Alex Cortright speaks with director Stephen Williams about his new feature film, Chevalier
Chevalier was inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner.
TMD morning host Alex Cortright speaks with Jean Dawson
'TMD morning host Alex Cortright speaks with Jean Dawson about his great, ground-breaking new album, Chaos Now.
Gina Schock of The Go-Go’s talks Rock Hall induction, new book ‘Made in Hollywood’
Dundalk's own Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gina Schock of The Go-Go's talks to WTMD morning host Alex Cortright about the Rock Hall induction, her new book "Made In Hollywood", her first (life changing) [...]
Jon Batiste on WTMD (Congrats on the Oscar!)
WTMD · Jon Batiste interview ICYMI Jon Batiste joined WTMD morning host Alex Cortright last month (March '21) to talk about his new album WE ARE, writing music in Carol Burnett's old dressing room, meeting [...]
The War and Treaty interview
Congratulations to The War and Treaty for their #1 Song of 2020 for "Five More Minutes"! Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blount, the husband and wife duo known to music fans everywhere as The War [...]
Del McCoury : Interview with the Bluegrass Legend
Del McCoury has lots of stories to tell. But they aren't written down anywhere, so you've got to get them direct from the source. Del tells stories at his shows, and he and his band [...]
Interview with Joan Osborne
Beloved performer and song-writer Joan Osborne, will be releasing new music in the new year, her first new music in six years. Joan is coming back to Baltimore to perform this weekend and joins WTMD's [...]
Joel Hodgson Interview
Joel Hodgson, the creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000, is retiring soon. The Great Cheesy Movie Circus tour comes to the Lyric this week. Joel talked with WTMD's Sam Gallant ahead of the show to [...]
Interview with Mark Wenner of the Nighthawks
On Wednesday the legendary blues band The Nighthawks will be rocking the Gordon Center at the JCC as a part of their Summer Concert Series. Nighthawks front man Mark Wenner talked with WTMD's Sam Gallant [...]
Preview of the 2019 Summer Solstice Faerie Festival at Marshy Point Nature Center
We celebrate nature and the Summer Solstice this weekend with a wild adventure at Marshy Point Nature Center, the new home of the much beloved Faerie Festival. Sam Gallant talks with the founders of the [...]
Tyler Ramsey: In Studio Performance and Interview
Tyler Ramsey has a new record, For The Morning, out now on Fantasy Records. The former member of Band of Horses stopped by the WTMD studios and talks with Alex Cortright about his new album, [...]
Carlos Santana on the WTMD Morning Show
Carlos Santana is one of the most prolific and iconic guitarists and performers and he has been for the past 50 years. Alex Cortright spoke with Santana about his new album, Africa Speaks, as well [...]
2019 Maryland Film Festival Preview
The Maryland Film Festival is back. WTMD's Alex Cortright talks with Scott Braid about all the great music based films this year. Plus some other general recommendations for you for this full weekend of films. [...]
Music and Conversation with Noura Mint Seymali
Noura Mint Seymali has traveled a great distance to get to Baltimore from her homeland of Mauritania. She has come for a good reason, to educate Baltimore students about the blending of traditional and popular [...]
Alex Interviews Dan Deacon about BSO PULSE
Baltimore’s electronic visionary with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. This is going to be cool! ‘Pulse’ returns on Thursday, January 17, 2019 with Dan Deacon. Deacon spoke with WTMD morning host Alex Cortright to share details [...]
Get to know Briston Maroney : Live In-Studio at WTMD
Knoxville-born singer and guitarist Briston Maroney joins Alex Cortright for live music and conversation. In this candid discussion, Maroney talks about his experience on American Idol when he was just 15 years old, finding his [...]
Music and Conversation with Soccer Mommy
Nashville's Soccer Mommy - led by singer-songwriter Sophie Allison - joined Galler in studio to play a few songs (first session as a 5-piece) and chat about their debut album, Clean (Fat Possum). She also opened [...]
John Waters talks “Indecent Exposure”
Baltimore icon John Waters visits Alex Cortright to discuss “Indecent Exposure’, the new career-spanning visual arts retrospective of Waters' work now at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Waters talks about why he’s kept his art [...]
Max Savage of Parquet Courts on performing with the BSO and working with Danger Mouse
Alex Cortright chats with Max Savage of Parquet Courts about their upcoming BSO Pulse concert on Thursday, November 29. In their discussion, Alex speaks with Max about recording Parquet Courts new album ‘Wide Awake’ in [...]
Melbourne’s Oh Pep! In-Studio at WTMD
Oh Pep! joined Galler in-studio to play a few songs from their new album "I Wasn't Only Thinking About You..." (ATO Records). They open up about honesty in songwriting, getting their start as high-schoolers in [...]
Hozier on The Past, The Present and Truth in Music
Alex Cortright spoke with Hozier earlier this month at the Lincoln Theatre in D.C. They talked about his forthcoming album (due in ’19), taking time off, Blues and Gospel music, connecting with Mavis Staples and [...]
