Tuesday, February 24

Album Review: ‘The Search for Everything – Wave One’

John Mayer, 39, and his music are aging like a well-worn pair of jeans – getting a little too comfortable and a little bit lackluster. On Friday, Mayer released “The Search for Everything – Wave One,” consisting of the first four songs of the singer-songwriter’s partially released seventh studio album. Read more...

Photo: (Columbia Records)


UCLA alumni to present horror-comedy series at Sundance 2017

Girl meets boy, girl loses her virginity to said boy – and then girl wakes up the next day suddenly nine months pregnant with an alien? Read more...

Photo: Three UCLA alumni, Scott Yacyshyn, Benji Kleiman, and Stephen Cedars banded together to create the TV show “Snatchers,” which will premiere Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. (Courtesy of Hanna Bolte)



Student group Resonance A Cappella works on first album

Members of Resonance A Cappella swayed their bodies along to the crescendos and decrescendos of the musical arrangement during a Sunday rehearsal at two of the singers’ apartment. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year English student Matt Groy serves as music director for Resonance A Cappella, which will be recording its first album this year. Groy has been a member of the ensemble since it first officially began in 2013. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)


Collecting Creatives: Timna Naim

Collecting Creatives is a video series highlighting creative people and their work around campus. Our next creative is an Israeli-American genderqueer gay male-bodied individual, or simply known as Timna. Read more...

Photo: (Justine Sto. Tomas/Video editor)


Going for the Grammy: UCLA music professor commissions Grammy-nominated classical piece

UCLA faculty, staff and alumni have contributed musical works that are nominated for the 59th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12, 2017. Their talents, ranging from playing the saxophone to composing songs to performing in an opera, have been recognized with nominations in five different categories. Read more...

Photo: A work that was commissioned by UCLA alumnus and composer Mark Carlson is now nominated for a 2017 Grammy award for Best Classical Compendium. (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)


Student garden blossoms with hands-on help from UCLA’s gardening club

At the top of a grassy hill at UCLA’s Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, students will find a student garden – a small, fenced-off corner where fruits, veggies and herbs flourish. Read more...

Photo: Club members of Dig work on maintaining the student garden, located at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center. They improve the soil quality, weed the garden and harvest herbs and vegetables at Sunday meetings. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin staff)