Layered into a deep house bass beat, a voice arises out of a mellow, pulsing intro. A multi-pitched looping lyric, “If you’re not the one then, then why does my soul feel?” is followed by a flurry of vocal work and assorted sounds. Read more...
Photo: Third-year Design | Media Arts student Philip Scott is half of San Francisco-based house duo GLSS, which released its “Soul Feel” EP Feb. 25.(Courtesy of POPGANG)
While sex has long been a common theme in pop culture, Pharrell Williams wants to bring a little more to the table. “G I R L,” a 10-track –plus one hidden – album, including the Billboard No. Read more...
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During his first class two years ago, music industry professor Ken Kragen had the UCLA Bruin Marching Band blast through a lecture hall full of students, demonstrating one of the life lessons he teaches in his course “Stardom Strategies for Musicians.” “You need something unique and special to engage people,” Kragen said. Read more...
Photo: “Stardom Strategies for Musicians,” a music industry class taught by professor Ken Kragen, featured Grammy Award-winning jazz musicians Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Tuesday in the Jan Popper Theater. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
India Carney filled the margins of her high school math notebook with lyrics rather than numbers. Last year, she sang these lyrics, a product of daydreaming in class, into a Melnitz Hall microphone while recording “Like a Star,” the first track on her debut EP to be released next month. Read more...
Photo: Third-year vocal performance student India Carney will be performing Thursday in the Fowler Out Loud concert series. Carney plans to release her debut EP “Heartbroken” by the end of March. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin staff)
UCLA music professor Gary Gray said the instant people hear the words “classical chamber music,” most people instantly bow out of the conversation. Yet, in its eighth year, the Woodwind World concert has continued to attract a crowd of interested music students, with students and faculty performing together in Schoenberg’s Jan Popper Theater on Thursday night. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Anita David) The eighth annual Woodwind World concert, created by music professor Gary Gray, will take place in Schoenberg’s Jan Popper Theater Thursday night.
For nearly four months after their graduation, UCLA alumni Satoru Yamamoto and Kevin Moultrie devoted long hours to writing songs on a grand piano in their shabby downtown Los Angeles loft and totraveling back to Westwood for practice sessions at the Treehouse on a weekly basis. Read more...
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Heartbreak has given us Beck back. It’s been six years since 2008’s “Modern Guilt,” the singer-songwriter’s last proper studio album (at least in the eyes of those reluctant to consider 2012’s “Song Reader” sheet music release a valid form of an album), but the hiatus hasn’t changed him much. Read more...
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