The 29th annual JazzReggae Festival embodied more music genres than what its name entailed. From alternative to hip-hop music, JRF broadened its lineup in its new home, the Los Angeles Tennis Center. Daily Bruin A&E’s Salus Kim and Ruhee Patel explored the one-day, eco-friendly festival, which featured a vendors village, live art and musical performances. […]
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Q&A: Keznamdi discusses hopes for JazzReggae, music career
On Monday – 4/20 – Keznamdi released the music video for his song “10 Pound,” which depicts the singer-songwriter lying in a field of cannabis in his home country of Jamaica. Although originally from Jamaica, the musician spent his teenage years in Tanzania and Ethiopia before eventually moving to California to play Division I soccer […]
Alumni art ‘Drawn’ to architecture and urban design exhibition
Kristy Balliet figured out she wanted to be an architect during a middle school technical drawing class. Balliet, who received a master’s of architecture II from UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design, is one of more than 100 UCLA alumni to submit work to an upcoming AUD exhibition called “Drawn.” This is the second […]
Album Review: ‘What For?’
Chazwick Bundick’s music has never belonged to one genre and has always been difficult to describe. Under his moniker, Toro Y Moi, he is commonly associated with the chillwave movement. However, the South Carolina native and Berkeley-based artist surprises with a heavy ’70s and ’80s influence in his newest album, “What For?” The buzz and […]
UCLA ScatterTones singer India Carney impresses on ‘The Voice’
India Carney stood in front of the turned chairs of Adam Levine, Pharrell Williams, Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton. Carney, a fourth-year music student with a concentration in voice performance and music director of UCLA’s a cappella group The ScatterTones, made an appearance on the Blind Auditions, which aired March 2 for Season 8 of […]
LCC Theatre Company presents winter show, debuts newest members
A homeless drunkard and a stockbroker meet and reveal secrets of their pasts to eventually follow a path of self-acceptance. This is one of three student-written and produced scenes that the UCLA theater group Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company will present in its winter show, “The Future, the Present, and the Rest is […]
Spoken word event ‘The Ghost Writer Confessions’ reveals student secrets
The anonymously submitted secret that second-year undeclared student and poet Lydia Janbay chose to write about is one she could personally connect with. Janbay is one of seven UCLA students who will perform spoken word revolving around anonymous secrets submitted by fellow students Wednesday at Royce Hall Terrace in “The Ghost Writer Confessions.” The event […]