Everyone may be stuck inside this spring, but the comfort of new album releases will surely keep day-to-day life fresh. Listeners can trade in the high production on this winter’s albums, such as Halsey’s “Manic” and Green Day’s “Father of All…,” for raw, emotional releases that melt the cold and usher in the warmer months. Read more...
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Throwback disco clubs might just have to consider adding a few recently released songs to their playlists. Dua Lipa looks to funk-filled musical influences from the ’70s and ’80s to make a modern statement in her latest album, “Future Nostalgia,” which was released Friday – a week earlier than expected after an online leak. Read more...
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5 Seconds of Summer’s latest release might be titled “CALM,” but its vibrant pop beats are anything but. The Australian band’s fourth studio album, released Friday, explores a vivacious but heated relationship over the course of 12 tracks. Read more...
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Attempting to spark a broken romance with a dysfunctional heart is a complicated affair for The Weeknd. The Canadian musician dropped his fourth studio album “After Hours” on Friday, following the release of his extended play record “My Dear Melancholy,” in 2018. Read more...
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The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA has suspended performances for the rest of the 2019-2020 season in response to COVID-19. In an emailed statement on Tuesday, CAP said it plans on integrating the shows into the 2020-2021 season as they work to reschedule with each performer. Read more...
Photo: After previously postponing all performances through April 10, the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA has suspended the remainder of the 2019-2020 season. (Courtesy of Maria Baranova)
There is more to Yichi Zhang’s lollipops than meets the eye. These colorful lollipops, which serve as the film’s most attention-grabbing prop, offer the audience a clue to the mystery that permeates the otherwise fantastical world of “Dream Lollipops.” Zhang’s new short film revolves around 15-year-old Su and her mother Yanying, who inadvertently becomes involved in the drug trade when she begins painting lollipops with drugged pigments, unknowingly delivering them to someone involved in the drug trade every day. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Yichi Zhang’s short film “Dream Lollipops” follows the fantastical world of 15-year-old Su and her mother Yanying, who paints lollipops. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)
Faceless businessmen abduct the audience’s attention in Vincent Augusto’s upcoming short film. “Abducted,” which was written around a month ago, follows the story of Jenny, who is trying to remember the events of a previous night where she believes she was taken by faceless men in black suits. Read more...
Photo: Vincent Augusto, a UCLA Extension student, directed the short film “Abducted.” Augusto said the storyline is inspired by stories from the #MeToo movement and it follows the horror genre to combine the idea of paranoia with society’s hesitation to believe in women. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin)
