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Coffee was flowing and guitars were tuning on Saturday night as Pepperdine's musically inclined prepared to take the stage. The Sandbar was filled with murmurs as yet another Coffeehouse was set to begin and 11 acts prepared to perform. Sunday Helmerich a performer since 15 seemed no stranger to the spotlight. As she placed her hands on the piano keys her soulful lyrics and … [Read more...] about Talent brews in Sandbar

Occasionally a band's moniker is a clean and precise description of its music like a Polaroid insight to the band's cumulative sound - think Guns-N-Roses' quick-fire guitar riffs and Led Zeppelin's heavy yet ascending sound.Animal Collective to the telling-tag camp. The band's music sounds like an orchestra of insolent safari animals run amok in a futuristic music lab … [Read more...] about 'Animal' sounds collect eclectic fans

The sweet melodies of pop-punk band MAE will soon be resounding throughout Smothers Theatre and the minds and hearts of Pepperdine students. Graphic Online Content Editor Derek Sedam took some time with drummer Jacob Marshall to answer some questions before the concert on Saturday night. Tickets can be bought from the Student Programming Board table in the Waves café.Q: … [Read more...] about Behind the scenes preview with MAE

Amid the hustle bustle and sleepless reverie of fall finals week a professor priest and university president made Pepperdine history.On Monday Dec. 8 2008 nearly 40 students and faculty filed into Stauffer Chapel at 9 p.m. for a Catholic Mass celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Conception - the first on-campus Mass in nearly 30 years.Moreover President Andrew K. Benton … [Read more...] about Waves of Faith: Catholics on campus

Millions from across the nation descended on the National Mall to watch history unfold Tuesday and with students and faculty flying out to join those already there for the Washington D.C. Internship Program Pepperdine was certainly not without its representation in the crowd of two million.Pepperdine School of Law's Douglas Kmiec professor of constitutional law and advisor to … [Read more...] about Waves witness history