Some say it all changed with a 17-year-old Angeleno with Mexican blood, coiffed hair, an electric guitar and two words set to be immortalized: "La Bamba." Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year ethnomusicology student Marcos Ruedas rehearses with his Mexican and Latin American ensemble, Grupo Folklorico de UCLA. Other Mexican music and heritage groups on campus include Mariachi Uclatan and Nucleo Jaraner de UCLA.
For those of us who weren't around to experience the golden age of '80s punk, Joe Sib's spoken word concert "California Calling" can be a way to travel back to the period when rockers rebelled and rebels rocked. Read more...
Photo: Joe Sib of 98.7 FM’s punk rock show “Complete Control” will perform “Broken Word” at Largo on Jan 6.
These past few years may have been more of a singles decade for pop music, yet a few underrated indie darlings and well-known seasoned veterans managed to fashion impressive long forms. Read more...
With the music industry fracturing more and more each year and the widespread availability of music on the Internet, indie music has become a giant metaphor for the numerous niche markets that have popped up across not only the musical landscape but within our iPods. Read more...
Every decade has its own fashion trends and moments, and the last 10 years are no exception. The American blue jean lost weight to become skinnier than Kate Moss, while formerly frumpy designer Marc Jacobs became a toned and tan icon. Read more...
As one of the younger genres in music, hip-hop is still in a formative state. In the past 10 years, its identity has gone in more directions than MapQuest would care to count. Read more...
The last decade never clearly tied itself to a single musical trend, the way hair metal defined the '80s or grunge the '90s "“ if anything, we saw the emergence of hip-hop and its reliance on the hit single. Read more...
