Brenton Allen is known as a student at UCLA and a former Bruin baseball player who helped his team reach the College World Series in 2013, but he is emerging as an up-and-coming musician. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year history student and hip-hop musician Brenton Allen released his first single, “Make a Move,” Sunday. (Katie Meyers/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A scorching hot sun blazed and loomed over Grand Park where the first Budweiser Made in America music festival in Los Angeles took place on Saturday and Sunday. Read more...
Photo: Budweiser Made in America music festival, founded by hip-hop artist Jay-Z, made its Los Angeles debut on Saturday and Sunday in Downtown L.A. Performances included Imagine Dragons, John Mayer and Kanye West (above). (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
As thousands of music fans muscled their way into Exposition Park on Sunday, one thing was clear: FYF Fest was making moves. Abandoning comedy sets for the first time and instead investing in more variety and star power than ever before, the traditionally indie music festival set a firm foot forward into the direction of its distant cousins, Coachella and Outside Lands. Read more...
Photo: Alternative-rock band The Strokes performed in Los Angeles for the first time since 2011 on Sunday, the last day of FYF Fest. The two-day music festival, in its 11th year, was held at the L.A. Sports Arena and Exposition Park. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Sun, check. Music, check. Conveniently located at the L.A. Sports Arena and Exposition Park near Downtown, albeit on Trojan territory, check. Saturday of the two-day FYF Fest had all the makings of the perfect L.A.-based summer music festival and in most ways it delivered. Read more...
Photo: On Saturday, FYF Fest featured headliners Phoenix (above), Interpol and Slowdive. In its 11th year, the two-day festival, was held at the L.A. Sports Arena and Exposition Park. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)
If Beyoncé’s first version of “Flawless” was angry, then her remix with Nicki Minaj is seething. But in that seething remix, Beyoncé loses what was originally a powerful message about feminism and convolutes the theme of being a flawless woman. Read more...
On Thursday, more than 30 years of musical collaboration will reverberate off the walls of the Hammer Museum. In addition to an esoteric musical style that crosses various genres, what really sets The Jeff Gauthier Goatette apart from other bands at the Hammer Museum’s summer JazzPOP series is its long history. Read more...
Photo: JazzPOP concert series will conclude on Thursday with a performance by The Jeff Gauthier Goatette at the Hammer Museum. The group, formed in the late 1970s by Jeff Gauthier, will play music from past albums, improvisational work and a newly arranged piece by Gauthier. (Courtesy of Jeff Gauthier)
In the late ’90s, first-grade buddies Jacob Hemphill and Bob “Bobby Lee” Jefferson of reggae band SOJA set out from Washington, D.C., on a musical journey that has since culminated in six studio albums and several international tours. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of ATO Records)
