Author Archives: Hae Jung Shin

Listening to the powerful songs on her forthcoming debut album, it’s hard to believe that Melissa Suzanne hasn’t always had the kind of soulful voice that makes heads turn. In fact, it wasn’t until Suzanne’s back-to-back Spring Sing wins at UCLA in 1998 and 1999 that she even decided that she wanted to pursue a […]

As a 2004 Spring Sing winner and major-label recording artist, it’s hard to believe Tyrone Wells wasn’t always a star on the rise. Growing up as a preacher’s son in Spokane, Wash., Wells had to hide away his pop music until after his parents’ bedtime and was encouraged to listen primarily to gospel. However, it […]

KENNY BURRELL’S 75TH Saturday, 8 p.m. Royce Hall, $15 Those who think that jazz music died out alongside Ellington, Coltrane, Davis and Gillespie ought to take another look closer to home. No, not at the dusty vinyl that sits in crates in your mom and dad’s basement, but at the heart of the UCLA music […]

Immersed in the atmosphere of a dark movie theater, where all you can see are flashing images projected onto an enormous screen, it’s often easy to forget that movies are actually multimedia projects. Tonight at Schoenberg Hall the 50-member UCLA Wind Ensemble will demonstrate that it’s not always what you see but what you hear […]

SHOSTAKOVICH Today, 8 p.m. Schoenberg Hall Though the regimes of 20th-century Russia produced great suffering, they also inspired great art. In honor of the 100th anniversary of renowned Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s birthday, the UCLA Philharmonia will initiate its new season with a tribute to him under the leadership of conductor Neal Stulberg, the visiting […]

In years past, a new wave crooner such as Baby Dayliner on his first national tour might have been sponsored by left-leaning radio stations such as KCRW. Instead, when Dayliner (a.k.a. Ethan Marunas) brings his one-man show to the Troubadour on Oct. 12 in support of fellow New Yorkers, The National, he’ll be promoted by […]

For UCLA alumna Sasha Brookner, exposure to avant-garde music and culture is nothing new. Brookner, a Berkeley, Calif. native, grew up alongside Telegraph Avenue and the East Oakland music scene. Now Brookner, 29, is successfully heading Heliocentric Public Relations, a publicity firm just as eccentric and culturally conscious as her hometown. “During my senior year […]