Category Archives: Music

As Kevin Moultrie began to play his guitar under the glare of the spotlight at Spring Sing 2011, he realized he had forgotten something important. He had forgotten to plug his guitar into his amp.

Rebecca Lord, who began playing violin at the age of 2, seemed destined for a career in music. However, Lord, an alumna of the Herb Albert School of Music’s doctorate program, said she was initially interested in becoming an actress or singer.

Before the “Twilight” movie sound track collaboration, before being sampled by Kanye West and before appearing on stage with the same rapper at Coachella earlier this year, Bon Iver was just a one-man band that made a single beautiful album alone in an isolated cabin in snowy Wisconsin.

When Elijah Rock, a member of the jazz ensemble The Downtown Project, attended the Fowler Museum’s OutSpoken Conversation with Kenny Burrell, John Edward Hasse and Quincy Jones in March, little did he know that a simple conversation with Jones would lead to his own performance at the Fowler Museum this Saturday.

My Morning Jacket is not an easy band to listen to. There’s so much going on in the music, it’s hard for listeners to settle back and get comfortable.

Sympathy Sympathy did not pass the Spring Sing auditions last year ““ but they did not let rejection stop them from playing upbeat songs filled with synthesizers and pop culture references.