Though the cliche is a tired one, a picture is worth a thousand words. With a furrowed brow, Louis Armstrong leans back with his trumpet, his cheeks filled with air. Read more...

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“Jam Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World,” an exhibition on display at the Fowler Museum, features photographs of jazz legends traveling around the world. Count Basie, pictured above, rehearses the popular Burmese song, “Emerald Dusk,” in Rangoon, Burma in 1971.

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Well, whoever writes the lyrics for Noah and the Whale is clearly over his break-up. With its last album, "The First Days of Spring," Noah and the Whale took listeners for a trip through what could only be described as one of the most epic and earth shattering break-ups of all time. Read more...

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Grammy-nominated U.K. singer-songwriter David Gray will perform at Royce Hall on Tuesday as a part of his "Lost and Found" tour. Gray's performance will sample from his newest album, "Foundling," and other works from throughout his musical career. Read more...

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Musician David Gray will be performing at Royce Hall Tuesday night.

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In one of society's greatest cliches, variety has frequently been called "the spice of life." If variety were considered the spice of music, today's massive amount of different media for listening to music would equate to about five barrels of the strongest spices around. Read more...

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Standing outside Amoeba Music in Hollywood one day, third-year political science student Jason Tapia witnessed the cynicism of music consumerism. Read more...

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Jason Tapia and the rest of his band, Morrownow, pass out the band’s EP in front of Amoeba Music in Hollywood in an attempt to market their music.

In 1999, Molly Jones and a few other female singers thought there was something missing in the a cappella world at UCLA. Read more...

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UCLA’s all-female a cappella group Random Voices will be performing at the Fowler Museum as a part of the Fowler Out Loud series.

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