Thursday, July 23

Student jazz band ‘Silva’ hopes to bring joy amid pandemic blues

Silva, a band of 14 jazz musicians, hopes their original song “Dance in Your Love” gets listeners up and dancing amid the pandemic. Third-year global jazz studies student Emily Silva, who the band is named after, wrote the original lyrics of “Dance in Your Love” after returning from a Fourth of July party in 2019. Read more...

Photo: Headed by third-year global jazz studies student Emily Silva, jazz band Silva will perform its original song “Dance in Your Love.” (Photo illustration by Anika Lillie Yazdi/Daily Bruin staff and Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)




Music video ‘Call Me A Dreamer’ aims to empower, unite immigrants across US

The Dreamers are ready to turn their hopes into a reality. On April 16, singer and radio DJ Connie Blue-Puché released the music video “Call Me A Dreamer” in collaboration with a team of immigrants who came to the U.S. Read more...

Photo: Alumnus Carlos Bravo helped co-produce the music video “Call Me A Dreamer,” which highlights the experiences of immigrants brought to the United States as children. (Photo by Daanish Bhatti/Assistant Photo editor. Photo illustration by Jaelen Cruz/Daily Bruin)


Album review: girl in red experiments with genres in new album, but falls short of emotional depth

girl in red is expanding the color palette of her music. After the viral success of her breakout single “i wanna be your girlfriend,” the Norwegian singer-songwriter, also known as Marie Ulven, has released her debut album, “if i could make it go quiet.” Co-produced by Matias Tellez, the record is an introduction to a new side of Ulven, laden with distortion and experimenting with genres like hyperpop and house that go beyond her past EPs, while foregrounding her distinct songwriting voice of blunt, biting lyrics. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of AWAL Recordings)



Music students combine compositions, visual components in virtual spring showcase

Rev up those speakers – original compositions by UCLA music students just dropped. The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music hosted a livestream of the Spring Undergraduate Composers Concert on Tuesday. Read more...

Photo: Third-year music composition student Alex Barsom (left) and third-year music composition and music performance student Robby Good (right) debuted their pieces at UCLA’s Spring Undergraduate Composers Concert. (David Rimer/Daily Bruin staff)



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