Retro albums of 2019: A look at artists’ dynamic sounds
Richard Chen/Staff
The year 2019 brought incredible breakthroughs for artists as many grew in sounds, stories and symphonies.
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UC Berkeley alumnus Bishal Dutta talks Cannes-premiering short film ‘Life in Color’
A Sam Raimi stan and recent graduate who missed UC Berkeley’s film and media commencement ceremony to screen his short film, “Life in Color,” at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Heartbreak Radio
Cutting Room Floor
Yet the more time I spent with the melodramatic heartbreak melodies, I realized there were more than two genres of breakup music.
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Rejjie Snow sends love, brings groovy style to ‘Dear Annie’
It’s an album that captures a unique balance of vocals, beats and lyricism — its listener can just ride the waves of its beats and let the lyrics flow.
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The power of film in music: A breakdown of Francis and the Lights and Chance the Rapper’s ‘May I Have This Dance (Remix)’ video
This video has no story structure, but it has characters, and it absolutely has an emotional narrative, conveyed exquisitely, precisely and at times frustratingly through the most subtle applications of motion, through the most sudden applications of lighting shifts, through distance, through color, through dance.
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Daily Cal Abroad
Studying abroad is a sure-fire way of enriching your college experience and expanding your horizons. Below are some shots of Daily Cal staff members enjoying their own times abroad!
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Hip-Hop Hour: Kendrick celebrates himself
Does anyone remember when “i” first dropped? It had been two years since we were hooked to the atmospheric swirls of Good Kid, and the thirst was real. Then we were caught off guard. The dense, syrupy fog of Good Kid had been lifted, and what we heard was chipper.
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peta2 at Cal: Why did the chicken come to Sproul Plaza?
Most of us have seen — or at least heard of — a number of bloody, grotesque documentaries about abused farm animals. But last week, UC Berkeley students were exposed to a new sort of awareness campaign: a virtual experience centered on the treatment of chickens. On Sept. 3 and 4, a large, black
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