I walked into The Retriever Weekly meeting the other day and apparently, Dark Horse Comics (of Hellboy fame) sent TRW three comics, an unbound graphic novel, and the first couple pages out of another series. To be honest, I’ve been kind of playing favorites lately, mostly with DC Comics (of Batman repute). They may not be comic blockbusters but these issues contain really good stories.

By Ingrid Garcia Staff Writer On Thursday night, April 8th, Bartleby and SEB cosponsored a ‘Rap Battle’ in the Commons Sports Zone. Three empty mikes held the stage for about twenty minutes as one of the Commons staff members announced that only one person had signed up to compete. The winner would get two free [...]

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 attention [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 video of [...]

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 [...]