Working at The Daily Bruin may be the only time I’ll ever have a job that will allow me to use office computers to spend an unhealthy amount of time on Facebook between working.

A summer romance of an album if there ever was one ““ if Sleigh Bells seems cheap and easy, it’s because the duo is good at pretending to be. How else do you squeeze a jam-packed Coachella crowd out of a few demos and one single?

The truth is, Christina Aguilera has always been misguided as both a singer and an artist.

“I’m just another weirdo, oh better yet, you can call me your hero,” Janelle Monáe sings on her first full-length album, proudly crowning herself R&B’s nerdiest diva with the aesthetic of André 3000-esque social consciousness and sci-fi love metaphors by way of Amerie’s go-go funk and throat singing.

This weekend, flocks of folks will flee to the fields of the Empire Polo Club in Indio, about 144 miles away from UCLA, for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

These past few years may have been more of a singles decade for pop music, yet a few underrated indie darlings and well-known seasoned veterans managed to fashion impressive long forms.

The greatest hits record worked in Madonna’s favor in the late ’80s when she was an immaculate singles artist who created immaculate singles and in turn compiled “The Immaculate Collection.”

While most reggae-inspired bands are more likely to originate in Kingston, Jamaica rather than Kingston, Ontario, the Toronto-based Bedouin Soundclash is just that.

Normally, a Peaches album is the kind you play in your car to make your friends laugh.

Kelly, I’m so glad we’re back on.