Author Archives: Ashley Jakubczyk

The second and final day of this year’s FYF Fest had all the makings of the quintessential Los Angeles summer experience: hot summer sun, a slight breeze from the western beaches, food trucks galore and immense amounts of musical talent.

Sometimes, it’s necessary to blaze a new trail to get to one’s destination in an efficient manner.

Perhaps the most perplexing thing about Lenka’s latest release is the album’s title, for there is nothing dark or even slightly shadowy about the Australian singer-songwriter’s latest batch of songs.

Renowned jazz musician Duke Ellington played at Royce Hall in 1937. Not only was it one of Ellington’s first American concerts, but it was his first ever jazz performance in a concert venue. Tonight, Ellington’s music will come back to a different venue on the UCLA campus, Schoenberg Hall. Ellingtonia is not only celebrating what […]

It was at the turn of the century that The Strokes’ fresh, vivacious debut album, “Is This It,” altered what mainstream indie-rock was.

PYYRAMIDS, a duo comprised of Tim Nordwind of the indie rock band OK Go and Drea Smith of the electro-pop duo He Say, She Say, fuses psychedelic electronic elements with an ’80s rock vibe to create a sound of its own. Reminiscent of early music from The Cure and Muse, PYYRAMIDS’ debut album “Brightest Darkest […]