Tag: music

Mariecar Mendoza For Homecoming weekend, the music department will showcase the talent of the Cal Poly Wind Orchestra, the Cal Poly Wind Ensemble and the Cal Poly Mustang Marching Band at the 19th annual BandFest concert. More than 200 musicians will share the stage at the Homecoming event titled “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed […]

Rose Jerome In the words of one of The Juliana Theory’s (TJT) new songs, “Hold on tight now for the ride of your life” because the rock quintet is coming to Downtown Brew. Creeping up on their decade-long journey as a band, TJT will perform at 8 p.m. today with openers Jamison Parker, June and […]

Mariecar Mendoza (MM) Mariecar Mendoza, Diversions Editor (BD) Brett Detar, vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist for The Juliana Theory   (MM) What’s your favorite song on the new album? (BD) My favorite song is probably the hidden track “Her Velvet Voice” and maybe also “French Kiss Off,” which is the last track on the album. An interesting story, maybe […]

Brennan Angel For students looking for a classy night out on a budget, the San Luis Obispo Symphony’s “It’s Better Live! 2 for $25” ticket offer provides an affordable opportunity to attend the group’s performances. The specially-priced tickets encourage students and community members to experience something new and attend one of the Symphony’s four remaining […]

The University Jazz Band will take audiences back to the 1930s with its music concert and dance Friday in Chumash Auditorium. Performing authentic big-band classics, Cal Poly’s University Jazz Band is inviting students and members of the community to dance and listen to swing music with San Luis Obispo County’s leading jazz vocalist Sunny Wright […]

Mariecar Mendoza New York native turned Los Angeles rising musician Jay Nash visited Mother’s Tavern and played guitar for a buddy’s band nearly two years ago – a time vague in memory. On Wednesday, Nash will make it back to San Luis Obispo and is ready to for the spotlight at Frog & Peach. Promoting […]

Coming in tomorrow’s edition of the Art Beat will be an interview with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters. Columnist Stacey Anderson interviewed the former Nirvana drummer in Europe before he performed at Rock En Seine Festival in Paris. Grohl talks about the current Foo Fighters album “In Your Honor” and even briefly discusses the “N” […]

Jim Weise Guinness, politics and punk were celebrated when Flogging Molly performed Saturday night in the Rec Center. The mixed crowd of Cal Poly students, punked-out high schoolers and irritated parents rocked all night to three bands. Go Betty Go, a four-piece all female punk band from Los Angeles, opened the show and riled up […]

The mastery of music is a complex and life-defining task that requires hours of practice and lessons, often including frustration. For two of Cal Poly’s own, however, those hours have yielded a lifelong passion for music. The Cal Poly music department will host a classical recital featuring two of its own staff members Jacalyn Kreitzer […]

michael mullady Charise Cheney has her students nodding their heads to the beat of her lecture in a new, funky-fresh class titled “Hip-Hop, Poetics and Politics.” The class is “experimental,” meaning it is a valid academic course that provides an opportunity for experimentation. The class is not subject to delays that new courses and programs […]

Tiffany Dias The Voodoo Glow Skull, a punk band sprinkled with Latino flavor, will open for Flogging Molly and Go Buddy Go on Saturday at the Recreation Center. The band just finished a tour of the West Coast to promote its latest album “Adiccioon, Tradicioon, y Revolucioon.” “Addiccion” is their seventh release to date and […]