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October 25, 2014

Ray LaMontagne Brings Brilliance to the Bowl: The Shy Supernova Shines On

By Brianna Guzman

As the lavender blue sky began to set on Saturday, Oct. 18 at the Santa Barbara Bowl, the anticipation building through the crowd was clear. The cool night was filled with chill vibes as more and more concertgoers filed ...

October 25, 2014

Audience Hungers for More Hall & Oates at the Santa Barbara Bowl

By Nadine Bedwan

I arrived at the Santa Barbara Bowl as people were trickling into their seats, just in time to catch the opener. His name was Mutlu, and he set the tone for the night with soulful love songs accompanied by rhythmic guita...

October 25, 2014

Graphic Novelist Art Spiegelman Awes With Multimedia Show at Campbell Hall

By Allison Wright

The lights lowered. With hushed voices, the mostly balding, erudite and otherwise hipster-bespectacled crowd leaned towards each other’s eager ears, their eyes rendered inert by the expanding blackness. Other than a po...

October 23, 2014

New Noise Music Conference & Festival 2014 ft. Cherub

By the Artsweek staff

New Noise Conference & Music Festival 2014 ft. Cherub

October 22, 2014

Massive Attack and TV on the Radio Deliver More than Just Music at SB Bowl

By Alec Hartnett

Last Friday, Oct. 17, Santa Barbara was graced by another pleasant evening with a beautifully clear, vibrant sunset. A cool breeze blew through the city’s Bowl, setting an extremely comfortable atmosphere for a concert...

October 22, 2014

Modern Crowd vs. XXYYXX: Marcel Everett’s Show in Santa Ana Met Mixed Reactions

By Nadine Bedwan

After years of waiting and ample missed opportunities, I finally caught a live performance of the young prodigal DJ who goes by XXYYXX (real name, Marcel Everett) last Thursday, Oct. 16 at The Observatory in Santa Ana. E...

October 22, 2014

Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus: The Rise and Fall of Mozart and Salieri

By Phi Do, Arasch Blurfrushan

From the melody of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” to his “Requiem Mass in D Minor,” the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is forever imprinted in our culture. Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play “Amadeus” has come to...

October 22, 2014

Cage the Elephant Throws Private Show and Sweat onto the Funk Zone

By Ryan Mandell

On Wednesday Oct. 15, Cage the Elephant defined themselves as the performance band of our generation. Filmed at The Artists Den in the Funk Zone as part of a PBS television series, the private show was witnessed by only ...

October 20, 2014

Community Gathers for ‘Meet Your Neighbors Day’

By Supriya Yelimeli, Benji Basseri

The first annual Isla Vista “Meet Your Neighbors Day” was held throughout I.V. this past Saturday and drew hundreds of students and community members to various parks in the area.

October 20, 2014

Nonprofit Bigwig Speaks at Campbell

By Samantha Zimmerman

Walter Isaacson, current president and CEO of the nonprofit Aspen Institute and renowned author, spoke at Campbell Hall on Thursday about his new book entitled The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses ...

October 18, 2014

50 Years in the Making: Architect Barton Myers’s Retrospective

By Bin Nguyen

Between now and Dec. 12, UCSB’s Art, Design, and Architecture Museum (AD&A) is hosting an exhibition titled “Barton Myers: Works of Architecture and Urbanism” — a retrospective based on Myers’ 50 years of d...

October 18, 2014

Lessons Learned from “Gone Girl,” Spoiler Alert!

By Erika Lee

Before going to see “Gone Girl,” the only two things I knew about the movie were that David Fincher directed it, and that it’s about a girl who’s … gone. Needless to say, I didn’t really know the plotline or ...

October 18, 2014

From Childhood, to College, to Cartooning: An Evening with Matt Groening and Lynda Barry

By Jason Chun

When Matt Groening and Lynda Barry stepped onto the stage of the Arlington Theatre on Friday, Oct. 10, it was in a style only two cartoonists could pull off: wearing knit hats shaped like “Futurama” characters Nibble...

October 14, 2014

Getting To Know North of Nine

By Heeba Kaleem

Artsweek reporter Heeba Kaleem sat down with Guthy and guitarist Michael O’Grady to get the scoop on the band’s origins, hair obsessions and what it’s like to work under a manager like Randy Jackson.

October 13, 2014

Lorde of the Dance: Lorde Plays SB Bowl

By Jane Huson

“There’s a humming in the restless summer air,” she began. Then she danced.

October 11, 2014

New Noise Conference & Music Fest Picks

By Audrey Bachelder, Alexandra DeSanto, Isabel Miller-Bottome, Ashley Nguyen

Next week, New Noise Conference & Music Festival will infiltrate all of the music venue hotspots in downtown Santa Barbara with a kickass California cool lineup.