Former UCLA professor Chris Burden, the artist behind the iconic “Urban Light” exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, died Sunday of malignant melanoma. Read more...
Photo: Former UCLA professor Chris Burden, the artist behind the iconic “Urban Light” exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, died Sunday of malignant melanoma. He was 69. (Courtesy of Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Marvel Comics has seen an increase in mainstream popularity with the recent release of several box-office hits such as “The Avengers.” Since its inception in 1939, the comic book company has created thousands of characters. Read more...
Photo: Gwen Stacy, who’s primarily known for her tragic death in the comics in 1973, has recently received more comic book coverage as the Spider-Woman of Earth-65. Stacy currently features as the lead of a spin-off series “Spider-Gwen.” (Marvel Comics)
Fourth-year ethnomusicology student and bassist Erik Shiboski said he originally came up with the name Fine Print because he thought it was fitting for a rap MC. Read more...
Photo: Members of the band Fine Print will bring together jazz, funk and R&B elements in their Spring Sing performance of original song “Move On,” a piece that conveys the group’s spontaneity. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin)
For the five members of Loop Garou, sometimes 10 minutes are all it takes to write a song. Formerly known as The Street Hearts – Spring Sing 2013 winners – Loop Garou will perform its song, “I Walk Down,” which fourth-year civil engineering student and bassist Nicholai Hansen said the five wrote almost a full year ago. Read more...
Photo: Spring Sing 2013 winner Loop Garou, formerly known as The Street Hearts, will perform rock ‘n’ roll song “I Walk Down” at Spring Sing on Saturday, which fourth-year civil engineering student Nicholai Hansen (far left) said he wrote almost a year ago. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
Almost two years after the formation of their duet and a year since they performed across Europe, Eva Barrosse and David Miller are embracing their newly fleshed out sound with their full band, the Eva B. Read more...
Photo: Second-year history student Eva Barrosse (left) and second-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student David Miller make up the band Eva B. Ross Foundation and will perform their original song “Easy” at Spring Sing. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
Recent UCLA fine arts graduate students Nathan Ward and Sam Bivins adopted the characters “LAguylovesLA” and “DJ Just Press Play” respectively to form their ironically subversive, alternative band called “Iconic Splendor,” which was featured in the Hammer Museum’s annual Arts Party last night. Read more...
Electronic music duo Common Souls was simply “Ryan and Nick” on its Spring Sing application. When third-year ethnomusicology student Nick Velez decided to sign up for an audition two hours before the application deadline, he asked fourth-year communication studies student Ryan Yoo to join him in creating a song for the audition in only one week. Read more...
Photo: Common Souls – an electronic duo made up of third-year ethnomusicology student Nick Velez (left) and fourth-year communication studies student Ryan Yoo (right) – will perform its new song, “Arizona,” at Spring Sing. (Kailey Rishovd/Daily Bruin)
