Tagged Japanese Breakfast

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...

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast may be one of the most important rockers to arise in the 2010s. Since 2016’s Psychopomp, Zauner has experienced personal loss and indie success. She now holds a strange, ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic reaches its first anniversary, the music community is still hurting. Workarounds like live streamed concerts and online merch still cannot replace live shows. The ecosystem of music ven...

We have a new president! When I cast my first ballot ever in the California primary for Bernie Sanders, I was so filled with pride! Then, when I learned that my ballot had been denied I made sure to do everythi...

In the late 1970s and early 80s, “primal therapy” was all the rage when it came to analyzing and diagnosing neurosis. The method created by Arthur Janov involves bringing back repressed memories from childh...

Since the release of her 2017 record Soft Sounds from Another Planet, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has risen from the fairy-like starlett listeners were introduced to with catchy single “Everyone Wa...

The appeal of (Sandy) Alex G’s music to Bay Area twenty-somethings isn’t too difficult to understand; his unique songwriting and DIY production captures an experimental spirit that’s simultaneously ambiti...

This past weekend I had a conversation with a former B-Side contributor about the merits of my favorite fruitless activity: compiling my coveted year-end albums list.  As someone who takes this pointless endea...

2016 is nearly over, and with the conclusion of the year come the myriad human attempts to quantitatively evaluate the last three-hundred sixty-five days through year-end and best-of lists and rankings.  Conti...

ASUC Superb just announced its fall lineup of free on-campus shows for UC Berkeley students, and the first one’s a doozy. This Saturday the 17th, two of the most exciting young talents in indie pop songwritin...

Last Friday (4/8) the Starline Social Club in Oakland played host to two of the best working songwriters in indie rock: New York’s Mitski and Philadelphia’s Japanese Breakfast. While the former is a rapidly...

I wait to meet Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast in the darkened game room at the back of Brighton Music Hall.  After some time a woman that was unmistakably her walks in the room. She wore a black crop to...

If you missed Mitski on Upper Sproul this semester, you're in luck. We're giving away a pair of tickets to her all-ages show at the Starline Social Club in Oakland on Friday, July 8, which also features San Fr...