Audrey Bachelder

October 29, 2014

New Noise 2014: SOhO Crowd Goes Wild for Dawes

By Audrey Bachelder

Precisely halfway through the set, baby-faced frontman Taylor Goldsmith gave a flirtatious wink to a middle-aged woman standing two feet away from him. The woman turned to her two friends and buckled her knees like a tee...

October 29, 2014

Cherub Headlines New Noise: Drugs, Sex and Indie Pop

By Audrey Bachelder

“Doses and Mimosas” first infiltrated the speakers of Isla Vista in 2012. It was easily one of the biggest anthems of the year, along with the overplayed “Feel So Close” and horridly catchy “Call Me Maybe.” F...

October 11, 2014

New Noise Conference & Music Fest Picks

By Audrey Bachelder, Alexandra DeSanto, Isabel Miller-Bottome, Ashley Nguyen

Next week, New Noise Conference & Music Festival will infiltrate all of the music venue hotspots in downtown Santa Barbara with a kickass California cool lineup.

October 9, 2014

Beatles Mania Festival to Hit L.A.

By Audrey Bachelder

In 1964, seven days before Valentine’s Day, a flight from London arrived in John F Kennedy airport in New York that would change the course of American pop culture forever.

October 8, 2014

KCSB To Broadcast “Come Together: Remember, Reconnect, and Unite” Live from Storke Plaza

By Audrey Bachelder

Later this afternoon, Wednesday, Oct. 8th, at 4pm, KCSB-FM will broadcast UC Santa Barbara’s commemorative event “Come Together: Remember, Reconnect, and Unite” LIVE from Storke Plaza. This special assembly will ...

October 3, 2014

Tony Bennett Show Gets Cancelled Due to Blackout

By Audrey Bachelder

State Street had an impressive crowd of some 1,500 80-year olds in the street in front of the Granada Theatre last night, but the air was not one of delight. Duly anticipating a show by the legendary Tony Bennett, the cr...

October 2, 2014

Top Picks for Santa Barbara Bowl This Fall

By Audrey Bachelder

Then there’s the Santa Barbara Bowl, the 4,562-seat amphitheater which is playing Lorde, Ray LaMontagne, Hall and Oates and Foster the People this fall season.

October 2, 2014

Arts & Lectures Fall Season Highlights

By Audrey Bachelder

Arts & Lectures, UCSB’s premier event company, has much in store for students, with tickets running a third of the normal adult price for shows like Matt Groening and John Cleese.

September 25, 2014

Russian River: Little Festival That Could

By Jane Huson, Audrey Bachelder

Tucked away in the corner of a small beach in a little town thrives a grand festival featuring big-time artists. For its 37th year, Guerneville hosted a fun weekend of top-notch acts at the Russian River Blues and Jazz F...

September 16, 2014

L.A. Songstress Lily Kershaw Paints the Town Black

By Audrey Bachelder

Illuminated by the soft glow of candles adorning each table in SOhO, Lily Kershaw clutched the microphone with a death grip, a look of intensity on her face as she sang her first number, “Better.”

September 8, 2014

Lily Kershaw to Headline SOhO

By Audrey Bachelder

A 23-year-old singer-songwriter who has been writing since age 13, Kershaw gained international attention in 2012 when her song “As It Seems” appeared on season seven of “Criminal Minds.” Almost overnight, people...

June 5, 2014

Parting Words from Graduating Artsweek Staff, Part 2

By Demi Anter, Audrey Bachelder, Megan Fisher, Michael Hafford, Madison Medeiros, Sio Tepper, Tina Petrosian

INCOMING EDITOR ‘HELLO’: AUDREY BACHELDER Dear Gauchos, I am so happy and honored to be your Artsweek Editor for the 2014-2015 year. I pledge to fill up these Thursday pages with clever stories on local bands...

October 17, 2013

Care and Soul

By Audrey Bachelder

Electro-Pop Band Carousel Ignites SOhO

September 26, 2013

OLS 2013: Listening Outside of the Comfort Zone

By Audrey Bachelder

This is a story of a girl who didn’t know she was going to a festival until about 22 hours before it started. Naturally, she didn’t do any of her research (she didn’t even have a mixtape to listen to), only really ...

August 30, 2013

A to Z Treasure Map of Art to Find at UCSB

By Demi Anter, Audrey Bachelder

Artsweek editors Demi Anter and Audrey Bacheldor present a map to all of the creative treasure Santa Barbara has to offer.

May 30, 2013

Student Spoken Word Show to Awe the MCC on June 7

By Audrey Bachelder

Three ladies walked into Art Studio 137, the spoken word class taught by Kip Fulbeck and Elizabeth Folk. The first woman thought that she already knew how to rock the spotlight, the second thought that she could never sp...