A Misty Awakening – Kali Malone’s Living Torch Alton Sturgis December 7, 2022 Album Review Kali Malone—a Denver-born, Stockholm-based sound artist, model, and experimentalist—transitions from her organ-centric work to a new artistic era with her LP release Living Torch (2022). Malone’s pre...
Angels, sunsets, and a rollercoaster of emotions in Taiwan Miles Bishop November 29, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene In my six months of traveling, and after watching four seasons of Atlanta on FX, I’ve begun to feel more and more that life isn’t real, or at least parts of it. Music has helped me tremendously with homesic...
L.S. DUNES leave San Francisco begging for more at Bimbo’s 365 Club Emmanuelle Mphuthi November 20, 2022 Blog, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Rock, San Francisco This Wednesday, the 13th of November, a friend and I navigated the tumultuous Bay Area public transport system to attend an L.S. Dunes concert in San Francisco. We’d purchased the tickets a few months earlier...
“Thank u, next” to racial identity: pop star Ariana Grande’s record of racebending Nadia Laswi November 9, 2022 Creative Writing, Opinion 1 Comment I asked 40 people: what race is Ariana Grande? The answers were inconclusive, with answers ranging from Latina, Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern. The pop artist, known for her ponytail hairstyle and whistle t...
A ‘Ginger Fresh!’ performance from Ginger Root at August Hall Kyle Garcia Takata November 8, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews To kick off the second show in the latter half of their Fall Tour promoting their most recent EP Nisemono (2022), Ginger Root, composed of frontman Cameron Lew, bassist Dylan Hovis, drummer Matt Carney, and cam...
You can leave it to Alex G Div Buccieri November 7, 2022 Album Review, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, indie-pop, LGBTQ+, Multimedia, music, News, Reviews Surely, you or someone you know went to the Alex G concert in SF. The event, held Oct. 19 at The Fillmore on a chilly fall Wednesday night, mothered something other than the usually-disquieted Alex G, thanks to...
From the mind of Björk spawns Fossora Jackie Greene October 31, 2022 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews, 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...
The musical genius of Devonté Hynes Natalia Girolami October 28, 2022 Blog, Columns and Opinions When I was thirteen, I watched Gia Coppola’s directorial debut Palo Alto (2013), and believed it was the epitome of cinema and storytelling. I recently watched the movie again and could not help but reflect o...
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ everlasting impact on alternative music Jackie Greene October 24, 2022 Music History, Opinion 1 Comment Shock rock is exemplified by acts like Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson*, Screaming Lord Sutch, and Arthur Brown. Its foremost derivative, horror punk, is populated by bands like Misfits or The Cramps. The Cure, Si...
Mannequin Pussy power: Philadelphia punk band takes Upper Sproul Sophia Shen May 31, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews On Thursday, April 14, indie punk group Mannequin Pussy rocked Upper Sproul, sparking a daytime mosh that triumphed over the gloomy weather conditions and chased the rainy day blues away. This was an unexpected...
Molly Nilsson’s Sidereal Message to an Impending World Ally Flygare April 5, 2022 Album Review, Opinion, Reviews Swedish singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson is no stranger to exercising her independence. Writing, producing, and publishing her own music — through her independent record label Dark Skies Association — allo...
An ode to sensitivity: Nilüfer Yanya’s hypnotic sophomore album Painless Liv Bjorgum March 31, 2022 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment Nilüfer Yanya’s ethereal sophomore album Painless (ATO, 2022) chronicles the complexities of loneliness and uncertainty. The Chelsea artist’s brutal honesty adds an edge to her signature dreamy, pop-rock s...
Do Today’s Pop Artists Make Albums Anymore? Adrian Ceja March 21, 2022 Opinion Even if no one wants to narrow it down to just one, everyone has a favorite album of all time — the one piece of art they would save if every other work of music vanished from the place we call Earth. My albu...
A Miserable Apocalypse: Injury Reserve’s By The Time I Get to Phoenix Alton Sturgis November 18, 2021 Album Review By the Time I Get to Phoenix (2021) is the newest release from Injury Reserve, an Arizona-based experimental hip-hop group. Their first mixtape, Live From The Dentists Office (2015), broke waves as one of the d...
A Race to my Downloads with Alex G Ally Flygare November 17, 2021 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing, Opinion Alex G’s 2010 self-released album, Race, is an ode to the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. Released when Alex was a mere 17 years old, the pains of being a teenager growing up in suburban Havertown...