Baltimore City Paper | Tony Ware

Evol Intent Ruptures the Walls of Drum 'n' Bassnew

These three guys originally from Atlanta produce and play galvanic, kinetically de-tuning, glitch-hop-tinged drum 'n' bass, influenced by everyone from N.W.A. to Squarepusher. And they are popular in a genre that doesn't get much press but that is loyal and long-running.

Baltimore City Paper | Tony Ware | 12-01-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Drum 'n' Bass, Evol Intent, dance music

Two Photography Books Remember Punk's Growth Spurtsnew

Punk may roll a little in its grave now that it's been mythologized, but if it's going to get the coffee table treatment at least Skins & Punks and Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music offer it respect.

Baltimore City Paper | Tony Ware | 12-30-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: photography, history, punk rock, art books, Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music, Skins & Punks

Minneapolis Hip-Hop Duo Atmosphere Goes For Studio Goldnew

Atmosphere's Slug and Ant look to a live-band approach for a breath of fresh air.

Baltimore City Paper | Tony Ware | 10-14-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: hip-hop, Atmosphere, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold

The Black Lips Grows Up By Staying Youngnew

With Good Bad Not Evil, the band's Vice Records studio full-length debut and fifth album overall, the Georgia quartet is building more buzz than fuzz with the group's least rust-bucket, adolescence-addled collection of blues-rawk.

Baltimore City Paper | Tony Ware | 09-18-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Black Lips, Good Bad Not Evil