Category Archives: Music

Shape-shifting is not just for wizards and politicians anymore ““ Professor Peter Yates is applying the concept to guitar as he plays multiple shapes of the instrument and produces a variety of sounds this evening.

There are people, undoubtedly, who believe that engineering and belly-dancing are mutually exclusive. But these are people who have never sat in the audience at the Engineering Society’s E-Week Idol, the talent competition that occurs tonight on the first night of Engineering Week.

Facebook and a cappella may seem like an odd pairing, but not for the gentlemen of Bruin Harmony.

The tune “Hello Ma Baby” was written around the turn of the 20th century, but it was immortalized in 1955 by a frog ““ Michigan J. Frog, actually, the vaudevillian Warner Bros. character, who sang it with a top hat and a cane in a cartoon called “One Froggy Evening.”

In a town like Westwood, one might expect a pretty girl with shining black curls and a flair for fashion to be headed out to a fraternity on a Thursday night.

R&B singer Trey Songz is opening, along with Young Jeezy, for Jay-Z’s national Blueprint 3 Tour which stops at the Staples Center on March 26.