Music

March 5, 2015

BSU Presents Black Hxstory Month Block Party

By Janel Mendoza

March 3, 2015

Gorgon City or (The Unexpected Virtue of Venue)

By Artsweek Editor

As John Legend and Common (aka John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn) accepted their Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 22, I threw on a jacket and headed over to The Hub to catch Gorgon City, a pair of London DJs. I wasn’t very familiar ...

March 3, 2015

Casual Gets Cool: Folk Pop Band Wild Child Shines On. Wild Child Graces SOhO with Texas Hospitality

By Audrey Bachelder

A blond gal stood on the SOhO stage in leggings and a heather gray zip-up hoodie, doling out turquoise paint on the cheeks of giddy girls. “You, you’re next,” she said, moving from lady to lady until at least 40 Wi...

February 26, 2015

Giraffage to Bring Ethereal Tunes to EOS Friday

By Artsweek Editor

Put the books down and click ‘Not Going’ to any and all events you are RSVP’d to in Isla Vista this Friday. Hot off the heels of his new EP, No Reason, and Porter Robinson’s Worlds tour, cotton-candy future-bass ...

February 22, 2015

Zion I Shares Wisdom and Feel-Good Music with Velvet Jones

By Chinelo Ufondu

Johnny Cash’s infamous middle-finger photo covered the wall of Velvet Jones, alongside other posters of historical performances. On Friday, Feb. 13, another show went down in history at the esteemed venue: the second s...

February 18, 2015

The Nile Project Fosters Cultural Community

By Mackenzie Hart

The Nile Basin, holding 11 countries that inhabit the land bordering the Nile River, is in trouble. Climate change has led to a dwindling Nile water supply, pitting the people of the neighboring countries against each ot...

February 18, 2015

Jazz Vocalist Cécile Salvant Gets Playful at Campbell Hall

By Devon McNaughton

One couldn’t help but smile as Cécile McLorin Salvant walked onstage at Campbell Hall Thursday night, Feb. 12. Her demeanor was so familiar and unassuming, yet commanded attention, like someone approaching a lunch tab...

February 16, 2015

Brotherly Love at Arlington: The Avett Brothers

By Brianna Guzman

Purple lights shone down onto the stage in the stunning Arlington Theatre Tuesday, Feb. 10 as a flurry of fans eagerly waited for the Grammy-nominated band. The UCSB Arts & Lectures event was nearly sold out, and onc...

February 15, 2015

Top 5 Turn-On Artists for You and Your Valentine

By Sophie Ho

College can be too intense. Other things can be more intense. So, we’d love to help turn up the heat a bit for you and your Valentine this February with our favorite seductive pop and R&B artists and songs.   ...

February 14, 2015

5 Misheard Song Lyrics from 5 Different Genres

By Erika Lee

Valentine’s Day is considered a somewhat controversial holiday. Unlike Christmas or Halloween, holidays that generally everybody love, people either look forward to V-day or dread it completely. It’s one of the only ...

February 10, 2015

The Emerson String Quartet Brings Classical Music to Campbell

By Sophie Ho

The crowd silenced as the four beaming, salt-and-pepper-haired string players strode across the stage toward their spotlight in matching black and white suits. On Feb. 7, young and old gathered for an evening of classica...

February 8, 2015

RL Grime Creates Turbulence at Sold-Out Velvet Jones Show

By Alexandra DeSanto

Squeezing my way into a crowd of sweaty college students and post-adolescents, I was captivated by the tall silhouette that appeared on the stage of the completely sold-out Velvet Jones. With people staggered from wall t...

February 8, 2015

LOUDPVCK turns Earl Warren into a Trap House for One Night

By Alex Bocknek

A hooded woman clad from head to toe in jet black “ǂ₩0ИK” gear stood in stark contrast against the perspiring orange walls of the bathroom hallway. Her bandana bounced onto the oversized hoodie with each hum of b...

February 4, 2015

John Kay and Dirty Knobs Rock Out in SOhO

By Daniel Slovinsky

The crowd gathered as close as security allowed when John Kay, rhythm guitarist, vocalist and primary songwriter for Steppenwolf, took the stage on Friday night at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club before being joined by ...

January 29, 2015

Patti Smith Plays Explosive Show at the Granada Godmother of Punk Rock Sells Out Arts & Lectures Gig

By Audrey Bachelder

Sitting at the edge of the Granada theater stage, the godmother of punk rock shook her silver hair out before jumping down, landing with a feathery thud into the thin carpet. A collective gasp came from 272 audience memb...

January 29, 2015

Earl Wobble Showgrounds: LOUDPVCK, Djemba Djemba, AC Slater and Zimmer Invade Local SB Showgrounds

By Alex Bocknek

There are many pros to living in the quant seaside town of Santa Barbara: the model-esque beach bums, the year-round sunshine and, of course, the unbelievably cheap ticket price to see festival-headlining acts. In an alt...