Tagged Berkeley

Just as is our dream here at The A-side Sessions, Maddie Liu, or Oddity joined us on a sunny November morning to offer up a diverse set of soulful genres. Joe Biden had just been announced as President-Elect of...

On Thursday afternoons, the small cafe at 2430 Bancroft Way is normally filled with the sounds of a lively jazz trio, bustling crowds and its staff. Normally comprised of an upright bassist, drummer and pianis...

This semester, the B-Side Photo Department collaborated on a photo essay about the piano on Sproul. The piano has been a staple part of the UC Berkeley community for the past several years. It's a place where a...

As a lifelong lover of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and all things 1960s, I felt right at home the moment I stepped into the city of Berkeley. Our city is the soil on which this movement thrived, and no place wa...

LA-based artist Steve Lacy played a sold out show at San Francisco's Fillmore last Saturday performing his debut album, Apollo XXI (2019). Upon crunching down a Red Delicious Fillmore apple during intermission,...

Vulfpeck kicked off their West Coast “Greek Week” with a performance at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA this past Saturday. In typical eccentric fashion, marketing leader and band member Jack Stratton...

Los Angeles native and current UC Berkeley student Kaden has already made his mark in the Bay Area music scene. From learning the piano at a young age to joining the School House Rock program to producing his o...

If you’ve ever drunkenly ended up at a backyard house show during any point at your time at Berkeley, there’s a pretty solid chance you’ve seen The Missionaries play. The quartet plays songs that you’ll...

If there’s ever a time that a day seems infinite, that time would be either Cal Day (or the middle of finals week). Filled with eight straight hours of on campus events, the day is filled with that everlastin...

When I walked into the Cornerstone to see Novo Amor live, I was greeted inside by a crowd-wide shush, signaling Gia Margaret’s arrival on stage. It was perfect timing. Every microphone has ivy leaves growi...

It’s 1:45 pm at Coffee Lab & Roasters in Evanston, Illinois and the place is packed with students with espresso drinks, spread out with laptops studying for exams. The Berkeley B-Side wanted to find out w...

Conan Gray is a prime example of Generation Z’s obsession with normalcy and reality packaged in a faded VSCO filter with overlaid contour doodles. With vlogs and sit-down Q&As about his life in Texas subu...

Berkeley has been a pretty kooky place lately: people are recovering from their first wave of midterms, the weather has been unpredictable as ever, and will Apple News ever bring positivity back into our notifi...

A new year is upon us, which means it's time for a fresh start. I'm sure by now you have listened to your Spotify 2018 yearly roundup and re-experienced all the painful emotions that go along with it. If this i...

If you feel like February is a constant onslaught of pink hearts, roses, and chocolates, or maybe you’re just not feeling the love this Valentine’s Day, we have a playlist of some of the best anti-love song...