When it comes to 1980s pop nostalgia, is there a more satisfying recipe than breathy Cyndi Lauper-style vocals accompanying melodic anthems saturated with bouncy synthesizers and bubbly keyboard textures? Read more...

Photo: LIGHTS, a Canadian electro-pop artist, will be performing at a sold-out concert at the Troubadour Tuesday night. LIGHTS recently released her debut album, “The Listening.”

The origins of jazz have traditionally been rooted in black culture, particularly in the U.S. South, with the likes of John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Ella Fitzgerald leading the musical revolution. Read more...

Photo: Charmaine Clamor, a jazz artist known for her “jazzipino” fusion, is one of the participants in the Asian American Jazz Festival, which celebrates the American jazz art form.

When the UCLA Philharmonia was first founded in 1936, one of its main goals was to perform the best in both contemporary and rarely performed works. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Philharmonia is scheduled to perform Mozart and Mahler in Schoenberg Hall on Oct. 29. The group is composed of 75 undergraduate and graduate students.

Boys Like Girls began its Love Drunk Tour earlier this month and has been received with open arms, ear-piercing screams and sold-out venues. The group headlines the tour, which also features Cobra Starship, The Maine, A Rocket to the Moon and VersaEmerge. Read more...

Photo: COBRA STARSHIP Cobra Starship has been performing on the Love Drunk Tour, headlined by Boys Like Girls and coming to Los Angeles.

With the nation's first black president sitting comfortably in the White House, the United States has certainly evolved past its legacy of slavery and segregation. Read more...

Photo: CARABINER COMMUNICATIONS (Left to right) Donald Morgan, Walter Richardson, Derek Shaun and Gary Gardner of “Forgive Us Our Transgressions.”