Andrew Pietersen spent the morning hiding at Bruin Buzz in Ackerman Union during the UCLA lockdown. In the afternoon after the lockdown was lifted, he grabbed his bagpipes from his apartment and began performing the Scottish instrument on the hill by Janss Steps. The third-year bioengineering student inherited the bagpipes from his grandfather in 2004 […]
Category Archives: Music
Campus concerts, events canceled, postponed
All campus events including classes, public concerts and recitals have been canceled for Wednesday, officials announced. Activities will resume Thursday, said Neal Stulberg, co-director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, in an email statement. He said Maryann Gray, assistant provost in the office of the Executive Vice Chancellor Scott Waugh, canceled all activities […]
Album Review: ‘Skin’
Harley Streten had a lot of pressure to establish a definitive voice on his latest album in an era when kids are coming up with fake names and producing their own music on their laptops. Streten, an Australian electronic musician and producer known as Flume, became an international phenomenon after the release of his debut […]
JazzReggae Festival returns to its intimate roots for 30th anniversary
Malia Smith and her Uber driver exchanged the usual small talk as the car hurtled east along Sunset Boulevard, away from UCLA. But when her driver mentioned JazzReggae Festival, Smith, a third-year global studies student and the event’s director of marketing, froze at the coincidence. Her driver recounted stories of sitting on the grass of […]
Album Review: ‘Dangerous Woman’
Ariana Grande has never been less apologetic than with her most recent album, “Dangerous Woman.” Last July, the tween-pop singer was caught on a bakery’s surveillance camera licking a doughnut she did not buy and then proclaiming “I hate America.” Grande’s words generated massive backlash from people who accused her of shaming overweight Americans. Grande […]
Diverse music playlists give each dining hall its own flavor
Kristóf Almásy ducked into Rendezvous to make a call about organizing a club event. Just when the conversation turned serious, the familiar “Macarena” blared through the restaurant’s speakers. The catchy tune turned what would have been a routine phone call suddenly into an amusing memory for the third-year political science student. Each UCLA dining hall […]
Songs and Stories: Tom Shay
“I’ve never really played many shows,” says third-year international development studies student Isaiah Murtagh. Murtaugh and his roommate, third-year geography and environmental studies student Andre Arifin, will perform at Saturday night’s Spring Sing 2016, having met through mutual friends. Watch as they play Murtaugh’s original song, “Imaging,” a song inspired by Murtaugh’s past.