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...
Desert Daze 2019 giveaway Jack Austin September 18, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Contests The 8th year of Desert Daze is returning to Moreno Beach at Lake Perris in Southern California. The festival has been called one of the “most aesthetically pleasing” because of the surrounding mountains and...
Khruangbin loves music, Oakland loves Khruangbin Dylan Medlock November 13, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Few musicians exude the admiration and joy for underappreciated world music like Houston instrumental trio Khruangbin. The group takes their name from the rough Thai translation for “airplane” and started p...
Wordless stories with Khruangbin Brendan Redmond May 5, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Walking in to the Fillmore on Tuesday night, I did not know what to expect from Khruangbin’s live performance. The Texas based, groovy instrumental trio packs a lot of punch on their albums. I had doubts thei...
The B-Side picks, South by Southwest Ally Mason March 13, 2017 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Mixtapes, Previews, Staff Pick As South by Southwest officially enters its thirty-first year, I enter my twenty-first, and our paths finally collide. Growing up, my dad promised to take me to the Elysian musical free-for-all in Austin, Texas...
