Posts by Tim Newby

As David Lowery sang with a maniacal glint in his eye about the problems of his youth, what pissed him off then and what pisses him off now, you remembered how you stood up and shook your fist in agreement when you were seventeen. Once again at the 8 x 10 club, you couldn't help by finding yourself shaking your fist in agreement to Camper Van Beethoven.

Baltimore has long been a musical vacuum where many bands exist in its space but few are able to escape the void. The Bridge, a five-piece from the local area seem poised to be the next to free themselves from the city limits.

Heavy Ornamentals, the eighth album from The Gourds, contains thirteen new songs that are full of the classic Gourd elements – enigmatic lyrics, soaring melodies and an unfettered sense of musical freedom.

The Assembly of Dust has evolved from being a group of friends coming together to back lead singer Reid Genauer as he embarked on a solo career after his departure from the seminal jam-band Strangefolk in August of 2000, to developing into a tight cohesive unit with their own distinct style and sound.

Now Camden may be a great place to live, but it was not voted the most dangerous city in America

Doubleheaders and good ole Blues Rock have seemed to go the way of cassette tapes and fondue, hard to find, outdated, and sorely missed. On an unseasonably warm night, psychedelic blues rockers The North Mississippi All-Stars brought their brand of homegrown Hill Country Blues to Baltimore and took baseball legend Ernie Banks

Blind Melon, the lost link that bridged the gap between the burgeoning jam scene of the early 1990

Back from the brink of extinction, Merriweather Post Pavilion found a new owner who gave the old place a face-lift, changed their booking philosophy and in the process gave it a new lease on life. Many a Maryland native

hankfully once ever decade or so Neil Young gets back together with his most underrated band, The Stray Gators (in this case the surviving members of the band), and releases an album that is an immediate masterpiece. Young ditches his electric guitar and gets back to a rootsy, acoustic sound with songs that seemed ripped from some small Midwestern town that has tumbleweeds blowing down the street, and an old man on every porch with a story to tell. Completing the trilogy that started with 1972

Drums & Tuba

Steve Kimock and longtime drummer, Rodney Holmes, create an album that invokes many musical styles, and provides the listener with an interesting journey that is led by Kimock

The USANA amphitheatre located on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, Utah, in West Valley City, may be able to join that list of awe-striking venues. The Wasatch Mountains serve as a backdrop for the stage, vying for your attention with their imposing beauty.

Around 2:30am the illegitimate child of Frank Zappa and Phish who grew up and formed a band with the metal loving, mullet wearing kid down the block, ascended to the stage. Opening with a double blast of pure raw energy,

The low-key relaxed air that emanated from those on the lawn, just as equally matched the low-key relaxed air on stage.

After the dark period of the 1990’s which saw the band stagger along on cruise control, playing pretty much the same show night after night, they have over the last three years, been a revived, relevant sounding band, that is journeying into musical realms they had previously never visited.

The Beacon was birthed in 1928, and as with many of its theatre brethren of the same era it began life as a vaudeville hall, before later morphing into a high-end

Moving from instrument to instrument throughout the night, from piano, to guitar, to pump organ, Springsteen even broke out a retooled version of

Despite opening less than two years ago, The Funk Box stands as the recognized standard of excellence for live music venues in the Baltimore area. Once inside the club it

, the Assembly of Dust echoed what they sang about in

Presidents Day, I had the day off of work. I woke up was having coffee and surfing around on the computer, catching up on news, set lists and emails from the day before. There buried beneath the death of Sandra Dee, moe. playing