Westwood Boulevard’s Rhino Records, a time-honored musical landmark for more than 30 years, faced extinction last week after a recent decline in record sales and an expired lease. What was once a wonderland for copious amounts of rare musical gems and playful trinkets is now shedding its leopard-print trappings, and through the glass windows remain […]
Author Archives: Taleen Kalenderian
The rise and fall of Sunset strip
Jimi Hendrix jammed with the in-house bands. Janis Joplin downed her last bottle of Southern Comfort there before she died. It’s where The Doors had their monumental beginning. When the Whisky a Go-Go opened its doors in 1964, it had the trappings of a Parisian discotheque, complete with female DJs spinning in cages suspended above […]
For the record
Frequenters of the Sunset Strip expect to find their live bands at exclusive clubs, not jamming for fans at the local record store. But the latter is often the scene at Sea Level Records, an independent music store owned and operated by Tod Clifford since 2002. Sea Level is known for its free in-store shows, […]
Band holds steady to classic rock themes
While many recent indie rock bands have looked back to the ’80s for inspiration, the music of The Hold Steady reaches back further, to the classic rock era. The band will perform Friday alongside The Constantines and The Cops at a free student-only show. Organized by the Campus Events Commission, the show will run from […]
Good vibrations
Tom Garrett didn’t know if he had been admitted to UCLA as a transfer student when he decided to move to Los Angeles from Colorado to develop his music label/concert photo/promotion company Bandvibe.com. He went for it anyway. As an alternative media Web site, Bandvibe.com features photo galleries of local and national performances (including coverage […]
Change is music to new conductor’s ears
The members of the UCLA Philharmonia better not get too comfortable in their seats, because their new conductor wants them to tackle all sorts of new venues outside of Scheonberg Hall. “My goal is to represent UCLA in the wider community by beginning to perform off the campus and be in the front and center […]
[Orientation Issue] Arts and Entertainment: Legally Bought
By now virtually every student understands that downloading songs for free from the Internet isn’t legal. And the Recording Industry Association of America’s recent slew of lawsuits against individual people should be enough to make even the most determined Kazaa user in the dorms at least a little nervous. While UCLA does not monitor campus […]