Warm guitar strums and jazzy piano chords flow through the air as five students huddle in a small garage to practice for their upcoming performance. The all-junior student band Ugly Dumplings includes...
The popularity of music festivals grew in the 1960s, with events such as the Monterey International Pop festival in 1967 garnering an audience of 50,000.
Early music festivals created space...
Junior Benjamin Zhang uses a small knife to carefully shape the raw cane into a reed for his oboe — the mouthpiece of the instrument. He shapes, folds and ties the reed with string with precision...
Strings strummed, basses boomed and voices vibrated around the auditorium on April 24 through 14 student musician performances. Featuring a diverse lineup of musical acts, Music for Community Club hosted...
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A track dropped at Junior Prom, and the room went wild. Students flooded the dance floor, moving to music made in a bedroom studio by someone standing right there in the crowd. That night, junior...
After hours of adjusting and readjusting notes, junior Alexander Jong listens to his latest composition. Melding together piano, synthesizers and electric guitar, Jong found a creative outlet in producing...
Sophomore Akhila Hosagrahar takes her place onstage, sitting cross-legged in her colorful salwar, a dress-like garment. A sitar, an Indian stringed instrument, buzzes behind her as she begins to belt...
A young girl belts out “When I Was Your Man” by Bruno Mars while her brother plays the piano. Ten years later, that girl released her debut song “love a little harder.” When senior Isabel Hosein’s...
Freshman Hrithikesh Kotha glides a bow across the strings of a cello, an instrument that represents a major shift in his life and one he never imagined he would end up playing. Originally, he played...
With impressive discographies and loyal fanbases behind them, it’s no surprise that many fans eagerly anticipated new music from musicians Kali Uchis and PinkPantheress, real name Victoria Beverley Walker,...
The espresso machine bubbles and frothing milk hisses in the back of Philz Coffee. At a table strewn with science papers, seniors William Devanney and Amrit Rihal brainstorm lyrics for their latest project:...
For a significant portion of the late 2000s and early 2010s, the commercial charts were dominated by a unique strain of modern pop music retroactively coined “recession pop.” Characterized by uptempo...
