A few years ago, brother and sister Caleb and Georgia Nott, of the New Zealand alternative band BROODS, were living in a town of less than 50,000 people. And now, according to SoundCloud, more than 40 times that many people have listened to their single “Bridges.” BROODS began gaining a lot of buzz in the […]
Author Archives: Leyla Kumble
Concert dynamic of electro-pop band ASTR belies touring experience
Discreet and unassuming, Adam, half of the electro-pop duo ASTR, got on stage and started tapping on his synths. Before the show, the crowd at The Echo buzzed with excitement; however, it wasn’t until Zoe came on stage that the audience began to go wild. She entered the stage like a wrestler coming into the […]
Q&A: Alum transforms South African apartheid stories into ‘The Human Spirit’
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for more information. Personal tragedy led UCLA alumna Carole Eglash-Kosoff out of the United States and to the townships of South Africa. Eglash-Kosoff, who graduated in 1956 with a bachelor’s degree in business and accounting, lost […]
Spring Sing Profile: The Street Hearts
Walking into The Street Hearts’ rehearsal, it is clear that the five musicians are comfortable with one other. They complete one other’s sentences, comfortably sway together in time and tease one other. In preparing for its upcoming Spring Sing performance on Friday the folk-soul band is working to bring that intimacy to all aspects of […]
Spring Sing: The Primaries
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. The group has added more members, including third-year jazz studies student Joe Kwon, who has changed the band’s […]
Album Review: ‘Enter the Slasher House’
“Enter the Slasher House” is not an album; it’s a world. The album is fittingly named, and listening to it is like entering a completely different realm: one that’s darker and a little underground. Its use of digitally enhanced effects, filters and synths brings to mind the musical stylings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” […]
Movie Review: ‘Enemy’
In “Enemy,” Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of José Saramago’s novel The Double, the film uses the infamous twin trope to challenge ideas of identity and sense of self. While screenwriter Javier Gullón creates an existential thriller that adheres to the needs of the audience to be shaken up, the film manages to use enough symbolism and […]