Some of today’s popular rap music centers around controversial topics including sex and drugs, but Ryan Davis writes about a different subject: video games. “That’s actually hilarious, because people will jam and dance and not know that I’m talking about something as ridiculous as ‘Tomb Raider,’” Davis said. Davis, a second-year MBA student, started rapping and playing trombone when he [...]

The multi-instrumental musician David Lindley will be performing at the Bama Theatre Monday night as part of the Acoustic Night series. Lindley is known for the guitar strings behind Forrest Gump as he runs clear cross the nation, the smooth sound behind the gang in “Fast Times at Ridgemount High,” and founder of the bands Kaleidoscope and El Rayo-X. During [...]

Convinced all up-and-coming music sounds the same? I was too. It’s easy to get discouraged when it seems the latest artists have taken one of two routes: the pop/electronica/synthesized route or the folk/independent/string band route. Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with either of the routes; I have favorite artists who fit into each category. The quality is [...]

After a February performance at Chloe’s Cup, the band England in 1819, based out of New Orleans, La., will be coming back to Tuscaloosa for a second time. England in 1819 began as a collaborative project between two brothers, Dan and Andrew Callaway, and their father, Liam Callaway. Growing up in a musically talented family lead to the initial creation [...]

Muscle Shoals-based band The Bear strives to blend elements of country, folk and indie-pop to create a sound that transcends these typical genre descriptions and fits into all of them, and yet none of them, at the same time. “There are elements of several different genres in our music, so one genre doesn’t encompass our sound,” band member Nathan Pitts [...]