For a band that makes such heavenly music, Beach House is incredibly down to earth.
Walking through Beach House’s Fells Point rehearsal space is like visiting an island of misfit musical toys. Dozens of keyboards and amps, with cables snaking between them, line the floor, and some...
The “Highway to Nowhere” cuts a wide path through West Baltimore, six lanes across and little more than a mile long. The notorious stretch of Route 40 was once part of a grand plan for an east-west...
We talk to Animal Collective’s Brian Weitz (Geologist) about reconvening with his old Park School friends to record a new album and embark on a fall tour.
The band returned to Baltimore to write material for the new disc. Why did you do that and how’d it go?We’ve been living in different cities and, for the past few records, we’ve been putting together...
Sure, there are plenty of music festivals around Maryland. But on September 15, we’ll have one right in our own backyard: the Charm City Music Festival.
“I’ve been a promoter here for 15 years and...
Arrangements: Peabody Jazz Alumni
Gary Thomas has been director of Peabody’s jazz department for 10 years now, leading his students in the Peabody Improvisation and Multimedia Ensemble (PIME). In May...
A local group of performers redefines the rock opera.
The term rock opera usually conjures up images of earnest classic rock pieces like The Who’s Tommy or Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
But the performers in Baltimore Rock Opera Society—with amusing acronym...
<p>A Hampden gallery proves hippie posters are works of art.</p>
Mesmerized, Glen Trosch gazed at—and on some level into—a Grateful Dead concert poster.
To Trosch, then a 20-year-old Baltimorean in San Francisco to see his favorite band perform on New Year’s Eve...
A local drummer starts a virtual music lesson website
It’s a tale as old as time: An experienced guitarist sits down with a young kid who just wants to learn the basics. They have an hour-long lesson in which they discuss tuning, chord progression, and...
Whether on the podium or on the air, Tom Hall knows the score.
Tom Hall claps his hands, and the 130 singers in front of him immediately hush. Hall frequently halts the proceedings during Baltimore Choral Arts Society’s rehearsals at Grace United Methodist...
All the world’s a stage at Towson University’s suddenly vibrant arts program.
His septet had only two days before a big concert, so Ellery Eskelin was conducting this rehearsal with a certain urgency. The highly acclaimed jazz saxophonist, long and lanky beneath a brown-felt...
