pop, Music Composition, Music Consumption, Music History, Musicology
Jazz is a strangely unique kind of music. Although to some it might sound like a lullaby, boring or calming, jazz has endless complexities. Because of...

A vision in Doc Martens: Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards at Bottom of the Hill

Micah Petyt
April 9, 2025
Opinion, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Indie-Rock, San Francisco
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...

Seeing sounds: An instructional guide to predicting the sound of an album before you listen to it

Mary Luce
April 8, 2025
Glitchcore, indie, International, LGBTQ+, Music Composition, Music History, Opinion, Print Edition, Soul, women in music
Art by Anais Roatta Here at B-Side, your local student music publication, we delve deep into the music we love in order to understand its evocativ...

When the music plays twice

Mary Luce
April 8, 2025
Black Culture, Contemporary Folk, Cultural Commentary, folk, indie, indie-pop, International, music, Music History, Musicology, Opinion, Print Edition, R&B, Rock, women's music
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 ...
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Cupid Deluxe: An Ode to Queer Love

Alicia Gastelum
April 2, 2025
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With 11 beautiful, soulful, and intense tracks, Cupid Deluxe (2013)  compresses the feeling of giving to someone who can never be pleased—the const...

A Marxist Take on Idols & Items: Skin to Consume and Rhythm to Exploit

Jenai Johns-Peterson
April 1, 2025
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“...Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, Jung Jungkook, BTS!” Imagine you are in my shoes, or really, my seat. It is 2017 and the BTS WINGS concert in...

Preview: An interview with Johnny Manchild ahead of the Double Vision tour

Micah Petyt
March 31, 2025
Interview, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Indie-Rock, San Francisco
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 t...

The music I inherit

Shannon Cheng
March 31, 2025
Journal Entry, Blog, Columns and Opinions, indie, music, personal
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”  -Jim Rohn Recently, this quote was brought back up to me by a friend of...

Michael Marcagi, mustaches, and me—just trying to make it to The Fillmore

Sailor Hill
March 26, 2025
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The journey to The Fillmore to see Michael Marcagi should have been simple. It wasn’t.  It was the evening of March 19th, and I had an hour-long...

The trans muses of classic rock

Micah Petyt
March 23, 2025
Feature, LGBTQ+, Music History, Rock, women in music, Womens History Month
  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”  ...

These Nerds Can Rock! Band Night at the Thorsen House

Jessica Balderas
March 18, 2025
Local
This was my first time at the Thorsen House, a very historic home that houses the Sigma Phi Society. Walking down to the house was quite a venture wit...
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