Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City Paper is a free alternative weekly newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland. It was launched in 1977.
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Caitlin Cary, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown: Life After Whiskeytown: Ryan Adams and Caitlin Cary
Comment by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 1 May 2002
Who was the most important figure to emerge from the break-up of Whiskeytown – Ryan Adams or Caitlin Cary? Geoffrey Himes ponders the issue. ...
Retrospective by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 31 October 2007
ON MARCH 18, 1993, Arthur Alexander was the guest star at Jimmie Dale Gilmore's birthday party at the Broken Spoke dance hall in Austin, Texas. ...
The Black Keys: Royal Farms Arena, Baltimore
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 5 December 2014
GUITARIST DAN AUERBACH sings all the vocals, takes all the solos, and plays the fundamental riffs, so why is drummer Patrick Carney considered an equal ...
Billy Bragg: SXSW: Billy Bragg plays songs from new album, plus one inspired by the Bible
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 15 March 2013
"THE PROBLEM with most protest songs," Billy Bragg said Wednesday afternoon, "is people spend all their time on the protest and not enough on the ...
Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers: Going to a Go-Go: Hip-Hop Repays Its Debt to Chuck Brown
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 26 December 2007
CHUCKY THOMPSON was just a teenager from the streets of Washington when he became a drummer for Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers in the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 2 March 2005
BY EARLY 1964, the 24-year-old Solomon Burke had already been a bishop in his grandmother's church for 17 years but he wanted to be king. ...
J.J. Cale: Laying Low: The Elusive J.J. Cale Releases Possibly His Final Opus
Report by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 25 February 2009
THE POPULAR MYTH about the Velvet Underground is that the band never sold many records, but everyone who bought one started a band. As exaggerations ...
The Decemberists: Merriweather Post Pavilion
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 5 June 2015
EARLY IN THE Decemberists' show at the Merriweather Post Pavilion Thursday night, silver-suited lead singer Colin Meloy was explaining how one of his songs started ...
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 26 June 2006
NOVELIST/CRITIC George Pelecanos has called them "the American band of the decade". Amazon.com extended it to "the greatest band in the world". Blender said they ...
Bob Dylan: Live 1966 (Columbia/Legacy)
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 4 November 1998
CALL IT the triumph of the bootleggers. ...
Bob Dylan: DAR Constitution Hall, Washington DC
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 26 November 2014
FOR YEARS, ONE of the pleasures of going to a Bob Dylan concert was the guessing game of "What will he play tonight?" It wasn't ...
Bob Dylan: Jokerman For a Generation: Bob Dylan's Legendary Grin
Essay by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 21 November 2007
SINCE 1968, Bob Dylan's past has been chasing him like a pack of wild dogs. There's a reason he's pegged his concerts as the "Never ...
Kat Edmonson, Robert Ellis: Kat Edmonson/Robert Ellis: Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 25 February 2015
KAT EDMONSON AND Robert Ellis, who brought their tour to Annapolis Tuesday night, are Houston singers with the same final initial and current Brooklyn addresses. ...
Alejandro Escovedo Under the Influence
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 25 April 2001
ON MARCH 22, 1998, Alejandro Escovedo introduced a new song at La Zona Rosa in his hometown of Austin, Texas. He was dressed cowboy-formal in ...
Al Green: Higher Ground: Al Green Blends His Sacred and Secular Instincts When He Steps Onstage
Retrospective by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 17 July 2002
ALBUMS ARE NOT the only means of making great music any more than movies are the only means of doing great acting. Every time a ...
Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry: Down in Austin, music is something of a family business
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 19 March 2015
AUSTIN MUSIC IS becoming a family business. Parents are passing down to their children songwriter/performer brand names as if they were used-car lots, drug stores, ...
Husker Du, Bob Mould: The Real Godfather of Grunge: Bob Mould's Modulate
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 20 March 2002
KURT COBAIN WAS a wonderful musician, but the combination of a best-selling record, a tabloid marriage and a lurid suicide inflated his reputation all out ...
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 27 July 2015
JASON ISBELL came to the Merriweather Post Pavilion Sunday evening just nine days after releasing one of the year's best albums, Something More Than Free. ...
Diana Krall: In Defence of Diana Krall
Comment by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 5 March 2002
Diana Krall and Jane Monheit are better than you think. Geoffrey Himes explains why. ...
Alison Krauss, Me'Shell Ndegeocello: Sounds of Heartache: Alison Krauss and Me'Shell Ndegeocello
Essay by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 18 August 1999
IT WOULD BE hard to think of two female singers more different than Alison Krauss and Me'Shell Ndegeocello. Krauss, a straight European-American from the Midwestern ...
Gurf Morlix: Strange Brew, Austin
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 16 March 2015
BEFORE BOBBY Womack and then the Rolling Stones turned it into a romantic-ultimatum pop song, 'The Last Time' was a bluesy gospel song performed by ...
Nelly: Country Grammarian: Nelly
Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 6 September 2000
THIS IS WHAT pop music is all about. A radio single with a sing-along hook so catchy and so danceable you can't resist it. A ...
Sleater-Kinney: The Gamblers: Sleater-Kinney Makes A Stab At Greatness With Its Ambitious New Album
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 22 June 2005
RARE IS THE punk-rock band that makes its best music 11 years after starting. Few punk bands even make it to the 11-year mark and ...
Sam Smith shows effortless talent, tasteful restraint at Merriweather show
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 27 July 2015
WHEN YOU HAVE a voice as spectacular as Sam Smith's—an instrument that can glide across multiple octaves without a break or apparent effort—the temptation to ...
Report by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 29 June 2005
HUMAN TOUCH: After mastering the rockin' Bruce album, Bruce Springsteen is now honing the acoustic Bruce album. ...
Mavis Staples: The music doc Mavis! lets the powerful performances do the talking
Film/DVD/TV Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 16 March 2015
LIKE THE MARYLAND Film Festival, the South by Southwest Film Festival follows each screening by a discussion with the movie's creative team. After SXSW presented ...
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 20 March 2015
Neil Young discusses remastering his dystopian sci-fi flick at SXSW ...
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