Remember that big 64-pack of crayons back in kindergarten? With so many choices in hand, it was always tempting to keep adding color after color and layer after layer of vibrant wax onto the page. But there was that tipping point – that brink when the barrage of color stopped adding to the art and […]
Category Archives: Music
UCLA alum starts kids’ dance, music company Backseat Beats
In her freshman year of high school, Shadi Amirieh volunteered for a nonprofit organization, the Friendship Circle, where she mentored and guided children with autism. Inspired by her experience, she wanted to start a company so that parents and their kids could enjoy themselves while improving the children’s motor skills and development, the UCLA alumna […]
Theater Review: ‘En Garde Arts: Basetrack Live’
“En Garde Arts: Basetrack Live” Directed by Seth Bockley Royce Hall 4 Paws A single violin plays as an array of grandiose music builds alongside a montage of videos and images. In the foreground of this digital collage stands a man, upright and strong. It is his narration that will bring life to a series […]
Across the Pond: Trip-hop innovator Massive Attack brings cultural flavors of Bristol
There’s something about the British Isles that consistently produces musical greatness; it is inherent to the country, its people and its culture. Popular culture has been defined by bands and artists from the UK; they have consistently created new genres and musical subcultures – from the Beatles’ psychedelic rock in the ’60s all the way […]
Album Review: ‘You’re Dead!’
It is impossible to put Flying Lotus, Steven Ellison’s electronic musician stage name, and his upcoming album, “You’re Dead!,” under one genre. Jazz-inspired with elements of hip-hop, “You’re Dead!” is a psychedelic electronic album that could only be described as a spiritual journey reminiscent of the psychedelic rock of the ’60s repackaged for the listeners […]
Concert Review: The Last Internationale and Robert Plant
A 66-year-old man with golden-gray hair, bathed in a soft purple light, steps out as an almost-deafening roar ripples from the crowd. It is who the audience has been waiting for: Robert Plant.
Fall music preview
The Los Angeles weather is barely cooling down, but the emergence of everything pumpkin and the looming excitement of Halloween signify that fall is here. Along with the slowly changing leaves and the slight chill, promising new albums are being released this season to help transition from season to season. “Money Sucks, Friends Rule” Dillon […]