May 14 He was as indispensable to disco as Donna Summer, strobe lights, or Studio 54. West End Records founder Mel Cheren (who died last year) is finally getting his due via Gene Graham's fantabulous 2007 documentary. After the movie, shake your groove thing at Truth Serum's MAP for Health benefit featuring DJ Joseph Colbourne and drag queen extraordinaire Becca
Baldwin's Station: Tim Finch & The Eastman String Band, May 8, $15; 6:30 p.m. seating and dining for each show; 7618 Main St., Sykesville; 410-795-1041.
During the afternoon of April 26, spray cans were buzzing in outdoor downtown for a grass-roots graffiti party with guest writers from other parts of the world.
That rustbucket anchored in the Liangma Canal should have been scuttled years ago. Remember when it was a skeezy Italian pizza parlor? I bet you don't remember when it was a low-rent dance club below deck, because nobody ever went there.
The hearts of local drum 'n' bass fanatics are thumping like some dope-ass Goldie track in anticipation of this weekend's gig by the U.K.'s Micky Finn. Over the past two decades, the British beatmaster and producer (whose slogan states he's been "mugging ya ears off since 1988") helped pioneer and c
If there's a Godfather-like quality to the rise of Niko Bellic, the emigre gangster at the centre of Grand Theft Auto IV , the seedy world he inhabits borrows more from The Sopranos.
With over 20 years of experience as a touring musician and composer and over 700 albums to his credit, producer and bassist Bill Laswell has collaborated with some of the most illustrious names in music across all genres and boundaries, including Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, Laurie Anderson, Pharoah Sanders, Yoko Ono, Iggy Pop, The Last Poets, Buddy Miles, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Afrika
The history of America's exposure to Italian cinema is like the prom date who shows up all awkwardly earnest with a corsage in hand, but after a couple of drinks punches the DJ and steals a car. Between the 1960s and the '80s, America's genteel cultural gatekeepers ushered in a stately promenade of Italian cinema †Federico Fellini's "La Strada," Vittorio De Sica's "The Bicycle Thief," and other