In case you missed last week’s show, catch the highlights below:

ESPN Los Angeles Land’O Lakers blogger Andrew Kamenetzky stopped by to discuss the Lakers, Kobe v LeBron and offered a pick for the NBA title.

We also discussed the Lakers without Kobe, the Cavs without Lebron, and the popularity of the Winter Olympics.

Andrew Kamenetzky Interview:

Winter Olympics Popularity:

Kobe-LeBron:

Show Highlights:

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List to UCLARadio.com’s presentation of UCLA Men’s basketball below. The first half play-by-play is provided by Angel Rodriguez, the second half by Ben Taylor.

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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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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!

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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.

Are you expletive kidding me?

Well, the lineup was released today for Sasquatch Music Festival, May 29th through May 31st. And it is absolutely incredible. In my opinion, it stomps Coachella. For the past week, I’ve been mulling over dropping over $600 on plane tickets to Manchester, TN for Bonnaroo. Sasquatch is almost, if not, better than Bonaroo too. The only things holding me back: 1) its during 9th week of Spring Quarter. 2) Its in Washington. But regardless…I may still go. Let me tell you why I’m so excited/upset/in decision mode:

FRIDAY, MAY 29

Vampire Weekend: (also performing at Coachella) Fresh off their sophomore album Contra, these New Yorkers are surely going to put on an incredible show. They are known to have awesome energy during their shows and are completely blowing up with the success of both their albums to date. Approaching must see status in my book.

Deadmau5: (Coachella & Bonnaroo) One of the top DJs out there right now.

OK Go: (Bonnaroo) Look up their live stuff on youtube. Sometimes they dance. All the time they sound identical to their music. And they just released a new album that rocks.

Minus the Bear: My friends have raved about them live for years. Their music is so complex that it would seem difficult to transmit live, but all of the people I know that have seem them live say that they do it flawlessly.

Wale: (C & B) He’s hip-hop for indie-rock fans. I just saw him last week and he knows how to get the crowd involved which is a very underrated but extremely important element in performing and festivals. What I like about Sasquatch is that he is one of the most prominent names in hip-hop performing while Coachella and Bonnaroo have both opted to let Jay-Z headline a predominantly rock festival.

Other notable performers: My Morning Jacket, The National, Broken Social Scene, The Hold Steady, Miike Snow, The Very Best, Laura Marling, Fool’s Gold, WHY?

SATURDAY, MAY 30

LCD Soundsystem (C & B): Because they’re gonna be good, I just know it.

Kid Cudi: (B) He is my favorite artist of the year 2009. His album, Man On the Moon, is incredible. He’s like Wale, an up-and-coming hip-hop artist that indie fans love, except…he’s better. This will be his first big festival gig, and he’s gonna blow the Gorge away.

The xx(C & B): This band is flying up indie fans’ musical charts and rightfully so. Their music sounds like it would transfer very well to the big festival stage, and if they’re being booked at Coachella, Bonnaroo AND Sasquatch you know they are gonna bring it.

Avi Buffalo: The Long Beach native hasn’t even released an album yet, and was invited to the festival. THat says A LOT about how talented he is. Two weeks ago, he performed in Royce Hall, I missed it. I’m still bummed I missed it.

Freelance Whales: I’ve struggled with defining the type of music this Williamsburg, NY quintet plays but I’ve settled on hipster, experimental folk pop. Bottom line, they’re innovative, true to their music and simply incredible. I have been playing their debut album Weathervanes non-stop since I got my hands on it a few months ago.

Other notable performers: Massive Attack, Pavement, Tegan and Sara, Nada Surf, The Tallest Man on Earth, A-Trak, Local Natives

MONDAY, MAY 31

MGMT (C): They will have just released their sophomore album, Congratulations which I’m predicting now will be one of the greatest albums of 2010. MGMT has hit every major festival from Bonnaroo to SXSW to ACL and all across Europe so it goes without saying that they have established themselves as a fantastic festival performer.

She & Him (C & B): Two words, one name…Zooey Deschanel. She’s cute, she sings, she’s married to Ben Gibbard, he’s in Death Cab for Cutie, they’re from Seattle, which is in Washington, which is where Sasquatch is…. Wait. So you’re saying there’s a chance of a Ben Gibbard spotting? With or without the husband in tow, Zooey and M. Ward make an incredible tandem and will have just released their second album, Volume Two.

Passion Pit (C): Going from 2010 album expectations to 2009, Passion Pit’s Manners was one of my favorite albums of the entire year. They’d be fun to see live.

The Temper Trap (C & B): The Temper Trap got its big US break with the lead single for the movie, 500 Days of Summer, starring none other than Zooey D of She & Him! The Temper Trap make my list has bands I’m dying to see simply because I wanna experience the bliss of hearing “Sweet Disposition” live.

Other notable performers: Ween, Band of Horses, The New Pornographers, Drive By Truckers, Boys Noize, Neon Indian

So, now you understand why I am so crazy about this line-up. So crazy in fact that I wrote an entire column on an event thousands of miles away. I think I might have to go….who’s with me?

I’ve had my fair share of celebrity crushes. I remember when I was younger and I had a huge crush on Justin Timberlake and most of the members of N’Sync but I grew out of those and realized that those celebrities, and celebrities in general, would probably a) never date someone so young and b) care to meet me. In this day and age I see that the celebrity crushes I develop are aimed at celebrities that are awkwardly younger than me.

Yes, it creeps me out too but to be completely honest sometimes I don’t even realize that the person I am looking at is younger than me. Sure, the age difference is small but I’ve been used to forming crushes on people that are older than me. My first example is, of course, one third of the most famous brothers in the world. Little Nick Jonas. I know it seems like I exaggerate considering that I’m only eighteen but I have the right to be a little creeped out by the fact that millions of girls that are older than me find this boy attractive. I do admit that he is cute but he is young and I find it weird that so many older girls think he’s sexy.

Another example is Taylor Lautner. He exploded when New Moon came out all I can remember about him are his abs. That boy has a great body and he’s only seventeen. There are millions of women that think he is attractive. Don’t get me wrong, he can be good looking from certain angles, but, like I said, he’s only seventeen! And I hear women, yes, GROWN WOMEN, talking about him in ways that I don’t need older women to be talking about young men. It’s weird to think that there are people out there who count down the days until these boys become legal. I’ve read blogs about this and it honestly scares me it scares me as much as men who count down until girls turn eighteen. I know that these are just dreams in people’s heads and that people can have crushes but it personally creeps me out. It doesn’t mean I’m going to stop with these crushes and it certainly doesn’t mean that I don’t approve of these crushes but it simply means that I’ll be less creepy about them. Oh young Hollywood, it seems like you’re getting younger each year but I can live with that. So, this rant is dedicated to the next generation of young heartthrobs that will cause older women to swoon and squeal. Hopefully I won’t be one of the many females that get caught up in the hype but if I do then I can live with that.

- Laura
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Tune in this Saturday from Noon-2pm and celebrate Valentines weekend with DJ JokerPace and the JokerPace Radio Hour. The entire discography of the legendary singer/songwriter SADE will be on display for the full 2 hours, including her latest effort that was released this week ‘Soldier Love’.