The duality of man, the complexity of Slowthai’s “TYRON” Xia Jimenez February 21, 2021 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews “Rise and Shine, let’s get it.” These are the words that Tyron Framton, more commonly known as Slowthai, shouts on the opening track of his sophomore album, TYRON (2021). After his last public appearance ...
MM.. Food: Dinner for 5 inspired by MF DOOM’s album Tovah Popilsky December 2, 2019 Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing Cooking and music have always been my favorite hobbies. I have loved to cook before I could even reach the counter and picked up my first instrument when I was four year old. When I listened to the iconic recor...
11pm at Flog Gnaw Sunny Sangha November 14, 2019 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews “I told her that I loved her, She told me that she boo’d me, Man flog gnaw that was trippy, they wanted Frank but it was just me lil' ol' Drizzy” You’ve seen all those tweets, sympathizing poor mil...
Steve Lacy debuts Apollo XXI at the Fillmore Annie Nguyen November 2, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews 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,...
Kanye stands in Kanye’s way on Jesus is King Everett Williams November 1, 2019 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews Kanye West has always thought of himself as a prophet of sorts, a conduit destined to receive divine inspiration from God himself. This belief, or dare I say delusion, that he has been chosen by the creator h...
Silencing female rappers Michelle Castillo May 8, 2019 Columns and Opinions Cupcakke, the beloved female rapper known for making sexually explicit songs, unafraid to be herself in music and on social media, was recently silenced by YouTube, as her latest song, "Squidward's Nose," does ...
Removing Lil Nas X from Billboard’s country chart is unjustified and racialized Sunny Sangha April 5, 2019 Columns and Opinions, News 𝒾 𝑔𝑜𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢 𝔱𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔡 At this point, you’ve probabl...
Choker’s first ever show review Anthony Vega March 10, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews I would just like to preface this by saying that if you plan on attending a later stop on this tour and don’t want to have the experience ruined by knowing the setlist in advance, don’t read this. I am awar...
Choker’s new three-part miniseries is an experimental amalgamation of various genres and immense talents Anthony Vega February 8, 2019 Album Review What captivates me the most about being a supporter of up-and-coming artists is when you find one like Choker, one who you just seem to know is going to be someone someday. I felt the same way about Kevin Abstr...
Jorja Smith makes the crowd fall in love at The Warfield Tovah Popilsky November 28, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews On November 24th, 21-year-old England native Jorja Smith performed an unforgettable show at The Warfield in San Francisco, leaving the crowd in awe and simply beaming throughout the night. This tour served as...
Gary Clark Jr. transports us out of this world at the Fillmore Makaila Heifner October 11, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Night one of Gary Clark Jr.’s four-night residency at the Fillmore was a smashing success. Fresh off of his recent tour with Lenny Kravitz, the singer showed no sign of fatigue. On the contrary, Clark brought...
lo fi article to study/chill to Walker Spence August 2, 2018 Columns and Opinions, Interview the beauty of 24/7 live streams is that you can hop in at any point and have very little catching up to do, so in that spirit i’m eschewing capital letters. there are no beginnings and endings, only content. ...
I hate ye, it’s awesome Veronica Irwin June 16, 2018 Album Review, Reviews Kanye West’s solo albums have lacked lyrically for me ever since My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). The verses tend to be fraught with as many enjoyable one-liners as they do unfinished phrases and awk...
S.O.S. I’m faded: A conversation with Kweku Collins Natalie Silver April 15, 2018 Interview 1 Comment April 5, Starline Social Club, 9:00 p.m. Natalie— For the second time that day we ascended the dingy Starline stairwell. The first time, three hours prior, we chugged our beers minutes before the clim...
The evolution of protest music Hannah Hartt March 26, 2018 Columns and Opinions, Mixtapes In an interview with Melody Maker magazine, Jimi Hendrix once said, “Anyone can go round shaking babies by the hand and kissing the mothers, and saying that it was groovy. But you see, you can't do this in ...