Music

May 21, 2015

Robert T. Johnson Senior Recital

By Sammy Gerraty

Thursday night, I walked into Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall to see Robert T. Johnson’s senior composition recital. When I was handed bubble wrap and a program with “RECESS” instead of “intermission” written in cha...

May 21, 2015

Extravaganza 2015

By Ryan Mandell

AS Program Board Curates Next Installation in Annual UCSB Festival

May 19, 2015

Get Hyphy with E-40: UCSB Gets a Taste of Yay Area

By Bin Nguyen

Come this upcoming Fall Quarter of 2015, UCSB’s College of Letter and Sciences will introduce a new comparative literature course that will focus on the social and scientific implication of the language and jargon of t...

May 16, 2015

Azeem Ward Dazzles UCSB and International Fanbase

By Sammy Gerraty

This afternoon, outside of Karl Geiringer Hall, a line of Azeem Ward fans snaked through the music building for the esteemed flautist’s senior recital. The hall overflowed, despite attendance being only a fraction of t...

May 7, 2015

Live at the Batcave: Pookie

By Audrey Bachelder

Pookie. The word means “vagina” in Tagalog and is slang for a heroin pipe. In Isla Vista, it’s the name of a loud garage band that refuses to describe their genre, piping that anyone who asks a musician what thei...

May 6, 2015

Extravaganza Music Festival Lineup 2015

By Artsweek Editor

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

By Artsweek Editor

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

It’s Better When They’re Together: Kim and Jack Johnson Share UCSB Stories

By Audrey Bachelder

In September 1993, one week into UC Santa Barbara’s Fall Quarter, Jack Johnson was sitting with his new friend from Black Studies 6 Eric Cardenas at Ortega Dining Commons. A momma’s boy his whole life, Johnson spent ...

April 30, 2015

JMSN Strikes a Chord at Blind Tiger: Shaggy R&B Vocalist Wins Audience with Unexpected Relatibility

By Alex Bocknek

A dull red spotlight illuminating the Blind Tiger stage served as the sole catalyst in transforming the skinny Detroit native, Chris Berishaj, into the torn-soul R&B singer, JMSN. Berishaj sported basketball shorts, ...

April 28, 2015

French-Chilean Rapper Ana Tijoux Challenges the Oppressor at the Hub

By Nisa Smith

A noisy line formed outside of The Hub Friday night, April 24, consisting of people eager to see French-Chilean musician Ana Tijoux. As remixes to Amerie’s hit “1 Thing” and Erykah Badu’s “On and On” played i...

April 28, 2015

Duke Dumont Shares the Gift of Good Electronic Music in Santa Barbara

By Nadine Bedwan

The air was humid from the collective sweat of dancers in the Goodland Hotel’s Rincon Ballroom on Tuesday, April 21. Contrary to the title “ballroom,” the floor was packed with young people breakdancing, gyrating a...

April 24, 2015

Music, Memory and Emotion: How They All Connect

By Erika Lee

Music is often described as a door of expression. Our music tastes and the bands we listen to closely reflect who we are as people. The soundtracks of our lives are what get us through happiness, sadness and anger, and ...

April 24, 2015

JMSN To Perform at Blind Tiger

By Alex Bocknek

Somewhere in the labyrinthine tangle of apartments that comprise North Hollywood, Christian Berishaj tinkers away in his dark home studio preparing for his next release. Berishaj is part of a line of dark and euphoric R&...

April 24, 2015

5 Rock Bands Your Dad Loves and You Should, Too

By Ryan Mandell

Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and the Doors are the definition of amazing, awesome and astonishing music. If you don’t already know this, then please go back and hide under the rock from w...

April 16, 2015

Ryan Davidson Brings Folk Punk to the Velvet Jones

By Brianna Guzman

Red lights glimmered at Velvet Jones last Sunday, April 12, as Ryan Davidson prepared to hit the stage. The muggy and thick smell of sweat from the rock show that had just taken place wafted through the air as people wal...

April 16, 2015

Lucidity Festival

By Carissa Quiambao

This year’s Lucidity arts and music festival was nothing short of magic. From offering live instrumental music and electronic bass music to unbelievably beautiful art installations and stunning dance and theater perfor...