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• Band welcomes fans onstage

  Oct. 10, 2007 at 1:06 a.m.

  Beirut probably has a rough relationship with its security team, as the band promotes extreme audience participation at its concerts.

• Professor’s music and career refuse defined boundaries

  Sept. 27, 2007 at 12:41 a.m.

  Like jazz, the free-flowing music form, Professor Gerald Wilson doesn’t like to limit himself.

• Ethnomusicology ensembles bring music, culture together

  June 24, 2007 at 11:55 p.m.

  While it is known that UCLA prides itself on promoting diversity within the dorms, the classes and the campus organizations, the school also promotes diversity in music. The UCLA Department ...

• Frog Eyes looks to hop on board indie scene

  May 4, 2007 at 12:28 a.m.

  If you follow indie rock, you probably know Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade and Dan Bejar of Destroyer. And if you know these two, then you’ve heard of their supergroup, Swan Lake, and the album “Beast Moans,” released last year. But what about the third musician appearing on that album? You know, the one with that really strange voice?