Damon Riddick, also known as Dam-Funk, will be performing today as part of Campus Events Commission's free concert series. Riddick, an L.A.-based modern funk musician, spoke to Daily Bruin's Marjorie Yan about modern funk, his recording process and his view on how music has changed over the years. Read more...
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Dam-Funk will be playing a free concert today in Bruin Plaza.
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In the summer of 2010, Nicolette Yarbrough and Jessica Jones set up a violin and bass, their respective instruments, in the streets of San Francisco and played for donations. It was at this moment that the pair, who met at their freshman orientation, realized they could have a future in music together. Read more...
Ten minutes was all it took for the Cultural Affairs Commission's website to crash once reservation sign-ups became available for its annual Hip Hop Explosion concert. As "refresh" buttons were abused to reserve admission to the show and Hip Hop Congress staff connected frantically to fix the glitch, the high level of anticipation for the event became clear. Read more...
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Today, Dom Kennedy will be performing as part of Cultural Affairs Commission’s Hip Hop Explosion concert along with Blu & Exile, Pac Div and Schoolboy Q.
Pandora radio makes up more than 60 percent of Internet radio listening in the United States. When Jessica Steel, executive vice president of business and corporate development at Pandora Media Inc. received a phone call from her nephew Aza Steel, a third-year sociology student, asking if she would come speak at UCLA as Sigma Eta Pi's guest speaker, she immediately agreed to do so. Read more...
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Jessica Steel is the executive vice president of Pandora, an online radio streaming web site. Steel will be speaking as Sigma Eta Pi’s guest speaker tonight in Moore 100. The co-ed entrepreneurship fraternity will have Steel speak on business start-up lessons she has learned.
It's not often that the phrase "plants and animals" replaces images of pretty flowers and fuzzy woodland creatures with guitar riffs and drum sets. Read more...
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SECRET CITY RECORDS
The predominant electro-pop beats of Mouse on Mars' newest release "Parastrophics" make this album stand out compared to many songs heard on the radio today. Read more...
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MONKEYTOWN RECORDS
“Revolutionary" is an interesting little word. It's quite the lofty idea, but it seems to be used for far more than it should be. Yesterday, I had a milkshake that was so good it was revolutionary. No I didn't; a milkshake can't be revolutionary "“ neither can a new restaurant or method of brewing coffee. Read more...
