Check out the music of Baltimore indie hip hip band Soul Cannon, this week on The Signal…

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• The tenth annual Maryland Film Festival is right around the corner, and Signal film critic Josh Slates joins us for a peek at some of the festival’s highlights. We also talk with up & coming directors and documentary-makers from around the country and check in with film-fest luminary John Waters
• We meet singer songwriter Howard Markman, who shares the story of how Mel Gibson, Steve Jobs, and Ozzy Osbourne helped one of his songs make an unlikely journey from iTunes to PBS
• Signal contributor Ben Shaberman shares an essay about his last16 years, with no TV
• And we get a first listen to a new hybrid of rap, politics, and jazz-influenced instrumentation when meet EZE Jackson of the Baltimore analog indie hip hop quintet Soul Cannon

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This week, Signal film critic Josh Slates reviews:

Story of Women
Nights and Weekends
Yeast
Goliath
I Think We’re Alone Now
Waiting for Hockney
Gonzo
We Are Wizards

Thanks this week go out to the following people for helping to arrange for the clips and interviews we’re airing during the Maryland Film Festival segment:

Trish Schweers
Susan Steeno
Melina Giorgi
Eric Allen Hatch
Skizz Czyzk

Also, if you’d like to submit a film to the VIDEOPOLIS Film Festival across the street fro the Charles Theatre, it’s not too late! Just click on this link to The Metro Gallery

Here’s musician Howard Markman’s website: www.howardmarkman.com

Check out Signal contributor Ben Shaberman at www.shaberman.com

Soul Cannon’s new CD release is now out of Morphius Records, and they perform live Friday night (04.25.08) at The Ottobar