Elderly Edna Katz sits in her nursing home, bored and watching television, when she is shocked to her feet by an advertisement to save homeless cats.

B.B. King, whose world-weary voice and soulful guitar riffs defined the genre of Delta blues for generations of Americans, died in his sleep Thursday. He was 89.

Terms like “right-brained” and “left-brained” fall short when used to define Design | Media Arts graduate student Neil Mendoza.
As part of the Design | Media Arts department, Mendoza said he uses his background in technology to create innovative art pieces that seek to give new meaning to notions of form and space.

One of the biggest trends in the music industry over the last 49 years is not a sound or style, but a man – Clive Davis.

UCLA music lecturer Jeffrey Jampol has worked in the music industry for more than four decades and has spent 15 years developing and fine-tuning his course, “Music Business Now.”
From watching the Sex Pistols at Winterland in 1978 to founding his own music-oriented JAM, Inc., he gained industry experience and connections which he now seeks to share with his students.

Leonard Nimoy, who won over an obsessive fan-base as the half-human, logic-bound first officer of the Starship Enterprise on TV and film’s sci-fi titan “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.

“Let the Good Times Roll”
JD McPherson
Rounder Records
3.5/5 paws
Roots rocker JD McPherson’s sophomore release, “Let the Good Times Roll,” is a sonic time machine set for 1950s America, using the power of old-school tape echo and tremolo to transport the listener back to the birth period of rock ‘n’ roll.

Every action we make online is recorded. Whether it’s pictures on Facebook, purchase histories on Amazon or even the momentary flashes captured by Snapchat and Instagram, society is progressively spending more and more time inhabiting an ever-changing yet permanent digital landscape.

The new year means new beginnings, new experiences and of course, new releases of music. In anticipation for the exciting never-before-heard music that lies ahead in 2015, Daily Bruin A&E; reporters look back at some of the memorable albums that have left a mark on music in 2014.

UCLA alumnus Carlo Nick Paredes’ passion for beatboxing began early, in middle school, after he watched one of his classmates trying to lay down a beat on the playground.