Taylor Swift’s “reputation” is more than just an album – it’s a story, and not the one listeners might expect. In what may be her most deliberate album yet, Swift interweaves two stories: her fall from grace in the public eye and a complex, difficult love story. Read more...
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Angel Olsen’s “Phases” sends listeners through cycles of love and longing set against hypnotizing guitar chords. At first listen, the album sounds like a random mix of songs without any rhyme or reason. Read more...
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Daily Bruin columnist Christi Carras’ limited dance background consists of bingeing episodes of “So You Think You Can Dance,” grapevining her way through high school show choir and stumbling through rehearsals at a daycare-like dance studio until the age of 8. Read more...
Photo: ICARUS Contemporary Dance Company’s audition routine consisted of jazz choreography to a catchy Britney Spears tune. The routine involved lots of skyward leaps, kicks and trials of flexibility. (Photo by Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin, photo illustration by Kristie-Valerie Hoand/Assistant Photo editor)
UCLA’s Irish Music Ensemble, led by adjunct assistant professor Aaron Bittel in the ethnomusicology department, provides students with the opportunity to come together, play Irish music and share memories and traditions associated with the Irish tunes. Read more...
OK Go is best known for dancing on treadmills and in zero gravity in its music videos. The music videos were the focus of its latest live performance at Royce Hall on Saturday. Read more...
Photo: OK Go’s concert at Royce Hall on Saturday night featured a Guitar Hero-like app that audience members downloaded and then played along with a rainbow screen onstage. The group performed old favorites such as its song “Here It Goes Again.” (Raunak Devjani/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Noname is a name everyone should know. The Campus Events Commission invited the “Sunny Duet” rapper and her band to perform in Kerckhoff Grand Salon on Thursday night. Read more...
Photo: Rapper Noname performed at Kerckhoff Grand Salon on Thursday night. The performance was a good way to relieve stress after midterms, but the acoustics in the venue were not very good, misrepresenting Noname’s impressive skills. (Alexandra Del Rosario/Daily Bruin)
“David’s Quilt,” a 90-minute oratorio about the biblical King David, begins at the end of his story. As David lies dying, a woman shrouds him in a quilt to keep him warm as he recollects his accomplishments and experiences. Read more...
Photo: Conductor and UCLA doctoral candidate Maxim Kuzin rehearses with singer Will Collyer and pianist James Lent for “David’s Quilt,” an oratorio comprising 19 musical compositions that follow the life of the biblical King David, in collaboration with the Max Helfman Institute. (Eda Gokcebay/Daily Bruin)
