Jagmeet Singh, a UCLA global studies alumnus, is a scholar by day and a rap doctor by night, setting verbal traps for any and all who choose to listen to his clever wordplay and poetic versatility mixed with very real messages. Read more...
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October 28, 11:48 pm
UCLA alumnus uses power of music to create album focused on culture, religion
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October 28, 11:38 pm
Live From Cork: _Young band Waking Up Sunday delivers talented sound despite youth_
Ireland is full of surprises, and columnist Andrew Bain stumbled across a musical one in Cork. Read more...
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Don’t let their youth fool you, members of Waking Up Sunday play their electronic jazz jams with the skill and maturity of veteran musicians.
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October 25, 11:46 pm
Soundbite: 'III' by the Shiny Toy Guns
Since the synth-pop band Shiny Toy Guns formed in 2002, shifts in their musical style and changes in their vocalists have created a split group of fans. Read more...
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Five Seven Music
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October 25, 11:29 pm
Alumni create unconventional jazz opera
To create a jazz opera, combine one dead soldier, a 7-part jazz ensemble and 18 stanzas of World War I poetry under a cobweb tent; allow improvisation to follow. Read more...
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Created by several UCLA alumni, the jazz opera “Strange Fellowe” combines acting, improvisational jazz and poetry to form an unconventional musical performance.
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October 24, 11:43 pm
Student’s music album inspired by UCLA botanical garden
In the southeastern region of UCLA near the David Geffen School of Medicine is a place where it's possible for one to get lost in the sounds of wind passing through trees, squirrels playfully running and climbing, turtles waltzing in a pond. Read more...
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James Eagle, a fifth-year religious studies student, has been producing music for six years and made a soundtrack inspired by the botanical gardens on campus. This is his first full, completed body of work and also the first work he is sharing with others.
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October 23, 11:59 pm
Album Review: Daughter of Cloud
Since 1997, of Montreal has released 11 albums, including four concept albums of steadily increasing success. Read more...
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October 23, 11:44 pm
Album Review: Red
Dissenters of Taylor Swift have cited many reasons to criticize her body of work, whether it's that her songwriting seems to always be the work of a 16-year-old high schooler, or that she exploits her romantic heartbreak on purpose as her only source for musical inspiration, or simply that she has never, ever, been a very good singer. Read more...