The Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, transforms each year into a country lover’s dream. Stagecoach Festival, Southern California’s country music festival, will take place this weekend. Read more...
Photo: This year’s Stagecoach Festival setlist at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California will feature a variety of country music acts, new and old, including Dierks Bentley, Maddie & Tae, Shania Twain, Maren Morris, Cam and Kenny Chesney. (Daily Bruin file photo)
In “On the Rise,” the Daily Bruin profiles up-and-coming musicians in Los Angeles. Though our subjects do not necessarily have direct connections with UCLA, they are artists who have brought their sounds to Los Angeles and have taken advantage of opportunities within the city’s thriving music scene. Read more...
Photo: The members of FOXTRAX didn’t feel like a true band until they spent six weeks writing music together in a cabin in the woods of Murphy, North Carolina. The band is now located in Los Angeles and draws musical influence from a variety of genres and artists to create their indie rock music. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)
It was love at first sound when 12-year-old Will Stevens witnessed a live performance of an oboe solo at a Southern California honors band event. Just a day after witnessing the oboe solo, Stevens’ teacher coincidentally opened a position in the middle school band for an oboe player. Read more...
Photo: First-year music student Will Stevens discovered his passion for the oboe in seventh grade. (Emma Skinner/Daily Bruin)
The Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center opened about two years ago as an expansion of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. The space includes a high-tech recording studio, cafe and ensemble room where students can practice and perform their pieces. Read more...
Photo: (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
Follow Daily Bruin Arts & Entertainment editor Lindsay Weinberg and Photo editor Miriam Bribiesca as they conquer Coachella. Read more...
Photo: (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
Asking someone to prom in the middle of a concert is the best time to do it. At Whitney’s concert Thursday night, a high schooler climbed onstage at the El Rey Theatre with a poster and a bouquet of yellow flowers to ask his fellow classmate to prom. Read more...
Photo: Indie-rock band Whitney consists of former Smith Westerns band members Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich (pictured). (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)
Natasha Keces won’t be watching Raury perform live at Coachella on Friday evening. She’ll be taking a science midterm. Keces bought her three-day pass to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival before she knew her spring class schedule. Read more...
Photo: First-year physiology student Azisa Todd is bringing a tie-dye shirt and dashiki to wear to Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar’s sets, respectively. While attending Coachella, Todd said they will call out people for appropriating other cultures at the festival. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
