Your New Favorite Hour of the Week: UC Jazz’s Noon Concerts Julian Shea November 5, 2023 Jazz, Berkeley, Local Every Thursday, if you are lucky, you might hear music flowing out of lower Sproul, just audible above the tablers and unexpected meetings between friends. And if you have the time to follow your ears down into...
“Good Tone and Emo Shit:” Ridgeway Ends My Summer Right Nico Chodor August 20, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Reviews I have been gunning to see Ridgeway again since first catching their set with bands Soft Blue Shimmer and Downard last August… Timing just so happened to work out perfectly this final week before classes s...
Maybe Love is Real: Mr. and Mrs. Tennis at the Fox Nico Chodor May 3, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos In tennis (the sport), love means zero. In Tennis (the band), that is hardly the case. Husband-and-wife duo Alaina and Patrick Riley have been spreading their love through music since 2010. They met as philosop...
The Magic Of The Buchla 100 Synthesizer: A Night At The Starline Social Club with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Ava Aguiar December 13, 2022 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, producer, and performer originally from Northwest Washington. The artist, who is currently based in Los Angeles, spent her former years at the Berklee college of m...
Do You Hear the People Sing: Labor and Liberation Through Music Ellie Nguyen December 4, 2022 Blog, Columns and Opinions, Music History, Political 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” ...
A New Era: Jean Dawson Sells Out The New Parish Leah Johnson November 21, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Jean Dawson, music, Oakland, Reviews Watching Jean Dawson perform is like witnessing a fish swim underwater. In the crowd at an intimate Oakland venue I felt both the tumultuous waves starting in the pit and the serenity of seeing a...
San Francisco, Where’s Your Disco?: Dom Dolla Headlines Day To Night Festival Eliza Scheer October 22, 2022 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, EDM, Multimedia, music, Photos, Reviews, Uncategorized Day To Night Festival Day 1 Thousands of people traveled to Treasure Island on October 15 for Day To Night Festival. Only a 15 minute drive from Berkeley, I was at the festival in no time. There was onl...
How to Not DYE in the Pit: Together Pangea Takes San Francisco By Storm Nico Chodor May 3, 2022 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Together Pangea, Sad Park, and Reckling brought out all the stops Thursday night at Cafe Du Nord for the 29th show of Pangea’s How to DYE tour. Reckling kicked things off as the crowd trickled into the Market...
In Between Now and Then – Beach House Illuminates the Greek Theater Joe Sison April 12, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos On Friday, April 8th, the Greek Theater at UC Berkeley hosted one of the most anticipated artists of the 2022 calendar year. Beneath a deep, navy blue sky dotted with stars, concertgoers packed into the 119 yea...
Getting to Play the Guitar Not as a Man: Sam Quiñones on New Music and Gender Nico Chodor November 19, 2021 Interview From virtual dorm room jam sesh to The Sound of University of California-Berkeley, “Stay” by Emielyn and Sam Quiñones is finally out and getting the recognition it deserves. Released on October 15, it chro...
Crying in the Pit: Japanese Breakfast in Concert Jax Samsell November 13, 2021 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Since Japanese Breakfast’s newest album Jubilee was released in June 2021, I’ve played it on repeat on virtually every occasion of my life: when I moved into my new apartment, when I binge-read Chainsaw M...
To the new Sproul piano Lucia Boadas Pena November 1, 2021 Berkeley, Multimedia, Photos, piano, Sproul To the new Sproul Piano: Every day as I drag myself to class I turn my music down to listen to your sound and check to see its producer. The people you attract, the students you inspire, and the communit...
Spotify Blend: Sweet Dreams Really are Made of Nightmares Jax Samsell October 23, 2021 Creative Writing, Uncategorized Spotify Blend is the newest feature on Spotify. It syncs your music taste with whoever you send the Spotify blend link to and generates a playlist with similar songs you each would like. It has a song compatibi...
A chat with Berkeley’s Red Expos Jax Samsell May 4, 2021 Interview Los Angeles musician Aidan Finn has found a home within the Berkeley music scene. Finn has been hard at work over the course of the pandemic, writing, recording, mixing, and, ultimately, self-releasing two solo...
Brijean’s album Feelings makes a dreamy debut Kennedy Rogers March 5, 2021 Interview Bay Area locals and UC Berkeley alumni, Brijean Murphy and Doug Stuart released their debut album, Feelings on February 26, 2021 with Ghostly International. The album incorporates various styles with most not...