In the midst of festival season, the Undergraduate Students Association Council Cultural Affairs Commission has put its own twist on Coachella to produce Worldchella, a cultural music and dance night. The first Worldchella will take place on Tuesday at Pauley Pavillion and will feature student clubs and musicians performing dance and music, as well as […]
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Musical Journeys: Random Voices A Cappella
Singers from UCLA’s Random Voices A Cappella take an interlude from rehearsal to describe their musical journeys. The California A Cappella Festival, an event that Random Voices host every year, will take place on April 4.
Album Review: ‘Carrie & Lowell’
Sufjan Stevens’ main musical projects come few and far between – only two appeared in the last decade: 2005’s state-centric “Illinois” and 2010’s electronically-minded “The Age of Adz.” But Stevens is no slacker, as shown by his expansive output of work in between studio albums, including rap collaborations, movie soundtracks and a few Christmas CDs. […]
Q&A: Lecturer Jeffrey Jampol discusses course, joining music industry
UCLA music lecturer Jeffrey Jampol has worked in the music industry for more than four decades and has spent 15 years developing and fine-tuning his course, “Music Business Now.” From watching the Sex Pistols at Winterland in 1978 to founding his own music-oriented JAM, Inc., he gained industry experience and connections which he now seeks […]
Spring Music Preview 2015
This spring holds not only Spring Sing and JazzReggae Festival but also the releases of new music from indie favorites Sufjan Stevens and Passion Pit, to JazzReggae Festival headliner Wale. Certain albums, including Rihanna’s “R8” and Kanye West’s “So Help Me God,” may drop without warning following the trend that Beyonce set last year with […]
Sounds of LA: Mini Mansions
Every year, new artists emerge, ready to be Los Angeles’ next great musical discovery, making their rounds through small club tours across the city. Inspired by the hippie enclaves of Topanga, the backyard punk scene of East Los Angeles or the coastal grunge of Venice Beach, each act has its own distinct sound. For her […]
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 […]