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Butler School alum travels world performing, teaching music, composing unique sounds

Butler School alum travels world performing, teaching music, composing unique sounds

Shama Gupta, Life and Arts Reporter April 17, 2022

Editor's Note: The article first appeared in the April 8, 2022 flipbook. The scintillating light blared brightly on the Sahara Lounge stage. The sound of the saxophone ascended behind reverberations...

PIVOT offers audience refreshing performance, explores social justice

PIVOT offers audience refreshing performance, explores social justice

Leeza Meyer, Life and Arts Reporter April 17, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 12, 2022 flipbook. The theater lights flicked on, flooding the stage with color. Silhouettes listened for their cue as the long-awaited PIVOT...

The Daily Texan’s spring playlist to accompany you outdoors

The Daily Texan’s spring playlist to accompany you outdoors

Angela Lim, Senior Life & Arts Reporter April 12, 2022

Hanging out at the South Mall to escape from a mountainous workload of assignments, projects and exams requires the perfect soundtrack. As students brave the final weeks of the spring semester, The Daily...

Self indulgent, romanticizing of the past, Father John Misty’s 'Chloë and the Next 20th Century' only succeeds at underwhelming

Self indulgent, romanticizing of the past, Father John Misty’s ‘Chloë and the Next 20th Century’ only succeeds at underwhelming

Darren Puccala, Life & Arts Reporter April 10, 2022

Romantic and nostalgic, Father John Misty’s Chloë and the Next 20th Century serves as an homage to the music of a foregone era. Misty, known offstage as singer-songwriter Josh Tillman, previously toured...

UTalent artist Modern Sophia discuss piano playing roots, recent single

UTalent artist Modern Sophia discuss piano playing roots, recent single

Sage Dunlapp, Life and Arts Reporter April 8, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 5, 2022 flipbook. After struggling onto the bench, 6-year-old Sophia Nance struck her grandmother’s piano for the first time, mashing the black...

Waterloo Records celebrates 40th anniversary

Waterloo Records celebrates 40th anniversary

Angela Lim, Life and Arts Reporter April 8, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 5, 2022 flipbook. Over the last 40 years, John Kunz, Waterloo Records owner and UT alumnus, witnessed lives change and history unfold inside his...

UT DJ community provides opportunities, encourages growth

UT DJ community provides opportunities, encourages growth

Catherine Cahn, Life and Arts reporter April 6, 2022

At 14-years-old, advertising junior Jordan Busch started sneaking into nightclubs with the aid of his older sister. Busch quickly became entranced by DJing and the electronic music scene, and before long,...

Skylark Lounge preserves East Austin history, fosters welcoming space

Skylark Lounge preserves East Austin history, fosters welcoming space

Shama Gupta, Life and Arts Reporter April 5, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 1, 2022 flipbook. On any given evening, eccentric personalities and unique sounds find their way to Airport Boulevard’s Skylark Lounge stage....

UT Trombone Choir to work with alumni, gain invaluable career experience through Zurich residency

UT Trombone Choir to work with alumni, gain invaluable career experience through Zurich residency

Kiernan McCormick, Life and Arts Reporter April 5, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 1, 2022 flipbook. When Nathaniel Brickens, a trombone professor in the Butler School of Music, received an email from Texas Global offering him...

Live Shot: COIN, Yardsale! energize crowds with live band sound at Forty Acres Fest

Sofia Treviño, Angela Lim, Life and Arts Reporters April 3, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the March 29, 2022 flipbook. As this Saturday's annual Forty Acres Fest came to a close, thousands of Longhorns stood in front of the UT Tower to watch...

SXSW Live Shot: artist So!YoOn! charms with electrifying guitar solos, rockstar aura

SXSW Live Shot: artist So!YoOn! charms with electrifying guitar solos, rockstar aura

Angela Lim, Kaiya Little, Life and Arts senior reporters March 22, 2022

Pounding bass vibrated through 3TEN Austin City Limits Live as overhead lights painted the room in shades of red and purple. So!YoOn! quietly stood behind the crowd moments before her performance, fitted...

K-indie band SURL shares creative process, themes for future music

K-indie band SURL shares creative process, themes for future music

Angela Lim, Life and Arts senior reporter March 22, 2022

Having performed at music festivals in Germany and Thailand, South Korean band SURL’s dreamlike sound continues to reach the ears of listeners around the world, proving no boundaries to the potential...

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