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...
My radio show theme this week was indie rock. While I was DJing, my friend Olivia texted me: What even is indie music? That got me thinking, then researching, and then coming to this conclusion: Indie is fake!! Indie: the term is used to loosely describe fashion...
In middle school, being a Twenty One Pilots fan was somewhat like being a cult—a cult composed of band kids, emos, and weirdos. I was, naturally, part of this cult. But why were so many middle schoolers obsessed with the band? The duo, composed of Tyler Joseph and...
In my opinion, one of the most magical things about music are the ways it gets shared and reinvented. Musicians have been taking inspiration from each other since the beginning of time, a practice that has led to some of the most brilliant music that exists today....