Tuesday, February 17

UCLA’s Chinese a cappella ensemble SouLA works in harmony

The sound of chugging workout equipment fills a silent room, soon to be covered up by a layer of harmonious voices. While workout equipment and a cappella do not usually go hand-in-hand, the Hedrick Recreation Room became home to SouLA, UCLA’s Chinese a cappella ensemble. Read more...

Photo: Formed in the spring of 2013 by Shavvon Lin, SouLA is UCLA’s Chinese a cappella ensemble. The group performed for the first time in 2014 on Feb. 2 at Royce Hall, and its next performance will be this Saturday at the Caltech Chinese Association’s 2014 Spring Festival Gala.


Album Review: ‘Dunes’

Gardens & Villa left behind the gardens and the villas of its sunny Southern California home to record in a wintery, snow-filledMichigan town, where it found inspiration for its new album, “Dunes.” The band’s sophomore release, “Dunes” was inspired by the snowy sand dunes in Benton Harbor, Mich. Read more...


Album Review: ‘So Long, See You Tomorrow’

It’s hard to classify Bombay Bicycle Club given its penchant for continuously altering its musical style. The band’s catalogue, spanning four albums, already contains a guitar-heavy indie rock album, “I Had the Blues but I Shook Them Loose,” a folk-inspired acoustic record, “Flaws,” and the up-tempo “A Different Kind of Fix.” Whether or not the radical change from album to album is a testament to the band’s versatility or an indictment of its lack of identity, Bombay Bicycle Club nonetheless continues the trend with “So Long, See You Tomorrow,” an album that clearly finds its inspiration in electronic music. Read more...


Album Review: ‘After the Disco’

Electro-pop, slow, sad ballads and existential lyrics combine together to create the typical Broken Bells sound. Although the tracks are seemingly disconnected, Broken Bells still manages to make space rock sound original. Read more...


Student and alumnus singer-songwriters to perform in Kerckhoff

The original version of this article and the headline that accompanied it both contained errors. See the bottom of the article for additional information. The music from singer-songwriters will fill the air in Kerckhoff Coffee House on Monday night with acoustic sounds off their newest material. Read more...

Photo: Spring Sing alumni Josef Gordon (pictured) and James Bunning will perform Monday night as part of CAC’s Kerckhoff Coffee House concert series.



UCLA Department of Theater to put on ‘Double Falsehood’

A royal family and the court walk onto the stage, clad in rich ornamental accessories that accentuate their regal demeanors. Suddenly, a duke’s attendant drapes himself in a white cloth and transforms, right in front of the audience and his companions, into a shepherd, and the show goes on uninterrupted. Read more...

Photo: UCLA’s Department of Theater will perform its rendition of the 18th-century play “Double Falsehood.” Written by English playwright Lewis Theobald, the play focuses on love, mistrust and relationships.



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