Like many other alternative rock bands that formed in the late '90s, Taking Back Sunday has struggled to define itself in a world where the pre-teen audience it used to cater to has grown up and the current batch of pre-teens has discovered fresh new musical idols. Read more...

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Credit: Warner Brothers Records

When UCLA math professor Joseph Teran is not teaching graduate courses, he is practicing and touring with five-piece indie pop band Sweater Girls. Teran founded the band in 2009 with the band's drummer and singer, and all of the members have been balancing music with their full-time jobs ever since. Read more...

As Kevin Moultrie began to play his guitar under the glare of the spotlight at Spring Sing 2011, he realized he had forgotten something important. He had forgotten to plug his guitar into his amp. Read more...

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Alum Kevin Moultrie is a founding member of a musical collective called The Ten Thousand.

Rebecca Lord, who began playing violin at the age of 2, seemed destined for a career in music. However, Lord, an alumna of the Herb Albert School of Music's doctorate program, said she was initially interested in becoming an actress or singer. Read more...

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Alumna Rebecca Lord will be participating in the Atlantic Music Festival.

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Before the "Twilight" movie sound track collaboration, before being sampled by Kanye West and before appearing on stage with the same rapper at Coachella earlier this year, Bon Iver was just a one-man band that made a single beautiful album alone in an isolated cabin in snowy Wisconsin. Read more...

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When Elijah Rock, a member of the jazz ensemble The Downtown Project, attended the Fowler Museum's OutSpoken Conversation with Kenny Burrell, John Edward Hasse and Quincy Jones in March, little did he know that a simple conversation with Jones would lead to his own performance at the Fowler Museum this Saturday. Read more...

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Elijah Rock, a first-year opera studies student and member of the jazz group The Downtown Project, will be performing with the rest of The Downtown Project at the Fowler Museum as part of the “Jam Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World” exhibit.

Courtesy of Ashleigh Giron