Summer is officially here, so what better way to celebrate than with some new tunes? We’ve compiled for your listening pleasure, a rad playlist to kick off the summer. We’ll post a Soundcloud playlist...
<strong>Video by Macy Williams and Daniel A. Nelson</strong>
We traveled to El Segundo to Bill Smoth Custom Records to film vinyl records being made. Owner Kevin Smith describes...
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Written by Chantel Genest
Photos and video by Tony Santos
It is seven thirty at night and as students make their way home and the campus slowly calms, the Creative Arts...
Written and Photographed by Anais Fuentes
Beaming down from the sky with blistering heat, sun rays cover the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. This isolated desert area, about a dozen miles...
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Written by Matthew Reyes Photos by Ryan Leibrich
It’s raining.
Not a welcoming mist rolling over the Bay Area on a calm winter’s...
Written by Katie Mullen Photos by Lorisa Salvatin
To define hip-hop as a musical genre and culture is to make sense of an oxymoron. The true essence of hip-hop resides on the continuum between...
Written by Nadine Quitania
Photos by Tony Santos
In the Bay Area, the Noise Pop Festival is not only for new music discoveries, (the opening bands this year were insane) but also love and respect...
Written by Nadine Quitania
Photo courtesy of Matt Kowal-Noise Pop 2009
San Francisco’s annual Noise Pop indie music, film, and art festival is just around the corner. The week-long festival, held...
Are you tired of the music on your iPod? We’ve all been there. Sometime we reach a point where every song we own seems boring, overplayed and uninspiring. In those moments of crisis, we rummage through...
Written by Ivane Lund-Soyombo
Photos by Tony Santos
Miley Cyrus’ recent fascination with twerking—a dance popular in the black community for quite some time—mirrors the rise in popularity...
Written by Macy Williams
Photos by Benjamin Kamps
If the Rolling Stones had a baby with Motown, and the babysitter was the Beatles, Cool Ghouls would be the epitome of that offspring's sound.
Well,...
Written by Macy Williams, Jake Montero, Maggie Ortin and Matthew Reyes
It's the middle of the week, and the weekend is just past the figurative horizon. Here are some tunes the Xpress Magazine staff...