Interview with Donavon Frankenreiter
The surfing and singing troubadour, Donavon Frankenreiter, comes to town in the midst of a personal-record-setting, 39 consecutive-date-tour, up and down the East Coast. Donavon took some time to talk with Sam Gallant about balancing [...]
Music, Storytelling and Virtual Reality with Thomas Dolby
Baltimore’s Thomas Dolby (yeah, we can claim him now that he’s taught in Charm City for years) has a short U.S. tour this month and next that brings him to Center Stage on August 8th [...]
Sunflower Bean – Live and In-Studio
Sunflower Bean joined Galler in-studio to play a few songs from their new album, Twentytwo in Blue, and to offer some advice for life on the road - like which is the healthiest food chain [...]
2018 May Day Fairie Festival: The Final Fay
Kubiando! The May Day Fairie Festival comes to an end after 27 years of delighting children of all ages. This final weekend of activities on Spoutwood Farm in Glen Rock PA, is an epic way [...]
Music and Conversation with Albert Hammond Jr.
Albert Hammond Jr. recently visited WTMD with his great new band to play songs from his new solo album, Francis Trouble. The Strokes guitarist presents three new songs are as rockin’ as they are catchy, [...]
A Conversation with Tanya Donelly
Tanya Donelly called Alex Cortright on Thursday morning to talk about Belly’s forthcoming album, Dove - the band’s first in more than 20 years, and their headlining performance at WTMD’s First Thursday on May 3, [...]
A Conversation with Colin Meloy of The Decemberists
WTMD Morning Show host Alex Cortright caught up with The Decemberists frontman, Colin Meloy, to chat about the band's new album, I'll Be Your Girl. They discuss working with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Xiu [...]
“Aubergine” at Everyman Theatre: A conversation with actor Jefferson A. Russell
Actor and former Baltimore City cop Jefferson A. Russell joins WTMD morning host Alex Cortright for a discussion about Everyman Theatre’s new production of Julia Cho’s play, Aubergine, a poignant story about food, family, memory [...]
Typhoon perform on the TMD Morning Show
Kyle Morton and his Oregon-based indie rock band Typhoon return with their first new collection in five years - and Offerings was worth the wait. This 70-minute concept album is divided into four distinct parts, [...]
smARTbeats on Young At Heart with 123 Andres!
smARTbeats returns Saturday, December 2nd, during the weekly children's music program Young At Heart on WTMD. On this month's smARTbeats segment, Young At Heart host, Lisa Mathews, sits down with Young Audiences roster artists and Latin Grammy winners, Andrés Salguero and [...]
St. Vincent on the TMD Morning Show
St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) called our morning host Alex Cortright early on Halloween to talk about her new album, Masseduction. They spoke about misreading album titles, questionable fan behavior and the playfulness of late [...]
Anderson East – Music and Conversation
Anderson East stopped by the WTMD studios to play a few songs and chat with Galler about what he's been up to, like collaborating with Ed Sheeran on his new single, and working again with [...]
A conversation with Randy Newman
Randy Newman is one of our greatest songwriters and perhaps our greatest satirist. Dark Matter is his first studio album in nine years and this week, as Newman performed in the region, our morning man [...]
Manchester Orchestra in studio at WTMD
Andy Hull of and Robert McDowell of Manchester Orchestra dropped by the TMD studios to play some songs from their upcoming album, A Black Mile To The Surface," and an older favorite. They talk to Matt [...]
John Paul White on the TMD Morning Show
John Paul White visited WTMD this week to play a few new songs and to chat with our morning host, Alex Cortright. After the breakup of The Civil Wars, White stepped completely out of music [...]
Jana Hunter of Lower Dens on the upcoming BSO Pulse collaboration
Jana Hunter of Lower Dens stopped by the WTMD Studios prior to her BSO Pulse collaboration to speak with Sam Sessa about getting her start playing violin in her school orchestra, and the connection she [...]
An inside look at Everyman Theatre’s ‘Los Otros’ with composer Michael John LaChiusa
WTMD morning host Alex Cortright sat down with composer, and multiple Tony Award nominee, Michael John LaChiusa to discuss Everyman Theatre’s new play, Los Otros. They talk about this compelling new play, writing music for [...]
A Conversation with “Bright Midnight” Author, Chris Formant
If you’re looking for fun novel to pass these frigid January days, I think you may enjoy a new rock ‘n roll murder mystery called, “Bright Midnight”. Author Chris Formant stopped by last month to [...]
Margaret Glaspy Performs “You And I” and “You Don’t Want Me”
New York artist Margaret Glaspy visited ‘TMD morning host Alex Cortright earlier this month and we thought you’d like to hear some of her music from our session. Tonight, Glaspy plays her first headlining gig [...]
M. Ward on The TMD Morning Show
You may know M. Ward from one of his many musical endeavors. He's made a name for himself as a great singer and songwriter on his own, and as part of She & Him with [...]
