When Grammy performances turn out to be unprecedented spectacles, they are more likely to be remembered. Among top moments of Grammy’s past are P!nk flying over the audience, twirling in giant ribbons hanging from the ceiling as she sang “Glitter in the Air” in 2010 and Kanye West marching on stage dressed as a bandleader […]
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Album Review: ‘The Life of Pablo’
Kanye West ran into a problem at the Yeezy Season 3 showcase: he couldn’t get the sound system to play his seventh studio album, which he promised to debut that evening. His fumbling with his laptop and inaudible conversation with the sound techs were displayed on Madison Square Garden’s video monitor as audience members heckled […]
Sounds of Schoenberg: The Thai jakhee
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This week, we highlight the Thai “jakhee,” a three-stringed zither shaped like a crocodile. University of California Riverside alumna Supeena Adler spent […]
Six friends create Landing 8 Records to revive hip-hop, R&B on campus
A heavy bass beat emanating from pieces of recording equipment strewn across the floor vibrated the Sproul Landing dorm room walls Second-year mechanical engineering student Miles Gibson stepped up to the sole microphone stand, inhaling and exhaling loudly to still his nerves, and began to rap to a beat engineered by his friend, second-year ethnomusicology […]
Sounds of Schoenberg: The Guatemalan marimba
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This week, we highlight the Guatemalan marimba, a row of wooden bars that are hit with mallets to produce a resonant, percussive […]
Professor bonds biochemistry and the humanities together in class
About 10 years ago biochemistry professor Albert Courey put on sunglasses and a backwards hat and rapped “The Rhyme of the Ribozyme,” a verse written by Dennis Kuo, an alumnus who took Courey’s class on DNA and RNA biochemistry. “If the students have to think about how to express a scientific fact in an artistic […]
Album Review: ‘Anti’
Rihanna, Jay Z’s million-dollar pop product, turned trite demos into golden radio hits. The recipe required no lyrical profundity or vocal artistry. She hummed repetitive phrases like “umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh,” sang over EDM-based melodies like Calvin Harris’ “We Found Love,” and profitable radio hits were born. But after the release of “Unapologetic” […]