What do Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi and a Care Bear all have in common? UCLA’s Rapid Fire Improv group has embodied these characters at its shows, at the audience’s suggestion.

The band Cake has fascinated me since I first heard their song “Never There” a few years ago, mostly because the ’90s band from Sacramento is pretty much unlike anything I’ve ever heard.

KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Gibson Amphitheatre is pretty legendary around Southern California.

The music of UCLA’s Near East Ensemble is filled with emotion and mysticism.

After years of Bruins travelling to Hollywood for the club experience, the club is finally coming to them.

All song titles on Tigerbomb’s MySpace music page are immediately followed with the phrase “by them, not us!” This is one way that Tigerbomb is honoring the legacy of indie rock band Guided by Voices instead of simply engaging in self-promotion to get ahead.

The music industry used to be a relatively simple world, where bands scored record deals, played, sold CDs and made a nice profit.

It’s hard to imagine a year when one of the most legendary pop icons of all time dies, some crazy lady pops out eight minions, and everyone and their mom lines up to see sparkly, blood-sucking tween icons practice abstinence.