The Beatles Are Coming! PLUS: Friday Album Releases and the Top 10 Songs of the Week


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Three Weeks Until the Fabtastic Four!



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.  

MUSIC & PROGRAMMING

TOP 10 SONGS OF THE WEEK

  1. Dijon – “Yamaha”
  2. Brother Wallace – “Who’s That”
  3. Chet Faker – “This Time For Real”
  4. CMAT – “When A Good Man Cries”
  5. Jeff Tweedy – “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter”
  6. Magdalena Bay – “This Is the World (I Made It For You)”
  7. waterbaby – “Beck n Call”
  8. Madi Diaz – “Fatal Optimist”
  9. The Bug Club – “Blame Me”
  10. David Byrne – “T-Shirt”

Your weekend listening is here! Check out these new releases:

A$AP Rocky – Don’t Be Dumb
Cavetown – Running With Scissors
The James Hunter Six – Off the Fence
Langhorne Slim – The Dreamin’ Kind
Madison Beer – Locket
They Might Be Giants – Eyeball EP
Peaer – doppelgänger
Sleaford Mods – The Demise of Planet X



**All show times are Eastern Daylight Time

SHEROES Radio (Saturday, 8 AM – 9 AM): 

This week Arizona’s own Courtney Marie Andrews joins SHEROES. Her album Valentine comes out today.

Tiny Desk Radio (Sunday, 7 AM – 8 AM): 

Tiny Desk Radio co-host Anamaria Sayre and Tiny Desk series editor Lars Gotrich present past winners from the Tiny Desk Contest: Gaelynn Lea, Alisa Amador, and The Philharmonik.

The Underground Archives (Sunday, 8 AM – 10 AM):

The  Archives enters into the land of “Cosmic Country” with a deep dive into the Byrds 1968 album, “The Notorious Byrd Brothers”. The Byrds were early adopters of this genre that would eventually morph into the Americana Music genre.

American Routes (Sunday, 3 PM – 5 PM):

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was first shared in words. We’ll hear it in music from the Staple Singers, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone and Bob Dylan, plus classic jazz, reggae and a new generation of singers: the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Norah Jones and Questlove. Then, songs, rhythms and histories from the Georgia Sea Islands Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters.

Detour (Sunday, 5 PM – 7 PM): 

Encore presentation of favorite songs of 2025 that originally aired on December 14, 2025; Music from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Syria/Lebanon/Canada, Canada, USA/India, Finland/Poland, Malawi, Denmark/Finland/Sweden, Slovakia, Ukraine/Canada, France (Corsica), and Nigeria plus plenty from the USA; and gonna leave a brave radio meadowlark in Maryland.

EVENTS



Note: The 10am show is sold out, but we’ve added a 1:30pm show Feb. 21 at Baltimore Soundstage. Doors open at 12:30pm. Hope to see you there!!

On Feb. 21, Baltimore Public Media presents our first-ever Saturday Morning Tunes “K-Pop Demon Hunters Party” at Baltimore Soundstage.

It’s a celebration of the hit new animated movie, featuring the 16-person K-Pop dance group Konnect DMV, as well as singers, movie trivia, and costume contests (with prizes) and more! Presented by Stages Music Arts and Kennedy Krieger.

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February 21 at Baltimore Soundstage. Presented by Stages Music Arts and Kennedy Krieger

Submissions portal now open for 2026 New/Next Film Fest

The 2026 New/Next Film Festival, presented by Baltimore Public Media, will return to The Charles Theatre Oct. 1-4, 2026, and just launched its call for entries. The submissions portal is now open for short- and feature-length films at Film Freeway.

The festival also recently launched a unique project, the New/Next Film Festival home-viewing archive, a comprehensive public list of all films screened throughout the festival’s history alongside regularly updated information regarding where each film can be accessed by the general public via video-on-demand, streaming, and/or physical media.

SUBMIT YOUR FILM



This show is now officially sold out! We hope to see you there. FYI: 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 Design Distillery, Sanity Lounge and Stages Music Arts.

WATCH ARCHIVES:

 

WATCH: Lauren Ruth Ward at a live in-studio session back ini 2023

CONCERT CALENDAR:

1/16 Pinkshift (Ottobar)
1/18 Atmosphere Winter Carnival Tour (9:30 Club)
1/19 -1/20 Del Water Gap and Hannah Jadagu (9:30 Club)
1/21 Curtis Harding (The Atlantis)
1/21 Magic City Hippies (9:30 Club)
1/22 Beats Antique (9:30 Club)
1/23-24 Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (Baltimore Soundstage)
1/24 Ed Hough’s Allman Brothers Collective (Kraushaar Auditorium)
1/24 Gregory Alan Isakov (Anthem)
1/30 The Movement (9:30 Club)
1/31 Landis Harry Larry w/ Micah E. Wood (Creative Alliance)








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Published On: January 16th, 2026Categories: WTMD News