Lightning in a Bottle offers memorable EDM lineup, festival experience

Crossing a brightly decorated bridge from one peninsula to another, enthusiastic music fans were quick to high five each other as they walked in opposite directions to watch their next electronic music performance. Tucked away along the dry bed of Lake San Antonio, thousands of campers gathered over Memorial Day weekend for the Lightning in […]

Spring Sing 2015: Signature A Cappella

A pleasant range of voices fills the depths of Parking Structure 7 as Signature A Cappella prepares its four-minute Spring Sing set. The group of female vocalists will perform an original rendition of songs by the Beatles at Spring Sing. Fourth-year psychology student and Signature director Mishael Edu said the group will have choreography and […]

Student to lead concert of rocksteady, Middle Eastern, string groups

Tranquil strums of the ukulele, lively Middle Eastern riqq beats and jazzy piano textures all make up a palette of sounds quite familiar to fourth-year individual studies student Lindsey Kunisaki. Alongside musicians she met throughout her time as a UCLA undergraduate, Kunisaki will lead a three-part performance of Jamaican, Middle Eastern and contemporary jazz music […]

Student DJ Tambat looks to energize crowd at Dance Marathon

In three years, DJ Tambat has taken a momentous leap from quietly mixing songs in his bedroom to the lively setting of Pauley Pavilion. Back in community college, fourth-year mechanical engineering student Shan Tambat studied the basics of song mixing in his free time, never imagining that his efforts would lead to the largest performance […]

Lighting in a Bottle festival offers fresh, sustainable music alternative

For a true live music enthusiast, out of every spring quarter arises the opportunity to step outside L.A.’s bustling venue scene, releasing oneself into the timeless aura of festival life. When most picture that ideal festival experience, Sasquatch! Festival, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival or Outside Lands may come to mind. With electronic artists […]

Album review: ‘Gliss Riffer’

“Gliss Riffer” Dan Deacon Domino 3.5 Paws Imagine a musical supercomputer has ingested some type of psychedelic substance and completely jammed out for 42 minutes straight. Baltimore electronic musician and composer Dan Deacon’s latest work, “Gliss Riffer,” illustrates just that. Since the release of his 2007 breakthrough album, “Spiderman of the Rings,” Deacon has brought […]

arTistic Attention: TA Dahlia Schweitzer brings background of experience to classroom

It’s easy to become disenchanted by weekly discussions, typically made mandatory by participation grades. But here in A&E;, we want to help UCLA students realize that teaching assistants are not only students themselves. Outside the classroom, they are also people with backgrounds ranging from musical festival ring leaders to comic strip satirists. With the new […]