To the students that made it through auditions in fall 2013, Darryn Wong said Resonance A Cappella was new. He said the group’s existing members could not promise them anything aside from the ability to join an upcoming group that they could call a family. Read more...
Photo: The youngest a cappella group performing at Friday’s Spring Sing, Resonance A Cappella has gone from its founding in October 2012 to performing in Pauley Pavilion for Spring Sing 2014. (Courtesy of Resonance A Cappella)
For every major performance, UCLA’s all-female Random Voices A Capella chooses one encompassing word to focus its energy on. As the group prepares to cover an unrevealed song by the iconic Madonna for this year’s Spring Sing, its current word seems fitting: “passion.” “Random Voices has one of the lowest ranges I’ve heard in terms of all-girls groups, and this song in particular calls for a lot of power behind it,” said Sarah Summers, a second-year dance student. Read more...
Photo: Random Voices A Cappella, an all-female a cappella group, has been working on its Spring Sing 2014 performance since December, full of Madonna-inspired, edgy ’80s costumes. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
Rihanna is spotted in the front row as Cara Delevingne struts down the runway. Karl Lagerfeld directs from backstage, and I’m at home in my pajamas reading all about it in the latest issue of Vogue. Read more...
Photo: Melissa Chinn, a graduate nursing student, accessorizes with her Louis Vuitton bag. Columnist Noor Gill argues that obtaining high-fashion pieces like these are challenging but doable within a student budget. (Evaneet Sidhu/Daily Bruin)
The Daily Bruin’s very own Arts & Entertainment podcast, Paws, Play, Rewind!, returns for episode 12 with the latest and greatest in pop culture and campus happenings. Read more...
Photo: Madeleine Isaacs
The opening shot of “The Immigrant” shows the Statue of Liberty’s back turned toward the camera. She represents defiance, and wants her new visitors to know that their trip across the Atlantic will ultimately make for an elegiac, if not beautiful, tale. Read more...
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Full of funky sounds and musicians, 10-piece R&B; and soul collective The Primaries have been preparing for their Spring Sing debut Friday. The band members say they are ready, due to their evolution in the last year. Read more...
Photo: A 10-piece R&B and soul collective, The Primaries is composed of all music students. The band will perform its original song “Two Steps” this Friday in Pauley Pavilion for Spring Sing 2014. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Momentarily stepping aside from a dinner during a vacation in Lake George, N.Y., Bryan Welch, The AM’s vocalist and rhythm guitarist, listened to a recording his bandmate had sent him earlier that day. Read more...
Photo: Members of the alternative rock band The AM met in their fall 2012 Sigma Nu fraternity pledge class and will make their Spring Sing debut Friday at Pauley Pavilion performing the band’s original song “Wake Up.” (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)
