5 new albums to get you through UC Berkeley summer sessions
Here are some highly anticipated albums to listen to while you pore over your textbooks in the library or when you find yourself in dire need of a break.
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Tag Archives: Kendrick Lamar
Blurry Vision Fest provides site for sore eyes, eager ears
The latest entry to the increasingly crowded Bay Area music festival scene, Blurry Vision Fest made a splash in its debut this weekend at the Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland.
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Childish Gambino talks gun violence, distraction in new song ‘This Is America’
The music industry is experiencing a blossoming revolution –– one completely unlike the style shifts that have come before it and vastly more important.
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Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize changes American music history
The Pulitzer Prize jury awarded Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN.” with its award for music. This award will change how mainstream culture sees the art of rap music.
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Young Thug displays selective greatness on ‘Hear No Evil’
But his newest EP, “Hear No Evil,” is a return to the Thugger fans are used to — one who drops great party music that remains innovative.
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SOB X RBE reps Bay Area pride at sold-out Fox Theater show
“SOB X RBE, that’s the gang, bitch!” The group’s iconic catchphrase was repeated time and time again at its Fox Theater show Saturday.
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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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‘Black Panther’ soundtrack offers music worthy of Wakanda
Luckily, the “Black Panther” soundtrack makes “All The Stars” look like a chart-friendly bone tossed to the Marvel bigwigs.
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Student Research | Finding the poetry in pop music
Campus junior Olivia Wakamoto is involved in research that is blurring the stringent lines often drawn between popular music and poetics.
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The Grammys scissor SZA’s hopes, dreams
While many of Sunday’s Grammy Awards went to deserving artists — Childish Gambino took home an award for “Redbone,” and Kendrick Lamar won four of his seven nominations — the glitzy night was not without snubs. One of the biggest disappointments? SZA, this year’s most-nominated woman, lost all five of her Grammy
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