Mitski: the woman you are Samantha Malilay September 26, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, folk, indie 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...
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We: A Lyrical Exploration of Mitski’s New Album Michelle Johnson-Wang November 8, 2023 Album Review, Contemporary Folk, Creative Writing 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...
Best Acts at Primavera Sound LA Carolina Munce October 2, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Uncategorized 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...
Festival Diary: A Primavera Sound Experience Layla Mahmoud September 24, 2022 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, Uncategorized 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...
Mitski and me Sophia Shen April 5, 2022 Berkeley, Columns and Opinions 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...
Crying in the Pit: Japanese Breakfast in Concert Jax Samsell November 13, 2021 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews 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 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...
Welcoming SASAMI into your life Dylan Medlock March 1, 2019 Album Preview, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews 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 ...
How to catch emotions: a live demonstration by Mitski Rebekah Gonzalez December 2, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos 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...
Mitski at the Fillmore: experiencing puberty again never sounded so good Delaney Gomen April 17, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews 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...
Fake tunes for political blues Delaney Gomen February 23, 2017 Blog, Columns and Opinions 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 ...
The Year in Music HR Huber-Rodriguez December 20, 2016 Columns and Opinions 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...
The B-Side’s Top 15 Albums of 2016 HR Huber-Rodriguez December 20, 2016 Columns and Opinions, Staff Pick 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...
Mitski, Japanese Breakfast demonstrate the highs and lows of life on tour HR Huber-Rodriguez July 19, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews 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...
Mitski slays happiness with guitars on Puberty 2 HR Huber-Rodriguez June 26, 2016 Album Review 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 ...