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| “Play your part, play it simple. Listen to what the other guys are doing and complement them. Make them look good, too. If you do that enough times, they’ll turn around and make you look good when it’s your turn.” – Steve Cropper (10/21/41 – 12/3/25) |
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The Top 89 Songs of 2025Which songs topped your list this year? Let us know! Voting for the Top 89 Songs of 2025 is now open! Tune in all day on Tuesday, December 16, as your favorite TMD DJs count down the best songs of the year. See how your favorites stack up! While you listen, be sure to make your year-end, tax-deductible gift to WTMD to support another exciting year of Total Music Discovery in 2026. Thanks for keeping it tuned in to TMD this year. We’re proud to serve as your RadiOasis—in Baltimore and beyond! |
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| Claire Rousay joined Izzi on her show to talk about her latest album—a little death—that came out on Halloween. The two discuss her tour, finding the joy in revisiting a project, and how it feels to finish a trilogy of records. You can listen to the interview here. Claire Rousay is playing a show at 2640 Space in Baltimore on Sunday, December 7, 2025. |
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- Jesse Welles – “Wheel”
- Wolf Alice – “White Horses”
- Tame Impala – “Dracula”
- Molly Tuttle – “The Highway Knows”
- Courney Barnett – “Stay In Your Lane”
- The Belair Lip Bombs – “Hey You”
- Geese – “Cobra”
- Mumford & Sons – “Rubber Band Man feat. Hozier”
- Wednesday – “Townies”
- Freak Slug – “Honest Man”
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| Your weekend listening is here! Check out these new releases: |
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Anna of the North – Girl In a Bottle
Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Live God
NOFX – A to H
Tourist – Music Is Invisible
The Waterboys – Rips From The Cutting Room Floor
Zac Brown Band – Love & Fear |
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| **All show times are Eastern Daylight Time |
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| SHEROES Radio (Saturday, 8 AM – 9 AM): |
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The extraordinary singer, songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist Madison Cunningham returns to SHEROES this week to discuss her third album, Ace, what she has learned about expressing anger, and stepping into a new era of creative liberation, as she is caring less than ever about industry recognition and more about writing music she adores. |
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| Tiny Desk Radio (Sunday, 7 AM – 8 AM): |
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| Anamaria Sayre presents performers yMusic, Julia Holter and Georgia Ann Muldrow. yMusic named themselves for the Gen Y musicians in the sextet, and the composers from whom they have commissioned works. Julia Holter is an avant garde composer and singer, performing her own music at the Tiny Desk. Georgia Ann Muldrow grew up professional jazz musicians for parents in Los Angeles and plays songs to uplift Black people. |
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| The Underground Archives (Sunday, 8 AM – 10 AM): |
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| We’ll be tossing around some pies on the Archives as we celebrate the Rolling Stones 1968 album release party for Beggar’s Banquet. The London party ended up in a custard pie fight. This is spite of the fact that none of the Three Stooges were in attendance. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! |
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| American Routes (Sunday, 3 PM – 5 PM): |
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| From Great Britain to the Big Easy, we explore the sounds of musical and social breakouts. First, we hear how the late British blues pioneer John Mayall broke out of England with his band the Bluesbreakers, bringing British blues to a larger audience. We’ll hear some of Mayall’s sources and contemporaries, like Big Maceo and Eric Clapton. Then, it’s butt shakes and backbeats with Big Freedia, the Queen Diva of New Orleans Bounce, a rhythmic dance music with sources in hip hop and rap, as well as much earlier jazz and R&B. We’ll explore some of those sources, and strut with Kermit Ruffins and Sam Morgan, head “Down Yonder” with Smiley Lewis, and “Take it to the Street” with Rebirth Brass Band. |
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| Detour (Sunday, 5 PM – 7 PM): |
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| Coming up: Remembering Jimmy Cliff; New music by WÖR & Kongero and Freedy Johnston; Old music by Trian and Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited; Music from Belgium/Sweden, Jamaica, USA/Northern Ireland, Guinea/USA, Canada (Nova Scotia), Denmark, Zimbabwe, Scotland, and England plus plenty from the USA; and the pitiful dirtbag butterfly burns old barns. |
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WTMD presents Ed Hough’s Allman Bros Collective all-seated show at Goucher |
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Join us Saturday Jan. 24 for an exclusive all-seated show with Ed Hough’s Allman Brothers Collective at Kraushaar Auditorium in Towson. The show features an all-star lineup of musicians playing our favorite Allman Bros hits and deep cuts, and tickets include parking. The band features a who’s-who of musicians from Baltimore and beyond: Ed Hough (drums & vocals), Cris Jacobs (guitar & vocals), Mookie Siegel (organ & piano), Jonathan Sloane (guitar), Mike Gambone (drums), Dave Markowitz (bass) and Bobby Thompson (guitar & vocals). |
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| Doors open at 6 PM and the show starts at 7:30 PM Saturday, January 24 at Goucher’s Kraushaar Auditorium. Made possible in part by Stages Music Arts. |
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| The Beatles are one of the rare bands that kids, parents and grandparents can all agree on. Join us the morning of Saturday, February 7 for an all-ages celebration of Beatles hits from their beginning (“I Want to Hold Your Hand”) through their later classics (“Here Comes the Sun” and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”). It’s part of our award-winning Saturday Morning Tunes family friendly concert series, featuring the ace Maryland band The Fabtastic Four. See you there! |
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| Saturday Morning Tunes Beatles for Kids starts at 10 AM Saturday, February 7 at The Clarice in College Park. Made possible in part by the Kennedy Krieger Institute. |
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| WATCH: Illiterate Light at September’s First Thursday in 2022 |
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12/05 Love Nut 30th Anniversary of “Bastards of Young” (Recher Theatre)
12/05 Portugal. The Man (Anthem)
12/05-12/21 A Christmas Carol for Edgar Allen Poe (Motor House Theater)
12/06 Ingrid Michaelson (Lincoln Theatre)
12/07 Claire Rousay presents A Little Death (2640 Space)
12/09-12/10 The Beths (9:30 Club)
12/10 JD McPherson – Socks: A Rock n Roll Christmas Tour (Ottobar)
12/12 J Roddy Walston: Christmas to the Bone Tour (Ottobar)
12/12 Eddie 9V w/ Whiskey Feathers (118 North)
12/12 Sweet Leda and Lower Case Blues (Fallston Barrell House)
12/14 Stages’ Band Showcase Series: Zen West (Zen West)
12/17 Built to Spill (Ottobar)
12/18 Speakers of the House (The Admirals Cup)
12/20-12/22 Thievery Corporation (9:30 Club)
12/20 Low Cut Connie w/ Kendra Morris (Rams Head On Stage)
12/26 Jimmie’s Chicken Shack Holidaze Show (Rams Head On Stage)
12/27 Never Never (Fallston Barrell House)
12/27 Old Eastern, The Great Heights Band, Giji, Bond & Bentley (Ottobar)
12/31 All Mighty Senators w/ EZE Jackson New Year’s Eve Bash (Ottobar)
12/31 The Flaming Lips w/ Bartees Strange (Anthem) |
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