New Eyes On Eilish
San Francisco's Chase Center serves as Billie Eilish and FINNEAS’s victory tour, fresh after their monumental achievement of their first Oscar for their song, "No Time To Die" for the film of the same name.
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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...
Barely Legal: Turning 21 with Is This It
As my twenty-first birthday quickly approaches and with it the looming threat of becoming an actual adult, I’ve been spending much of my time reminiscing and clinging to the last of my adolescent and teenage ...
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...
A Race to my Downloads with Alex G
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...
Crying in the Pit: Japanese Breakfast in Concert
Since Japanese Breakfast’s newest album Jubilee was released in June 2021, I’ve played it on repeat on virtually every occasion of my life: when I moved into my new apartment, when I binge-read Chainsaw M...
Greer Live in San Francisco
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 Internet celebrities, seeing them live at the August Hall in San...
The Wonderful World of Wolf Alice
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 train station, I began to fill with excitement. The streets wer...
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...
I don’t know about you, but both my favorite album and I are turning twenty-two: A love letter to 69 Love Songs
On September 7th, 1999, a new life was brought into the world. Though only a newborn, it was filled with complexity, somber observation, cynicism, and underneath it all, a guarded sense of optimism. Two days la...
The Academic releases new EP, “Community Spirit”
In the last year, many 20 Somethings have found themselves back in their childhood bedrooms due to the pandemic. While this dramatic shift of lifestyle may not have been ideal for many, Irish band The Academic ...
Hana Bryanne steals hearts with her new single “Klepto”
Hana McElroy, or Hana Bryanne as she is known on TikTok, took the video-sharing app by storm using just her guitar and her clever lyrics. Since she was last featured on the B-Side, McElroy has transformed her v...
A chat with Berkeley’s Red Expos
Los Angeles musician Aidan Finn has found a home within the Berkeley music scene. Finn has been hard at work over the course of the pandemic, writing, recording, mixing, and, ultimately, self-releasing two solo...
The Yolk: The moment a song hits just right
The 2:02 mark of Lorde’s “Buzzcut Season,” off of Pure Heroine (2013) fills me with an inexplicable emotion. The way she harmonizes behind the chorus is heavenly. It‘s a combination of euphoria, mela...
Shoutout to my ex(es)
One of the most bittersweet moments after a break up is confronting the link that was created between that ex and music. It’s sweet because they were able to introduce you to music that provided the soundtrac...