The sound of chugging workout equipment fills a silent room, soon to be covered up by a layer of harmonious voices. While workout equipment and a cappella do not usually go hand-in-hand, the Hedrick Recreation Room became home to SouLA, UCLA’s Chinese a cappella ensemble. Read more...

Photo: Formed in the spring of 2013 by Shavvon Lin, SouLA is UCLA’s Chinese a cappella ensemble. The group performed for the first time in 2014 on Feb. 2 at Royce Hall, and its next performance will be this Saturday at the Caltech Chinese Association’s 2014 Spring Festival Gala.

It’s hard to classify Bombay Bicycle Club given its penchant for continuously altering its musical style. The band’s catalogue, spanning four albums, already contains a guitar-heavy indie rock album, “I Had the Blues but I Shook Them Loose,” a folk-inspired acoustic record, “Flaws,” and the up-tempo “A Different Kind of Fix.” Whether or not the radical change from album to album is a testament to the band’s versatility or an indictment of its lack of identity, Bombay Bicycle Club nonetheless continues the trend with “So Long, See You Tomorrow,” an album that clearly finds its inspiration in electronic music. Read more...