Barely Legal: Turning 21 with Is This It Lily Roshan March 15, 2022 Columns and Opinions, Opinion 1 Comment As my twenty-first birthday quickly approaches and with it the looming threat of becoming an actual adult, I’ve been spending much of my time reminiscing and clinging to the last of my adolescent and teenage ...
A chat with Berkeley’s Red Expos Jax Samsell May 4, 2021 Interview Los Angeles musician Aidan Finn has found a home within the Berkeley music scene. Finn has been hard at work over the course of the pandemic, writing, recording, mixing, and, ultimately, self-releasing two solo...
The Yolk: The moment a song hits just right Jax Samsell March 18, 2021 Creative Writing, Uncategorized The 2:02 mark of Lorde’s “Buzzcut Season,” off of Pure Heroine (2013) fills me with an inexplicable emotion. The way she harmonizes behind the chorus is heavenly. It‘s a combination of euphoria, mela...
Julian Casablancas+The Voidz take San Francisco by storm, recreate debut album live Jade Theriault November 15, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Sunday night, patrons at The Regency Center were engaged in a ballroom dance soiree downstairs. It was a wonder those aristocrats waltzed along, oblivious to the tripped-out rock sabbatical above them. Upsta...
YouTuber Wisdom: The Voidz — “Human Sadness” Jade Theriault September 8, 2014 Blog 2 Comments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8k3qB61lhk “Human Sadness,” a difficult single off The Voidz's new album Tyranny, sounds like something Julian Casablancas would do, on steroids. Pieces of this song can b...
“Julian Casablancas expected to release new album” says everyone… on YouTube Jade Theriault April 18, 2014 News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aX4ohIN4UA Remember that guy from that old post-punk band from the early 2000s? "Last Nite" was played all over the radio at one point. They revamped the New York underground ...