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips installing art at AVAM
The American Visionary Art Museum is opening their new year-long exhibit this weekend. The Big Hope Show opens to the public Saturday and the party is Friday [...]
Sisqo and the making of ‘The Thong Song,’ 15 years later
15 years after "The Thong Song" peaked on the Billboard charts, R&B singer Sisqo shares the stories behind his most notorious single (Handout image, graphic by Jason George) A devilish grin [...]
Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner opens up about her songwriting process for new solo album
Baltimore singer and songwriter Jenn Wasner is working on a new full-length solo album under the name Flock of Dimes. (Photo by Mickey Freeland) With Wye Oak on hiatus from touring, Jenn Wasner [...]
Listen: Adam Lempel on Baltimore Hit Parade
Sam Sessa's guest is Adam Lempel on this episode from the Batlimore Hit Parade Archives. Adam is a musician and composer who performs with the bands Adam Lempel and the Heartbeats as well as Weekends [...]
Listen: Black Lung on Baltimore Hit Parade
Black Lung has the goal to be the loudest band in town, their new record is very heavy. See what Sam Sessa has to say about them on this episode from the Baltimore Hit Parade [...]
Listen: Celebration on Baltimore Hit Parade
Sam Sessa hosts living legends on this episode from the Baltimore Hit Parade Archives. Check out the thriving music scene, plus Celebration performs live in our studio. https://soundcloud.com/wtmd/celebration-baltimore-hit-parade
Listen: Ceramic Tones on Baltimore Hit Parade
David Neil Adams is the man behind Ceramic Tones, who makes music by beating his knuckles on ceramic plates and does spoken word as well. Check out this interesting interview, hosted by Sam Sessa, from [...]
Listen: Deaf Scene on Baltimore Hit Parade
Sam Sessa's house band is Deaf Scene on this episode from the Baltimore Hit Parade Archives. Deaf Scene is an instrumental drum-bass-guitar trio experimental group from Baltimore. https://soundcloud.com/wtmd/deaf-scene-baltimore-hit-parade
Listen: Horse Lords on Baltimore Hit Parade
The instrumental quartet Horse Lords are one of the leaders in Baltimore's experimental music scene. Check out the interview with Sam Sessa from the Baltimore Hit Parade Archives. https://soundcloud.com/wtmd/horse-lords-baltimore-hit-parade
Listen: Lauren Ruth Ward on Baltimore Hit Parade
On this episode from the Baltimore Hit Parade Archives, Sam Sessa has the first radio interview from talented and promising singer and songwriter Lauren Ruth Ward. https://soundcloud.com/wtmd/lauren-ruth-ward-baltimore-hit-parade
Listen: Roomrunner on Baltimore Hit Parade
Sam Sessa talks with Roomrunner on this episode of Baltimore Hit Parade Archives. Roomrunner is a loud and heavy band who is releasing their new EP 'Separate' that has melodic and thoughtful passages. https://soundcloud.com/wtmd/roomrunner-baltimore-hit-parade
Letitia VanSant’s Record Release Party
Letitia VanSant visits 'TMD to share her new album, Parts And Labor, play a new song called 'Bootstraps,' and to chat with morning show host Alex Cortright about her record release party at the Baltimore [...]
Cris Jacobs and Kenny Liner on WTMD (for a very good cause!)
Cris Jacobs and Kenny Liner, known for their band The Bridge, join morning show host Alex Cortright for a cracklin' Blind Faith cover and to speak about the Hopewell Cancer Support fundraiser on Saturday, February [...]
Listen: Red Jones on Baltimore Hit Parade
In this episode of Baltimore Hit Parade Archive, Sam Sessa interviews Red Jones, who has been picking the blues in Baltimore for almost 30 years. https://soundcloud.com/wtmd/red-jones-baltimore-hit-parade
Listen: Sun Club on Baltimore Hit Parade
Energetic Baltimore rock band Sun Club is Sam Sessa's house band on this archive episode of Baltimore Hit Parade.
Dan Deacon talks new album ‘Gliss Riffer,’ the craziest place he’s ever played and more
Baltimore electronic musician Dan Deacon poses by his signature on the WTMD wall. (photo by Sam Sessa) Dan Deacon is one of Baltimore's most popular and influential musicians. And after spending several years [...]
Listen: Kristen Toedtman on Baltimore Hit Parade
Soul singer songwriter Kristen Toedtman is live in studio to support her new album. https://soundcloud.com/wtmd/kristen-toedtman-baltimore-hit-parade
Video: Delta Spirit performs “California” live in-studio
In-studio performance by Delta Spirit at WTMD 89.7FM.
Video: June Star performs “Waiting for the Man” live in-studio
June Star covers Velvet Underground's "Waiting for the Man" for WTMD's Live Lunch on December 5, 2014.
Sunny Side Up: Charlie Mars
Charlie Mars accentuates the first 'A' in WTMD's format (adult, album alternative). His elegant acoustic grooves and the unapologetic romantic conquests fleshed out in his lyrics, create moments of mature nocturnal listening. The always charming [...]
