Tagged Soul

Adele is the only artist I can claim to have listened to all my life. There are still videos of me singing “Someone Like You” into my scratchy toy microphone, the “Rolling in the Deep” music video is on...

The energy was electric on the sidewalk outside the UC Theatre on Wednesday night, the air buzzing with excitement as attendees thronged at the entrance to Vulfpeck’s late show. Inspired by the session musici...

I learned about Remi Wolf how everyone else learns about music nowadays: a hinge date. More often than not, these dates are unsuccessful, filling your brain with information that will no longer be needed in two...

On Saturday night, Elujay performed a sold out show at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco in order to showcase his new album and perform some crowd favorites. Elujay, who grew up in Oakland, was excited to be back a...

On Thursday March 17th, Hiatus Kaiyote came all the way from Australia to perform at the Oakland Fox Theater, giving a rare and magical performance of a lifetime. Their jazz, funk, and soul fusion intertwined w...

I had been awaiting a full-and-loaded album from R&B/soul artist Summer Walker for what seemed like way too long. So when Over It (2019) was finally released in early October, it's all I listened to for at ...

Growing up, I would come downstairs after sleeping in on a Sunday to my mom making crêpes in the kitchen. Picture spring in Portland: rain, dread (because it’s still raining and it’s June, literally where ...

Berkeley has been a pretty kooky place lately: people are recovering from their first wave of midterms, the weather has been unpredictable as ever, and will Apple News ever bring positivity back into our notifi...

A slow-burning candle. Clouds colored in a deep, dusky rose. Dried lavender crumbling through your fingers. Forgive me for playing a bit of word-association, but the above phrases are about as close as I ca...

Earlier in February this year, Rhye released their newest album, Blood (2018), much to the anticipation of many who were awaiting their comeback after their debut album, Woman (2016). At the Ace of Spades in S...

Few musicians exude the admiration and joy for underappreciated world music like Houston instrumental trio Khruangbin. The group takes their name from the rough Thai translation for “airplane” and started p...

The term “dynamic duo” couldn’t be more appropriate for musicians Ivan Jackson and Conor Rayne who met at the Manhattan School of Music and started a joint project Brasstracks just a few years ago.  Sinc...

The first time I heard Charlotte Day Wilson’s voice was randomly at an Amoeba in L.A.  My ear caught a trace of a demurely soulful voice playing through the store’s speakers and I immediately whipped out m...

In an interview with Melody Maker magazine, Jimi Hendrix once said, “Anyone can go round shaking babies by the hand and kissing the mothers, and saying that it was groovy. But you see, you can't do this in ...

Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Jordan Rakei was a long way from home as he closed out his second North American tour in San Francisco at The Fillmore last Thursday, March 8th. Rakei brings his own...