Monday, March 2


Student band Loop Garou experiments with new sound, name change

The Street Hearts are gone. The indie-folk group that won the 2013 Spring Sing best band entry with their song “The Beggar” now goes by the name Loop Garou. Read more...

Photo: Spring Sing 2013 best band entry winners The Street Hearts have completely rebranded, changing their band name to Loop Garou (above) and sound from America-folk to blues rock. Loop Garou will perform their new music at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles Friday. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)



arTistic Attention: Marissa Ochsner brings behind-the-scenes experience to music classes

It’s easy to become disenchanted by weekly discussions, typically made mandatory by participation grades. But here in A&E;, we want to help UCLA students realize that teaching assistants are not only students themselves. Read more...

Photo: After working odd jobs at music performance venues for two years, Melissa Ochsner became a teaching assistant for Music History 68: The Bealtes and Music History 7 Film and Music. Ochsner hopes to explore research about music as an archaist in the future. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)


Film reveals hidden facets of Tibetan culture, language loss

Khashem Gyal speaks the language of an ancient and evolving culture. Like many young Tibetans, Gyal says he understands that speaking his native tongue of Amdo Tibetan has become increasingly rare. Read more...

Photo: Khashem Gyal spent four months in Hualong, China shooting his film “Valley of the Heroes,” which will be screened in the Humanities Building. (Courtesy of Khashem Gyal)



Stand-up group BoyBand brings weekly laughs to The Improv Space

Nathan Mosher performs stand-up comedy "Improve Space_Nathan_Clips". Released: 2015. "Nathan Mosher performs stand-up comedy"
UCLA student Austin Nasso peforms at the Improv Space "austin". "UCLA student Austin Nasso peforms at the Improv Space"

After Richie Rosales, member of the stand-up group BoyBand, performed a joke, a man in the audience stormed out. He did so exclaiming, “That was too funny. Read more...

Photo: Founded by second-year English student Nathan Mosher, BoyBand is The Improv Space’s first weekly stand-up comedy performing every Thursday night. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)