Weekend on the Radio

Every Thursday morning at 6:20 a.m. and 8:20 a.m. Sam Gallant of the Creative Alliance shares with you all the cool happenings around town on Weekend on the Radio. It's Pride Week here in Baltimore, so let your rainbow flag fly! case you missed a detail about a specific event, here's the list for this week.

PRIDE WEEK 2011:

• King and Queen of Pride Week Coronation, The Hippo, Friday Night


• Pride Parade and High Heeled Race, Mt. Vernon, Saturday, 3:30 p.m.


• Pride Festival, Druid Hill Park, Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

All Weekend Long:

• Columbia Arts Festival, check website for details


• Ocean City Restaurant Week, Ocean City, check website for details


• Whitman Coin and Collectibles Expo, Baltimore Convention Center, check website for details


• The Friends and Neighbors Festival, Strand Theatre, check website for details


• A Midsummer Night's Dream, PFI Historical Park, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 6 p.m.

Friday, 6/17:

• Aziz Ansari, Warner Theatre, 7 and 10 p.m.


• Michael Franti and Spearhead, Ram's Head Live, 7 p.m.

Saturday, 6/18:

• Hope Bowl Fundraiser, Brunswick Columbia Lanes, 7 p.m.


• Baltimore Art and Music Festival Summer Stolstice Party, Chesterwood Park, all day


• Maryland Traditions Folk Life Festival, Creative Alliance, all day

Weekend on the Radio Recap

Every Thursday morning at 6:20 a.m. and 8:20 a.m. Sam Gallant of the Creative Alliance shares with you all the cool happenings around town on Weekend on the Radio. This week Jason holds the Hunt Valley Marriott hostage, a guy named Shakespeare writes a play about two crazy kids in love, and Rihanna gets loud. In case you missed a detail about a specific event, here's the list for this week.

All Weekend Long:

• Monster Mania Con 18: A Tribute to Friday the 13th, Hunt Valley Marriott


• Capitol Jazz Fest, Merriweather Post Pavillion

Thursday, 5/2:

• WTMD First Thursday featuring The Jason Spooner Trio and Old Man Brown, Washington Monument in Mt. Vernon, 5:30 p.m.


• Literary Deathmatch, Creative Alliance, 8 p.m.

Friday, 5/3:

• Three Dog Night and Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Pier 6, 6 p.m.


• Cross Keys Movie Fest: Shakespeare in Love, Village of Cross Keys, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, 5/4:

• Rihanna and Cee Lo Green, 1st Mariner Arena. 7:30 p.m.


• Steel Pulse, Ram's Head Live, 9 p.m.


• American Visionary Art Musuem 15th Anniversary Gala featuring Lewis Black, American Visionary Art Museum, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, 5/5:

Sowebo Festival Poster Auction, University of Maryland Bio Park Auction, 4 p.m.

First Thursday Info

Jason Spooner and Old Man Brown play tomorrow at 5:30!  Info and Details Here!

WTMD's "Hit It And Quit It" Fund Drive

Our Summer Fund Drive starts this Thursday and it's our biggest countdown yet.  While we normally countdown songs or albums, this time we're counting down dollars.  WTMD needs to raise $134,000 dollars before the end of the month.  It's a might big gap between here and meeting our fundraising goal for the year, but we know you value WTMD in your life and we hope you'll translate that value into a membership contribution.

The Fund Drive Stops When We Reach The Goal!
That's right..we'll keep the phones open only as long as we need to--We'll stop interrupting the music and return to regular programming as soon as we raise the $134,000 we need to keep the station running through the summer.  You're gift right now will start the countdown and end the fund drive sooner!  Click Here to Make Your Gift Today!

You can choose our new Zeke's Coffee Mug with at $75 or more contribution!

WTMD's New Web Site

We're beta testing a new web site for WTMD.  Want to Check It Out?

Between the Grooves: Walk the Moon's Dance Happy Sounds

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 to the Cincinnati quartets' rhythmic blend of 80's-flavored keyborads and poppy guitars.

Walk the Moon's new album I Want! I Want! has enough allure in the lyrics to make it more than a dance album, though not that there would be anything wrong with that!

On this week's Between the Grooves, Thursday at 2pm, Walk the Moon plug in for a full set of happy, non-sedintary music. Oh yeah, the band also likes to face paint their fans onstage. Feel the love this Thursday!

