The opening shot of “The Immigrant” shows the Statue of Liberty’s back turned toward the camera. She represents defiance, and wants her new visitors to know that their trip across the Atlantic will ultimately make for an elegiac, if not beautiful, tale. Read more...
Photo: Courtesy of The Weinstein Company
Momentarily stepping aside from a dinner during a vacation in Lake George, N.Y., Bryan Welch, The AM’s vocalist and rhythm guitarist, listened to a recording his bandmate had sent him earlier that day. Read more...
Photo: Members of the alternative rock band The AM met in their fall 2012 Sigma Nu fraternity pledge class and will make their Spring Sing debut Friday at Pauley Pavilion performing the band’s original song “Wake Up.” (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)
Walking into The Street Hearts’ rehearsal, it is clear that the five musicians are comfortable with one other. They complete one other’s sentences, comfortably sway together in time and tease one other. Read more...
Photo: The Street Hearts are a folk-soul band that performed and won the award for best band at Spring Sing 2013. This year, the band will take Pauley Pavilion’s stage to perform its new song “Darlin’, Don’t Go.” (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
We the Folk has a simply worded question for its audience, from a heartbroken man and his loyal friends: “Won’t You Come Back?” We the Folk will perform the song “Won’t You Come Back?” Friday at this year’s Spring Sing. Read more...
Photo: The folk band We the Folk has been experimenting with new sounds to create its Spring Sing song “Won’t You Come Back?” The song mixes both urban and East European Gypsy sounds. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)
Full of funky sounds and musicians, 10-piece R&B; and soul collective The Primaries have been preparing for their Spring Sing debut Friday. The band members say they are ready, due to their evolution in the last year. Read more...
Photo: A 10-piece R&B and soul collective, The Primaries is composed of all music students. The band will perform its original song “Two Steps” this Friday in Pauley Pavilion for Spring Sing 2014. (Daily Bruin file photo)
France, Italy, Germany – these are the countries most represented in lists of European cinema’s most beloved films. There are exceptions, yes – you have your Ingmar Bergman movies and your Andrei Tarkovsky pictures, but the trend is unmistakable. Read more...
Photo: (P.P. Film Polski) “Masterpieces of Polish Cinema,” presented by Martin Scorsese, is an ongoing cinematic program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Cinefamily. Spanning the months of May and June, the exhibition features films such as Andrzej Wajda’s “Innocent Sorcerers.”
The first time Alex Liu and Eric Jung met was during a desperate scramble to fill empty spaces in a production roster. As a second-year student, Liu realized his fraternity’s 2011 Spring Sing production was lacking musicians and reached out to Jung, then a first-year, through recommendations by friends and fraternity brothers. Read more...
Photo: (Shreya Aiyar/Daily Bruin) Three years after meeting at Omega Sigma Tau fraternity, fourth-year neuroscience student Eric Jung (left) and fifth-year world arts and cultures student Alex Liu (right) will perform Friday at Spring Sing 2014.
