Anybody listening to Escort’s self-titled debut could easily fall into the trap of thinking that this is a disco group from the 1970s.

Yuki Akaishi, a fourth-year ethnomusicology student, said she began her academic career at UCLA four years ago believing that she would one day become a doctor or surgeon. This plan never came to fruition because of a love for music, a feeling she said was stronger than anything she had ever felt for science.

Kevin Moultrie, UCLA alumnus and the vocalist and guitarist for the Westwood-based band The Ten Thousand , hated his job at Starbucks because it lacked kinship. Moultrie said he found the closeness he once yearned for at Starbucks in his band.

Verses are littered with the sounds of a crunchy, somewhat distorted guitar and a chorus that possesses all of the elements of a perfect pop melody.

The domino effect that has befallen the world of classical music conductors started when James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera, damaged a vertebra last month.

Minor keys and uncommon time signatures are the expressive stamps that give Armenian folk music its often eerie and impassioned quality

The normally still walls of the Hammer Museum will come to life this Thursday as they capture the sounds and spirit of independent music in Los Angeles.

Local acts The Soft Pack and Hanni El Khatib will play in the Hammer Museum courtyard as part of the summer concert series “Also I Like to Rock,” presented by KCRW 89.9 FM and the Hammer Museum.

Ava Dobrzynska wants the world to know that she is more than just an ovarian cancer survivor ““ she’s an artist and dancer with an insatiable appetite for life.

David Goodman was first taken by classical music while watching ethnomusicology Professor James Newton play at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

After last year’s release of “Forgiveness Rock Record,” the collective of musicians that comprise Broken Social Scene are back together to play a handful of U.S. and Canadian shows, including this weekend’s Coachella. The band’s animated guitarist Andrew Whiteman spoke with Daily Bruin Arts & Entertainment contributor Elia Rogers about his disdain for festivals, his taste in music, the family dynamics of the band and his dream tour.

Daily Bruin: What about Coachella are you looking forward to most this weekend?
Andrew Whiteman: Personally, I don’t really like festivals so I’m looking forward to doing a lot of reading in my hotel room. Other than that, the bands that I’m excited to see are playing right before Broken Social Scene. Erykah Badu, and also I love Gogol Bordello. I’d like to see P.J. Harvey, but in a giant Coachella situation it might not be great.