Ruby Summer and Their Sugar-Sweet Sounds

By Brie Roche Lilliott Ruby Summer. The two words sound like a new shade of lip-gloss for pre-teen girls, or perhaps a flavor of sugary-sweet popsicles designed for the warm summer months. Well, in reality, the sound and appearance of the real Ruby Summer, an all girl pop duet, is not much different from the [...]

A Thousand Suns Review

By Kristine “Marie” Nichols Staff Cartoonist Let me start off by saying that if you didn’t like Linkin Park’s previous album, Minutes to Midnight, you most definitely won’t be able to appreciate A Thousand Suns. In many respects, it strays almost as far away from the band’s classic albums, Hybrid Theory and Meteora as possible. [...]

Hit Music Central USA – Concert Taping

By Reed Chorn, Staff Writer “It\’s time to plug you in!” is the catchy slogan for the brand new T.V. show: Hit Music Central USA, which gives you behind-the-scenes interviews and performances from undiscovered bands and already famous artists. I got a chance to attend a concert taping over Thanksgiving Break; a chance to see [...]

Big Time Rush Concert

By Nhi Tran, staff writer Beginning at 5 am on Saturday December 4, Big Time Rush\’s fans arrived at the Citadel Outlets in LA to be in the front row for the free concert at 5pm. Thousands of fans were there by the time the show began. The popular boy band played 7 of their [...]

A Plastic Review

By Thomas Panaccione, Cartoonist Plastic Beach, the new Gorillaz album that launches Tuesday, March 9th, is a collaboration of many artists with Damon Albarn over a course of seventeen tracks. The theme is a light environmental message, the location is a small island paradise made up of clustered plastic and junk, and the music is [...]

Awake in a dream (with Au Revoir Simone)

By Monica Nguyen, Staff Writer Au Revoir Simone (oh ruh- vwahr see-moan) consists of a trio set of girls Erika Forster, Annie Hart, and Heather D\’Angelo. The ladies say they came up with their name from a line in Tim Burton\’s film “Pee Wee\’s Big Adventure” when Pee Wee Herman says “Au Revoir Simone” to [...]

The Best of 2009: A Year In Review

By Monica Nguyen, Staff Writer As the new year comes around , we all look back to what happened the previous year, to what stood out most. In this top ten list, you will learn what was voted as the “best” in 2009 based on a variety of sources. Best New Artist: Known as “The [...]

Past, Present, and Future – Muse: The Resistance

By Jazmin Temores, Staff Writer It seems like the world\’s greatest scientists have been beaten to discovering how to travel through time not by extraterrestrials but by a band. With their fifth-highly anticipated album released on September 14th, “The Resistance”, Muse has created a wormhole to an alternate universe where the listener can travel through [...]

Back in a Heartbeat

By Peter Tran, Guest Writer Sondre Lerche is known for genre-jumping.  His style varies between folk, alternative, Indie-pop, and even jazz. And it\’s not a bad thing. After releasing his freshman album, “Faces Down”, in 2002, the Bergen native\’s musical status has risen to much deserved esteem, winning the top slots for “Album of the [...]

Bourgeois Shangri-La – Miss Li

By Alex Chiang, Freelance Writer Yeah. It’s that song from that iPod Nano commercial. It’s a nice quirky tune with fun vocals and whimsical lyrics. However, the instrumentation is my favorite part. Check it out guys!! And buy Apple. Listen to the song here! This is brought to you by The Baron Boombox. Check it out, [...]

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