The precise plucking of a string with his nail creates an internal experience for musician Farzad Amoozegar-Fassie. From this spiritual perspective, the setar is a part of Amoozegar-Fassie’s body and soul. Arab and Persian music traditions will mesh together on campus Thursday as graduate student Amoozegar-Fassie and student Arab music group Takht Dirty bring their […]
Author Archives: Max Mcgee
Q&A: Student DJ A-Klap shares Dance Marathon experience
Fourth-year political science student Anthony Kapitanski, who performs under the DJ stage name A-Klap, performed at Pauley Pavilion this Saturday for the 13th annual Dance Marathon presented by the Pediatric AIDS Coalition. Kapitanski performed a three-hour set Saturday as participants danced for 26 hours straight. Kapitanski has performed in the Westwood and greater Los Angeles […]
Q&A: UCLA student DJ A-Klap talks Dance Marathon set
Fourth-year political science student Anthony Kapitanski, who performs under the DJ stage name A-Klap, is set to take the stage at Pauley Pavilion this Saturday for the 13th annual Dance Marathon presented by the Pediatric AIDS Coalition. Kapitanski will perform a three-hour set from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday as participants dance for 26 […]
House duo GLSS manufactures ‘Soul Feel’ EP
Layered into a deep house bass beat, a voice arises out of a mellow, pulsing intro. A multi-pitched looping lyric, “If you’re not the one then, then why does my soul feel?” is followed by a flurry of vocal work and assorted sounds. The San Francisco-based house duo GLSS, comprised of third-year Design | Media […]
Indie rock band The Ten Thousand releases ‘Nausea’
For nearly four months after their graduation, UCLA alumni Satoru Yamamoto and Kevin Moultrie devoted long hours to writing songs on a grand piano in their shabby downtown Los Angeles loft and totraveling back to Westwood for practice sessions at the Treehouse on a weekly basis. Since the days of late-night gigs at the Co-Op […]
Concert Review: Justin Martin
As the clock ticked past midnight in downtown Los Angeles, electronic music intensified inside Exchange Los Angeles, with deep bass trills pushing the limits of the sound system and morphing genres together. Saturday night’s performance kicked off the bimonthly residency of Justin Martin at Exchange LA. The San Francisco-based producer and deep house DJ took the stage after […]
Student and alumnus singer-songwriters to perform in Kerckhoff
The original version of this article and the headline that accompanied it both contained errors. See the bottom of the article for additional information. The music from singer-songwriters will fill the air in Kerckhoff Coffee House on Monday night with acoustic sounds off their newest material. This week’s installment of the Cultural Affairs Commission’s Kerckhoff Concert […]