Nothing breaks up the monotony of classes, work and endless reading assignments quite like an uninhibited night out. With winter quarter just beginning, local concerts offer an escape from impending weeks of studying and procrastinating.

Childish Gambino was a ghost on social media for nearly a year, deleting all information from his Twitter and Instagram.
His silence tormented me, yet rumors suggested he would release a project in 2016.

Do not let the faux-feminism and fake country twang fool you: Taylor Swift is a snake. Swift has slithered among the music industry long before the iconic reveal by Kim Kardashian West.

Young the Giant vocalist Sameer Gadhia slid into a spotlight with an acoustic guitar.
Set lights shined against the backdrop of the dark Los Angeles sky and the artificial starlight twinkled blue and white against a “Home of The Strange” backdrop.

William Taylor Gleason ran with bulls in Spain, rode elephants through Thai jungles, scaled the Pyramid of Khafre in Egypt, swam with great white sharks in New Zealand and sand boarded down dunes of the Dubai Desert.

Now in its twelfth year, FYF Fest has become a staple in the Los Angeles music festival circuit. Weekend headliners Tame Impala, Kendrick Lamar, Grace Jones and LCD Soundsystem delivered mesmerizing shows that shook Exposition Park to its foundations.

Ruoxuan Li flipped through Francis Ford Coppola’s photo album and found the image she was looking for. Behind the protective sleeve was an aging photo of young twin boys from the 1920s.

Beniko Hirosawa-Bates and her son strolled along the cobblestone streets of Hungary, exploring the same roads that 19th-century pianist and composer Franz Liszt walked 150 years prior.

Cameron Sasmor adjusted the headphones in her ears and turned up the volume, blocking out the bustle of Bruin Walk with the guitar riff to Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ “Blank Generation.” Sasmor glanced up at the students passing by, wondering if she was alone in her love for punk music.

Lemonade? Powerpuff Girls? A third nice thing? What more could you possibly want from a podcast? Find out what our A&E editors and special guest hater Nina Crosby are up to in this week’s episode of our arts and entertainment podcast.