Words about words: songs inspired by books and novels Katie Hulse October 17, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, Music Consumption, Music History 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...
Lianne La Havas: self-titled, self-possessed Stanley Quiros September 27, 2020 Album Review, Reviews English singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas just released her self-titled album, and though her previous records were filled with soul and rock sensibility, this cohesive record which focuses on the cyclical na...
Thom Yorke continues love affair with the Bay Area at the Fox Rebekah Gonzalez December 20, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Thom Yorke loves the Bay Area more than he loves Los Angeles, maybe more than he loves any other area of this country. Yes, this is a bold claim, but if you were one of the lucky souls that attended his solo sh...
The Pixies in bloom: An essential band makes its presence heard at the Fox Rebekah Gonzalez December 15, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos About two months ago, as I skimmed through a classmate’s short story, I came across a line that read, “Outside there is a boxcar”, and without thinking twice, the small jukebox in my brain began blasting ...
“Always celestial vibes”: an interview with The Seshen Veronica Irwin December 11, 2017 Interview, Uncategorized Bay area-based band The Seshen has always been hard to pin down. Falling somewhere between dub, R&B, electronica, and synth-pop, their music lies outside of all genre expectations. Groovy without a doubt, t...
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...
For Whom the Festival Rolls HR Huber-Rodriguez October 31, 2016 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews I stood in a crowd of about 20,000, waiting for the man who might very well go down as the best rapper of all time. Earlier that day, I had previously been harangued into seeing The Chainsmokers, and their bran...