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Taken as a whole, this short album testifies to Mars and .Paak’s confident mastery of R&B and retro music.

This album is part of the band’s foray into making music as an independent entity, bringing together a variety of singles the Free Nationals released in the past couple of years.

To borrow some terminology from the Carters, this year’s Outside Lands “was a fucking zoo.”

As the most prominent and highly-anticipated headliners of the weekend, Anderson .Paak and Paul Simon did not disappoint with the most wow-worthy and grateful sets of the festival.

The audience was left with a sense of renewal and exuberance; with his overwhelming joy and energy, .Paak made all stress and tension melt away.

In a sea of local support, the crowd at Cornerstone came together to enjoy some of the best of recent additions to Berkeley’s music scene.

Now in its 12th year, the festival will once again feature a diverse group of artists that belong to genres ranging from folk, pop, hip-hop, EDM and more.

“Queer Eye” released its newest season on Netflix this week. Spend your Tuesday afternoon getting your fill of Jonathan Van Ness by streaming the entire season in one sitting.

The fanatical audience made up for this technical fault by singing its heart out to each track on the set list — from the spacious floor of the Masonic to its huge balcony, fans danced and swayed as .Paak and the Free Nationals commanded the crowd to forget the outside world and engross itself in the music.

Maybe the events of last week — Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, UC Berkeley’s abysmal equity index score and the disappearance of Washington Post columnist and Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, for a start — have made you feel a sense of deep dissatisfaction in governments, both local and global.