Sunday, December 21

Album Review: ‘Monomania’ by Deerhunter

Deerhunter is doomed to pop music. It tried to escape. Every album, its effects acted as a defense mechanism: gauze for “Cryptograms,” glimmer for “Microcastle,” falsetto for “Halycon Digest.” But there’s no escaping the great escapism. Read more...


Album Review: ‘Ready To Die’ By Iggy and the Stooges

Move over, 20-something-year-olds trying to recapture the intensity and raucous energy of early ’70s rock, the classics aren’t dead yet. Iggy and the Stooges, the arguable progenitors of punk rock, are back with “Ready to Die,” a new offering of stripped-down, in-your-face rock ’n’ roll. Read more...



Band Nonagram puts an original spin on jazz melodies

After playing in several jazz groups in which the names of the bands were anagrams of the musicians’ names, the members of Los Angeles-based jazz trio Nonagram decided the band’s name would be not another anagram. Read more...

Photo: Jazz trio Nonagram will perform its original music, which is influenced by the sounds of singer-songwriters, jazz heroes and Western classical music, in the newest addition of the Fowler Out Loud concert series.


Q&A: PAPA’s Darren Weiss on the group’s roots, sound

Fresh off of a tour with Lord Huron and featured regularly on KROQ’s Locals Only show, L.A.-based indie rock duo PAPA doesn’t plan on slowing down. Read more...

Photo: Tonight, Student Committee for the Arts is bringing L.A-based indie rockers PAPA to Kerckhoff Grand Salon. Band member Darren Weiss spoke about how to write songs, musical inspiration, the origin of the band’s name and what to expect from tonight’s show at 8 p.m.


Attorney UCLA alum to show his folk-rock side in concert

For attorney Adam Walker, law is his vocation, but music is his passion. Walker studied political science as a UCLA undergraduate and later attended law school at the University of San Diego, but music has always been a constant outside of his education. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumnus Adam Walker, a singer-songwriter who draws both from Bob Dylan and heavy metal, will perform tonight at Kerckhoff Coffee House as a part of the Cultural Affairs Commission’s concert series.


Ellingtonia to honor jazz musician

Renowned jazz musician Duke Ellington played at Royce Hall in 1937. Not only was it one of Ellington’s first American concerts, but it was his first ever jazz performance in a concert venue. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Director of Jazz Studies Kenny Burrell and the Ellingtonia Orchestra will perform in Schoenberg Hall as part of the day’s events honoring the life and works of the late Duke Ellington.



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