Music

October 29, 2015

Florence + Bowl = One Big, One Blue, One Beautiful Show

By Karrah Bates

Reaching out into the audience with welcoming arms, she asked us to remove something weighing us down, keeping us on the ground. And with her triumphant cry, she freed us: “Santa Barbara, you are released!” Last Tues...

October 28, 2015

Pure Bathing Culture to Cleanse SOhO

By Jordan Metz

On Sunday, Nov. 1 SOhO will host a night of authentic Portland indie-pop. Wild Ones will take the stage at 9 p.m. followed by headliner Pure Bathing Culture. Pure Bathing Culture released their second full-length album P...

October 27, 2015

UCSB Music Professor Performs Rare Beethoven Piece

By Jordan Metz

Surrounded by the austere brick walls of the Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall and lit by faint purple lights, a black grand piano with gold feet awaited the arrival of Professor Paul Berkowitz. The professor has been a part of...

October 26, 2015

New Noise Block Party Features Run the Jewels and Gardens & Villa

By Brenda Munive

After an entire weekend full of upbeat and fresh music shows, the New Noise Festival concluded with their Block Party at the Funk Zone featuring Gardens & Villa and Run the Jewels, on Sunday, Oct. 18. Bustling food t...

October 23, 2015

A Cuba-America Line That Actually Works

By Artsweek Editor

The temperature was in the eighties and a soft wind only partially helped with the damp, clingy air on Tuesday night. Bright lights extended over the sidewalk, overarching and blanketing a piece of State Street. A warm n...

October 23, 2015

Tijuana Panthers Rock New Noise

By Brenda Munive

The Velvet Jones in downtown Santa Barbara is a venue that attracts a diverse group of music lovers — anyone ranging from angst-ridden teenagers to adults attempting to relive their glory days. At every corner there we...

October 23, 2015

Rocktober In the Hub

By Mackenzie Hart

The good old Hub: It’s the origin of the pungent smell of freshly cooked orange chicken when you walk by the UCen. It’s where you may or may not be willing to get in a fist fight with a fellow Gaucho over a s...

October 22, 2015

Hozier Performs Highly Anticipated Set at SB Bowl

By Bin Nguyen

Literally. Not trying to sound like a character from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” but Hozier left his fans looking for more. The Irish singer-songwriter’s visit to Santa Barbara on his debut solo tour was filled...

October 22, 2015

Treasure Island Music Fest Returns for Another Successful Year

By Carla Cernat

Treasure Island Music Festival feels a lot like Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland, minus the psychedelia, plus The National. Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment truly designed this festival with the attendee in mind. S...

October 21, 2015

Goldenvoice To Bring Sufjan Stevens to the Arlington

By Mackenzie Hart

On Oct. 24 The Arlington Theatre in Downtown Santa Barbara will be welcoming Sufjan Stevens to its illustrious stage. With its plush, red velvet seats and elaborate décor transporting you to the nighttime plaza of a Spa...

October 20, 2015

Interview with Classical Pianist and UCSB Professor Paul Berkowitz

By Jordan Metz

Experience Beethoven’s wildly adventurous 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120, performed by UCSB’s own Professor of Piano, Paul Berkowitz on Friday, October 23rd at 7:30PM in the Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall....

October 19, 2015

Janet Jackson to Bring ‘Unbreakable’ to SB Bowl

By Nisa Smith

The remote was clutched in my hands and my eyes were plastered to the TV screen decorated with Janet Jackson slithering all over the floor in the “Pleasure Principle” video. In the 6th grade, she was my muse for “D...

October 19, 2015

Twelve Songs that Sound Like a Pumpkin Spice Latte

By Zoe Jones

For lots of you, it may be hard to believe that it’s officially fall. Despite being early October, some days it can still be up to 80 degrees outside. So, to help ease you into a more autumnal mood, here’s 12 cozy, f...

October 16, 2015

Big and Beautiful Florence Sighting at SB bowl

By Karrah Bates

On October 20th, two-time BRIT Award Winners Florence and the Machine will perform at the Santa Barbara Bowl as part of their “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” promotional tour. After a three-and-a-half year hiatus ...

October 16, 2015

Hozier to Take SB Bowl to Church

By Bin Nguyen

Released in 2013, “Take Me to Church” was then an up-and-coming ballad written and sung by Irish recording artist under the name of Hozier. Little did he know, the record became a smash hit across the country, landin...

October 15, 2015

‘Keep It Neil’

By Jack Wallace

Seeing Neil Young and Promise of the Real at the Bowl was like stepping 50 years back in time to the old days of hardcore musical activism. The crowd was older than that of most Santa Barbara Bowl shows, although it was ...