Second Take: Adele’s ‘Hello’ inspires full range of videos, from covers to parodies

Adele had the world at “hello.” After a four-year hiatus, Adele made a comeback by dropping “Hello,” the first single off her upcoming album “25,” bringing back the frenzied craze for the R&B singer. At No.1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and with 1.1 million downloads within the first week, the song has inspired videos ranging […]

Sounds of Schoenberg: The West African gondze

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This week, we highlight the West African gondze, a single-stringed lute fiddle comprised of horsehair, wood and lizard and goat skin. To […]

Ride-sharing service lifts quality of life for drivers

Julio Medina peed his pants while driving for Lyft. The third-year fine arts student picked a couple up, conversed about Eminem, middle school awkwardness and Air Force 1 shoes before dropping them off. “I couldn’t hold it so I just peed,” Medina said. “I went home, took a shower and got back on the road.” […]

Author Roxane Gay discusses Common Book ‘Bad Feminist’ at Royce Hall

Roxane Gay identifies as a feminist and still listens to rap and mainstream music. Gay said the older she gets, however, the more wiling she is to change the radio station because she does not want to expose her young nieces to music they do not understand. Gay said this guilt inspired her New York […]

India Carney recounts final performance on ‘The Voice’

Wearing a flowing red dress, India Carney performed Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” onstage for NBC’s “The Voice” in front of dramatic projected backdrops of scenery ranging from shores to meadows. The fourth-year music performancestudent sealed a position in the semifinal with coach and Grammy Award-winning singer Christina Aguilera in the eighth season of the reality […]

Spring Sing 2015: Natalie Brainin

Natalie Brainin said she knew from her first year at UCLA that she wanted to perform as a soloist in Spring Sing. The third-year ethnomusicology student and singer-songwriter performed in last year’s Spring Sing as part of two different production groups – her sorority, Delta Gamma, and Resonance A Capella. But this time, Brainin will […]