For nearly four months after their graduation, UCLA alumni Satoru Yamamoto and Kevin Moultrie devoted long hours to writing songs on a grand piano in their shabby downtown Los Angeles loft and totraveling back to Westwood for practice sessions at the Treehouse on a weekly basis. Read more...
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Heartbreak has given us Beck back. It’s been six years since 2008’s “Modern Guilt,” the singer-songwriter’s last proper studio album (at least in the eyes of those reluctant to consider 2012’s “Song Reader” sheet music release a valid form of an album), but the hiatus hasn’t changed him much. Read more...
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Picture an inverted pyramid. The top starts off broad and incorporates new musical styles. Then, the layers slim down to a single point, pulling away newer techniques and leaving only the raw core of a pop-rock band. Read more...
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On Sunday, the UCLA Bruin Marching Band and a young couple united for the All-Star premiere of CBS’s “The Amazing Race.” While the band had to rehearse in secrecy, the couple returned to where their relationship began, on national television. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Bruin Marching Band performed for the season premiere of “The Amazing Race,” which aired Feb. 23. CBS
Dreamy vocals and heavy beats weave together to create an out-of-body listening experience in Phantogram’s second album, “Voices.” While most bands in this stage of their existence would have faded from the spotlight, psychedelic group Phantogram returns from its three-year hiatus with a highly anticipated album. Read more...
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Put a few music majors in a room, and the result will no doubt be a little music. Put 10 music majors in a room, and the result will be The Primaries. Read more...
Photo: The Primaries is a student band founded by third-year ethnomusicology and communications studies student Ryan Yoo. The band, comprised of 10 music students, will perform original songs this Thursday as a part of the Fowler Out Loud concert series. (Daily Bruin file photo)
From Germany to New York City to England, scholars and musicians are honoring what would have been British-American composer Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday on Nov. 22. Read more...
Photo: LA Opera conductor and UCLA Regents lecturer James Conlon will deliver a keynote lecture this Thursday, where he will discuss the relationship between the celebrated composer Benjamin Britten and literature.
