The curtain has dropped on the 2019 American Music Awards as the end of the decade approaches. The awards show, which took place Sunday, was spearheaded by artists reminiscing on their musical pasts. Read more...
Photo: At the 2019 American Music Awards, Taylor Swift was honored with Artist of the Decade, as well as five other awards. Swift has now amassed 29 AMAs, making her the most decorated artist in the award show’s history. (Ashley Kenney/Daily Bruin)
Letty Bassart will dance for six hours straight – no pauses, no intermission. The graduate student’s capstone performance “Some Ways to Continue?” is a dance theater installation exploring the theme of persistence. Read more...
Photo: Letty Bassart will dance for six hours in her capstone performance “Some Ways to Continue?” (Keaton Larson/Daily Bruin)
Taylor Swift doesn’t like Big Machine Label Group’s little games or tilted stage – and she’s willing to fight back. Swift’s latest public showdown with her former record label Big Machine Label Group centers on her upcoming American Music Awards performance, where she will receive the Artist of the Decade award. Read more...
Photo: Taylor Swift has engaged in a public feud with Big Machine Label Group, her previous record label, over the right to perform her own music at the American Music Awards. Her feud, taken to the Twitter stage, reveals structural imbalances present in the music industry. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated October 30 at 11:23 a.m. to reflect the source’s preferred name. The Stamp Collection performs all the instruments needed for its songs, even when neither member knows how to play one. Read more...
Photo: Third-year comparative literature student Charlie Havenick and Ray Wilson make up The Stamp Collection. The band is producing its upcoming EP “Philatelist” themselves. (Anna Syed/Daily Bruin)
Twisted dreams often inspire Subi Umakanth’s somber music. These dreams led Umakanth to Los Angeles, where she said she has made an effort to hone her songwriting process by focusing on herself as an individual artist. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year neuroscience student Subi Umakanth makes somber music inspired by fictional storylines that take place in her own dreams. In one of her upcoming singles, “Tim,” she said she follows a seven-year-old boy named Tim and takes place in a natural forest environment. Through her emotional lyrics, Umakanth said she hopes to intrigue listeners through the empathy they feel listening to her music. (Ashley Kenney/Daily Bruin)
Years of work for up-and-coming musician Hayden Everett culminated in just 18 minutes of music. The third-year ethnomusicology student released his self-titled debut EP on Sept. Read more...
Photo: Hayden Everett, a third-year ethnomusicology student, put years of work into his self-titled debut EP. Everett said his music journey has taken him from the stairwells and hallways of his dorm to recording studios in Brooklyn, New York – but initially he used a Kickstarter campaign to fund the project. (Ashley Kenney/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 4 at 12:01 a.m. Twenty One Pilots’ world of “Trench” came to life in a wash of yellow and forest green. Read more...
Photo: Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun of Twenty One Pilots took the stage at the Staples Center as a part of their “The Bandito Tour” on Friday night. Emerging in a black ski mask, Joseph finally revealed his face during the band’s performance of “Heavydirtysoul.” (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
