The Street Hearts are gone. The indie-folk group that won the 2013 Spring Sing best band entry with their song “The Beggar” now goes by the name Loop Garou. Read more...
Photo: Spring Sing 2013 best band entry winners The Street Hearts have completely rebranded, changing their band name to Loop Garou (above) and sound from America-folk to blues rock. Loop Garou will perform their new music at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles Friday. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
It’s easy to become disenchanted by weekly discussions, typically made mandatory by participation grades. But here in A&E;, we want to help UCLA students realize that teaching assistants are not only students themselves. Read more...
Photo: After working odd jobs at music performance venues for two years, Melissa Ochsner became a teaching assistant for Music History 68: The Bealtes and Music History 7 Film and Music. Ochsner hopes to explore research about music as an archaist in the future. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
Belle and Sebastian is more often romanticized than listened to. The whimsical Scottish band is known for its airy melodies with heavy lyrics often quoted on personal blogs, such as the famous line “color my life with the chaos of trouble” from “The Boy with the Arab Strap.” But the group’s newest album, “Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance,” proves once again that they are a band worth paying attention to. Read more...
Photo: (Matador Records)
Elena Loper said her family first introduced her to Irish folk music when she was just a little girl, and she hasn’t stopped listening since. Irish music has played an integral role in the fourth-year ethnomusicology student’s time at UCLA: Loper studied abroad in Ireland, focused her ethnomusicology thesis on Irish-American music and emigration, and now, models her own songwriting on music of the Irish tradition. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year ethnomusicology student Elena Loper will perform her brand of Irish and American folk music backed by jazz instrumentals at the Fowler Museum on Thursday. (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
“American Beauty/American Psycho” Fall Out Boy Island Records 4 paws In a mixture of peaceful and crazy lyrics and beats, Fall Out Boy meets the expectations that its latest album name, “American Beauty/American Psycho,” sets up – the sound alternates between angelic and psychotic. Read more...
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Among being a musician and a composer, Los Angeles native Nick Demopoulos is a sound and instrument designer. In an attempt to mesh the computer and guitar, he has created the SMOMID, or string modeling MIDI device, an instrument that resembles the guitar but produces both light and sound. Read more...
Photo: Musician Nick Demopoulos created the SMOMID, or string modeling MIDI device (above), an instrument that emits light and sound. Demopoulos has developed four versions of the SMOMID since 2009. He will demonstrate the latest version at the Schoenberg Music Building Tuesday. (Courtesy of Kara Kreider)
Every year, new artists emerge, ready to be Los Angeles’ next great musical discovery, making their rounds through small club tours across the city. Inspired by the hippie enclaves of Topanga, the backyard punk scene of East Los Angeles or the coastal grunge of Venice Beach, each act has its own distinct sound. Read more...
Photo: Leighton Meester, widely known for her role as Blair Waldorf in “Gossip Girl,” released her debut album, “Heartstrings.” (Hotly Wanting Records)
