A few days before embarking on an extensive tour supporting Bloom, the hotly-aniticpated follow-up to 2010's Teen Dream, the members of Beach House sat down for a talk in their Fells Point rehearsal...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
A beautiful 18th century italian viola d'amore. I remember being on a musical tour in Italy and having a week to spend in Padua. A italian...
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?
The cover to Miles Davis' Bitches Brew. It was the first time I saw music—the feel of the sounds—represented in imagery that seemed...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Anais Nin, diaries. Her writing is so fluid and romantic but concise. She can compartmentalize different kinds of love and validate her...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
There are so many, but the ones that stick out in my mind are the following: hearing Charlie Parker's Verve Recordings; watching Spike Lee...
Tonight, saxophonist Carl Grubbs premieres the reinvention of his Inner Harbor Suite as a jazz/classical hybrid. He's added a string section led by BSO violist Peter Minkler, and the resulting band...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” made me aware of what was necessary to learn—scales, chords and rhythms—in order to perform jazz music at a...
When the alarm went off this morning, my wife rolled over and said, "That was an amazing play." We spent the next 15 minutes lying there talking about the production of The Brothers Size that we saw...
