I was perfectly ready to live on campus for my second year. The housing application was turned in; my roommate and I were already planning where the television and general awesomeness would be. Read more...
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Credit: RED HOUSE
Music
Arts, Music
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February 25, 1:20 am
Experience Music Project Pop Conference tunes in to issues of music, money
Music is a prevalent aspect of the college lifestyle. The question, then, is whether students think deeply on their music, or rock out mindlessly. Read more...
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MC Geologic of the Blue Scholars performed at the 2008 Experience Music Project Pop Conference. This year, the conference will be held for the first time at UCLA beginning today in Schoenberg and continuing in Royce Hall on Saturday and Sunday. Guests include Moby and author Chuck Klosterman.
Credit: EXPERIENCE MUSIC PROJECT
Arts, Music
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February 24, 12:39 am
UCLA-based trio jazzes up hip-hop
The Le J Trio plays a smooth blend of contemporary jazz, fusion and hip-hop "“ and just as a team might celebrate a game well-played, the trio celebrates a show with a taco tradition. Read more...
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Left to right: ethnomusicology alumnus Jake Jamieson, third-year student Julian Le and second-year student Owen Clapp make up the Le J Trio. (Courtesy of Austin Quan)
Arts, Music
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February 22, 2:44 am
Album Review: "21"
Songs about the ups and downs of love accelerate Adele up to the top of music charts in her newest album "21"
February 22, 2011 – British pop vocalist Adele releases her second album “21,” with influences from the blues and gospel, along with her distinct and powerful vocals. Reporter Wan Wong says the record has its ups and downs.
Read another perspective on “21” here.
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We always knew she had the voice. Read more...
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COLUMBIA RECORDS
Arts, Arts Columns, Music
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February 18, 12:24 am
Single-minded: _Beats to battle midterm blues_
Arts, Music, Theater & Fine Arts
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February 17, 11:55 pm
UCLA to put on French opera ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites’ at Schoenberg
On July 17, 1794, 16 Carmelite nuns paid the ultimate price for their faith during the Reign of Terror. Read more...
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Graduate music students Krystle Casey and Nick LaGesse perform “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” an opera based on the faithful sacrifice of nuns.
Courtesy of Henry Lim
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February 17, 1:39 am
Alternative rock band Pangolin to play in Royce Hall tonight as part of UCLA Arts Party
Enter "pangolin" into Google and you would find a definition of a scaly anteater native to Africa and Asia. But Pangolin is also the name of the UCLA-based alternative rock band which is opening for rock band Dawes at Royce Hall today at 7 p.m. as a part of the UCLA Arts Party. Read more...
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Second-year ethnomusicology student Owen Clapp (left) and fourth-year anthropology student Joshua Halpern (right) play in the alternative rock band Pangolin, along with fourth-year anthropology student Kevin Farzad, Reuben Moss and B. Willing James, Halpern’s older brother. The band will open for Dawes today at 7 p.m. in Royce Hall.