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The Daily Californian recently spoke to LA-based musician Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker via telephone about his most recent album Boleros y Valses y Mas, which features Reyes-Whittaker covering the Latin American boleros and valses on his Oberheim synthesizer. Reyes-Whittaker has previously released music under the names Gifted & Blessed, Julian Abelar and
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San Francisco’s rapid changes are well-documented. As rents rise and tech booms, the city is changing alongside its inhabitants, and the cultural and civic landscape once the dust settles is uncertain. Until then, the music will keep playing, like this past weekend at San Francisco’s biggest music festival, Outside Lands.
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After four years, three weeks and 32 minutes of waiting, then hoping, then switching back to waiting — because time just goes on whether you like it or not and sometimes people call this waiting, although sometimes they just call it life — at 12:32 a.m. PST on Monday, Aug.
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Six years and two weeks ago, I moved to America after a lonely childhood in a working-class town in rural Australia, so far from the world that it took three months for the “Teen Vogue” magazines I obsessed over to reach us. A week ago, I ate a Vegemite and
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More than love, more than lust, more than bigotry, what “Beauty and the Beast” deals with most is what it means to be human. It is a story about a beast trying to undo a curse by learning to love: trying to find his way back to being human by
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Amid wailing sirens, gunshots and a tongue-in-cheek sample of David Cameron’s Eton-educated voice proclaiming “Keeping people safe is the first duty of government,” grime MC Novelist burst unequivocally onto the scene in 2015, lyrical guns blazing and rhythmic cannons firing in “Street Politician.” Novelist, a 19-year-old black Englishman from Lewisham,
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Most festival organizers would probably think drunk festival-goers plus a disco roller rink equals disaster, but the team that organized Love Saves the Day, or LSTD, would disagree. Held this past weekend in Bristol, England, LSTD is in its fifth annual incarnation, complete with nine stages of music, an inflatable
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Let’s be honest: Concerts are often only really half about the person on stage and half about the people gathered there to watch them. Music makes a community of us all, if only for the few moments between an entrance and encore. At festivals, however, the moments aren’t so few:
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It’s 2010 in Florida, and Andrew Garfield is being evicted from his home. Or, rather, Garfield’s character in “99 Homes” is being evicted: Dennis Nash, a young single father and construction worker, along with his mother, Lynn, and young son, Connor (played by Laura Dern and Noah Lomax, respectively). The
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I don’t often find myself the only woman in the room. I sit in classes, go to parties and participate in student clubs, and I can’t even remember the last time I was the only woman at any of them. That’s not true, though, when I am waiting to interview
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