For the first time in Bruce Springsteen’s 45-year career,the Boss is taking a step forward by picking up missing pieces from the past. With Springsteen’s newest and 18th studio release, “High Hopes,”the famed New Jersey rock ‘n’ roll legend and his E Street Band are reaching into his songwriting grab bag of the last two […]
Author Archives: Brendan Hornbostel
Q&A: Naomi and The Bandits discusses its new EP
Fourth-year music history student Naomi Robin and her band Naomi and The Bandits, will be performing the second leg of tonight’s concert as part of the Monday Night concert series at Kerckhoff with the band’s folk-rock stylings. Lead singer Robin spoke with Daily Bruin’s Brendan Hornbostel about the group’s upcoming Coffee House performance, as well […]
Q&A: Nina Hadzi-Antich speaks about her musical duo, jazz music
The Cultural Affairs Commission is back with another quarter of its Kerckhoff Coffee House Concert Series, in which student performers take the stage each Monday night to perform for a public audience on campus. Opening tonight will be fourth-year jazz studies student and vocalist Nina Hadzi-Antich with the accompanying guitar of third-year jazz studies student […]
Throwback Thursday: Wu-Tang Clan’s kung fu-based rap shapes entire genre
An influential rap collective is hard to find. When voices and rhythms, each with their own dynamic eccentricities, come together, some artists are overshadowed and individuality fades away. Then there’s Wu-Tang Clan. The Wu-Tang Clan, a rap collective whose original lineup pioneered East Coast hardcore rap in the early ’90s, was able to capture each […]
‘Music in the Rotunda’ to feature classical guitar duet
Under the dome of Powell Library sit two UCLA alumni with classical guitars rested on their knees. As they begin to play, the two guitars interweave baroque-era melodies and the acoustic sounds swiftly bounce off the rotunda and fill the second floor of the library. Alumnus Payam Larijani and his partner, alumna Tiffany Wu, will […]
Throwback Thursday: Lou Reed’s rock ‘n’ roll leaves lasting mark on music
When Lou Reed, the singer, guitarist and poet behind the influential rock ‘n’ roll band the Velvet Underground, died Sunday from a liver-related ailment, it almost seemed fitting for a man that gave so much to music, including the beautifully haunting “Sunday Morning,” that he would die on a Sunday morning. Reed, who never achieved the […]
Album review: ‘Reflektor’ by Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire has discovered what most of the music world has known since the band released its debut album, “Funeral,” in 2004: It is one of the most talented and compositionally brilliant bands of the 21st century. Unfortunately for the music world, Arcade Fire’s new album, “Reflektor,” demonstrates this newly found knowledge with 13 pretentious […]