Category Archives: Music

House music DJ and producer David Dann didn’t let a rejection from UCLA or multiple record labels taint his dreams of being a UCLA graduate and chart-topping artist.

In a line on the very first track of “The Tarnished Gold,” the band Beachwood Sparks croons to the listener that there’s a “winter in my heart.” The lyric strikes an ironic chord as we soon begin to realize that this is not an album for the chilled winter soul, but for hazy summer days.

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna and singer-songwriter Alisha Zalkin recently released her EP “March to a Different Beat” and will perform at the music lounge Room 5 this Saturday.

On the way out from his Westwood apartment, David Villafaña grabs his keys, wallet, phone ““ and his glossy orange flamenco guitar. It’s a ritual that started long before college at the age of 13.

During his years at UCLA on a full jazz studies scholarship, some of Le’s accomplishments include the creation of his EP “Lost and Found,” the formation of the Le J Trio ensemble, touring in Europe as part of UCLA’s Jazz Ambassadors and the opportunity to perform at last year’s JazzReggae Festival.

With the end of the school year comes the onslaught of the same 10 summer anthems, playing in a loop on every radio station until the entire country is simultaneously whispering “swag, swag, swag” with Justin Bieber.

Twenty-five years ago, Lindsey Strand-Polyak first saw world-renowned violinist and composer Itzhak Perlman on “Sesame Street” and told her parents that she wanted to be just like the man on TV.