­
https://berkeleybside.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Bside_New_Header.jpg
Search
  • About
  • Issues
  • Join Our team
    • Executive Staff
  • Music History
    Random
    • Racist Grrrl: the politics of race and anger in punk feminist movements

      Noah Larsen
      December 28, 2022
      Black Culture, Columns and Opinions, Music History, Opinion, Political, Punk, Rock
      5 Comment
    Recent
    • Eternalizing Electronica for Emotional 20-Somethings

      Jojo Pak
      May 4, 2025
      1
    • When Worlds Collide: Music Sampling as a Contact Zone

      Jessica Balderas
      April 30, 2025
    • Kind of copied: Jazz as conceptual art

      Mary Luce
      April 9, 2025
    • women in music
    • Local
    • Black Culture
    • Cultural Commentary
    • LGBTQ+
    • Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
  • Productions
  • Contact
  • site logo

Tagged electronica

Home
electronica

Revisiting Sufjan Stevens’ Age of Adz in the era of hyperpop

Noah Larsen
October 12, 2020
Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews, Uncategorized
As I was scrolling through the #sufjanstevens tag on TikTok (as one naturally does), I clicked on a high-quality video in which user @boyjr.69 covers Sufjan Stevens' indie hit song “Mystery of Love” in the...

Karen O and Danger Mouse, Lux Prima album review

Alice Markman
March 27, 2019
Album Review, Reviews
Five years after her debut solo album Crush Songs (2014), Karen O (former frontwoman of the iconic 2000s rock band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) is back. And this time, she’s not alone.   On March 15, the ...

“Always celestial vibes”: an interview with The Seshen

Veronica Irwin
December 11, 2017
Interview, Uncategorized
Bay area-based band The Seshen has always been hard to pin down. Falling somewhere between dub, R&B, electronica, and synth-pop, their music lies outside of all genre expectations. Groovy without a doubt, t...

The Seshen preview and ticket giveaway

Veronica Irwin
November 29, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews, Uncategorized
Bay area-based R&B group The Seshen is set to grace the Cornerstone stage in Berkeley this Friday. Opening will be LoCura, Space Captain, and DJ Dream Queen. Characterized by Akiyoshi Ehara’s synthy-di...

In Bay Area homecoming, Tycho radiant at The Greek

Jordan Aronson
July 11, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
There’s something about The Greek that allows it to elevate a good show to a great show. Whether it’s the location, the tall, steep bowl shape, the columns lining the back of the stage, or the oversized pit...

Lo Moon keeps The Masonic grounded as Air heads for stars

Jordan Aronson
June 29, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Lo Moon There’s a strange phenomenon in the Bay Area where concert-goers, more often than not, skip the opening act. As a Los Angeles native, I’m accustom to seeing most of a crowd line up before the do...

In penultimate North American show, Jean-Michel Jarre stuns at The Greek

Jordan Aronson
June 11, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Lasers danced across the sky like holograms, settling on the treetops at the back of the theater, in time to the warm sounds of electronic vibes combating the chilly Bay Area evening as spectators high in the b...

Jean-Michel Jarre returns to North America, plays The Greek May 26

Jordan Aronson
May 22, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews
Jarre performs in Toronto on May 9, kicking off the North American leg of the Electronica Tour On the heels of his last two projects – Oxygène 3 (2016) and Electronica (2015-2016) – French electronica ...

Jack Garratt and Kacy Hill fire up The Great American Music Hall

Kenneth Zhang
March 20, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
On the evening of March 10, the fiery-haired UK multi-instrumentalist and former music teacher Jack Garratt entranced his crowd during a sold-out show at the iconic Great American Music Hall. Even the pouring...

Flume commandeers Tuesday evening at the UC Davis ARC Pavilion

Edfil Dulay
May 26, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
With its quiet suburbs, swarms of bicycles, and (of course) cow population -- Davis may seem like an unlikely place to host one of electronic music's rising stars. However, thanks to the ASUCD Entertainment...

Purity Ring experience growing pains, ache on sophomore effort

Darius Kay
March 3, 2015
Album Review
1 Comment
Edmonton-based Purity Ring blasted onto the scene in July 2012 with their debut record, Shrines, settling into a rift in the gray area of indie rock and electronica that has grown to be very popular over ...

Thievery Corporation: earthly enigma infused with musical genius

Nikos Zarikos
October 7, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
Generally speaking, it seems that bands aim to transport their audiences to alternate universes or spacial realms through their music, to transport them anywhere but here on this planet. It is very rare fo...

    More

    • About
    • Contact
    • Executive Staff
    • Issues
    • Join Our team
    • Privacy Policy
    • Productions
    Watch on TikTok

    Spotify

     

    • About
    • Issues
    • Join Our team
      • Executive Staff
    • Music History
      • women in music
      • Local
      • Black Culture
      • Cultural Commentary
      • LGBTQ+
      • Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
    • Productions
    • Contact