Hoodboi performs club rituals
As a member and co-founder of the LA-based music collective Athletixx, which also features producers Falcons, Kittens and Promnite, DJ Hoodboi brought the West Coast club scene's signature aggressiveness to UCR. He delivered a live set that was at times both familiar and innovative, switching from Top 40 mixes and flips to his original productions: an...
Of the many things UCR students can look forward to, Winter SOULstice stands tall. With the Associated Student Programming Board (ASPB) behind the annual winter quarter event, the R&B and soul music concert promises a chill night with few attractions and food trucks. Juxtaposed to the other hyped and excitable annual UCR concerts like Block Party and Spring Splash,...
Poetry is often viewed as an esoteric form of literature. People think of passionate love letters and affectionate odes when they hear the word, and the stock image of a “poet” as a hopeless romantic clasping their hearts with endearment as they express their undying infatuation toward a person or the world.
Although the intimate mode of writing can...
Southern California is full of glamorous and charming concert venues. From Riverside County to Los Angeles County, there is a setting for every music lover. Determining a venue’s ranking comes upon a multitude of factors: acoustics, parking, a perspective from a short person, seating and the atmosphere. Before buying tickets to your next concert, take a look at the...
After two sold-out performances in 2017, “Princess Ten Ten and the Dark Skies: A New Musical” returned for three showcase performances on May 25 and May 26 in Watkins 1000. This revised version included new music and lyrics by Jacqueline Emerson (most known for her role as Foxface in “The Hunger Games”) and arrangements and orchestrations by Lee Huff...
Childish Gambino's “PHAROS” event was not your usual concert. The “tour” only lasted a weekend and was only in one venue: Joshua Tree. While some may consider Joshua Tree the middle of nowhere, this set location offered the perfect atmosphere to enhance his already mysterious concert.
For access to the event, you needed to download the official “PHAROS” app which...
When Prince Rashid walked into the room, I was unsure of what exactly to expect: Here was a Bengali rapper, whose music has been making rounds on social media lately, and has performed multiple shows. He and his executive producer walked in, immediately projecting a sense of purpose in order to shoot the video for Radar Sessions. While the...
Frank Ocean’s highly anticipated return to the music scene left a salty taste in the mouths of music lovers everywhere. After a six-year hiatus, fans were ecstatic to see Ocean headline Coachella. People lined up hours before his set, eagerly anticipating the performance of their lives. As the section opened, the crowd had multiplied, filling every corner of the...
The UCR Department of Theater, Film and Digital Production continued their season this past weekend with the cloak-and-dagger thriller “Wilderness of Mirrors.” The play was a two-hour event in which a young journalist named Erin (played by Gloria Olivas) goes looking for answers about a spy who was recruited out of Yale for the CIA during World War II....
I shouldn’t try (but can’t help myself from) finding any amusement in the pre-gaming consequences that rock the much livelier patrons at Spring Splash around me. Partially because there’s little reward in laughing at amicable college drunks enjoying themselves, never minding the spectacle when their systems need a good purge. But when that purge happens to be in a...