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...

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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...

Bring Me the Horizon’s new album, “Sempiternal,” is true to its name – forever lasting. Although it’s not the best metalcore album by any means, this album will definitely be bumped forever. Read more...