Spring Sing is having a digital renaissance.
The annual music and performance competition will be hosted online for the second year in a row, but Spring Sing director and fourth-year Arabic and dance student Bella Stenvall said this doesn’t mean things will be the same.

Resonance is swapping the stage for the screen.
But that hasn’t stopped the co-ed a cappella group from winning the West Semifinals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, with a music video rather than a stage performance at the April 10 virtual event.

BTS is writing a vulnerable, yet hopeful love letter to the world with “BE.”
Soaring off record-setting success from their hit, “Dynamite,” BTS has delivered beautifully upon monthlong promises for an introspective and quarantine-driven collection of songs.

The creators of “The Liberator” are doing more than just telling a World War II story – they’re liberating the boundaries of animation.
The four-episode Netflix miniseries was released on Nov.

Ariana Grande has clearly been getting busy during quarantine.
“positions,” the sixth studio album from the soprano singer, is stacked with 14 odes to her newest beau and their time spent in Grande’s quarantine home.

This post was updated Oct. 13 at 9:48 p.m.
Editor’s Note: In the original version of this article’s graphic, there were multiple photographs of skeletal human remains used to illustrate excavation at burial sites on Catalina Island.

This post was updated Oct. 4 at 9:34 p.m.
BLACKPINK is going back to the past – or maybe it never even left.
“THE ALBUM,” aptly named for the group’s first full-length album despite four years in the music industry, is a packed 24 minutes.

A side of honey does little to sweeten the mundanity of Joji’s newest album, “Nectar.”
For over a year, the melancholic artist has periodically released singles and even jars of honey for purchase on his website to promote his sophomore LP.

As students are being released from their academic demands, artists are also gearing up to release several new albums set to hit airwaves this season. So while switching out closets with fresh summer clothes, it’s also the perfect time to trade in pop hits from the spring – like Lady Gaga’s “Chromatica” – for some sunny new tracks.

The “Global Jazz: Ongoing Conversations” summer intensive is taking tactile education and musical performance online.
The weeklong program for high school students, which begins Monday, will be taught online by graduates of UCLA’s Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance as well as campus faculty.