Category Archives: Music

Greg Laswell has always been a bit of an enigma in the singer-songwriter genre. His vocal range is relatively limited, strongest in lower registers and delivered with an almost wry, deadpan singing style. At the same time, however, Laswell’s voice is smooth and typically pitch-perfect. As a result, music listeners seem to either love his voice or move on to more overtly emotive singers.

It’s common to see students selling baked goods on Bruin Walk, but it’s less common to find a group who will trade a cookie for an online vote. For the past few weeks, members of the UCLA Music Choral Outreach Program have passed out baked goods in exchange for a vote in Zipcar’s “Students With Drive” program.

Richard Carpenter, the multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, producer, arranger and half of the dynamic brother and sister duo, the Carpenters, is set to speak with students at UCLA as part of professor David Leaf’s Music Industry 105 course: “Songwriting: Killer Hooks, Essential Songs and Songwriters of the Rock Era.” Carpenter spoke with Daily Bruin’s Manjot Singh about the direction of music, his career and how to make it in the music industry.

Coachella’s first weekend has come and gone. With many music fans headed home from Indio, and just as many looking forward to the second weekend, now is the perfect time to look at a few of the performers in more detail. Daily Bruin’s Leah Christianson spoke to the members of three groups ““ The Airplane Boys, Nero and We Are Augustines.

Many people tend to harbor the notion that crises in far-off regions thousands of miles away stand beyond their reach of influence. The members of the on-campus organization Mighty Mic tend to think differently.

Spose opens his third full-length album with a seemingly existential rap about his belief (or lack thereof) in God. It’s an incredibly personal opening to a song and sets a tone for an album that deals with a lot of the artist’s personal matters.

Every time Vladimir Chernov crosses Charles E. Young Drive on his way to lunch, he remembers Vitaly Margulis, a world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and music philosophy author who taught in UCLA’s music department for 17 years and passed away last year.