Sunny Side Up: Cowbell
British guitar & drum duo Cowbell stirred up WTMD in 2014 with a rockin', bluesy little number with slide guitar and crashing cymbals called "Talulah." Despite the minimal instruments, Jack Sandham & Wednesday Lyle brought [...]
Sunny Side Up: Sallie Ford
Sallie Ford ditched her surfy guitar-drvien rock with her all-male bandmates (The Sound Outside) for a girls-only punk group with a sonic sense of adventure. Ford's debut album under just her name, Slap Back, features [...]
Sunny Side Up: Boy and Bear
Australian indie-folk quintet Boy & Bear's latest album Harlequin Dream sets wild scenes of escapism and surreal dreams. The tight production, memorable guitar riffs & frontman Dave Hosking's distinctive voice bring this band into their [...]
A John Waters Christmas
John Waters is many things; director, writer, comedian- and he is synonymous with Christmas in Baltimore. He is putting on his annual show tonight at the Baltimore Soundstage. WTMD's Sam Gallant spoke with John Waters [...]
Sunny Side Up: Sylvan Esso
PASTE Magazine just named "Hey Mami" as their song of the year. And Sylvan Esso's other single "Coffee" may well top the listener generated countdown of WTMD's Top 89 Songs of 2014. The odd, yet [...]
Sunny Side Up: Bahamas
Bahamas is Afie, the latest album from Canadian virtuoso guitarist and witty, yet laid-back singer/songwriter Afie Jurvanen, features on the cover, a wedding ring the word, "Afie" inscribed. And the record seemingly serves as a [...]
Sunny Side Up: Delta Spirit
Claustrophobia and Super Storm Sandy presented a writing and recording challenge for Matt Vasquez and his mates in Delta Spirit. Their rat-infested, basement rehearsal room in Brooklyn flooded, damaging equipment and creating a gloom the [...]
Full Dan Auerbach Interview
The Black Keys play the Royal Farms Arena tonight, December 4th, along with St. Vincent I Had the chance to talk to guitarist/singer and self-described studio nerd Dan Auerbach about the new, groove-laiden album Turn [...]
Video: Letitia Van Sant Live In-Studio
Letitia Van Sant performs her song "When I Was Your Age" for WTMD's Live Lunch on October 31, 2014. http://youtu.be/YzmJvdUJF5g?list=UURSZ_LEtugNZElh3YThEarA
Video: St. Paul & The Broken Bones Live In-Studio
St. Paul & The Broken Bones perform "Call Me" for 89.7 WTMD's Live Lunch on Thursday, October 16th, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXKub24ofk
Video: Ruut Live In-Studio
Ruut performs "Canyon" for 89.7 WTMD's Live Lunch on Friday, October 10th, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qLQjhIWW_M
Video: Jukebox The Ghost Live In-Studio
Jukebox The Ghost performs "Empire" for 89.7 WTMD's Live Lunch on Friday, August 22nd, 2014.
Video: Carl Filipiak and the Jimi Jazz Band Live In-Studio
Carl Filipiak and the Jimi Jazz Band perform "Wakan Tanka" for 89.7 WTMD's Live Lunch on August 8, 2014.
WTMD’s 5 emerging stars of Baltimore’s music scene, as heard on The World Cafe
Baltimore experimental rockers Celebration are one of the city's rising stars. Yesterday, NPR's the World Cafe spotlighted Baltimore's music and culture as part of the show's "Sense of Place Series." Host David Dye [...]
Video: Max Frost Live In-Studio
Max Frost performing "White Lies" live on WTMD 89.7
Video: Rubblebucket Live In-Studio
Rubblebucket performs for WTMD's Live Lunch!
Video: Peter Matthew Bauer Live In-Studio
Peter Matthew Bauer performs "Liberation" for WTMD's Live Lunch on October 3, 2014.
Video: Sondre Lerche Live In-Studio
Sondre Lerche performs "Bad Law" at 89.7 WTMD's Live Lunch on September 26, 2014.
Warren Haynes Plays Dead w. BSO
This Friday at Pier Six Pavilion, Warren Haynes joins the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for a Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration. The Gov't Mule frontman and Allman Brothers guitarist channels Jerry by plugging in his 70's era [...]
Sunny Side Up: Margaret Valentine
Upstate New York country crossover singer/songwriter Margaret Valentine possesses an ache in her voice that recalls Rosanne Cash. Add string arrangements to her honest songs, and you'll notice a kind-of mournful quality to her music. [...]
Sunny Side Up: Vance Joy
Australian uke man Vance Joy stopped by WTMD just before he won the coveted Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal at the APRA Awards Down Under. And not long after that, Atlantic Records [...]
Sunny Side Up: Asgeir
Icelandic singer Asgeir has sold more copies of his debut record in his native country than first efforts by more famous fellow countrymen & women. And despite that just everybody is fluent in English, he [...]
