Music News Archive

WTMD’s Ad Campaign Wins Awards for Planit and Dean Alexander

Gang, just a short note to let you know that our Vi-Ear-Gra advertising campaign won five Addy Awards over the weekend. Planit won four for the campaign and Dean Alexander won one for the photography. Here’s Planit’s press release about all 31 awards they won this year.

Planit and Dean are great WTMD supporters and friends. We congratulate them and thank them for all they do for WTMD. Here are just some of the ads and of course you can see one blown up into a huge banner hanging over our new space at Towson City Center.

Click here to see just some of the ads and you can get your own Vi-Ear-Gra Tote bag with a membership contribution.

WTMD and MPT: Concert for the Chesapeake Bay 2013

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Sunday, April 28, 2013 6-8PM LIVE on MPT and 89.7 WTMD Hear great bands and volunteer to help the Chesapeake Bay! Join WTMD and Maryland Public Television for the Concert for the Chesapeake Bay. The Show is cohosted by WTMD’s General Manager Stephen Yasko and MPT’s Yolanda Vazquez. Featuring The Bellvederes, Kelly Bell Band, Bobby…

Weekend on the Radio 3/21 – 3/24

SamG

This is a very full weekend in Baltimore and beyond. There’s great music all over the area including Shovels and Rope and Ivan Nevilles Dumpstaphunk. There’s a good bye party and parade, it’s Maryland Day, and if that wasn’t enough – the Cherry Blossoms are blooming. Find out what’s happening this weekend by listening to…

Music Madness: Day Four–Semi Finals and Finals Today!

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Below are the links to open Music Madness Fund Drive Polls. Remember, you’re in a song to song competition. Think about how songs compare along with each artist’s music and lyrics. This is more about the music than the artists, so please don’t just vote for your all time favorite artists. Progress Report: The official…

New Beach House ‘Wishes’ video is sheer insanity

Sam

Beach House just released the delightfully bizarre video for their song “Wishes,” directed by Eric Wareheim (of Tim and Eric) and starring Ray Wise (of many B-movies). Wise lip-syncs the song, standing on a football field, while cheerleaders and colorfully dressed “athletes” perform “sports.” It’s best just to see for yourself: How did this come…

How The Postal Service Was Formed

Tyler

We know The Postal Service constructed one of indie rock’s most popular albums ten years ago, we know they are releasing some new music and will be touring together this summer. But there may be one question lingering in all of our minds. How did the band get together? It may not have been as…

Get our New Vi-Ear-Gra Tote Bag!

Kristin

Who says Public Radio Tote Bags Are Boring? Listeners tell us they get excited when they tune into WTMD. No wonder their ears swell up when great music is played on the station. Now you can let the world know you get big ears when you’re out and about with our Vi-Ear-Gra tote bag. Two…

NPR Music ‘First Listen Live’ concert with Josh Ritter

Megan

Popular singer-songwriter Josh Ritter is performing his new album, “The Beast In Its Tracks,” in its entirety at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City’s Greenwich Village on Monday, March 4th at 8:00 p.m. ET. Watch it live on our site, courtesy of NPR Music: Josh Ritter Live at Le Poisson Rouge

Weekend on the Radio 02/28-03/03

Erik

This weekend, break out your pompoms and megaphones and try out for the Ravens cheerleading squad, catch the acerbic wit of John Stewart at the Meyerhoff, catch a cool aerial show at the Baltimore Theater Project at Mt. Vernon, and show us your….fur?….as the Patterson Theater in Highlandtown hosts the comedy canine/human team Mutts Gone…

The Bayou: DC’s Killer Joint

Erik

This morning, Vinny Perrone, one of the filmakers behind the new documentary on the Nation’s Capital’s lost rock club, The Bayou joined me. The Bayou: DC’s killer joint airs on Maryland Public Televsion tonight at 9pm. The somewhat tucked-away club under an elevated Georgetown overpass holds many memories for Baltimoreans, who often made the trek…

Weekend on the Radio 02/21-02/24

Erik

This week, buy some high-end crafts at the Convention Center- or at least pretend you are, sample some home-brewed beer at the EMP Collective, find out what it’s like to be a sports mascot and catch the legendary leader of the Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman in Hampden! For more, click here. WOTR_022113_ED_RICHMAN

Love Hurts: Valentine’s Day on WTMD

Megan

On Valentine’s Day, WTMD presents both sides of the universal muse that is love. From the jump for joy elation to the living, burning hell that is love, WTMD brings you the greatest songs of both joy and pain. Rock, Soul, Country, Blues and more. Love Hurts on WTMD. Beginning at 7am on Feb. 14th.

Weekend on the Radio 02/07-02/10

Erik

For the cure to your Super Bowl hangover, I ask you this: what’s more American than football? CARS! Yep, so many of them at the Convention Center this weekend, in fact, that you may come facet to face with your dream set of wheels. Or if you want to EAT your way out of your…

Laura Burhenn joins Postal Service for new tour

Sam

Singer/songwriter Laura Burhenn will join the Postal Service on their 10th anniversary tour. Photo by Shervin Lainez.

Mynabirds singer/songwriter Laura Burhenn will join the Postal Service for their 10th anniversary tour, officials announced today. It’s huge news for Burhenn, a longtime D.C. musician who performed as a solo artist and one half of Georgie James before moving to Omaha, Neb. and founding the Mynabirds. Burhenn joins the touring lineup of Ben Gibbard,…

WTMD’s Super Bowl Bet

Megan

I’ve thrown down pigskin to Matt Martin, General Manager of KALW in San Francisco. It’s the biggest musical bet in football history! If The Ravens win the Super Bowl this Sunday, KALW, San Francisco’s community news, information and music station will play Baltimore Bands at the end of their local news program for a…

Weekend on the Radio 01/31-02/03

Erik

It’s a Super Baltimore weekend! Get a preview of one of the Baltimore Band Block Party participants in Fed Hill (before it goes nuts Sunday night), go green and enjoy some good vegetarian grub in Mt. Washington and embarrass yourself with your silly singing skills at Cafe Hon (where Landis Expandis is back at the…