Lady Gaga and Kesha aren’t the only pop singers adding a little country-influenced twang to their tunes. Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue’s latest studio album “Golden” came out Friday and features the synth-pop sound that brought Minogue to fame back in the ’90s, while also throwing in some folksy instrumentals. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Liberator Music)

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Department of Ethnomusicology offers a range of different ensembles spanning multiple regions throughout the world, each with a rich musical dynamic and sound. Read more...

Photo: Students in the UCLA Klezmer Music Ensemble play a traditional form of Eastern European Jewish folk music. Klezmer became a part of American-Jewish life in the 1970s and 1980s as a way for baby boomers to find their own form of folk music. (Edward Figueroa/Daily Bruin)

Audience members and dancers will meet eye to eye at “Dearest Home” on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA will present dance professor Kyle Abraham’s performance “Dearest Home” at the Freud Playhouse. Read more...

Photo: Matthew Baker and Kayla Farrish previewed “Dearest Home” in the Northwest Auditorium Wednesday. Both dancers are a part of professor Kyle Abraham’s dance company, which will perform April 5,6 and 7 at the Freud Playhouse.(MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)

Shota Homma struggled with the fast and arpeggiated movements of Robert Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor. But on Sunday, the second-year music student played the piece in front of thousands of audience members at Carnegie Hall. Read more...

Photo: Second-year piano performance student Shota Homma played Robert Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor in front of a Carnegie Hall audience. He started taking lessons at the age of 4 and after moving to the United States from Japan and became interested in making classical music more available. (Courtesy of Shota Homma)