One of my favourite things about mixing younger or less experienced bands is how, immediately after playing a song during the soundcheck, they'll look towards the sound booth for a few seconds before ...

The Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment (OCTFME) is taking D.C.’s music and entertainment scene to the next level with its newest music competition called “The Sound.” As an ...

On today’s DMV Soundcheck, we aired highlights from Day 2 of The Sound competition, a platform where breakout artists around the District come to be heard. The second night of competition introduced ...

Kiley Grimes knows the feeling of music swelling inside you and having nowhere to set it free. Early in her time at the University of Missouri, Grimes made purposeful retreats to the piano room in her ...

What does the ultimate team player do when he suddenly sets his sights on ‘world domination’? He releases his first solo album, of course. Asad Ahmed has decades of experience as a musician playing ...

Poor Rich Boy is back. The band has a knack for producing the kind of music that sounds like it was composed and performed in the privacy of the creator’s most personal space — his bedroom. It ...

And sometimes the most potent sound is silence. Particularly in a universe where Reels autoplay in silence, subway rides are headphone-optional, and consumers scroll by at lightning speed, a lyric ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In 2012, after a year of writing this Sound Check column in the then-Get Out section, I was ...