We need 20-30 extras to play as “fans” for the rock band, CRYING 4 KAFKA, which we will be interviewing this Monday, March 1st at the UCLARadio Station. Crying 4 KAFKA is not any other band, as it was started by the famed Human Sexuality Professor at UCLA, Paul R. Abramson. He was used as an “Expert Consultant” for the D.A. in both Michael Jackson trials, and has authored over 10 books.

The UCLARadio video you will be part of is a music video in the beginning segment. It will then be on our new YouTube Channel!

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Andrew Belle will be playing an exclusive concert this Tuesday, March 2nd from 1 to 2 pm at our very own UCLARadio station. Come check it out! This will be an intimate performance that you will not want to miss! For more details check out the event page or e-mail me!

Early last year I was desperately looking for new music to listen to. It seemed like all the music I had collected over the years had just been way too overplayed. I couldn’t stand and still can’t stand listening to “Stairway to Heaven” anymore. Just like anything else, too much of it makes you sick of it!

So anyway, I’ve always had a fascination since I was a kid to play the keyboard or synthesizer. The dream has still never came to fruition, due to time constrains and my mental laziness, but this also adds to the reason why I love 80’s music so much. I agree, a lot of the vocals in 80’s songs are not that great. However, I’m not listening to their voices, but the beats, rhythms, and tones they are using.

One day, I was searching the holy grail of music (YouTube!) and found some song made with synthesizer music. Needless to say, I liked it A LOT! The vocals were mediocre, but the sounds brought absolute jubilation to my ears. I looked at the song description and read that the genre for the song is called “Italo Disco”. At first, I think “huh”? A) This song is in English, not Italian. B) Why Disco?

(The song I was listening to is Phoebus – Frankenstein)

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Broken Social Scene just released a new track off of their fifth studio album titled Forgiveness Rock Record, which is set to release on May 4 and let me tell you, it already sounds epic. (Especially since it’s been five years since their last album. Sheesh!) If you want to catch them live, here’s your chance because they’re playing at the Fonda on May 3, which only means that you’ll get to hear new material before anyone else does. Well, unless someone leaks the album, but that’s besides the point! They are awesome live and you should try to see them anyways.

Their newest single is titled “World Sick” and you can download their song for free at http://www.brokensocialscene.ca!

Lets face the music and dance? Lets talk about music on the real, in America the jazz scene dominated the genres from the 20s and onward up until the fifties.  Of course there was such an influx of jazz during this period so one must break down the genre of jazz even further.  I’m talking my big band jazz and my vocal swing jazz and there literally was no one better in my humble opinion than Nat King Cole.  Nathaniel Adams Cole burst onto the jazz landscape in 1943 with the King Cole Trio and simultaneously signed on with the then infantile and brand spanking new Capitol records label.  From then Cole never looked back, later breaking into a solo career and producing hit after hit after hit throughout the next three decades.

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FRI 02/26 :: MR C + XO-CHIC (Dollz at Play):: Harmonic & alterEgo

featuring

MR C  (Superfreq, Poker Flat)

XO-CHIC (Dollz at Play, Wagon Repair)

ANDRE EZER (alterEgo, Compression)

On Friday February 26, Harmonic and AlterEgo Events welcome the newest members of the neighborhood, MR C and XO-CHIC (Xocithl from Dollz at Play), by showcasing extended 2 and 3 hour sets at King King in Hollywood.

Mr.C started Superfreq records & events, which is now in its 8th year and ran monthly at Mr.C’s club, The End, until it closed down in January 2009. Superfreq has accomplished 5 successful seasons in Ibiza, 3 at Club Underground & the last 2 seasons at DC10. Mr.C is also front man of the pop group The Shamen with whom he notched up a string of top 10 hits with and won a highly coveted Ivor Novelo for Songwriters of the year 1992. Mr.C also has  a side project with production partner Adultnapper,  Sycophant Slags,  and has releases on Sexonwax, End Rec, Hallucination Ltd,  Superfreq , Bombis Records, Wagon Repair, and Poker Flat, with EP’s due later in the year under both monikers. He also runs Sunday School for Degenerates, the new staple event of the WMC. In 2007, he headlined the infamous Harmonic(LA)/Kubicle(London) party in Miami 2007 at the Goldrush Strip club…Harmonic’s first solo event at WMC.

One half of Dollz at Play, Xo-Chic has held multiple residencies in Ibiza and London, as well at at the Superfreq nights across the world. Last September, Dollz released on Wagon Repair, featuring a remix by Mr. C himself. For mixes, go to http://www.play.fm/artist/xochic

These two Superfreqs have seen success across the globe and always bring it with some some party time sets, guaranteed to make you shake it from when the doors open until the music ends. Oh, and Mr. C will have his microphone with him, so get ready for some of his nasty free styling!! Not to be missed!

