'Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy' tour will feature composer Nobuo Uematsu, game creator Hironobu Sakaguchi at Royce Hall

About a year ago, UCLA alumna and Chorale member Deborah Shieh met Final Fantasy music composer, Nobuo Uematsu, a person she has admired for most of her musical career and gaming experience.

Taylor Swift dazzles concert crowd with star-studded performance

Taylor Swift is notorious for writing songs about her ex-boyfriends and including names in her lyrics. Last Sunday, Taylor Swift performed her fourth sold-out show at the Los Angeles Staples Center with a few of her ex-boyfriends and good friends in attendance. The show featured pyrotechnics in the opening number and surprise guests throughout the show.

For Relient K drummer Ethan Luck, communication and respect are key to making a band work

With the Vans Warped Tour coming to Los Angeles on Wednesday, Relient K drummer Ethan Luck spoke with Daily Bruin’s Marjorie Yan about the evolution of Relient K, expectations for the Warped Tour and the band’s future plans.

Daily Bruin: Relient K started in 1998.

Jazz ensemble The Downtown Project blends sounds of the world in hopes of educating the next generation about music

When Elijah Rock, a member of the jazz ensemble The Downtown Project, attended the Fowler Museum’s OutSpoken Conversation with Kenny Burrell, John Edward Hasse and Quincy Jones in March, little did he know that a simple conversation with Jones would lead to his own performance at the Fowler Museum this Saturday.

Josie Loren balances school with acting, including lead role on ABC Family’s 'Make It or Break It'

For fourth-year communication studies student Josie Loren, the definition of a panic attack includes balancing auditions, having a lead role on ABC Family’s “Make It or Break It” and being a full-time student, which is exactly the life she lived for the past four years at UCLA.