Category Archives: Music

Deerhunter is doomed to pop music. It tried to escape. Every album, its effects acted as a defense mechanism: gauze for “Cryptograms,” glimmer for “Microcastle,” falsetto for “Halycon Digest.” But there’s no escaping the great escapism. With “Monomania,” Deerhunter’s latest, greatest and most accessible album, it’s ever more evident that for frontman Bradford Cox, pop […]

Move over, 20-something-year-olds trying to recapture the intensity and raucous energy of early ’70s rock, the classics aren’t dead yet. Iggy and the Stooges, the arguable progenitors of punk rock, are back with “Ready to Die,” a new offering of stripped-down, in-your-face rock ’n’ roll.

After playing in several jazz groups in which the names of the bands were anagrams of the musicians’ names, the members of Los Angeles-based jazz trio Nonagram decided the band’s name would be not another anagram.

Fresh off of a tour with Lord Huron and featured regularly on KROQ’s Locals Only show, L.A.-based indie rock duo PAPA doesn’t plan on slowing down. Tonight, Student Committee for the Arts brings Darren Weiss and Danny Presant to UCLA’s Kerckhoff Grand Salon for a campus concert. The Daily Bruin’s Ashley Jakubczyk spoke with singer […]

For attorney Adam Walker, law is his vocation, but music is his passion. Walker studied political science as a UCLA undergraduate and later attended law school at the University of San Diego, but music has always been a constant outside of his education. As a UCLA alumnus, things have seemed to come full circle for […]