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Emmanuel Ballesteros
Emmanuel Ballesteros is a broadcast journalist currently enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley. He currently edits for the Multicultural Journal, Vagabond, and produces for the radio station, KALX.90.7 In his spare time, he can either be found reading medicore horror novels, or brewing a third cup of tea.

  • REVIEW – Yubiori returns angrier than ever on sophomore album

    The Japanese rock band Yubiori posing together.

    Yubiori2 is an extension of everything Japanese rock band Yubiori delivered on their debut album yubiori, only bigger. The music is louder, the horns are in your face, and lead singer Yoshiaki Tamura has made it a point to make sure his voice is front and center within the mix. As strange as it may

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    Emmanuel Ballesteros

    November 26, 2025

  • REVIEW – Electronic super-producer EDEN continues to experiment on late-career album ‘Dark’

    I’ve been following Eden for almost a decade now—discovering him in 2016 with the release of his first two full length projects, End Credits and i think you think too much of me. Before this, I remember him also making waves with his marginally smaller EDM solo work under the alias, The Eden Project. That

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    Emmanuel Ballesteros

    September 11, 2025

  • In conversation with LOCKBOX: ‘Whiskey Nights,’ social media, Porter Robinson, + more

    If you’ve been scrolling through Instagram in these past few months, there’s a chance you’ve come across this producer and his euphoric style of electronic music. Meet LOCKBOX, 30-year-old DJ from Dallas, Texas. After releasing a plethora of successful singles under his stage name, LOCKBOX took to social media to promote his work. “I think

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    Emmanuel Ballesteros

    September 3, 2025

  • REVIEW – Jessica Lévai’s ‘The Glass Garden’ is transparent in the wrong areas

    Science Fiction is a difficult genre to pull off, what with its expansive world building, intense social critique, and unique concepts which make the stories feel new time and time again. Like many readers, I enjoy when an author is able to transcribe their opinions and experiences into a fresh take and have that new

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    Emmanuel Ballesteros

    July 16, 2025

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