Earth Day 2024: What Sustainability Means To Us
This Earth Day, we asked our Digital Press team: “What does sustainability mean to you?” As the Reef Authority issues its 2024 survey map, displaying devastating amounts of coral reef bleaching, and as the Earth continues to become warmer and more littered by the minute, this Earth Day, it is imperative for us to consider…
UCLA Radio Sports presents: UCLA Surf Team
Article and Interview Footage by Scott MacLaren “[teaching Cody to carve a board] All right, look. First of all, with the grain. With the grain. Do you see what I’m doing here? You let the tool do the work, you see? Just like you’re riding the wave, you let the wave do the work. You…
UCLA Radio Sports presents: UCLA Women’s Rowing, Navigating Adversity to Triumph
Article by Jack Boyd This season, the athletes of UCLA’s women’s rowing team are competing for something deeper than themselves and their teammates; a cause as large as life itself. In March of 2023, Amy Fuller Kearney, who served as the women’s rowing coach for over 20 years, tragically passed away at the age of…
Rising Artist Spotlight: An Interview with Deanna Dilandro
UCLA Radio’s Rising Artist Spotlight aims to highlight upcoming artists who have demonstrated unique creativity andtalent through their music. Through interviews and features, we delve into their journey, influences, and aspirations, giving listeners a glimpse into the future of music. It was by chance that Deanna and I found one another. I was invited by…
Pediatric AIDS Coalition’s Annual Dance Marathon
Photos by Shayona Sengupta It’s the first Saturday of Spring Quarter and UCLA’s campus is deserted. Blissfully free of homework assignments, looming midterms and problems sets, students have fled Westwood…choosing instead to sun themselves in Santa Barbara, or hop from bar-to-bar along Venice Boulevard. The Bruin Bear stands alone. That is, except for the 13-hour…
Debriefing the 2023 Detroit Lions
Article by Grant Walters Regular Season & Postseason Success Bittersweet: The perfect word to describe the Detroit Lions’ historic 2023 season. The season began with high expectations, but it is safe to say that this team exceeded all expectations by winning their first playoff game since 1991 against the Los Angeles Rams and Matthew Stafford,…
Digi-Pressed: Crimes Against Radio
Last quarter, an applicant to UCLA Radio suggested that we include a crime section on our blog. While that might not be exactly in the spirit of Radio, we saw potential in it: Crimes Against Radio. Not the UCPD kind, but the kind of crime you’d want to report when you see someone barefoot in…
Postcards From Radio
As the rainy Winter quarter comes to a close and dreaded finals fill up every library in sight, our Digi-Press members wanted to reflect back to a time before the chaos. And yes, if you haven’t guessed by the title, did you even know we studied abroad? From salsa dancing in Chile to buying pain…
Mirror to Mainstage: A Conversation with Charm La’Donna
From dancing in the mirror at age eight to choreographing for the biggest names in the music industry, Charm La’Donna is the premier example of hard work paying off. Born and raised in Compton, CA, the artist discovered her passion for dance early in her lifetime. At only ten years old, she was discovered by…
Artists to Look out for at Rolling Loud California 2024
The world’s biggest hip-hop festival is back and ready to make noise. The Hollywood Park Grounds in Inglewood will soon be the stomping grounds for huge acts like Nicki Minaj, Post Malone, Future, and Metro Boomin. But aside from the household names, there are tons of artists coming out of the woodwork for this show.…
“Spaceman” Film Review
A review of the “Spaceman” Los Angeles premiere at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on February 26th.
Resistance and Revolution: News Hour [2/27/24]
Image Credit: X/@natoreyes With so much censorship and tumultuous events going on today, it is important to speak on it. Week 8’s episode was brought to you by the interns of the News Department here at UCLA Radio. With the theme of revolution and resistance, the show was split into three main sections: international, domestic,…
The Immediate Family @ The Mint [2/13/2024]
One with the crowd, dare I say my prior alienation was somewhat relieved, my existence now seeming more a testament to music’s timeless appreciability than the intrusion of an unschooled youth. The Immediate Family has that effect–of making accessible such supreme talent so that the audience too, becomes part of the family.
Rhythm of the Heart: Radio’s Punktured Hearts House Show [2/14/24]
Photographs by Chloe Gonzales
The Unsent Project: Radio’s Ruminations on Romance
Exactly a year ago, we were nosy. Nosy about the UCLA student body’s situationship statuses, their one-sided crushes, their greatest desires, how they defined “love.” That’s what it keeps circling on back to, isn’t it? We are curious about love and we let it consume us. We spend our lives sketching its different shapes, deciphering…
concatenation: denouement
In my first article for this series, I wrote about how the thread of time can be difficult to hold onto while juggling the distractions of the world. Well, somewhere between July and December, life caught up with me. I didn’t realize how fragile that line actually was until I dropped it. 2023 shattered. Sorting…
UCLA RADIO Sports presents: Jennifer Antes, Finding Her Groove
By Claire Alonso In case you didn’t tune in, UCLA Sports Radio interviewed the one and only Jennifer Antes on UCLA’s Dance Team. DJ Oatmilk Advocate and DJ Chicken Salad picked her brain about everything dance, everything UCLA, and so much more. Though we all know Jen from UCLA, her story goes back further. Jen…
UCLA Radio Sports presents: Tian Fangran, Serving up Success
___ Ethan Smith In a recent exclusive interview with UCLA Radio, tennis prodigy Tian Fangran, a shining star on the UCLA Women’s Tennis team in both singles and doubles, opened up about her remarkable journey from the tennis courts of Beijing to the championship stage at the NCAA. Tian’s story begins at the age of…
UCLA Radio Sports presents: Gabriela Jaquez and Kiki Rice
__ Nora Onek Jaquez kicked off the interview by delving into her childhood and reflecting on her innate athletic prowess and early successes across various team sports. As high school approached, however, her focus crystallized on the sports she was most passionate about, softball and basketball. Like many California students, UCLA was Jaquez’s dream school…
Shabang Celebrates 10 Years
Peach Pit; Thundercat; The Walters; Kate Bollinger. From indie royalty to tech house up-and-comers, the Shabang lineup is a manifestation of the festival’s ethos–experience, quality, vibes, community, participation.
GROUND CONTROL TOURING PRESENTS: SECOND ANNUAL ABORTION ACCESS BENEFIT SERIES @ The Lodge Room [1/20/24]
Improvised, created on-the-spot EDM from Reggie Watts, synchronized hitch kicks from the “anti-rock” Faux Real, dramatized undulations from Actually Huizenga of Patriarchy as she ran her tongue over an unsuspecting mic stand. With a diverse lineup embodying the DIY, the avant garde, and the sensational, the artists of the Annual Abortion Access Benefit Series appeared to have taken Watts’ meditations to heart, utilizing their talents to directly or indirectly protest the United States government’s usurpation of women’s bodies.