In 2009, Los Angeles-based band Local Natives burst onto the indie music scene with its breakout debut album “Gorilla Manor.” Read more...

This article is a longer version of the Q&A that ran in print. English duo Simian Mobile Disco, composed of James Ford and Jas Shaw, will take the stage this Saturday and April 20, bringing their trademark brand of electronic beats along with them. Read more...

Photo: English electronic music duo Simian Mobile Disco will perform at this year’s Coachella Festival. Daily Bruin spoke with member James Ford about the group’s beginnings and latest album.

Before a performance, second-year ethnomusicology student Harmony Chua said she feels like she is sitting alone in an empty room. But the moment she is onstage, sitting before her piano ready to play a composition that she has written, she becomes a bird in the spotlight, ready to take flight and experience the thrill. Read more...

Photo: Second-year ethnomusicology student Harmony Chua will perform a suite she composed, “Belief,” as part of the Fowler Out Loud series. Chua will be joined by second-year ethnomusicology student and guitarist Chili Corder and second-year pre-cognitive science student and drummer Colin McDaniel.

The Knife is weird. In the seven years since the band’s last studio album, the critically acclaimed “Silent Shout,” it has continued with rare public appearances in plague doctor masks and Venetian masquerades without much word Read more...

Think distortion meets bagpipes. Read more...

Photo: Dropkick Murphys blends traditional Irish and American folk music with the driving riffs of punk rock and will play in the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this weekend and next.

PYYRAMIDS, a duo comprised of Tim Nordwind of the indie rock band OK Go and Drea Smith of the electro-pop duo He Say, She Say, fuses psychedelic electronic elements with an ’80s rock vibe to create a sound of its own. Read more...