Come taste the bands: My musical evolution
Music became a way for me to sort out my emotions and my identity — and what better way than to wax poetic with classic rock?
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Go Bears, Good Beats: A playlist for your everyday college life
Music has a profound effect on us in many ways. Here’s a playlist to get you started in achieving mental and emotional harmony throughout your day.
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Weekend binge — London calling
London is a magical city with wintry backdrops tailor-made for all of the upcoming holidays, nondenominational or otherwise.
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Ob-la-di, ob-la-don’t see ‘Yesterday’
As a romance, it’s putrid. As a morality play, it’s indecipherable. Even as a best-of collection, it’s unimaginatively curated.
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Speaking words of wisdom
Cutting Room Floor
Play me a Beatles song, and I’ll still recite the lyrics word-for-word. Sing me a Beatles song and I’ll sing it right back.
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Arthur Jafa exhibits whiteness at BAMPFA
'What white people saturated with Blackness look like'
Situated in BAMPFA’s Matrix 272 room, filmmaker Arthur Jafa’s latest exhibition, “The White Album,” turns his lens to whiteness. Following acclaim for his seven-and-a-half minute video “Love is The Message, The Message is Death” (2016), Jafa has taken Black aesthetics to task on white identity. “The White Album,” commissioned for
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A guide to library-hopping for dead week
Finding your favorite study space can be a challenge, especially during finals season when everyone else is doing the same. Studying at home and inviting friends over may be comfortable and convenient, but the environment can get distracting more often than not.
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Reexperiencing ‘Yellow Submarine’ : The countercultural convergence of the Beatles and the Bay Area
Beatlemania culture was both embedded in and popularized by the hippie movement that sprang out of Berkeley and San Francisco during the ‘60s. The quintessential image of the free-spirited, long-blond hippie can be traced to this eclectic era…
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Tunesday: Songs for long drives on windy roads
One of the best times to listen to music is on a long, lonely drive. No limits to how loud you can blast your favorite tunes, no one to judge your music choices — your car transforms into a musical sanctuary.
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Hozier’s ‘Nina Cried Power’ addresses cultural appropriation and spirit of protest
Hozier’s appreciation for the work of Black musicians shapes the entire track, including the lyrics, the gospel-inspired chorus and, most importantly, the involvement of a prominent civil rights singer, Mavis Staples, who sings alongside him.
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