Sunny Side Up: Lucius
Lucius brought one of the most fun and best-dressed sessions we've had on WTMD's Sunny Side Up. The new-wave meets girl group alt pop band from Brooklyn features two female lead singers, Holly and Jess, [...]
Sunny Side Up: Twin Forks
It's kind of like starting over for Chris Carrabba. And that's just the way the Dashboard Confessional frontman wants it! It's very blue collar the way he's going about fronting his new Americana harmonizing band, [...]
Sunny Side Up: Ozomatli
Ozomatli, the Latin underground funk, hip-hop & world beat party instigators from Los Angeles, are back with a new album called "Place in the Sun." They stopped by WTMD for Sunny Side Up session to [...]
Sunny Side Up: Del McCoury Band
There's nobody you'll ever come across in music that's as genuine of a gentleman as Del McCoury. AND he helped put Maryland on the festival map, by founding the annual Memorial Day camping extravaganza DelFest! [...]
Sunny Side Up: Dan Croll
Dan Croll, a bespectacled, Buddy Holly lookalike from Liverpool, put out his debut record Sweet Disarray in April. A deluxe edition featuring collaborations with Ladysmith Black Mombazo and The Very Best comes out next month. [...]
Sunny Side Up: Eric Hutchinson
Takoma Park native Eric Hutchinson has a knack for making rhythmic, highly-addictive pop confections (think "OK, It's Alright With Me," "Watching You Watching Him," "Rock and Roll," etc.), ever since he was signed to Madonna's [...]
Sunny Side Up: Courtney Barnett
"Avant Gardner" by Courtney Barnett, the angst-ridden, stand-up worthy recounting of an allergic reaction has quickly connected with WTMD listeners. But aside from her wit and conversational observations, this Aussie artist impresses with her surfy [...]
Sunny Side Up: Robert Ellis
The twang of Texas-native Robert Ellis draws you into his songs. It's warm and intensely expressive, like Jason Isbell's or Jesse Malin's. His second album on New West Records The Lights From The Chemical Plant [...]
Sunny Side Up: Lake Street Dive
A viral video and an a star-studded concert provided the spark for Lake Street Dive to become one of the hottest bands in the country right now. The Brill-Building, jazz-inflected pop harmonies will get your [...]
Sunny Side Up: Amos Lee
Amos Lee's warm, soulful voice has been a staple of WTMD almost as long as we've been on the air. So it's always welcome when the Philly-native and former teacher puts out a new record. [...]
Sunny Side Up: Butch Walker
Butch Walker spent the 90's fronting Georgia rockers The Marvelous 3 and quite a lot of time after that crafting hits for the like of Pink and Katy Perry. But when the in-demand songwriter and [...]
Sunny Side Up: The Devil Makes Three
The energetic, gospel-infused punk-Americana of The Devil Makes Three made for a fun, toe-tapping recent session on Sunny Side Up. The latest by the veteran Vermont band is I'm a Stranger Here, which Nashville heavyweight [...]
The Bridge Rock the Hope
The Hopewell Cancer Support's 8th annual Concert For Hope takes place Saturday (2/22) at Baltimore Soundstage and starring The Bridge. There will also be a live auction, a VIP reception with Smooth Kentucky (feat. Cris [...]
Baltimore Backtrack: Emerson’s Old Timey Custard-Suckin’ Band
If you looked at a list of the names of all the Baltimore bands from the past 40 years, one in particular is impossible to ignore. The liner notes from Emerson's first and only [...]
Amos Lee Loves B’More
Philly native Amos Lee dropped by the TMD performance studio as he got ready for his gig at the Modell Lyric last night. The singer-songwriter with the James Taylor-like warmth in his voice just put [...]
Sunny Side Up: John Murry
Southern singer-songwriter John Murry writes love songs with deep scars. They painfully trace a battle to kick an opiate addiction and separating from his family. But peek into his new album The Graceless Age, and [...]
Baltimore Hit Parade playlist – Super City, Nov. 5
Super City was the house band on Baltimore Hit Parade. Super City is a new Baltimore band which brings together a prog-rock flourishes with strong pop sensibilities. Greg Wellham and Dan Ryan, two [...]
Sunny Side Up: Ivan & Alyosha
The upbeat melodies and luminous harmonies of Seattle’s Ivan & Alyosha are simply pleasant to hear. The band, named after a couple of characters in a Dostoevsky novel, sing more of family and personal struggles [...]
Sunny Side Up: Vienna Teng
Acclaimed piano balladeer Vienna Teng took four years off from music to get her master's degree in sustainability studies at the University of Michigan. She emerged even more passionate about music and found inspiration from [...]
Sunny Side Up: Treetop Flyers
When Treetop Flyers sing and play their guitars, a golden-hued warmth comes out of out of the speakers. It's as if they're channeling the sunset sounds of the 70's, when country-folk melodies and comforting harmonies [...]
