Rebecca Lord, who began playing violin at the age of 2, seemed destined for a career in music. However, Lord, an alumna of the Herb Albert School of Music's doctorate program, said she was initially interested in becoming an actress or singer. Read more...
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Alumna Rebecca Lord will be participating in the Atlantic Music Festival.
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Before the "Twilight" movie sound track collaboration, before being sampled by Kanye West and before appearing on stage with the same rapper at Coachella earlier this year, Bon Iver was just a one-man band that made a single beautiful album alone in an isolated cabin in snowy Wisconsin. Read more...
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Credit: Jagjuguwar
When Elijah Rock, a member of the jazz ensemble The Downtown Project, attended the Fowler Museum's OutSpoken Conversation with Kenny Burrell, John Edward Hasse and Quincy Jones in March, little did he know that a simple conversation with Jones would lead to his own performance at the Fowler Museum this Saturday. Read more...
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Elijah Rock, a first-year opera studies student and member of the jazz group The Downtown Project, will be performing with the rest of The Downtown Project at the Fowler Museum as part of the “Jam Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World” exhibit.
Courtesy of Ashleigh Giron
Generally, a band's story of being booed on stage would be understood as an unflattering anecdote. Read more...
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Roy Sugihara, a second-year English student and member of the electronic band Hot Club.
My Morning Jacket is not an easy band to listen to. There's so much going on in the music, it's hard for listeners to settle back and get comfortable. Read more...
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(Credit: Ato Records)
Sympathy Sympathy did not pass the Spring Sing auditions last year "“ but they did not let rejection stop them from playing upbeat songs filled with synthesizers and pop culture references. Read more...
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UCLA band Sympathy Sympathy will be performing at the Hardman-Hansen Hall (part of University Cooperative Housing Association) tonight. The rock band uses synthesizers and is heavily influenced by ’80s bands such as Joy Division and The Cure, as well as ’90s bands such as Blink-182. The group members’ first live performance together was at an unsuccessful audition for Spring Sing but have performed their pop-culture infused songs around campus numerous times since.
Jesse Sachs had never heard of the JazzReggae Festival until his first year at UCLA, when he went to see The Roots headline. Read more...
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Raka Rich (left) and Raka Dun, members of Los Rakas, will be performing at JazzReggae on Monday. Their music is a fusion of Caribbean reggae and hip-hop.
courtesy of NINA PARKS
