Music

Azeem X Underbelly live at the Batcave

June 25, 2015 by

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...
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Mystic Braves Bring Bohemia to SOhO

June 18, 2015 by

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 sp...
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Chromeo and Glitch Mob Funk-ify the SB Bowl

June 7, 2015 by

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 M...
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KCSB Hosts Rodrigo Amarante at the Goodland

June 5, 2015 by

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 Bar...
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Branchez Headlines Last Hub Show of Year

June 5, 2015 by

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...
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Music in Memory | UCSB Remembers Isla Vista 2014 in Concert

June 5, 2015 by

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 o...
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The Talented Ones

June 2, 2015 by

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. Th...
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‘Catalyst’ Art Fest Draws 900 to Food Co-op

May 28, 2015 by

The Catalyst Contemporary  Literary Arts Magazine curated yet another beautiful music and art fest this Tuesday at the I.V. Food Co-op. Becoming increasingly popular for their joyful celebration of I...
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Chromeo and The Glitch Mob to Infest SB Bowl with Electro-Funk

May 28, 2015 by

Funk lords Chromeo are taking last year’s successful “Funk on the Rocks” show on tour — this time, in addition to Denver’s Red Rocks Amphitheater, they’ll hit several of the West Coast’s...
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Robert Plant & The Santa Barbara Bowl Shifters

May 28, 2015 by

Bring us that low-strumming guitar, the solid percussive drum beat, the humming bass and the electric switches and mixes. This upcoming weekend, on May 31, Robert Plant, legendary rock icon, and his b...
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Cambodian Rock n’ Roll

May 27, 2015 by

"Don't Think I've Forgotten" tells the story of rockers fighting to be heard amidst revolution
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Robert T. Johnson Senior Recital

May 21, 2015 by

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 “intermissi...
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Extravaganza 2015

May 21, 2015 by

AS Program Board Curates Next Installation in Annual UCSB Festival
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Get Hyphy with E-40: UCSB Gets a Taste of Yay Area

May 19, 2015 by

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 lang...
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Azeem Ward Dazzles UCSB and International Fanbase

May 16, 2015 by

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 ...
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