The dilemma surrounding music borrowing has plagued the music industry for decades, especially now in the digital age where an artist can pluck a song from halfway around the world, tweak it and release it as her or his own in a new language, in a new market. Being strongly influenced, borrowing melodies and ideas, [...]

Alpha Phi Omega, a USC fraternity, is hosting a Relay for Life benefit concert on March 7 for USC’s upcoming Relay for Life. Relay for Life is a 24 hour American Cancer Society event where people camp out and walk or run around a track to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember [...]

Wally Pfister, the cinematographer who has established himself for his crisp, clean visuals, is planning on switching over into directing  feature films this year. The acclaimed cinematographer has had a close collaboration with visionary filmmaker Christopher Nolan, and the duo have thus far paired together for seven films, which include Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The [...]

With Love at the Bottom of the Sea, released just last week, the Magnetic Fields have returned to that simplistic synth rock aesthetic that first popularized Stephen Merritt and his troupe of musical madmen back in the nineties. After the ‘no-synth trilogy’ which consisted of i (2004), Distortion (2008) and Realism (2010), this is a [...]

Sometimes a good story is enough to push a musician into the forefront of attention. Sometimes the story turns out to be more compelling than the music. The life of Willis Earl Beal would be an interesting story by itself, but when told in tandem with the LP he is set to release on XL [...]

Three years after the release of her album Far, Regina Spektor dropped her latest single “All the Rowboats,” this past Tuesday. For an artist whose work remains largely indefinable by the music world —her albums have been classified in every genre from pop to anti-folk— Spektor seems very aware of her goals for her own music. [...]

Hosting Saturday Night Live Saturday, appearing for interviews on the Today show Thursday and gracing magazine pages, it seems as if Lohan is everywhere. While this may seem like blast from the past, I can assure you that it is actually the year 2012. At this point, everyone knows who Lindsay Lohan is. She was [...]

With the start of Women’s History Month and with Paris Fashion Week amongst us, what better time to look into the work of a game-changer and mover-and-shaker of the times: fashion photographer Christie Zinner. Around 1943, when the world’s first fashion-week took place in Paris as an intended distraction from World War II, fashion photographer [...]

No one can argue that the Beatles are one of the most successful and influential bands of modern time. Their music has inspired countless artists and only time will tell how long their presence will live on. The fact that the childhood homes of Paul McCartney and John Lennon now have a place in history [...]

Kid Cudi and Dot da Genius’ debut as the band WZRD released their self-titled album earlier this week. The album features a track cover of Nirvana’s rendition of the Lead Belly original “Where did you sleep last night.” Nirvana is known as the first and only band to have covered the song in homage to [...]