Tagged music history

Jazz is a strangely unique kind of music. Although to some it might sound like a lullaby, boring or calming, jazz has endless complexities. Because of these complexities jazz complicates the rules of art and mu...

Never, without exception, is there a reason someone should cover The Beach Boys. Of course, I love me a Fiona Apple cover of Across the Universe, but The Beach Boys is a whole different ball game. One weekend a...

  Plucked her eyebrows on the way, Shaved her legs and then he was a she She said “Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side”   Long before stars and models like Hunter Schaffer and La...

The Internet is invariably filled with discourse in alignment with whatever headlines are trending in an increasingly short news cycle. As I lay in bed this month and swiped aimlessly through different social m...

There have been endless trends that rock ‘n’ roll bands have been involved in, ranging from the hazy guitar tones of the late 60s psychedelic era, to 80s glam rock equipped with overloads of hairspray and g...

An absolute must-read for any French high school student–myself included–Arthur Rimbaud remains one of the most famous French poets, and one of the greatest poets of the Romantic period. When I first studie...

The jazz section in a used record store. Haphazardly sorted bins. Thin cardboard smooth against your fingers as you shuffle the albums like playing cards. Smell of dust, faint crackling in the background. Brigh...

Note: This article has been digitized from its original print form in the Fall 2023 issue of B-Side. Original print layout can be viewed at bottom. A Brief History of the Women’s Music Movement The year...

  Words hold immense power, and they often inspire and influence each other over time with the multitudes of organizations and contexts they combine to form. All writings, from lyrics, to poetry, novels...

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’ �...

The public’s lasting perception of 60s pop-rock band the Monkees sounds a little like this: a Neil Diamond impersonator screaming out to a group of picnicking families, “How many of you remember a Saturday ...

On the first day of the UAW strike, nestled at the corner of Bancroft St. and College Avenue, post-docs, GSIs, and academic researchers organized and gathered, parading signs with the words “UAW ON STRIKE” ...

When my abuela was a little girl, her mother allowed her to play with the neighborhood kids in the street under one condition: she must be home by tea time, which was three o’clock on the dot. She told me the...