Tagged Mitski

There are so many things that can be written about Mitski’s innate ability to create art, and yet so little at the same time. Mitski captured the hearts of everyone in the audience, taking them through variou...

You can’t live in this house anymore. There’s more mold than grout between your bathroom tiles. The foundations are rotting and slowly sinking into the earth. You asked your landlord to do something about i...

  Photo by Nicolita Bradley Arca: She/Her/It/They/Them Arca, our extraterrestrial goddess. Arca knows no limits and chooses to defy every border within music. Arca is a legend. A Venezuelan artis...

The iconic Primavera Sound festival finally made its way to Los Angeles, California on the weekend of September 16th-18th. For two decades Primavera Sound has been spreading music throughout the world. The fest...

By the time my friend and I arrived at the Fox for the Mitski concert on March 5, the formidable line was already snaking down the block, terminating on the far side of the adjacent parking lot. With Mitski’s...

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...

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...

LA-based and singer-songwriter Sasami Ashworth is a rising musical force. In addition to being the former synth player for indie rock group Cherry Glazerr, she’s also contributed her multi-instrumentalist ...

On her hugely successful fifth album Be the Cowboy (2018), Mitski captures a whirlwind of emotions through solid indie rock. The polished compositions on the album suggest stability, but her honest and ambiguo...

To a sold out crowd at The Fillmore, Mitski recalls a time in her life when she was cut off ten minutes into a set in a New York City dive bar by the opposition of her audience: a lone sound tech. Throughout th...

Artists thrive off of their ability to tap into raw emotions and morph them into solidified works. Acting as spokespeople for the less articulate and aesthetically challenged, they harness our deepest feelings ...

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...

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...

Too often, single female musicians are lumped in with some amorphous singer-songwriter genre that encompasses any female vocalist with some combination of guitars, pianos, and strings sans band. Puberty 2, the ...