RACE SELLS RECORDS: An observational study of jazz album art in the mid-1950s Gianna Caudillo September 4, 2024 Music History, Black Culture, Jazz, Musicology, Print Edition The jazz section in a used record store. Haphazardly sorted bins. Thin cardboard smooth against your fingers as you shuffle the albums like playing cards. Smell of dust, faint crackling in the background. Brigh...
From Gay Head to Goldenrod: the first decade of the Women’s Music Movement in song Gianna Caudillo September 5, 2023 Album Review, Berkeley, folk, music, Music History, Oakland, Reviews, Rock, women's music, Women's Music Movement Commercial rock and roll has always been a boys’ club. From the success of songs that glamorized abuse and the gross fetishization of women, such as the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” or the Beatles’ ...
“The Other Woman” has always been Black: Lana Del Rey’s viral cover of Jessie Mae Robinson’s masterpiece Gianna Caudillo February 24, 2023 Black Culture, Columns and Opinions “2023 is the year of female rage,” says the caption on a TikTok showing a conventionally attractive white woman, eyeliner done like Priscilla Presley’s, dress straight out of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)...
Three Cheers for the Return of My Chemical Romance: wowing Oakland Arena for the first time since 2007 Emmanuelle Mphuthi October 17, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews (Gerard Way photographed by Luis Rosales) On October 5th at around 5:30pm, my boyfriend and I made our way towards Oakland Arena to see My Chemical Romance. We’d been waiting for this ...
