It’s March Madness season and the tinny ring of pep band music is in the air. This video of the George Mason University’s Green Machine pep band — not that other ill-fated Fenty green machine — covering Rage Against the Machine has been making the rounds recently.

It’s easy to paint the protesters at Gallaudet University as young causeheads that have listened to too much Rage Against the Machine and idealistically mused on revolution. But theirs is not a battle to save the rain forest, stop sweatshops, or even impeach President George W. Bush. The continued intensity of their protest — now in its second day of sucessfully locking down the Northeast campus — is fueled by conflicts over culture, identity, and…

By DCist contributor Abby Lavin If you weren’t at Unbuckled last Thursday, your only excuse is that you were over at the 6th and I St. Synagogue checking out rising Israeli hip hop stars, Hadag Nahash (Snakefish). Listening to rap in a synagogue, engulfed in a mob of 15-year-olds, we felt like we were at the coolest bar mitzvah we’d never been to. A little bit Bob Marley, a little bit Rage Against the Machine,…

Spring has sprung (well, sort of), and concerts in the D.C. area are in full bloom. We thought we had enough on our plate with the upcoming April and May line ups, but with some concert announcements in the past week, there’s even more than we expected. >> Bright Eyes sold out quickly the last time he came around, but apparently he can’t get enough of the District – dreamboat Conor Oberst (at right) is…

Continuing on with the WHFS obituaries … Today marks the first full day in over 20 years that FM 99.1 has not carried HFS. It could be argued that the end of WHFS was inevitable. The station began going downhill some time ago — perhaps at the introduction of “Loveline” in the place of the Top 11 at 11, the inexplicable addition of Metallica to the playlist, or the mainstreaming of alternative music in the…