New Yorkers Kaki King and Emily Wells and local faves Soul Cannon—recently named "Best Live Band" by City Paper—headline Saturday's Station North Arts District Fall Fest. It's free, the weather's...
The duo of Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong, known at The Books, has been making some of the most intriguing and artful music of the past decade. Wedding sparse, acoustic soundscapes to a vast library...
Like his insanely fun live shows, Dan Deacon is a whirlwind of activitiy. He brings his joyful self to Rams Head Live this Wednesday—The Get Em Mamis and Wolf Eyes are the openers!—and seems up...
Pavilion Stage at mid-afternoon.
Detail from tent on festival grounds.
Good karma for a buck!
Heading to the West Stage dustbowl for Yeasayer.
Stopped to check out this aerialist on the way....
This weekend is crazy with festivals: the Baltimore Book Festival, Virgin Mobile FreeFest, the High Zero Festival, and the Chesapeake Film Fest (for anyone up for a road trip to the Eastern...
Mark Olson, who's been playing shows in the area the past couple days, faced a hard reality a few years ago. He'd co-founded and left behind two lauded Americana bands, the Jayhawks and the...
About halfway through Jimmy Webb’s sold-out show at Germano’s last night, he was sitting at the piano playing “Galveston”—the tune made famous by Glen Campbell in the late 1960s—and a line in the...
Newly named Frank Zappa Way at Eastern Avenue and Conkling Street.
Boisterous Zappa fans fill the area around the Pratt Library's Highlandtown branch for the sculpture dedication.
The shrouded...
In February 2009, I interviewed Gail Zappa and found her to be incredibly candid and frank. At the time, it seemed a foregone conclusion that the Zappa sculpture would be placed in Fells Point, but...
I spoke to Jimmy Webb a few days ago. His new CD, Just Across the River, is something of a return to his rural roots, so I wanted to talk about that part of his life—the period before he cranked out...
