Robbie the Underwriting guy! Of course he's a Pool Shark!

WTMD LIsteners ..is that Red Bull causing that Red Eye?

Live At Sonar!

And Patchen's drinking soda!


Here's John Mathews In front of the Mic giving us all things indie and alternative




Ace Volunteer Fletcher, Erik and Patchen debatng what the Best Indie Band of All Time Is!


Pictures as they happen from our live broadcast right now...for Altered Fridays.

1st Thursday concert recap

Hi everybody,

I posted a review of last night's show on my new Baltimore Sun nightlife/local music blog.

Read it here.

-Sam

A-Z in 1985

Well I'm a young guy...born in '85...I've had many 80's parties in my college career and if A-Z was done for 1985 it might look something like this:

A-Ha - Take On Me
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Eurythmics - Would I Lie To You?
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On
Honeydrippers - Sea of Love
INXS - This Time
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire
Kool and the Gang - Misled
Lionel Richie - Penny Lover
Madonna - Like A Virgin
New Edition - Cool It Now
Billy Ocean - Suddenly
Phil Collins and Philip Bailey - Easy Lovet
Stacey Q - Shy Girl
REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
Starship - We Built This City
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule The World
U.S.A. For Africa - We Are The World
Luther Vandross - Til My Baby Comes Home
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Klymaxx - I Miss You
Paul Young - Everytime You Go Away
ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag

"F" is for Folk

Continuing our A-Z excitement, here's an alphabetical list of great contemporary folk artists and singer/songwriters (with musical accompaniment by Kate Rusby)...


Beth Amsel
Dan Bern
Cry, Cry, Cry (which lets me squeeze in Lucy Kaplansky)
Ani Difranco
Eddie from Ohio
Melissa Ferrick
John Gorka
Annie Hayden
Iron & Wine
Jim's Big Ego
Jess Klein
Patty Larkin
Peter Mulvey
The Nields
Old Crow Medicine Show
Rose Polenzani
The "Queen of Quiet," Erin McKeown (pronounced "Mc-'Q'-en")
Kate Rusby
Richard Shindell
The Frames
Utah Phillips
Vance Gilbert
Dar Williams
Moxy Fruvous
Yonder Mountain Spring Band
Kristin Allen-Zito

WTMD's Web Stream Could Be Stopped

Hey Music people... Its Bug again.. wow 2 blogs in 2 weeks this must be important, and it is.. Recently at the station we have had a few small discussions about a new Fee that could change internet radio as we know it. In the past few months the Copyright Royalty Board has endorsed a plan by the RIAA (Record Idusrty Assosciation of America) to impose fees for internet streaming. Many radio stations and buisnesses that use streaming technology are argueing that they will not gain nough revenue from these streams to keep them running. We are all learning about this as it is happening. I have found a couple articles from various sources that explain a little about whats going on.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9163084

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/03/internet_radio.html

http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/03/06/radio-internet-ruling-tech-cx_lh_0307radio.html

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6426252.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP&nid=2228

This is a huge issue and i wanted to make some infomation available so everyone can get an idea of what this means for internet radio.

Sam's top 26

Here are my favorite 26 songs by 26 of my favorite bands, in alphabetical order:

Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone (14 guitar tracks? what?)
Young, Neil - Love in Mind (sometimes makes me teary)
Xavier Rudd - Fortune Teller
Warren Zevon - Hasten Down the Wind
Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
Traffic - The High Spark of Low Heeled Boys (dark, hypnotic)
Stones - Heartbreaker (Do Do Do Do Do)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Power of Equality (hey batta batta)
Queen - Under Pressure
Presely, Elvis - Don't be Cruel (bop, bop)
Oranges Band - White Ride
New Deal, the - Ray Parker Suite II (my favorite newish band)
Monty Python - Sit On My Face
Lindsay Buckingham - Big Love (sick guitar work)
Killers - All These Things That I've Done
Jackson Browne - These Days (he wrote it for Nico)
INXS - I Need You Tonight
Hall and Oates - She's Gone (some fine '70s soul)
Georgie James - Cheap Champagne
Frankie Valli - Can't Take My Eyes Off You (too good to be true)
Eric Clapton - Motherless Children
David Bowie - Golden Years
Cale, J.J. - Magnolia ('you're the best I've ever had')
Beatles - Don't Let Me Down
America - Golden (cover, but still, sweeping)

Whistling Letters

You can't go wrong with a whistling song. Just ask the Seven Dwarfs- it worked for them! And to get us ready for Peter, Bjorn and John's Morning Sessions Friday, let's purse our lips, take a sip of water and whistle along to these tunes:

1. Tori Amos- Cornflake Girl
2. David Bowie- Golden Years
3. The Cruel Sea- Black Stick
4. De La Soul- Eye Know
5. Eels- I Like Birds
6. Faith No More- Helpless
7. Peter Gabriel- Games Without Frontiers
8. Harry Nilsson- Wasting My Time
9. Ricki Lee Jones- I Won't Grow Up
10. J Geils- Centerfold/Billy Joel- The Stranger
11. Edward Kowalczyk of LIVE- Waitress
12. John Lennon- Jealous Guy
13. The Meat Puppets- the Whistling Song
14. Neil Finn- Try Whistling This
15. Otis Redding- Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
16. Paul Simon- Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
17. Q-
18. Phish- Reba
18. Split Enz- Six Months in a Leaky Boat
18. Terrence Trent D'Arby- Wishing Well
19. My Morning Jacket- It Beats For U
21. Victoria Bergsman helping out Peter, Bjorn and John- Young Folk
22. Ween- Don't Get Close to My Fantasy
23. XTC- Generals and Majors
24. Neil Young and Crazy Horse- Prime of Life
25. Z

...As you can see, I've got a couple of open spots for "q" and "z". Any ideas? Queen? Zappa?