Posts Tagged ‘Baltimore’
We Love Music: Cass McCombs @ Ottobar, 1/21/2012
Cass McCombs turned Baltimore’s Ottobar into a spacey dreamworld during his set Saturday night. In the midst of his US winter tour, he played with a full backing band, including keys, bass, guitar, pedal-steel guitar and drums. Opening was Frank Fairfield, along for the duration of the tour, and Walker and Jay.
First to the stage was the Baltimore based trio [...]
Hot Ticket: Cass McCombs @ Ottobar, 1/21/2012
Cass McCombs brings soulful, mellow, dreamy rock to Baltimore’s Ottobar this Saturday night. He has received high praise from the likes of John Peel and Pitchfork Media, and has performed or toured with Cat Power, Andrew Bird, Blonde Redhead & Modest Mouse among many others.
His sixth album (and second in 2011), Humor Risk, was released [...]
We Love Arts: Dylan Koehler of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society
All photos by Heather Keating, courtesy of Baltimore Rock Opera Society
At last summer’s H Street Festival just beyond the hand dancing demonstration, and right before the zoot-suited swing band, lay the Brothership, an art-car manned by a half dozen members of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS). With their ornate hats, righteous shredding techniques, [...]
We Love Music: Agalloch @ Sonar (Baltimore), 3/21/11
All photos courtesy of Agalloch
On Monday, I drove up to Baltimore to check out Agalloch, rising stars in the American black metal scene. You know, I try to defend DC’s metal scene, but what does it mean when a critically acclaimed band passes us by? Are we not metal enough for a band from [...]
We Love Music: Weedeater @ SONAR (Baltimore), 2/23/11
all photos by author.
Step right up folks. Here we have the genuine article. A regular nine-toed, Jim Beam soused, hard working, son of the South. Brought straight out of the backwaters of North Carolina and direct to SONAR Baltimore’s side stage to both bewilder and terrify you with his gravel voiced howls and suffocating sludge [...]
We Love Music: Helmet @ SONAR 10/22/10
On Friday night, I took the MARC train to Baltimore, to meet my brother Marcus at SONAR, where we continued our brothers’ tradition of seeing Helmet in concert together every chance we get. Friday night was our sixth Helmet concert and Page Hamilton put on a casual but kick-ass show of guitar intensity that reminded [...]
More »We Love Music: Slayer w/ Megadeth @ 1st Mariner Arena
I know every self-respecting heavy metal fan is looking at the title of this article and wondering “where the f*ck is Anthrax?”. It is true that Anthrax opened the show in Baltimore on Wednesday night but I did not get to see much of their set. Try the last part of their last song only. [...]
More »We Love Music: Unsane & Keehaul @ Ottobar 8/7/10
courtesy of Unsane.
I drove up to the wonderful Ottobar in Baltimore to catch a noise-rock double-bill so too-good-to-be-true that it was as if the lords of aggression themselves had forged it. I imagine these mighty creatures in their red-glowing cave, dipping their battle-scarred fists into molten iron, before plunging them into icy mountain rapids to [...]
We Love Music: The Smashing Pumpkins @ Ram’s Head Live 7/12/10
photo by Michael Darpino.
The Smashing Pumpkins (2010 edition) performed at Ram’s Head Live in Baltimore on Monday night. The show was part of the current ’small venue’ tour to promote Billy Corgan’s latest free-on-the-internet Smashing Pumpkins’ project/album, “Teargarden by Kaleidyscope”. The small venue tour also seems designed to generate the buzz of exclusivity for [...]
Please Ripken, Save the Orioles
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courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’
We don’t cover a lot of Orioles “news’ because…well…we have our own team now, and the Orioles have been the laughing stock of professional sports for over a decade. But as a life-long fan of the birds, and what some could call DC’s AL team, I just had to write about Cal. [...]
Baltimore Enlists Special Help For Snopocalyspe
Courtesy of www.jasonwennet.com, a Baltimore resident, WeLoveDC has learned that Charm City has rolled out its special snow task force to help deal with the Snopocalyspe.
No word yet on if the ground storm troopers have been deployed or if DC will be implementing a similar task force.
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Tourism: Fells Point
Fells Point, photo by rjohnson
If you take a 42 mile northeast jaunt up the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, you’ll find yourself walking through the historic Baltimore neighborhood of Fells Point. A home to Frederick Douglass and drinking spot for Edgar Allen Poe, the area was established in 1730 by William Fell, and bore the names “Fell’s Prospect,” [...]
