UCLA alumnus Jarell Perry is taking on another step in his music career. Just known for his progressive R&B; in Kerkhoff Coffee House and Spring Sing a few years ago, Perry has emerged as a public artist in Los Angeles. During the summer of 2014, Perry has been working in a season-long festival called Voices […]
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Former UCLA baseball player Brenton Allen releases song ‘Make a Move’
Brenton Allen is known as a student at UCLA and a former Bruin baseball player who helped his team reach the College World Series in 2013, but he is emerging as an up-and-coming musician. Allen, a fourth-year history student, left UCLA after three years of collegiate baseball to pursue a career in professional baseball. After […]
Budweiser Made in America music festival makes its LA debut
A scorching hot sun blazed and loomed over Grand Park where the first Budweiser Made in America music festival in Los Angeles took place on Saturday and Sunday. Complete with a skating ramp, three Downtown L.A. streets lined up with food trucks and a star-studded lineup, Made in America, founded by hip-hop artist Jay-Z, seemed […]
Day two of FYF Fest shifts from indie roots to bigger festival vibes
As thousands of music fans muscled their way into Exposition Park on Sunday, one thing was clear: FYF Fest was making moves. Abandoning comedy sets for the first time and instead investing in more variety and star power than ever before, the traditionally indie music festival set a firm foot forward into the direction of […]
Day one of FYF Fest brings last-minute summer fun to LA
Sun, check. Music, check. Conveniently located at the L.A. Sports Arena and Exposition Park near Downtown, albeit on Trojan territory, check. Saturday of the two-day FYF Fest had all the makings of the perfect L.A.-based summer music festival and in most ways it delivered. That is, once you navigated through a seemingly M.C. Escher-inspired parking […]
Second Take: Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé’s ‘Flawless’ remix subverts feminist message
If Beyoncé’s first version of “Flawless” was angry, then her remix with Nicki Minaj is seething. But in that seething remix, Beyoncé loses what was originally a powerful message about feminism and convolutes the theme of being a flawless woman. In Beyoncé’s original “Flawless,” she interchanged between a beautiful, soothing voice and a fierce, rough […]
Eclectic Jeff Gauthier Goatette to play JazzPOP series
On Thursday, more than 30 years of musical collaboration will reverberate off the walls of the Hammer Museum. In addition to an esoteric musical style that crosses various genres, what really sets The Jeff Gauthier Goatette apart from other bands at the Hammer Museum’s summer JazzPOP series is its long history. “I think one of […]