Raving about this year’s HARD Summer Festival ft. Fisher, Chris Lake, Disclosure, Jamie xx Bailey Schroerlucke and Natasha Thussu Dhar August 10, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews After 40,000 steps, two missing scarves, and a shredded pair of boots, HARD Summer left us with an echo of beats in our minds and sore bodies from a weekend of dancing. It was acts including Fisher and Chris La...
Gayathri Krishnan: Rockstar Shit, Genre-Bending R&B, and Manifesting Dreams Andrew Zendejas March 19, 2024 R&B, Interview, LGBTQ+, Ones to Watch, Pop, Womens History Month 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 ...
Kuromy Teaches Us When To Spit On People Samantha Friedland October 16, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview Kuromy Teaches Us When To Spit On People Kuromy is a garage punk band from Los Angeles, consisting of guitarist-vocalist Sophia, bassist-vocalist Beef (Grace), and drummer Lani. If you’ve been attending loca...
From Gay Head to Goldenrod: the first decade of the Women’s Music Movement in song Gianna Caudillo September 5, 2023 Album Review, Berkeley, folk, music, Music History, Oakland, Reviews, Rock, women's music, Women's Music Movement 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’ ...
“Good Tone and Emo Shit:” Ridgeway Ends My Summer Right Nico Chodor August 20, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Reviews I have been gunning to see Ridgeway again since first catching their set with bands Soft Blue Shimmer and Downard last August… Timing just so happened to work out perfectly this final week before classes s...
Believe the Hype: ALG at Rickshaw Stop Sophia Shen July 5, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews On Thursday night, after submitting my two half-baked Session A finals and thus closing the door on a veritable lifetime of summer school, I slicked my hair back, donned a blazer, and set off towards Rickshaw S...
Greer Live in San Francisco Jax Samsell November 8, 2021 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Greer is a four piece ensemble from Los Angeles, California, whose presence has been cemented in memories since 2014. As Gen Z’s favorite niche Internet celebrities, seeing them live at the August Hall in San...
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...
Brijean’s album Feelings makes a dreamy debut Kennedy Rogers March 5, 2021 Interview Bay Area locals and UC Berkeley alumni, Brijean Murphy and Doug Stuart released their debut album, Feelings on February 26, 2021 with Ghostly International. The album incorporates various styles with most not...
Hollywood Icon Angelyne Makes ’80s Bimbo-Pop for the Masses Sophie St. Clair November 24, 2020 Album Review, Uncategorized If you live in Los Angeles long enough you’ll probably hear about Angelyne. If you’re lucky, you might see her shopping on the West Side in Maribou stripper heels or prowling the hills in her magenta Corv...
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...
Mindwinder Cuco signs seven-figure deal with Interscope Records Celia Davalos March 15, 2019 News Latinx singer Omar Banos, or Cuco, has just signed a cool seven-figure deal with Interscope Records. His manager Doris Muñoz confirms that the choice was a long time coming after a bidding war between four dif...
Arroyo Seco: A Love Affair Makaila Heifner June 27, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Arroyo Seco is like the older-sister of Coachella; take away the cocaine, add a family element, invite Los Angeles’ top restaurants, include art and social justice tents and you have the core parts of Seco. ...
Why Alex G Should and Shouldn’t Be Our Selfish Secret Gabriel Giammarco June 12, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews (SANDY) Alex G’s name has become recognizable enough that it has typecast a rather unbecoming local association: that he, in the footsteps of Elliott Smith, is the crowned prince of the indie sad boy stereoty...