Ryan Hykes

June 13, 2018

The Last Dance: Remembering the 1990 UCSB Basketball Team

By Ryan Hykes

With the recent success of the UCSB Men's Basketball team getting NCAA tournament hopes up around campus, staff writer Ryan Hykes looks back to the last and only time the Gauchos got a tournament win.

June 6, 2018

Five Bold Predictions for the 2018 World Cup

By Ryan Hykes

Staff Writer Ryan Hykes brings in a fresh perspective to the 2018 World Cup being held in Russia this summer.

May 2, 2018

Pasternack Adds Combo of Freshmen & Grad Transfers

By Ryan Hykes

The UCSB men's basketball team has added three freshmen and two graduate transfers. The new-look Gauchos will be without four of their five starters from last season, so the newcomers will have plenty of room to shine.

April 16, 2018

Worst to Best: Artsweek Ranks Wes Anderson Films

By Ryan Hykes

With his ninth film, “Isle of Dogs,” hitting theaters this weekend, the esoteric auteur’s filmography could end up becoming one of the most celebrated in American cinema.

April 14, 2018

Upset Alert? Breaking Down Possible Upsets in 2018 NBA Playoffs

By Ryan Hykes

Nexus staff writer Ryan Hykes breaks down the possible upsets that could take place during these NBA playoffs as the first round begins.

March 4, 2018

Artsweek’s 2018 Oscars Predictions

By Ryan Hykes

Artsweek makes predictions for the 90th Academy Awards.

September 28, 2017

Five Summer Albums You May Have Missed

By Ryan Hykes

Tyler, The Creator, the controversial co-founder of the hip-hop collective Odd Future, has lately been known more for his no-fucks-given attitude and his trendy style than anything else.

May 12, 2017

The Friday Review: Humanz by Gorillaz

By Ryan Hykes

Fans expect a Gorillaz album to play into the idea of the virtual band, and this album did not have that level of immersion that previous projects did.

April 27, 2017

The Regrettes Bring Beach Punk to Velvet Jones

By Ryan Hykes

You might think from my description of the show that The Regrettes is a band of veteran rockers, but you would be wrong. None of them are even seniors in high school.

February 23, 2017

Kamasi Washington is a Jazz Legend in the Making

By Ryan Hykes

Deep bonds formed through trust, friendship and family make better jazz than anything that the most talented strangers could create.

February 10, 2017

The Friday Review: Process by Sampha

By Ryan Hykes

Sampha has been featured in tracks by Kanye, Beyoncé, Frank Ocean and Drake, yet hadn’t released a full debut album of his own until this week’s Process.

January 20, 2017

The Friday Review: I See You by the xx

By Ryan Hykes

For fans of the xx’s previous work, this album keeps their atmospheric instrumentation and their oft-touched themes of love and loneliness.

November 30, 2016

Ten Songs for the Turkey Drop

By Ryan Hykes

If you were a victim of the Turkey Drop, the excitement of seeing your significant other back home after months away at college turned to crying by a leftover turkey sandwich when they said it wasn’t working out.

October 27, 2016

New Noise Serves up a Dose of SB Culture, Tunes

By Ryan Hykes

This wasn’t a massive festival where you are separated from those performing by an endless sea of people. Anyone could go up and talk to them because they were just people enjoying the community like the rest of the fe...