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Metal, machines, music: BADTHRVW's setup includes a sampler, a synthesizer and homemade digital noisemakers.

Cosmic Unease And Strange Sensations From Maryland’s BADTHRVW

Have you ever had the sinking suspicion that perhaps we’re living in a computer simulation? That’s exactly the kind of unnerving existential reckoning Bethesda’s BADTHRVW (pronounced “bad throw”) is trying to induce.

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"Heavy Metal Parking Lot" was viral video before the internet existed. The film is spotlighted now in a show at University of Maryland.

‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot,’ 30 Years Later: Still Viral, But All Grown Up

In the ’80s, if you wanted to capture your friends or yourself being drunk and stupid, you had to work…

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Brain Rapp is the son of "The Bug Guy," and a scientist himself. But he has his eyes trained on a hip-hop career.

Bugging Out: His Dad Is An Entomologist, But Brain Rapp Has Hip-Hop Dreams

One of hip-hop’s most commendable qualities is that it gives voice to a diversity of narratives. In the lyrical tradition…

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A few weeks back, University of Maryland's student radio station played Smash Mouth's 1999 hit "All Star." All. Day.

WMUC Played Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’ For 24 Hours And No One Died

At the turn of the millennium, Smash Mouth’s “All Star” seemed inescapable. Since then, it’s become a cultural punching bag,…

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Cellist Wytold teaches music workshops for soldiers at Walter Reed military hospital in D.C. He says the experience has changed his approach to music.
December 16, 2016

Working With Soldiers At Walter Reed, Cellist Finds A New Creative Path

Oddisee's new album, The Iceberg, comes out Feb. 24.
December 15, 2016

Songs We Love: Oddisee, ‘Things’

Maryland hip-hop artists Brain Rapp, Nature Boi and Ezko make up the collective Dope Music Village.
December 13, 2016

To These Maryland Rappers, ‘DMV’ Stands For ‘Dope Music Village’

D.C. label Verses Records says its newest release, a compilation called "Code Red," will benefit the American Civil Liberties Union.
December 7, 2016

In Wake Of Trump Election, Verses Records Rallies 40 Bands To Benefit ACLU

The latest tune from D.C. indie-rock band Brushes is "about the tension we feel between Venus and Mars within ourselves," says leader Nick Anway (left).
November 28, 2016

Premiere: On ‘Mars And Me,’ D.C.’s Brushes Come From Mars And Venus

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