Music

September 24, 2015

‘Black Mass’ Shows Depp Can Do More Than Make Faces

By Alex Wehrung

Over the past decade-plus, we’ve watched Johnny Depp play sauntering, maniacal weirdos in so many films that I wonder if he goes to bed flailing his hands in the air like he’s trying to bat away flies. After “Pirat...

September 24, 2015

CRSSD Festival

By Artsweek Editor

Since the first radio plays of Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Sprites” in 2008 and the first Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles in the same year, electronic dance music in America has taken on many different fo...

September 17, 2015

Death Cab is Sure to Kill

By Simone Dupuy

Death Cab for Cutie, savior of the indie-rock world, has done it yet again with 2015 release Kintsugi, and has been celebrating with a world tour. On Sept. 26, the band famous for “Soul Meets Body” and “I Will Foll...

August 27, 2015

FYF Fest 2015 Highlights

By Artsweek Editor

Despite recent backlash from punk-rock communities about the growing Indie music presence, Goldenvoice’s FYF Fest invaded the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena & Exposition Park for the second time with the most ec...

August 17, 2015

Outside Lands 2015 Highlights

By Artsweek Editor

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

By Artsweek Editor

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

By Artsweek Editor

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

By Artsweek Editor

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 ...

July 30, 2015

Hard Summer Redefines Modern Electronic Music Festivals

By Nisa Smith

In an attempt to accommodate all of the neon and spandex-wearing festivalgoers and their desires, the HARD Summer Music Festival is returning to Fairplex in Pomona, CA for 2015. Taking on its 8th year, the festival will ...

June 25, 2015

Azeem X Underbelly live at the Batcave

By Artsweek Editor

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 18, 2015

Mystic Braves Bring Bohemia to SOhO

By Nadine Bedwan

A fusion of food dye and rubbing alcohol coincided atop clear vinyl disks hooked up to projectors that refracted psychedelic spatterings of color onto the stage. On the side wall, a black and white spiral spun over portr...

June 7, 2015

Chromeo and Glitch Mob Funk-ify the SB Bowl

By Devon McNaughton

Chromeo and The Glitch Mob share a penchant for retro-futurism. Yet the manifestation of this is so vastly different between the groups it’s almost jarring to see them on the same bill. The Glitch Mob is all aggressive...

June 5, 2015

KCSB Hosts Rodrigo Amarante at the Goodland

By Margarita Danielyants

With summer quickly approaching, what better way to welcome in the month of June than with a poolside concert? Well, that is exactly what went down on Friday, May 29 at the Goodland Hotel in Santa Barbara, where KCSB hel...

June 5, 2015

Branchez Headlines Last Hub Show of Year

By Nisa Smith

Plenty of dirty Vans and high-top Converse stomped into The Hub the night of Thursday May 28, prepared to jam to Trippy Turtle and Branchez. When the doors opened, UCSB student Zack played “Flick of the Wrist” as the...

June 5, 2015

Music in Memory | UCSB Remembers Isla Vista 2014 in Concert

By Sammy Gerraty

Two musicians performed silhouetted against the blank cyclorama at the back of Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. Projected upon them as the music started were two halves of a rectangle, one side white and one side black. Follo...

June 2, 2015

The Talented Ones

By Sammy Gerraty

Yussef El Guindi’s “The Talented Ones” premiered Thursday night. This show was brought to the Hatlen stage by LAUNCH PAD, a program through which playwrights come to UCSB to create new works. This year was LAUNCH P...