You could say that Moses Michael Levi (formerly Jamal Michael Barrow) has been through plenty. Spending nine years in jail plus an additional two and a half on parole can really take a chunk of time out of one’s life. Before his incarceration for the involvement in a high profile shooting, ‘Shyne,’ as he is [...]
When creating a dorm studio, you can only go as far as your software. Without a relative mastery of your programs, creating quality recordings can be very difficult. As I mentioned last week, my recording setup is driven by a small handful of computer applications, none more important than the one I will discuss this [...]
At every point during a college student’s career, especially at the University of Maryland, you will most likely live in a residence hall for a semester or two. The accommodations of the halls are not always the best, which only makes it harder on a unique breed of university student: the college musician.
The Philadelphia-based Chiddy Bang rocked the University of Maryland last Thursday night. Chiddy working his magic on the mic alongside Xaphoon Jones doing his thing on the drums and beat machine turned the Stamp Student Union into a Thursday night hotspot. From the first song to the last they had the crowd dancing, jumping up [...]
The Wu is back but in a different form.
Last Sunday, I took a day trip to Baltimore, where I was planning on attending this year’s Comic-Con. On any regular occasion there would be no reason for me to attend Comic-Con, as I am not a comic book fan. But this year, however, Claudio Sanchez was doing a signing. I have been [...]
On Tuesday night the parking lot outside Merriweather Post Pavilion was expectantly converted into a hippie convention. There were the aging members of the love generation who chased swigs of straight bourbon-whiskey with drags from their Marlboros and temporarily satisfied their anticipation for the show with stories from the glory-days. All the while the new-age [...]
Here’s one that might have slipped by your movie radar. It Might Get Loud (http://www.sonyclassics.com/itmightgetloud/) is billed as “A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three rock legends.” It stars Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather) Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds) and David Evans (U2, [...]
Los Angeles rock band 30 Seconds To Mars released a new single Tuesday. The song, titled “Kings and Queens”, is the first track released off their highly anticipated upcoming album This Is War, the band’s first release since their platinum selling 2005 album, A Beautiful Lie. While the track is currently only available for radio play (and [...]
Falls Church, Virginia is not by any stretch of the imagination, a hot-bed of musical talent. Northern Virginia for that matter has never been thought of as a region with a burgeoning scene. But here, in good ol’ NoVa, sandwiched between a center for spiritual enlightenment and a sandwich joint, lays the State Theatre. “The [...]
