Last night at 6 pm, the Days Inn bar across the street from 1st Mariner Arena was packed with Bruce Springsteen fans. Stoked for Springsteen's first Baltimore show in 35 yeas, they gulped many...
With Bruce Springsteen playing the Arena tomorrow night, I've been thinking about when I met the Boss a few years ago. My wife Anne and I were going to Ireland to celebrate our anniversary, and...
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein performed at Jessup's Maryland Correctional Institute for Women today. In town for a Mozart concerto with the BSO, Dinnerstein played Schubert and Bach for about 40...
A few hours ago, pianist Simone Dinnerstein performed Bach and Schubert for inmates at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup. Here's a video of the final few minutes of the...
Jason Urick, the guy behind Floristree and the experimental band WZT Hearts, has released a solo 12", Husbands, on Thrill Jockey. I know, I know... how many more Baltimore artists can Thrill Jockey...
Tuesday night, Loudon Wainwright and Richard Thompson teamed up for an excellent show at Goucher. I was amazed how strong their voices were—in fact, they've never sounded better. The highlight of...
The top three vote getters in our recent Best of Baltimore readers poll will play Rams Head Live this Thursday night. If you missed it, the Kelly Bell Band (pictured) came in at number 3, Can't...
High Zero, Baltimore's premier festival of improvised music—in fact, we cited it as "Best Music Festival" a few years back—wraps up tonight with a series of performances at Theatre Project. The...
Arty Hill and Caleb Stine play 1919 Fleet Street tonight at 9 pm. Hill has a new EP coming out, and Stine's new CD, Eyes So Strong and Clean, is his best recording to date. Does it seem as if Stine...
At the end of my interview with The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne last Tuesday—I'll post it closer to the release of the band's new disc next month—I mentioned how much my children, Posie and Levi,...
