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August 17, 2015

Outside Lands 2015 Highlights

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On Friday, August 7th, over 70,000 music fans flooded Golden Gate Park’s Polo Fields for the eighth annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. Every year, Hawaiian shirts increase in popularity, the food gets more e...

August 2, 2015

Mad Decent Saves the Best Block Party Stop for its L.A. Home

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Mad Decent Block Party, an outdoor festival-esque music event, will hit the road on a tour that will hopefully redefine people’s ideas of what a “block party” should be like. And just like the previous six, this on...

July 30, 2015

FYF Returns to L.A. Memorial Sports Arena and Exposition Park with Great Summer Festival Lineup

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Over the last decade, large music festivals have risen to stark prominence in America and redefined the live musical performance marketplace. The most successful of festival curators (obvious examples being Golden Voice ...

July 30, 2015

Outside Lands to Invade Golden Gate Park

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While signifying tanning sessions and beach outings in most American locales, the month of August in San Francisco demarcates two happenings unique to the city. First, a perfectly sadistic climate that is cold enough to ...

June 25, 2015

Azeem X Underbelly live at the Batcave

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On May 16, United Kingdom citizen Damon Poole shared a Facebook event page in jest titled “Azeem’s Senior Flute Recital.” True to the haphazard nature by which viral Internet trends begin, Poole’s “share” inv...

June 5, 2015

A Graduating Editor’s Final Words

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Let me tell you a story about a 19-year-old who came to UC Santa Barbara with a dream of being an anchorwoman. She wanted to take over for Katie Couric one day, she told her friends, who were disappointed that the girl d...

May 7, 2015

Batcave Sessions: Pookie

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Pookie, a four-man band from Isla Vista, California, performed “Blowin’ It” at the Daily Nexus Batcave. The group consists of guitarist Chris Miehls, frontman Ryan Mandell, bassist Zach “Staffie&#...

May 6, 2015

Extravaganza Music Festival Lineup 2015

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The 2015 Extravaganza Music Festival lineup was announced earlier today. Details below: Miguel: Madeon: Joey Badass: AlunaGeorge: Bad Rabbits:  

April 30, 2015

People Under the Stairs: Vibe-Hop Super Heroes Tackle SOhO Thursday

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Welcome to inner-city Los Angeles, Pacific-side capital of gods of rhyme and denizens of beat. It’s sometime mid-’90s (hazy times, ya dig?) and Jesuit Prep schoolboy Christian Portugal and Hamilton Highschooler Micha...

April 30, 2015

An Evening with Anna Halprin

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On Monday, April 27, Campbell Hall filled with students to see the movie “Breath Made Visible.” The 82-minute film covered the career of modern dancer Anna Halprin and showed how dance can be applied to healing. Halp...

April 16, 2015

alt-J and Jungle Inspire at SB Bowl

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Concerts are not always perfect. Perhaps you went to see a mediocre artist because your friend dragged you along. Perhaps the microscopic venue was having technical difficulties. Or perhaps, ooh, [insert musician’s nam...

April 2, 2015

Interview with CORNERS

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Coming from Echo Park, L.A., post-punk band CORNERS talked to me after their Burgerama set last weekend about raunchy show happenings and good energy. Composed of Tracy Bryant, Rick Mabery, Billy Changer and Jeff “Jeff...

March 3, 2015

Gorgon City or (The Unexpected Virtue of Venue)

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As John Legend and Common (aka John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn) accepted their Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 22, I threw on a jacket and headed over to The Hub to catch Gorgon City, a pair of London DJs. I wasn’t very familiar ...

February 26, 2015

Giraffage to Bring Ethereal Tunes to EOS Friday

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Put the books down and click ‘Not Going’ to any and all events you are RSVP’d to in Isla Vista this Friday. Hot off the heels of his new EP, No Reason, and Porter Robinson’s Worlds tour, cotton-candy future-bass ...

October 30, 2014

Artsweek’s Favorite Villains of All Time

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There’s the spidery quirks of Cruella de Vil, the mad eyebrow game of Shan Yu, the utter insanity of Fred Figglehorn and the insidious charm of Richard III. Where there’s a hero, there’s always a villain. Here are ...

October 25, 2014

“Have You Stopped Growing?” Treasure Island Music Festival Gets Bigger and Badder in 2014

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A pack of thousands of (mostly) youthful hip hop fans crowded the main stage of Treasure Island Music Festival in anticipation of the set that would conclude both day one of the festival and the OutKast reunion tour. The...