It’s safe to say that Abhiman Kaushal was obsessed with mastering the tabla, an Indian drum. “I gave up everything and learned tabla; I gave up education. Read more...

Living in Los Angeles, the media sensory overload of conspicuously consuming celebrities can drive students into added debt for the hottest item on the rack of Fred Segal, or, on the other extreme, force penny-pinching students to become jaded and opt for the California uniform of comfortable denim and flip flops. Read more...

It’s not unusual for fifth-year ethnomusicology student Jonathan Keyes to take a 6 a.m. flight across the country, play a show at a college campus, and then catch a flight to Los Angeles the next morning so he can get back in time for class. Read more...

With this year’s Plea for Peace tour ““ founded by singer/songwriter Mike Park in 2000 ““ bands like Cursive, Decahedron, Darkest Hour, Saul Williams, EE, Planes Mistaken for Stars, as well as Park will be performing to bring people together for a political cause. Read more...

MTV would like to project that every concert tour is completed with a huge bus, four-star hotels, and arenas filled with hysterical fans. But what about the smaller, struggling bands that tour just as much as the big guys, sans the bus, the hotel, and well, maybe even the plethora of fans? Read more...

To rock ‘n’ roll whizzes, 1955 is recorded as a year of cornerstones. The movie “Rock Around the Clock” single-handedly liberated an entire generation’s ears, torsos and imaginations, inventing the rock ‘n’ roll movie. Read more...

It’s probably safe to say that enough students at UCLA have had or will at some point have some kind of personal encounter with a movie star. Read more...