Because of his early love for Disney, Matthew Friedman, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student, was shocked to arrive at UCLA his first year to find no official Disney-related club or group on campus. Read more...
Photo: The Disney Club of UCLA and Hooligan Theatre Company will host “Be Our Guest: A Night of Disney Cabaret” Tuesday. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
There’s something about the British Isles that consistently produces musical greatness; it is inherent to the country, its people and its culture. Popular culture has been defined by bands and artists from the UK; they have consistently created new genres and musical subcultures – from the Beatles’ psychedelic rock in the ’60s all the way through to the explosion of dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Read more...
Photo: London-based DJ SBTRKT released his sophomore album, “Wonder Where We Land,” in early October. SBTRKT’s strand of electronic music is far removed from the bombastic hits of American DJs, with a far more atmospheric and nuanced sound, better heard in an intimate setting than at a large music festival. (Courtesy of Dan Wilton)
Dim lights, high ceilings and a crowd eager to be pleased set the ambience for Saturday’s Broken Bells performance at the Orpheum Theatre. The night began quietly with audience mingling, and few seats were filled when the opening group Austra walked on stage unannounced. Read more...
Photo: The Broken Bells’ duo of producer Danger Mouse (left) and frontman James Mercer (right) performed Saturday at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin senior staff)
There are more than 500 square miles of city surrounding UCLA’s campus, which takes up a minuscule fraction of that mileage. For such a big place, Los Angeles at times seems impossible to navigate. Read more...
Photo: Amoeba Music on Sunset Boulevard packs thousands of CDs, vinyl records, movies and more to create a hip snapshot of the Hollywood music scene. (Maryrose Kulick/Daily Bruin)
At the height of Andy Warhol’s fame in the late 1960s, artists, poets and musicians crowded his New York City studio space, called “The Factory.” In a haze of smoke, rock groups like the Velvet Underground played as 16 mm films made by Warhol and his peers were projected onto screens. Read more...
Photo: Co-comissioned by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, “Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films” will feature 15 publicly unseen Andy Warhol films, including the 1966 “Color Film of Antoine and Nico.” (The Andy Warhol Museum)
In the late 1970s, Jesus Velo and Willie Herrón of punk rock band, Los Illegals, aimed to provide a space for Chicano culture in East L.A. Read more...
Photo: Under the name “Spine of Califas,” punk rock band Los Illegals partner and tour with the writers of Taco Shop Poets. At Friday night’s performance at the Powell Library rotunda, Taco Shop Poets will have members read poetry while Los Illegals performs in the background. (Courtesy of Reyes Rodriguez)
Huddled in a corner of Schoenberg Hall’s main lobby, UCLA professor Peter Yates and student Alexandra Grabarchuk sit together, discussing a piece of music in low tones. Read more...
Photo: Peter Yates and Alexandra Grabarchuck will perform as GuitAria for the Fowler Museum’s Fowler Out Loud concert series Thursday. Yates, an adjunct assistant professor of guitar, and Grabarchuk, a graduate student in musicology, will perform their guitar and vocal duet, titled “Aspects of Love.” (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