Sunny Side Up: Little Comets
On Little Comets' smart confection "Jennifer," the subject's timidness is a hindrance in a relationship. "Why'd you have to be so taciturn?"- might be the coolest line of the summer! The song's unusual rhythms, cascading [...]
Sunny Side Up: Valerie June
Not since Adele passed through the old TMD studios on the way to her Saturday Night Live debut and worldwide fame, has an artist made the hair of everybody in the room stand up like [...]
Sunny Side Up: Johnnyswim
Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez make up the married musical duo and a VH1 You Outta Know artist Johnnywsim. And while the Nashville couple is known for their playful answers when it comes to the [...]
Sunny Side Up: Mike Doughty
Circles, Super Bon Bon.... is the abbreviated title to Mike Doughty's new album of old songs! The well-read songwriter with the expressive, jazzy baritone returns with a reworking of Soul Coughing songs. [...]
Sunny Side Up: Blondfire
Blondfire, an LA band with roots in Michigan and even Brazil gave us one of this summer's sweetest sounding Sunny Side Up sessions. Formed by siblings Bruce and Erica Driscoll in 2004, the group first [...]
Sunny Side Up: Surfer Blood
John Paul Pitts possesses one the great screams in alternative rock music. It's fun to hear it come out of nowhere in songs he initially sings in an interesting choir-boy kind of way, ala [...]
Sunny Side Up: James McCartney
If all you saw were the eyes, you'd swear you were looking at his dad. But for James McCartney, the unfair comparisons stop there. For one thing, he's very shy compared to his famous father's [...]
Sunny Side Up: Escondido
He came from Iowa, she from British Columbia, and thanks to a chance encounter in Nashville, trumpeter and guitarist Tyler James Geertsma and singer Jessica Maros formed the dusty duo Escondido. Their evocative, sexy, Southwestern, [...]
Sunny Side Up: Kodaline
Irish quartet Kodaline make shimmering, emotive, romantic alt-rock that's sure to be cosumed this summer, courtesy of their full-lenght debut, In a Perfect World (which is charting well in the UK) It's anthemic music with stadium [...]
Sunny Side Up: Ryan Montbleau Band
Brimming with talent and poised to evolve from go-to East Coast live act to must-listen-to. nationally-acclaimed album maker, Boston native Ryan Montbleau's journeyed to the Crescent City to craft his latest album. For Higher features [...]
Sunny Side Up: Madeleine Peyroux
The exquisite, beguiling Madeleine Peyroux has always excelled at interpreting the beautiful words of others. Whether it's Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight," "Dance Me Till the End of Love" by Leonard Cohen or Dylan's "You're [...]
Sunny Side Up: Cold Fronts
Cold Fronts, a melodic garage-rock band straight out of Philly's fortified DIY scene, played an energetic set on Sunny Side Up last weekend. Led by singer/guitarist Craig Almquist and drummer Alex Smith (pictured, right), their [...]
Sunny Side Up: Little Green Cars
Leave it to the folks at Glassnote Records to find bands from across the pond who look to our shores for inspiration. First, England's Mumford & Sons and now from the Emerald Isle, anthemic, roots-folk [...]
Sunny Side Up: Wake Owl
Wake Owl started out as a vehicle for Pacific Northwest singer/songwriter and former rapper Colyn Cameron. But it's now starting to take shape as a full-fledged band. Their new EP Wild Country (out on Vagrant [...]
Sunny Side Up: Milo Greene
A singular band of multi-instrumentalists and vocalists, the California group who call themselves Milo Greene make shimmering, cinematic rock. And given all their hours traveling across the country by van, it sure helps if to [...]
Sunny Side Up: The Lone Bellow
Brooklyn trio The Lone Bellow are poised for a potentially big 2013. The country-soul three-part harmonies and back-porch rhythms on their self-titled debut should satisfy recent cravings for authentic American music. But what really makes [...]
Sunny Side Up: Churchill
The Denver folk-rock band Churchill may have Morrissey to thank for thier big break. The avid animal rights advocate refused to play Jimmy Kimmel Live because the scruffy hunter pimps on reality show Duck Dynasty [...]
Sunny Side Up: Matt Costa
http://youtu.be/p8iI92FeFDI Matt Costa left behind his sunny Southern California comfort zone for gloomy Glasgow, where he recorded his new self-titled album with Mogwai collaborator Tony Doogan. The results are breathtaking! With members of Belle and [...]
Sunny Side Up: Ra Ra Riot
Though there had been flirtations on previous albums, keyboards really explode on Ra Ra Riot's latest Beta Love. The Brooklyn by way of Syracuse University quintet last year parted ways with their longtime cello player [...]
Baltimore at Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival is in full swing in Park City Utah, and Baltimore is making a strong showing. Matt Porterfield's film "I Used To Be Darker" is screening, and Maryland Film Festival director Jed [...]
Sunny Side Up: Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite
Alternative music star Ben Harper and blues harmonica king Charlie Musselwhite, two surprising kindred musical spirits, release their first album together, the scorching Get Up on January 29th. They came together over their love of [...]
