Tagged Folk

Art by Anais Roatta Here at B-Side, your local student music publication, we delve deep into the music we love in order to understand its evocative power and cultural necessity—we celebrate music’s capa...

The journey to The Fillmore to see Michael Marcagi should have been simple. It wasn’t.  It was the evening of March 19th, and I had an hour-long trip on public transit ahead of me into San Francisco. The ...

Nor-Cal based artist Megan Claire released her first single “I-5” nearly a year ago. That year had been filled with live shows, a brief stint in Los Angeles, the finding of a full band, and overall growth a...

“Imagine a comforting and cooling light that starts at the top of your head and moves down to the rest of your body…” This quote encompasses everything I love about Alisa Amador’s set at the 2024 Har...

Stepping across the red plush-carpeted threshold of Bimbo’s 365 Club on Sunday night felt like turning back seventy years’ time. No longer were we college students adrift in the San Francisco of 2024—we h...

The morning of April 1st, Alynda Segarra, lead singer of Hurray for the Riff Raff, tweeted:   used to sleep in golden gate park, playing august hall tonight — hurray for the riff raff (@HFTRR...

Gayathri Krishnan is an artist on the rise hailing from the City of Angels who is capturing the attention of audiences everywhere with her luscious, captivating voice and her unique approach to the artistry of ...

Note: This article has been digitized from its original print form in the Fall 2023 issue of B-Side. Original print layout can be viewed at bottom. A Brief History of the Women’s Music Movement The year...

I remember the first time that I listened to Billie Marten: sitting in the dark of my room in April 2020, the soft yellow glow of Christmas lights over my desk blinking before me. I was transported into a new w...

Elliott Smith is one of the most intrinsically devastating and crucial indie-folk musicians to date, known for his lyrics of absolute despair. The only thing more twisted and heartbreaking than his music is the...

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 air on May 13th, 2023 held a tinge of finality. College graduates, fresh out of the commencement ceremony, walked the streets of Berkeley with flowers and their families, bidding farewell to their undergrad...

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” ...

Azniv Korkejian, also known as singer-songwriter Bedouine, pulls in listeners with her poetic lyricism and elegant style. With her third record released just over a year ago on October 22, 2021, Waysides contin...

It’s been 18 years since we lost the legendary singer-songwriter, Elliott Smith. Although he died shortly after I was born, I’ve always related to his music, since his music is often intimate and conversati...