Indie-rock band explores a simpler, primal sound
Folk-rock-infused Shearwater heads back to the basics with Animal Joy, its latest album.
Sight Specific highlights LA photography
The Getty Center’s L.A. art initiative, Pacific Standard Time, expands to Fisher Museum with its latest exhibition, Sight Specific.
Caltrans to blame for traffic disaster
USC students are no strangers to traffic. We live in the middle of Los Angeles, within short distance of two major freeways; traffic is almost inescapable. On a Friday afternoon, the freeways look like two blankets of lights: one red and one white, slowly moving in opposite directions. For this reason, delays because of construction […]
Los Angeles should not redraw District 9
The city’s plan would slow the progress of USC’s surrounding community by making it the poorest district in L.A. history.
Rockism and Pitchfork: Both a bit close-minded?
This past Sunday, columnist Nitsuh Abebe published a piece for Pitchfork entitled “Embarrassment Rock,” about ‘rockism.’ He described the term as “a variety of close-mindedness.” To be a rockist is to reject all music which does not conform to a certain rock n’ roll aesthetic. Rockists hate hip-hop, pop and rap; they despise challenging and innovative […]