The UMBC Student Events Board has booked Wale and Third Eye Blind for this spring’s Quadmania. Third Eye Blind is known for late 1990s hits such as “Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s It Going To Be.” They will be performing in the RAC on Sunday, April 16. Wale, a local rapper-turned-national phenomenon has garnered recent [...]

By Daniel Supanick
Staff Writer
Looking back on 2009, it’s clear that it was a mixed bag in terms of the films it saw released. The year started out surprisingly well, but gave way to a summer release schedule that contained both big surprises and huge disappointments, and a fall selection that ended the year on a [...]

By: Derek Roper
Staff Writer
All Time Low, the royalty of the teen-rock scene, jammed at Rams Head Live this past December. They performed to a sold-out audience that consisted of cougars, men passed their prime, and teen emo kids.  Along for the ride, were the opening acts, Runner Runner and DNA which somewhat supercharged the crowd [...]

By: Derek Roper
Staff Writer

Ram’s Head Live! received a taste of the Hurricane, when the band
Switchfoot played to a modest crowd on Monday night, Dec 2.  The show was titled
‘A Night with Switchfoot,’ and that is just what it was; the group hung
out with the crowd and made it the people’s show. The concert was also
doing [...]

By Daniel Supanick
Staff Writer
I don’t understand the appeal behind the Twilight series. I have always found it very shallow and uninvolving. The characters are poorly developed blank slates, and spend most of their time brooding. We are never given any sort of explanation for or exploration of the relationship between the human and vampire central characters. [...]

By: Derek Roper
Staff Writer

The sound of Owl City is the prime example of the post-modern one-man-band, comprised of just Adam Young and an unseen band, if that. Most likely “Rainbow Veins,” was Owl City’s first gasp of air into the mainstream world (Pandora plays it enough).  Their new album, Ocean Eyes, is upbeat electronic with a pop.
“Fireflies,” one of [...]

A few students (full-disclosure: author created the video) from UMBC have entered a music video contest sponsored by popular iPhone application creator Smule. The contest was inspired by their wildly successful iPhone application “I am T-Pain” which has been featured on national television. The concept of the contest is simple: make a parody [...]

By Derek Roper
Staff Writer
Usually, when students finish with college, they have to start finding jobs in the ‘real-world.’ That expectation sounded too real for James Keenan, lead singer of A Life of Science, who was at the 10th Annual Baltimore Comic-Con during a tour to promote the band’s apocalyptic story project which will include their [...]

By Liz Omberg
Senior Staff Writer
Having a birthday the day after Halloween , November 1st, has both good and bad parts. The bad being that your birthday will always be associated with the holiday and however you decide to celebrate you will be surrounded with pumpkins, drunk people, and fake blood. The good is that there [...]

Despite announcing that they were coming to UMBC on December 9, Weezer will no longer be playing in the RAC. The show has been moved to the Patriot Center, and sources tell TRW that the reason is that those planning the concert wanted to sell more seats than the RAC can hold.
However, there is good [...]