Now Playing: Change the Rhythm Some4mes, we find ourselves stuck in a music rut. We become accustomed to shuffling whatever playlist we see first, but we don’t really listen to it. Maybe you didn’t even realize that I’m talking about you un4l now. It happens to us...
In 2021, only 2.8% of producers in the U.S music industry were female, and Malibu Babie was one of them. Malibu Babie is a producer, solo-artist and dancer based in Los Angeles. Within the music industry she’s coined the nickname Beat Barbie for her ability to...
Essentialism, Transness, and the Art of Remixing: An Unrelated Analysis There’s something incredibly queer about remixing. To be given a pre-existing musical body, and to have the explicit goal of changing it to one’s own identity and aesthetic preferences is...
Nomenclature #7: Auditory First Aid Kit Hello lovely folks, welcome back to another edition of Nomenclature. I’m not sure how you all are faring at this point in time, but spring allergies and the all-around chaos that is the end of spring semester have me feeling a...
Nepo Baby? Nope. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, there’s a very small chance that you haven’t heard of Paul Dano. Starring most recently in The Fabelmans, as young Stephen Spielberg, and The Batman, as The Riddler, Dano has made his...
Take a seat, grab your wallet, and shed a tear. The All Things Go 2023 lineup has dropped. If you’re thinking, “What things go?” you should know that All Things Go (ATG) is a local music festival that has brought indie artists to the DMV since 2014, the lineups...
On April 29th, 1992, South Central Los Angeles exploded with fury, spurring riots for days, causing over a billion dollars in damages, changing not just the city, but its music as well. When four white police officers were filmed horrifically beating Rodney King...
Hey, Hey Hey! Welcome back to On the DL Vol.3, I don’t know about you guys but between the weather and finals coming up, doing school work is the last thing I want to do right now. So, to take your mind off of the impending week of finals, I give you the third...
On April 11th, DMV audiophiles experienced the heart of slow-core, up close and personal. Duster took the stage at D.C’s Black Cat on tour celebrating their musical comeback. The slow-core icons and up and coming Brooklynn’s Widow’s Peak was an energetic stop to be...
Today there are two distinct copyrights within each song— one for the sound recording, and one for the underlying composition. But this wasn’t always the case. Until 1972, there was no federal copyright protection for sound recordings. Before then, artists had to...