Punk performance from Otoboke Beaver sends tremors through UC Theatre Kyle Garcia Takata March 19, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Photos, Reviews The UC Theatre shook with exhilaration from experiencing over an hour of nonstop punk energy from Otoboke Beaver on International Women’s Day. With Accorinrin providing the main vocals, Yoyoyoshie on guitar, ...
Friends and Fauxes: Four Bands in One Night at Cornerstone Nico Chodor February 26, 2023 Berkeley, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, San Francisco Touring with The High Curbs along their west coast stint, King Shelter breathed OC air into the Cornerstone at Berkeley Tuesday night. “Berkeley, you’re an interesting place," declared lead singer Taylor He...
Floating through “Icy Blue”: new Chammeili album contemplates change Sophia Shen January 2, 2023 Album Review Characterized by dreamy doubled vocals and temperamental time signatures, Berkeley-based indie band Chammeili’s 2022 record Icy Blue provides listeners with a bird’s eye view of the trials, tribulations, an...
The Magic Of The Buchla 100 Synthesizer: A Night At The Starline Social Club with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Ava Aguiar December 13, 2022 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, producer, and performer originally from Northwest Washington. The artist, who is currently based in Los Angeles, spent her former years at the Berklee college of m...
Do You Hear the People Sing: Labor and Liberation Through Music Ellie Nguyen December 4, 2022 Blog, Columns and Opinions, Music History, Political On the first day of the UAW strike, nestled at the corner of Bancroft St. and College Avenue, post-docs, GSIs, and academic researchers organized and gathered, parading signs with the words “UAW ON STRIKE” ...
A New Era: Jean Dawson Sells Out The New Parish Leah Johnson November 21, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Jean Dawson, music, Oakland, Reviews Watching Jean Dawson perform is like witnessing a fish swim underwater. In the crowd at an intimate Oakland venue I felt both the tumultuous waves starting in the pit and the serenity of seeing a...
San Francisco, Where’s Your Disco?: Dom Dolla Headlines Day To Night Festival Eliza Scheer October 22, 2022 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, EDM, Multimedia, music, Photos, Reviews, Uncategorized Day To Night Festival Day 1 Thousands of people traveled to Treasure Island on October 15 for Day To Night Festival. Only a 15 minute drive from Berkeley, I was at the festival in no time. There was onl...
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...
British Post-Punk at its Finest: Black Midi Charms The UC Theater Sabrina Herrera May 3, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, music, Photos, Reviews I arrived just as opener Injury Reserve began their set on April 19th at the UC Theater. The crowd already seemed promising with both pit and balcony getting filled by people intently watching the duo composed ...
Less than Pristine: Snail Mail at the Fox Sophia Shen April 27, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews 1 Comment In the wake of her sophomore album Valentine (2021), an LP that marked a sonic shift in the Snail Mail catalogue, Baltimore’s Lindsey Jordan and her band voyaged west to pay a visit to the Fox Theater on Apri...
13 Tumblr Albums & Their Berkeley Counterparts Adrian Ceja April 24, 2022 Berkeley, Creative Writing, Opinion The year is 2015. You are 14 years old getting ready for school and looking for your pair of Doc Martens. Your parents come in and you quickly hide your pack of cigarettes. Your room is filled with posters of L...
Berkeley’s Musical Exchange Sophia Shen April 17, 2022 Columns and Opinions In the words of Clem Zimmer, Cal alum and synth punk virtuoso, the Bay Area has a rich DIY music tradition. Zooming in on UC Berkeley and its adjacent co-op houses, backyard stages, and student stomping grounds...
Mitski and me Sophia Shen April 5, 2022 Berkeley, Columns and Opinions By the time my friend and I arrived at the Fox for the Mitski concert on March 5, the formidable line was already snaking down the block, terminating on the far side of the adjacent parking lot. With Mitski’s...
Crying in the Pit: Japanese Breakfast in Concert Jax Samsell November 13, 2021 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews 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 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 Internet celebrities, seeing them live at the August Hall in San...