In Valhalla With Skegss At The Fillmore Lucy Gleeson March 5, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Skegss came to the Fillmore in San Francisco last Wednesday night, stopping in the Bay Area on their tour of the United States. A line formed outside the venue before doors were opened, where fans waited in exc...
Marc Anthony – ¡Que viva la raza Latina! Sara Florez October 30, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Mumbled conversations are broken with the roaring sounds of trumpets and drums in Marc Anthony’s opening song “Valio La Pena” (“It Was Worth It”). Anthony, the world’s top-selling tropical salsa a...
Existential zig-zagging with Jerry Paper Annie Nguyen March 8, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos While Princess Nokia graced Berkeley’s UC Theater this past Saturday, Jerry Paper took over the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco and performed soothing, existential zig-zags for Noise Pop Music Festival 20...
Angle Snapping: an interview Jake Olshan John Lawson December 8, 2017 Columns and Opinions, Multimedia, Photos The B-Side caught up with UC Berkeley student Jake Olshan, a freelance photographer from Los Angeles. In this interview, we talk to him about the merits of film, counterfeiting press passes, and shooting Rihann...
The No More Jobs Tour: Underground hip-hop all the way from Chicago Circe Ament October 30, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Do you have a yearning for lyrical ingenuity, cutting sarcasm, and witty humor in your music? If yes, then get excited because The Palmer Squares are on tour, an underground rap duo from C...
Small Crush is living the high school indie dream John Lawson September 25, 2017 Interview, Multimedia, Photos Small Crush formed when lead-singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist Logan Hammon (age 17, pink hair — now eggshell blue) felt that her band wasn’t giving her enough freedom to write her own songs. She too...
Photos: Burger Boogaloo 2017 John Lawson July 5, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Burger Boogaloo didn't feel like Coachella for a second, and it sure as hell didn't try to be. However, the eighth annual punk festival in Oakland's Mosswood Park did attract the biggest headliners in t...
Proper Art or Propaganda: On Nicolas Jaar’s Sirens George Green October 6, 2016 Album Review A coin sits on a hospital-grey album sleeve. What to do? Anyone that has had the fleeting anxiety when thumbing through a couple of fresh scratch cards knows. Like a chisel or a paintbrush, this coin is a tool....