Category Archives: Music

In 2009, Los Angeles-based band Local Natives burst onto the indie music scene with its breakout debut album “Gorilla Manor.”

This article is a longer version of the Q&A that ran in print. English duo Simian Mobile Disco, composed of James Ford and Jas Shaw, will take the stage this Saturday and April 20, bringing their trademark brand of electronic beats along with them. Daily Bruin’s Andrew Brady spoke with Ford about the group’s beginnings, its latest […]

Before a performance, second-year ethnomusicology student Harmony Chua said she feels like she is sitting alone in an empty room. But the moment she is onstage, sitting before her piano ready to play a composition that she has written, she becomes a bird in the spotlight, ready to take flight and experience the thrill. Tonight, […]

The Knife is weird. In the seven years since the band’s last studio album, the critically acclaimed “Silent Shout,” it has continued with rare public appearances in plague doctor masks and Venetian masquerades without much word

Think distortion meets bagpipes.

Canadian band Stars started when a couple of high school friends decided they wanted to play music they loved with people they cared about. Over a decade later, the veteran indie pop group has not quit.

PYYRAMIDS, a duo comprised of Tim Nordwind of the indie rock band OK Go and Drea Smith of the electro-pop duo He Say, She Say, fuses psychedelic electronic elements with an ’80s rock vibe to create a sound of its own. Reminiscent of early music from The Cure and Muse, PYYRAMIDS’ debut album “Brightest Darkest […]