Author Archives: Alex LaRue

While kids may fall asleep in class, they’ll rarely fall asleep in a hip-hop concert.

When the recording industry first started making noise about illegal downloading, I felt myself rebelling on the inside.

When Tim Westergren created Pandora.com, he was thinking about musicians.

The students in charge of this weekend’s JazzReggae Festival may be interested in making the event more environmentally friendly, but don’t expect anything about the music to be recycled.

While Spring Sing provides for some students a chance to get public with their art, trading their wares in front of a massive audience, some aspects of the show are more close to home for the rest of us.

In everyday conversations about music, “song” is a term used rather loosely. The way people talk, it seems to apply to any sort of music we care to refer to. However, when it comes to classical music, the word “song” gets a bit more specific. And this form of music is something identifiable enough for […]

Sometimes leaving home is the best way to learn to love it. When Silverlake songstresses the Watson Twins, Chandra and Leigh Watson, were still alternative kids from Kentucky considering moving out to Los Angeles to make it as musicians, the last thing they wanted was to be associated with country. But after years of honing […]