They were lucky, if it could be called luck. Read more...
Photo: Faculty and students of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will be performing tonight for the seventh annual “It’s a Woodwind World” concert. One of the pieces will be Trio, Op. 2 by Leon Levitch, a Jewish composer, Holocaust survivor and UCLA alumnus. Levitch began composing music at an early age, and was able to learn from a fellow refugee and pianist at an Italian internment camp during World War II.
Students in UCLA Camarades don’t only learn from their professors during lectures – they also get to make music with them on stage. Read more...
One thing I learned a long time ago is that the music of tomorrow cannot be written without the music we have today. Read more...
Photo: The sound that Stone Temple Pilots was able to engineer in the early ’90s is a toast to the enduring influence and legacy of American music.
Punk rock is dead, punk rock is dying, punk rock died surviving. In a year when the genre threatens to crash at full throttle back into the mainstream (or at least pseudo-mainstream), from the anguished roar of Pissed Jeans to the wheezing desperation of Iceage, the quieter anguish of Waxahatchee’s “Cerulean Salt” could easily be overlooked as a folksy interlude. Read more...
At the age of 3, Nathan Kersey-Wilson’s favorite thing to do was jam out to the Beatles on his plastic saxophone. His musical passion began at this moment, leading him to eventually choose the saxophone as his primary instrument. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year jazz studies student Nathan Kersey-Wilson will perform his one-man show tonight at the Fowler Out Loud series. Kersey-Wilson uses a loop pedal to combine various instrument layers.
Beyond the blazing fast drums, aggressive guitars and piercing vocals that have made West Coast punk an against-the-grain entity is the adoption of an anti-authority, do-it-yourself attitude that embraces individuality. Read more...
Photo: Black Flag’s 1981 debut album “Damaged,” featured the anthem, “Rise Above,” that cemented the band’s West Coast punk sound.
After winning his first DJ battle last week, UCLA trap spinster Alejandro “Alexbustamove” Bustamante prepares to battle it out with fresh opponents at Orientation LA. Read more...
Photo: Alejandro Bustamante, a fourth-year Design | Media Arts student who DJs as Alexbustamove, will battle against students from USC and LMU before acts such as Flosstradamus and gLadiator perform at Orientation LA.
