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Songs that make me gag: soundtrack to my high school years

Micah Petyt
February 18, 2025
Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing, Journal Entry, Opinion
One evening during my sophomore year, my roommates and I sat in our living room and scrolled through our Spotify accounts in search of songs that we could not stand to hear anymore. Whether these were songs tha...

Listen to My Spotify Playlist: How Streaming Affects Music Consumption and Culture

Ellie Nguyen
August 9, 2023
Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, Music Consumption, Opinion, Political
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The winter season has become synonymous with Spotify Wrapped season, wreaking havoc upon us trembling listeners, fearful of what our Wrapped will unearth. Maybe you listened to Your Best American Girl by Mitski...

50 Shades of Grey: Pragmatism and Queertopia in Music Culture

Ellie Nguyen
August 9, 2023
Columns and Opinions, LGBTQ+, Music History, Opinion, Political
At last year’s Outside Lands, Moses Sumney gave a cathartic performance. Clad in latex and a leather skirt, his voice pierced the San Francisco fog, entrancing the audience in his siren song. And it was throu...

Young Queer Boys & Female Pop Stars: A Relationship That Transcends Generations and Isolation

Adrian Ceja
November 26, 2022
LGBTQ+, Opinion
It was 2009. I was 6 years old sitting in the backseat of my parents’ car. We were driving in the car on the freeway, and all of a sudden I heard a sound. ‘Mum mum mum mah’ filled the space around me whil...

Ladies, gentlemen, nonbinaries, and bottoms: Lil Nas X at the Bill Graham

Lily Ramus
October 26, 2022
Black Culture, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Photo by Jane Tyska/Bay Area News “Old Town Road” blew up during my last semester of high school. As the longest-running No. 1 in Billboard chart history it may as well have been the song my class walke...

Bloom and Grow: Luna Li enthralls all at Rickshaw Stop

Sophia Shen
October 17, 2022
Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, Interview, LGBTQ+
Friday, October 14 at Rickshaw Stop saw a radiant, arresting performance by the rising Asian Canadian indie sweetheart Luna Li, accompanied by the playfully moody up-and-coming Los Angeles project zzzahara. Emb...

Angst is For Everyone: The Case for Alt-Country

Xia Jimenez
October 6, 2020
Blog, Columns and Opinions
The 90s were a great decade for dark lipsticks, greasy hair, and movies about hackers. While a lot of that should be left in the 90s (greasy hair, I’m looking at you), I’m definitely excited about one ...

King Princess delivers queer realness with debut album Cheap Queen

Daniella Ivanir
November 24, 2019
Album Review
Mikaela Straus, known better as King Princess, recently released her debut album Cheap Queen (2019). The queer pop icon has racked up a lot of attention since dropping three singles last year: “1950,” “Pu...

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