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A Night Out with Soccer Mommy

Josh Jiwanmall
November 9, 2021
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
It’s 7 PM and the air on Geary Boulevard is sprinkled with a combined smell of gasoline and weed. A rather thick mist rolled in so that the 38R we w...

Floating on the Pink Moon: Pink Sweat$ at the Regency Ballroom

Hannah Chung
November 9, 2021
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
Starting the Nov. 9 show off, opening act Kirby strutted in, backed up by an incredible drum solo in a stunning silver sparkly outfit that shined the ...

glaive and ericdoa finish joint “then i’ll be happy” tour off with a bang – Photo Gallery

Kian Maple
November 9, 2021
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia
For the last stop of their “then i’ll be happy” tour, glaive and ericdoa provided an extremely energetic performance to an even more enthusiasti...

Greer Live in San Francisco

Jax Samsell
November 8, 2021
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews
Greer is a four piece ensemble from Los Angeles, California, whose presence has been cemented in memories since 2014. As Gen Z’s favorite niche Inte...

Astroworld Festival Cancelled After Eight Dead, Authorities and Attendees Describe Differing Details

Sunny Sangha
November 6, 2021
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Family members looking to contact their relatives attending the event, who may be out of reach, can go to the reunification center at 8686 Kirby Drive...

The heartbeat that is black midi

Avery Flieder
November 4, 2021
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
1 Comment
In my poetry class, I learned of the relationship between breath in occurrence with how we experience a poem. Where we take these breaths, how we take...

The Wonderful World of Wolf Alice

Layla Mahmoud
November 4, 2021
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
On Saturday night of Halloween weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing Wolf Alice at August Hall in San Francisco. As I walked to the venue from the tra...
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Even Cowgirls May Get the Blues, But Country Music Remedied Mine

Erika Badalyan
November 3, 2021
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When lockdown hit, I returned to my childhood bedroom, with its high ceilings and austere white walls, and dreamed of being somewhere different, anywh...

To the new Sproul piano

Lucia Boadas Pena
November 1, 2021
Berkeley, Multimedia, Photos, piano, Sproul
To the new Sproul Piano: Every day as I drag myself to class I turn my music down to listen to your sound and check to see its producer. The pe...

When Did My Playlists Include So Much Linkin Park?

Ava Aguiar
October 24, 2021
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Before last year, I never would have pegged myself as a post-grunge, nu-metal fanatic, but since the rebirth of 2000s music and pop culture, I have fo...

Faye Webster Has Me Blue and I’m All For It

Joe Sison
October 23, 2021
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Opinion
On a chilly Sunday evening, the sky above downtown Oakland seemed indecisive. It was painted that shade of deep, mysterious blue that holds you in sus...

It’s the 18th Anniversary of Elliott Smith’s death: Here are Just 7 Musicians that He’s Influenced

Eric Park
October 23, 2021
Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing, Uncategorized
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...

Spotify Blend: Sweet Dreams Really are Made of Nightmares

Jax Samsell
October 23, 2021
Creative Writing, Uncategorized
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 wit...

13 spooky songs to serenade your soul this season

Piper Samuels
October 20, 2021
Blog, Mixtapes, Uncategorized
The season of the supernatural is upon us, and it’s been a long time coming. Thou who shall not be named (hint: rhymes with “shmaronavirus”) hin...

Machine Gun Smelly

Walker Price
October 18, 2021
Columns and Opinions
Following his embarrassing feud with Eminem, a rapper who’s pushing fifty and still failing to recreate the music that made him big in the first pla...
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