Tomorrow: Deep Sleep, Vaz and More @ Golden West

You want to go to the Golden West tomorrow. Don’t argue, you know you do. How could you not? It isn’t very often that you get four bands good enough to headline their own shows playing together without being at a giant festival or something but tonight that’s exactly what’s happening. It’s one of those […]

Tomorrow: Cross My Heart @ Metro Gallery

Ryan Shelkett doesn’t have a Wikipedia page. That’s a shame, and someone really ought to write him one as he’s been one of the most talented and prominent participants in Baltimore’s music scene over the last 20 years. Fronting bands Dead Red Sea, Blank, Liars’ Academy, and most recently the Desert Boys, Shelkett’s influence and […]

When Your Neighbor is a Stranger

So we’re going to go sit in on a panel discussion this evening called When Your Neighbor is a Stranger. (Warning, we were advised that registration has already ended so the form that that link leads to may not be valid today.) We’re not really sure what to expect, since this isn’t the sort of […]

Our Picks for Baltimore Beer Week 2013

So this is the post where we sort through the Baltimore Beer Week events and pick out our favorite ones day by day. And we’ll get to that in a moment. But first we want to stray off on a wee little tangent about beer, and specifically the local beer scene here in Baltimore. And […]

Unregistered Nurse Fest Starts Today (Sort Of)

As you can see by the poster, UN Fest is at the Ottobar this weekend. As you can also see, it’s a whole bunch of bands and we don’t even know where to begin with a write-up on it. Solid lineups for both days. But what you can’t see on the poster is that the […]