Sunny Side Up: Bronze Radio Return
The six members of Bronze Radio Return, who met up at a prestigious music school in Hartford, Connecticut, made their second album Shake Shake Shake in the unlikely music hotbed of Norman, Oklahoma. It makes sense [...]
Sunny Side Up: Vintage Trouble
For Vintage Trouble, a band who wanted to stand out among the increasingly crowded field of retro r&b acts, they turned to friends in high places and their rabid group of fans. Having legendary rock [...]
Sunny Side Up: The Right Now
Along with Wilco & J.C. Brooks and the Uptown Sound, our Sunny Side Up guest from this past Saturday (12/22/12), The Right Now, can be included on a list of cool, must-see bands from The [...]
Sunny Side Up: Justin Townes Earle
Justin Townes Earle has found his niche making cosmopolitan Americana/ gospel and proving he's successfully emerged from the shadow of his roots-rocking twangy troubadour father Steve Earle. Geek chic Justin even looks the part of [...]
Sunny Side Up: Trixie Whitley
Things have come full circle for Trixie Whitley, the Belgian-American with the emotionally searing voice and stand out in Daniel Lanois' project Black Dub. It was the super-producer (U2, Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan) who lobbied [...]
Sunny Side Up: Neil Halstead
Neil Halstead has done it again! He's made another superb, artfully-crafted acoustic record in Palindrome Hunches that's as easy to cozy up to this season as an autumn sweater- remarkable given the Cornwall, England native's [...]
Sunny Side Up: Meiko
Meiko, a charming and funny Southern girl at heart, cut her musical teeth waiting tables at LA's the Hotel Cafe, the same vibrant singer/songwriter club that produced the likes of Ingrid Michaelson and Sarah Bareilles [...]
Sunny Side Up: Atlas Genius
Make good music and they will come! Taking a page out of Field of Dreams (though, it's probably more cricket than baseball) is Atlas Genius, an Aussie band who, when they first crafted the shimmering [...]
Sunny Side Up: Delta Rae
Delta Rae may be the best-looking band to pass through the TMD studios. There! Got your attention! But here at WTMD, we're all about substance over style, and it certainly took more than the North [...]
Sunny Side Up: Mindy Smith
When Mindy Smith talks, she sounds like the Long Island-native that she is, but when she sings, it's if she lived the life of a coal miner's daughter or an Appalachian daughter of a preacher [...]
Sunny Side Up: Charlie Mars
He might not have Mary Louise Parker parading around in his music videos anymore, but Mississippi-born Charlie Mars still oozes cool. His new album Blackberry Light continues the seductive acoustic pop found on his last [...]
Sunny Side Up: The Wallflowers
Jakob Dylan took some time off from the band he's fronted for 23 years to make a couple of acclaimed, sparser-sounding solo albums (including the terrific Women and Country w. Neko Case) Despite's Dylan's solo adventure [...]
Sunny Side Up: Langhorne Slim & The Law
Bucks County, Pennsylvania native Langhorne Slim has been doing the folk-punk-Americana thing before Mumford & Sons turned banjo & upright bass into gold & platinum. Comfortable just to reach people through his words & soulful [...]
Sunny Side Up: Kat Edmonson
Jazz-folk singer Kat Edmonson possesses a remarkable voice that dreamily recalls a more carefree time. Her second album, the immaculately arranged Way Down Low features a duet with Lyle Lovett, a Brian Wilson cover and songs that breathe new [...]
Sunny Side Up: World Party
World Party brainchild Karl Wallinger made pop/alternative masterpieces for two distinct musical decades- the 80's with Private Revolution & Goodbye Jumbo in the 90's. There were lots of other fine moments of tuneful & political [...]
Sunny Side Up: Madi Diaz
There's a Baltimore connection to Lancaster, PA-raised singer/songwriter Madi Diaz besides geographical proximity: her father plays in a Frank Zappa tribute band! Her Peruvian-born mother, who championed arts education, home-schooled Madi and later enrolled her [...]
Dan Deacon’s 22-minute epic “America” will air on Baltimore Unsigned tonight
Politics aside, Dan Deacon loves America -- so much that he named his new album after the country. Photo by Josh Sisk. Dan Deacon's new album, "America," is officially released today, and [...]
Banjoist Nets Baker Artist Award
One man globetrotting banjo player Nathan Bell is one of three recipients to win the coveted $25,000 Mary Sawyers Baker prize of the 2012 Baker Artist Awards. The Baltimore native uses bows, finger-picks and a claw-hammer style to channel the [...]
Blind Pilot LIVE at WTMD Studios
Blind Pilot came by the WTMD studios before their show at Rams Head Live to play a couple LIVE songs. They are an american indie folk group based out of Portland, Oregon. The group consists [...]
Diego Garcia performs “You Were Never There” and “Harvest Moon” LIVE at WTMD
Diego Garcia stopped by the WTMD studios to chat with Scott Mullins and perform a couple live tunes. No I am not talking about the tropical, footprint-shaped coral located in the indian ocean, I am [...]
