Two years ago, pop rock band Eisley performed regularly at a small coffeehouse in Tyler, Texas. This past spring, after releasing only one EP, Eisley played in front of 12,000 fans at the Hollywood Bowl when they opened for Coldplay’s “A Rush of Blood to the Head” tour. Read more...

To some people, winning is not everything. The musicians who converged for the Second Annual Acoustic Live finals on Nov. 9 were more concerned with entertaining the crowd. Read more...

It’s hard for someone to have two full-time jobs ““ and Jon Robertson, chairman of the UCLA Department of Music and conductor of the UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra, has finally decided he has spent enough time juggling. Read more...

John Cage, one of the most recognized composers of the 20th century, may be best known for a time when he was silent. One of his most famous pieces, “4’33,” is four minutes and thirty-three seconds of a pianist onstage, not playing, where only the noise generated by the audience and ambiance of the concert hall are considered the “music” of the piece. Read more...

After “Divertimento No. 15,” a classical style ballet piece set to Mozart, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet dancers quite literally let their hair down. In Stravinsky’s “Variations for Orchestra,” Bonnie Pickard, a soloist, traded her immaculate bun for a loose ponytail; Ravel’s “Tzigane” saw the dancers do the same; and in Stravinsky’s “Apollo,” Lisa Reneau tossed her loose hair in blonde head circles. Read more...

“The Shaggs” Powerhouse Theatre Company Right after delivering a rollicking, bells-and-whistles rendition of the song “Career Day,” actors in the play “The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World” promptly step out of their characters (at least temporarily), slap on their stagehand hats, and proceed to reconfigure the set in front of the audience. Read more...

Although probably less known to the world at large, Charles Mee is currently the toast of theater lovers everywhere. For the last two or three years, the polio-stricken writer of a growing canon of plays, and author of the autobiography “An Almost Normal Life,” has seen his plays surge in popularity. Read more...