KING KING :: 6555 Hollywood Blvd 90028
10pm – 4am
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Upcoming Events:

04/09 – Mobilee showcase w/ Sebo K + Pan Pot

05/14 – TG (Tim Green)

06/11 – Half Hawaii (Bruno Pronsato + Sammy Dee)

07/09 – Junction SM (Dandy Jack + Sonja Moonear)

AVALAND 02.27.10 – Calvin Harris (DJ Set), Rebel Rave feat. Damian Lazarus, Jamie Jones & Seth Troxler

When: Friday, February 26, 2010 10:00 PM

Where: Avalon Hollywood

1735 Vine St.

Los Angeles, CA 90028

How: Official Website

Tickets

CONTROL / AVALAND Weekend presents

LEE BURRIDGE, DANNY HOWELLS

MR WHITE

LEGIT LOUNGE:

AUDREY NAPOLEON + SPECIAL GUESTS

VISUALS BY: SARA LUDY

PHOTO’S BY: RONY’S PHOTOBOOTH

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Email web_at_uclaradio.com with your names to be put on a discount list or better yet, go presale:

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Located @ Avalon Hollywood | Los Angeles, CA

Friday, February 26, 2010 | 10:00 PM – 3:00 AM PST

presented by Avalon

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*******UPCOMING EVENTS*******

03/05: JAMES ZABIELA

03/19: ANNIE MAC + JESSE ROSE + TODDLA T

Okay, UCLARadio.com, do not lose faith in me.  I see you, raising your eyebrows and scratching your heads.  Honestly, I did the same thing when I decided to go to this show.  But this concert proved to me that just because something has the ‘Jonas Brother’ sticker on it, doesn’t mean its not good.  Upon arriving at the Wiltern, I was a tad nervous.  The venue was pretty crowded with pre-teen and high school teenage girls (some who even dressed up for the show).  But, after finding our seats, my friend and I relaxed while singing along to Stevie Wonder, Kings of Leon, and Prince (there was a pretty cool playlist going on throughout the venue).  After waiting and people watching for a while, the lights went down and the opening act walked onto the stage.  It was at that moment I questioned why I didn’t have any earplugs to reduce the screams.  But the performances by the opener and the main act both surprised me – in a good way.  Read the rest of the review and see the photos after the jump!

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Tune in to F-Word today (Sunday February 21) from 6-8pm for your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Little Boots and Dragonette at the El Rey Theatre on March 10th!

UCLARadio.com has launched a new YouTube channel! For over 40 years, UCLARadio.com has been one of the premier college radio stations and source of entertainment for UCLA Bruins.  Now with our new YouTube channel, we begin to showcase a new side of our radio station never seen before. We hope to have video blogs, music news/reviews, interviews, and for everyone to see the faces behind the voices you have been hearing on air. Most of all, our primary goal is to entertain YOU, our fans, which includes people from all around the world, and of course the UCLA students. UCLARadio.com has always been run by the students of UCLA and is a non-profit organization.

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Tune in to Metal Slug tomorrow morning from 10 AM to Noon with special guests local LA band Valley Circle! They will be talking about their new self-titled CD, their upcoming CD release show, and more!

Metal Slug: curing Thursday night hangovers with headbanging and brutality every Friday morning, only on UCLAradio.com.

How You Like Me Now – The Heavy – The House that Dirt Built – NMF #307
Motorhead With Me! – Nobunny – Give It To Me
20 Our Little Rendevous – Thee Headcoats – Beached Earls
Hey Girl – Thee Saints and the Prince of Darkness –
Notes From The Polish Underground – Miles Kurosky – The Desert of Shallow Effects – NMF #702

Romance Without Finance – The Temptations – Complete Motown Singles
Take Me As I Am – Denise and Co – Girls in The Garage V.A.
La Moustache A Papa – Anna Bell – Girls in the Garage V.A.
Sixteen – The Heavy – The House That Dirt Built – NMF #307

(How Can I Keep You) Outta Har – King Khan and the Shrines – What Is (With the Shrines)
What Went Wrong – Penetrators –
Scatoa – Live en San Anton – NMF #703
Youth Haunts. – Weekend – Weekend

You’re My Desire – Equadors
I’ll Be With You – Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand
Whole Wide World – Wreckless Eric – Greatest Stiffs
Cupid – Sam Cooke – The Man And His Music

Together Forever In Love – Go Sailor – Go Sailor
Oh Lover – Sammy Ward/Sherri Taylor
Love You So – The King Khan & BBQ Show – The King Khan & BBQ Show
Valentine’s Day – Sexy – Por Vida
All I Want Is You – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles – The 35th Anniversary Collection Disc 1

My First Time – Thorns of Life – The Best You’ll Ever Get
Luv Luv Luv – Pansy Division – The Essential Pansy Division
You Broke My Heart – The Vibrators – Pure Mania
The Real Thing – The Detroit Cobras – Baby
Be My Baby – The Ronettes – The Ronettes

Hate Song – Daniel Johnston – Songs Of Pain
No Love [Version Without Strings] – Mable John
True Love - Al Green – Anthology Disc 1
(They Call Me) Cupid – Mickey Woods –

Won’t Fall In Love Today – Suicidal Tendencies – Suicidal Tendencies
Hate Me Love You – Fifty Million – Bust The Action
10 All My Feelings Denied – Thee Headcoats – Beached Earls
Let’s Do It – Joan Jett and Greg Graffin
Screaming at a wall – Minor Threat – Complete Discography

Come On Little Sweetheart – Me & Dem Guys – Scream Loud!!!: The Fenton Records Story Vol. 1
Every Second of the Day – Echos
I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles – The 35th Anniversary Collection
You Don’t Want To Hear About It – Parasites Go! – Faxonitis Vol. 1
Cold Waste – Carbonas – Carbonas LP
Solitary Confinement – The Weirdos – Weird World, Vol. 1
Nothing – Dead Ringers – Faxonitis Vol. 1
It’s You – Herman Griffin
‘Cause It Was Her – Grapes of Wrath