Singer, student Bareilles to showcase talent at Brew Co.

She’s not an accountant secretly pushing screenplays in between coffee breaks. For a resident in the city of broken dreams, the young Sara Bareilles has been experiencing a considerable amount of success and recognition. Since she began playing gigs in January, Bareilles, a fourth-year communications studies student, has twice heard her name announced as the […]

Campus Events to benefit from fee referendum

Christmas arrived early this year for the folks at Campus Events. Thanks to last week’s passing of the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s student fee referendum, the organization will finally receive the budget boost it sorely needs to keep up with the rising costs of providing high quality concerts for students. The referendum, which was approved […]

Rolling Stones concert a bag of tricks, treats

Just as the unintelligible mumbling of archaic guitarist Keith Richards kept the audience in the dark, a sense of bewilderment followed the entire Rolling Stones show at the Staples Center last Thursday night. Stranger things have happened on Halloween, but seeing the rock band that spawned the infamous Altamont concert in 1969 now play on […]

Local musicians shine at Acoustic Live

Seventh game of the World Series: six words that meant absolutely nothing to Acoustic Live organizers, fans and performers. The last and most important baseball game of the season played second fiddle to the Acoustic Live Finals at the Westwood Brewing Company Sunday night. “What happened?” finalist Carlos Calvo asked the audience. “Angels just score?” […]