Author Archives: David Greenwald

For UCLA students who expect college to rock their socks off, they’ve come to the right place. UCLA’s Campus Events commission has a whole year of free on-campus concerts lined up to perform on every corner of campus. From the Bad Religion show in Pauley Pavilion which kicked off last year’s Welcome Week to intimate […]

The music industry as we know it may well be a sinking ship. Worldwide music sales were down 7.6 percent last year, the fourth consecutive year they’ve dropped since 2000. The Recording Industry Association of America has saddled illegal file-sharing with much of the blame. Since the rise of the Napster file-sharing software in 1999, […]

For many students, the hottest spot on a Friday night is the Internet. With Thefacebook.com, Friendster, MySpace and the ubiquitous AOL Instant Messenger software all competing for people’s online social lives, it’s a wonder that students even leave their dorm rooms at all. It takes something exciting to make these hermits get up and dance […]

Imagine 20 people on stage, accompanied by more guitars, drums, horns and instruments than the traditional rock quartet. For the Canadian collective Broken Social Scene, strength in numbers has always added to its unique brand of rock music. Merging the experimentalism of Radiohead with the rawness of post-punk and influences ranging from bossa nova to […]

Sam Beam is out of a job. But what he’s lost in salary, the former film professor at the Miami International University of Art & Design, is making up for with record sales. “I just quit last week actually, to go on tour,” said Beam, the singer-songwriter better known as Iron & Wine, who will […]

To a certain UCLA professor, Louis Armstrong’s sense of humor may have been as great as his musical genius. For the recording of his classic “What A Wonderful World,” Armstrong invited a live audience in to watch the musicians. Though the song already had a small choir, he taught the audience the song on the […]

The hardest part of being a musician is finding your own voice, or at least a way to express yourself. Fear not, aspiring indie rockers, John Vanderslice is here to help. Vanderslice is the owner of San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone Studios as well as a critically acclaimed songwriter in his own right. His tour to […]