The second story I wrote for the Daily Bruin was about Elliott Smith, so it seems only fitting that the second Throwback Thursday column be about one of the most emotive and honest singer-songwriters of the last few decades. When I wrote the previous story about a high school community group, the Punk Rock Marthas, […]
Category Archives: Music
Q&A: The Street Hearts open up about music, upcoming show
UCLA’s The Street Hearts wowed the crowd at Spring Sing earlier this year with its harmonic vocals and acoustic sound, even garnering the crowd-selected “Bruin Choice Award.” Composed of second-year dance student Sarah Summers, third-year cognitive science student Nick Valentini, third-year history and English student Andrew Giurgius and third-year civil engineering student Nicholai Hansen, the […]
Album Review: ‘Bangerz’ by Miley Cyrus
For the trend-inclined, 2013’s musical landscape has been remarkably and consistently linked by transgression – all our favorite pop stars are, as Drake so lucidly whined, on their “worst behavior.”
Arctic Monkeys performance showcases new look and direction of ‘AM’
The Arctic Monkeys woke up early – early for rock stars, that is – to play in the Red Bull Sound Space at KROQ this past Tuesday. It was a six-song set, which was preceded by a brief Q-and-A with the band led by KROQ DJ Ted Stryker. The band fumbled through the interview, eyes […]
Predecessor to alternative rock continues to influence music today
INTRO Digging into the record shelves of the past and filing through the film drawers of yesterday, the new column from the A&E; editors, Throwback Thursday, brings you some of the greatest and most overlooked A&E; talent of the past. So dust off your record players and VHS tapes, and find something of the past […]
American Youth Symphony fine-tunes new pieces for season opening
An eerie, spectral sound drifts from the recesses of Schoenberg Hall, where an orchestra rehearsal for a Royce Hall performance takes place. At first, the dissonant melody makes little sense as the string instruments climb higher and higher on steps of parallel fifths, the woodwinds and brass attempting to follow. But the musicians know to […]
Album Review: ‘The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2’ by Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake is the icon of celebrity right now, a man doing so much work under the spotlight that it’s a wonder how he finds free time anymore. His upcoming film, “Runner Runner,” his musical tour with feature partner Jay-Z and constant late-night promotionskeep his day-to-day so hectic, one has to wonder if his four […]