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Doubleheaders and good ole Blues Rock have seemed to go the way of cassette tapes and fondue, hard to find, outdated, and sorely missed.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