Baltimore was well represented at last Saturday's Groove City Jazz and Blues Festival in Cambridge. The Junkyard Saints brought the New Orleans-flavored funk with a high energy set that included a...
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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...
Last Sunday's Earth Day celebration on the Mall in D.C. was a blast, thanks largely to the humanistic lunacy of the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne. After all too brief appearances by Los Lobos and DJ...
In February, I met Dan Deacon—indie electronic composer, performer, and merrymaker—at Karl Ekdahl's workshop at True Vine Records in Hampden. They discussed the modifications that Ekdahl, a tech...
I recently spoke to Marin Alsop about the BSO's upcoming season and her priorities going forward. The 2009-2010 season is being touted as "a pastiche of musical influences from around the world and...
"You'll never play Baltimore again." That's what former 8x10 owner Dickie Gammerman told The Pogues' Spider Stacy after a particularly sloppy show at 8x10 in 1985, not long after the release of Rum...
They sound like they could be straight outta Baltimore's Wham City collective, but Mi Ami hails from San Francisco. On its new disc, Watersports, the band caterwauls through seven songs that bring...
Clarinetist and Peabody faculty member Anthony McGill (right) performed "Air and Simple Gifts" with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, and pianist Gabriela Montero at the Obama...
Last Thur-Fri's Baltimore Round Robin shows at Sonar were a blast—well run and adventurously programmed. Beach House, Santa Dads, Double Dagger, Smartgrowth, and Dan Deacon were among the many...
