Detached singing was on the menu at the Cooperage last Thursday. However, most audience members refrained from detaching themselves from their seats over the course of the show. Hrishikesh Hirway of The One AM Radio set the tone as he delivered lyrics in soft whispers barely audible to the normal human ear. The hardly discernable […]
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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 […]
Hangin' in the Coop
Six chicken strips and a side dish for $2.99 is not the only deal available to students at the Cooperage. Unknown to most concertgoers, the Coop offers a night of free live music about every other week. The likelihood of randomly finding a student who frequents shows at the Coop is only a few percentage […]
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?” […]
Mike Skinner paves way for U.K. hip-hop
Ever the social commentator, comedian Chris Rock once quipped that the world is coming to an end because the best golfer is black and the best rapper is white. All joking aside, Eminem might not even be the greatest of white hopes. Some bloke by the name of Mike Skinner has been making major noise […]