Night music

The xx crafts spare, haunting music on its sophomore effort. It’s the elusive duality between confinement and solitude that makes The xx, a critically…

Double Nuclear exposure

Bands brought up on a small-label ethos have historically clashed with their new owners after eventually signing to a major: The Replacements, Wilco and Neil…

Guster

Evolution, change and maturation. Three stages every band must go through. These words come up in talking about almost every new release by a returning…

Shaquille Cleare

Centert Shaquille Cleare takes a shot during the Terps’ 80-60 victory over Virginia Tech on Feb. 1, 2014 at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Va.

No second helping

For 25 minutes last night, the Terrapins men’s basketball team played with the type of unrelenting, in-your-face attitude that coach Mark Turgeon prides himself on.