By Judy Pak Daily Bruin Contributor Like a summer joy ride around the radio dial, Captain Pants is all about change and reinvention. Captain Pants is one of those bands that effortlessly cross genres. Read more...

By Amie Howell Daily Bruin Contributor Life, love, and living in Los Angeles takes on a Latin flavor in the new independent film “Luminarias,” which opens today. Read more...

By Chris Young Daily Bruin Contributor Everybody has heard synthesized music: in the dentist’s chair, the elevator, half the radio stations today. Most of it sounds like padding or filler for the rest of the music. Read more...

By Emma Rodgers Daily Bruin Contributor Talented student musicians, along with the help of the Student Alumni Association, will once again put Hollywood and the greater Los Angeles musical community to shame with its annual Spring Sing Competition. Read more...

By Sandy Yang Daily Bruin Staff It is a chapter in history where people are slaughtered because they are a of a certain race. They are not allowed to speak their own language or cultivate their own literature in fear of annihilation. Read more...

Cypress Hill “Skull and Bones” Columbia Records Leave it to Cypress Hill to get blunted and keep its rhymes sharp. The South Central L.A. rap group is back with its fifth studio album, “Skull and Bones,” a double-disc set that marries the Hill’s pot-purveying antics with rap-rock thrash. Read more...

Hammer teaches art of video C.O.L.A. artist Susan Mogul, whose autobiographical works focus on community, family and relationships, will teach video art to high school students in the creation of video diaries from 10:30 a.m. Read more...