Filtered Incubus signed on at 7:43:21 PM. God: Sup? Filtered Incubus: You’re not showing up on my buddy list. God: I’m hiding from someone. Filtered Incubus: Who? Read more...

If you’ve ever wanted to sing for a packed house at UCLA, you finally have your chance. The “U-Sing-It Messiah” will roll into Los Angeles with its tidings of holiday joy and cheer on Saturday. Read more...

De La Soul is coming to Royce Hall. No, really. At first, it seems a hip-hop act would hardly consider a concert hall where world-renowned cellists and speakers have entertained fans ushered to their seats by bow-tied employees an ideal venue. Read more...

Rio de Janeiro consists of 600 “favelas” ““ the Brazilian word for an urban slum or ghetto with illegal squatter settlements. Anderson Sá is native to the Vigário Geral favela, which, controlled entirely by an underworld society of teenage drug armies and policemen, is considered the most dangerous of them all. Read more...

Beyond a sweating Bruce Lee dubbed with usually robotic English pronunciation, the history of Chinese martial arts cinema has remained relatively obscure. However, thanks to decades of collecting and newly remastered prints, the UCLA Film and Television Archive is currently presenting “Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film, Part II,” a continuation of the 2003 series intended to change preconceptions of Chinese martial arts cinema. Read more...

To a fan who has only encountered Animal Collective’s harmonious, mellowed-out studio recordings, the group’s raucous live show is overwhelming. Unlike merely listening to the brilliantly layered mellifluous sounds on their albums, the group’s live incarnation incorporates head-spinning visual and audio elements, as well as an unfettered tribal energy. Read more...

Jimi Hendrix jammed with the in-house bands. Janis Joplin downed her last bottle of Southern Comfort there before she died. It’s where The Doors had their monumental beginning. Read more...