NPR's excellent "All Songs Considered" blog features an amazing Dan Deacon concert video. It's a time lapse video, so you can watch Deacon's entire 9:30 Club performance in four minutes. Amazingly, it captures the utter joy of a Deacon show. Check it out here and keep on the lookout for how the band departs the [...]

Reported by Evan Serpick:
Sri Lankan rapper-singer M.I.A. was in Baltimore this weekend to shoot a video for her protégé, Charm City rapper Rye Rye. M.I.A., remembered by many for performing “Swagger Like Us” with Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, and T.I. at February’s Grammys—while nine months pregnant, flitted around Club Paradox Saturday afternoon, directing the video [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The most influential artistic experience of my life was seeing the original Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo at the Lyric when I six years old. It was the singular event that made me 'know' that I wanted to perform on stage as a [...]