The Fling Sing Live At WTMD
The five-part harmonies of psychadelic, rootsy band The Fling sound equally shimmery in a live setting as they do on their full-length debut When the Madhouse Appears. "Wanderingfoot" has quickly become a WTMD favorite. They [...]
Detour gets hammered! (dulcimer, that is)
Baltimore’s Ken Kolodner has been called a major part of the rebirth of the hammered dulcimer in the US and is recognized as “one of today’s most accomplished, musical hammered [...]
June Tabor and Oysterband release 2nd collaboration, 21 years later
In 1990 two giants of the British folk music scene, singer June Tabor and folk-rockers Oysterband, joined forces to record an album of traditional material and songs by contemporary composers. Freedom and Rain contained interpretations [...]
Boy and Bear In-studio Live Performance and Interview
Boy and Bear is one of the most successful indie Australian bands in recent history. This is their first American Radio Interview. The band came together in 2009 an released their first EP--With Emperor Antartica-- [...]
Auction Winner Hosts Imelda May
Sallie Robinson logged the winning bid in our spring Auction For Music People and won the quite cool experience of hosting a Between the Grooves episode. Thursday at 2pm is her big moment and as [...]
Summer Swimming With Ximena Sariñana
Next to "Pumped-Up Kicks," the catchiest song this summer has got to be "Different" by Ximena Sarinana. Fluent in both Spanish and English, the Mexican-born 25-year-old grew up as a child star in her native [...]
Between the Grooves: Emily Yanek’s Inner 70’s Child
Young songwriter/pianist Emily Yanek hails from just up I-83 in Harrisburg, PA, but she sounds like she's another world away- or more like another decade. Though she grew up interested in the theater, after hearing a [...]
Between the Grooves: Sarah Jaffe’s Suburban Nature
"Clementine" from Sarah Jaffe's debut Suburban Nature chugs and builds with such a restrained intensity, it sounds like she's going to burst! But, the Denton, Texas native keeps the confessionals in check, allowing the listener [...]
Between the Grooves: Bahamas’ Canadian Dry Humor
After playing guitar in Feist's band and collaborating with other Broken Social Sceners Jason Colette and Amy Milan, Finnish Canadian Afie Jurvanen put out his first full-length album as Bahamas in 2009 to great acclaim. Pink Strat [...]
Between the Grooves: Sarah Jarosz Youthful Take On Old Music
Count Texan Sarah Jarosz among the talented young musicians giving bluegrass a contemporary polish. Praised by Allison Krauss and joined on her new album Follow Me Down by roots royalty Jerry Douglas and Bela Fleck, [...]
U2 and The Claw Grab Hold of Baltimore
One of the biggest bands in the world are walking among us in Baltimore! Larry, Adam, Edge, and Bono have been camping out in Charm City for the past couple of days, allegedly taking in [...]
Bettye LaVette Plays Columbia Festival
Bettye LaVette, one of the greatest r&b vocalist and overall song interpreters, plays the Smith Theater at Howard Community College Tuesday June 22nd as part of the Columbia Festival of the Arts. Robbed of the [...]
“From Austin To Baltimore” – Listen Here!
Listen to this Archived Program! Sam Sessa hosts this very special production that traces the journey Austin has made to become the Live Music Capital of the United States. SXSW started as a Barbeque for [...]
Between the Grooves: Ben Sollee Softly Rocks the Cello
Songwriter and classically-trained cellist Ben Sollee never lets ambition override his desire to make folk music for the people. Despite music awash in jazz, psychadelia and chamber pop on his new album Inclusions, the [...]
Dance Happy With Walk the Moon
From the city that gave us the Isley Brothers, the Afghan Whigs and a wacky, fictional radio station comes the energetic sounds of Walk the Moon. A love of Talking Heads and The Killers gave rise [...]
Iron and Wine Beef Up Their Sound
Sam Beam brought a mini chamber orchestra to the TMD studios for his recent Between the Grooves taping. There was a banjo, clarinet, flute, bass harmonica, mandolin, and the lovely background vocals of Rosie Thomas [...]
J. Roddy Walston & The Business In-Studio
Just before their two night stand at the Ottobar, set to kick off this evening, J. Roddy Walston & The Business stopped by the WTMD studio to chat with Tyler and play a couple tunes [...]
Apache Relay
Nashville-based The Apache Relay bring their animated live performance to the air this week. Despite the name, it's not a baton they pass around, but instruments. Their rousing live shows have turned audiences into advocates [...]
reWired for Change
Sonja Sohn is well know for her role as Detective Kima Greggs in the hit HBO show, The Wire. What many don't know is that she took a break from acting in 2009 to concentrate [...]
Peter Tork at Club 66
At Club 66 in Edgewood Saturday night you'll have the rare opportunity to see a member of band which, in 1967, outsold The Beatles and the Stones combined! While Peter Tork of The Monkees played [...]