This season is the season of music festivals. And for all you music festival junkies at Cal – we know you’re out there — this music festival season is your GO time. Whether you danced your a** off at EDC over the weekend or you’re headed to Outside Lands in Read More…
Besides the heavy load of coursework that UC Berkeley provides, being at Cal can often feel like a hip summer indie music festival. Half the students (and nonstudents) you see walking and lounging around look like flower children, and you might often have to ask yourself, “If I were alive Read More…
This past Saturday, the Frost Music and Arts Festival took place at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater with MGMT as the headliner. Once we got past the fact that this was taking place at Stanford, we have to admit that it was a pretty cool experience. We thought that it was a Read More…
Vampire Weekend’s concert last Wednesday night at the Fox Theater in Oakland was a performance straight out of the books. Front man Ezra Koenig and his Oxford-clad gang played their obligatory 75 minutes, opening shortly after 9 pm with their upbeat “Cousins,” debuting a few synthy new tracks and calling Read More…
Now that you’ve come back from two weekends in a row of Coachella and blowing your college savings on, well, blow, it’s time to reflect on the Rock Star. I’m even drinking one as I write this column in the early hours past its due date. Um, I’m talkin’ ‘bout Read More…
A few weeks ago, the United States Postal Service announced that it plans to end mail delivery on Saturdays in an attempt to save a whole ton of money per year, as they’ve been faced with great losses over the past decade. Guess snail mail’s not cutting it anymore, eh? Read More…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, it’s not the end of the semester. The semester just started, weren’t you in class all week? Nope, I’m talking about the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (colloquially: Coachella Fest) line-up announcement, perfectly timed for us to make a buttload Read More…
Saturday afternoon, I stood in the front row looking up at warrior goddess Merrill Garbus as she raised her melodic battle cry over Coachella. At one point, the singer-songwriter of tUne-yArDs fame asked the crowd to do her a favor. “I want all of you to close your eyes and slowly Read More…
While I was busy finally getting some schoolwork done this weekend, many of my peers were basking in the glory that is known throughout the world as Coachella. While I must admit that I don’t always enjoy reading antiquated English literature for hours on end, this past weekend was especially Read More…
As most of you know, this past weekend was the first weekend (there are two of them now) of the perennially sold-out and much talked about Coachella in Indio, California. Hip-Hop fans were in for a treat, with a performance from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Warren G, 50 Cent, Read More…
