All creative communities need infrastructure improvements and new venues that look to the future, and yesterday, UMBC gave the local arts community another boost by opening its new Performing Arts...
G. Love, Cake, Citizen Cope, and Robert Randolph headline tomorrow's Silopanna Music Festival, which also features local faves J. Roddy Walston and Jimmie's Chicken Shack. Music starts at 11 am at...
Tonight, Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys play Merriweather, and there's a reception for the Honoring 1812 exhibition at the Crystal Moll Gallery in Federal Hill from 5 to 8 pm. At the gallery...
Beach House just released a video for "Lazuli," the first single off its Top 10 album, Bloom. Directed by Allen Cordell (who did the band's "Walk in the Park" vid), it has a Bukowski-meets-Philip K...
The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts unveiled the Artscape schedule this morning, and it looks promising. As usual, it's fairly diverse, with nods to local artists. I was happy to see...
Animal Collective's Geologist plays a DJ set tonight at the Hirshhorn in D.C. as part of a "happening" that incorporates musical performances into Doug Aitken's Song 1 piece (above), which wraps the...
Kansas City artists Whoop Dee Doo host a zany block party outside City Arts this evening ('til 8 pm) at Brentwood and Oliver Streets.
The Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, featuring a limited...
Razor & Tie's upcoming Occupy This Album—a four-disc set of music by, for, and inspired by Occupy Wall Street—kicks off with local folkie Matt Pless' spirited "Something's Got to Give." He's in...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Pulp Fiction by Quintin Tarantino and Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine. I saw Pulp a year after its release on video. I was an undergrad in...
Saturday is Record Store Day, which provides an excellent opportunity for patronizing local establishments that still sell vinyl. Among my faves are Normal's in Waverly, Trax on Wax in Catonsville,...