WTMD's EEO report for 2011

Become A WTMD Volunteer for our Summer Fund Drive

WTMD’s Summer Fund Drive is right around the corner and we are looking for fun, music loving-volunteers to answer phones and take pledges. Volunteering at WTMD is a great way to meet fellow listeners and your favorite djs, all while supporting the station you love.
Plus, meals and refreshments are provided by some of Baltimore’s best restaurants. Just fill out this form and we'll contact you about being a WTMD Volunteer!

WTMD wants to send you to Bonnaroo!

It's the biggest, and some say the best, of all the summer music festivals. Maybe it's the Woodstock like vibe, maybe it's where music history happens--but everyone should go to Bonnaroo at least once. Here's how you can enter to win this incredible trip. Just take a look at the lineup!

Just make a contribution by 11:59 pm May 29, 2011 and you're automatically entered. Of course, no donation is necessary to enter, just fill out the form as indicated. Your support is important to keeping WTMD powered up all summer long. We'll draw the winner and contact them shortly after the drawing closes. Please remember, only on-line contributions and entries are eligible--if you made a recent contribution by mail, please use the form to enter. Transportation to Manchester, TN is not included.

Winner will receive 1 pair of Guest Passes to all four days of the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, TN June 9th through 12th Including:

•4 nights of prime camping accommodations

•Access to premium seating and viewing areas at each stage

•Access to the backstage Guest Lounge and Restaurant

This ticket package includes access unavailable to the general public!

*No pledge necessary to win. Simply choose "Enter Me In The Drawing Only"

Weekend on the Radio Recap

Every Thursday morning at 6:20 a.m. and 8:20 a.m. Sam Gallant of the Creative Alliance shares with you all the cool happenings around town on Weekend on the Radio. This week a Baltimore band that's been tearing it up around the country comes home to roost,  metalheads rejoice and knock back a pint with the animals! In case you missed a detail about a specific event, here's the list for this week. 

Weekend on The Radio Recap

Every Thursday morning at 6:20 a.m. and 8:20 a.m. Sam Gallant of the Creative Alliance shares with you all the cool happenings around town on Weekend on the Radio. This week a Baltimore band that's been tearing it up around the country comes home to roost,  metalheads rejoice and knock back a pint with the animals! In case you missed a detail about a specific event, here's the list for this week. 

Thursday, 5/26

• Death Metal Fest, Sonar
• Play Lab Series @Canter Stage, Knife on Bone, 7pm  

Friday, 5/27:

• J. Roddy Walston and the Business, The Ottobar, doors @9pm, show @10pm 
• Play Lab Series @Center Stage, Knife on Bone, 8pm
• Death Metal Fest, Sonar 
• Baltimore Rock Opera Double Feature, Amphion/The Terrible Secret of Lunastus, Showtime Theater, 7pm (ongoing through June 12th)

Saturday, 5/28:

• Play Lab Series @Center Stage, Knife on Bone,  8pm
• J. Roddy Walston and the Business, The Ottobar, doors@9pm, show @10pm
• Death Metal Fest, Sonar 
• Brew at the Zoo and Wine Too!, The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, 1-7pm

Sunday, 5/29

• Play Lab Series@ Center Stage,  Knife on Bone, 2pm 
• Death Metal Feast, Sonar 
• Brew at the Zoo and Wine Too!, The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, 1-7pm
• SOWEBO Arts&Music Festival, Hollins Market ara 1100 and 100 blocks of Hollins Street, noon-8pm
• New Kids on the Block w. Jordin Sparks 730pm

 

First Thursdays Announcement

We'll be announcing the next First Thursday line up in just a couple of days.  Keep listening and checking back.

Between the Grooves: Katie Costello's Infectious Charm

If Katie Costello's cute, retro look doesn't captivate you right away, the quirky melodies from her new album Lamplight surely will.

The line "I wish there was a social excuse to make you a cassette tape" from the already irresistible piano bounce on the single "Cassette Tape"adds an extra smile.

Catch Katie Costello on the next Between the Grooves Thursday at 2pm.

Dylan Knocking on the Door

Can you believe the voice of not just a generation, but EVERY generation turns 70 today? We're celebrating by playing plenty of songs from the maestro himself plus some choice covers.

I stumbled across this one this morning from Baltimore's very own uke strumming mouth trumpeter, Victoria Vox.

CD of the Week: The Strokes Back On Top

The Strokes new file swapping approach to recording may be miles away from the live, Manhattan garage punk sensibilities of Is This It, but the signature bouncy beat and resigned swagger return nearly ten years later on WTMD's new CD of the Week Angles, albeit with some electronic and new wave flourishes.

Perhaps solo efforts stoked some competitive fires (for the first time, the rest of the band gets co-writing credit with Julian Cassablancas, who recently derided the band's new found democracy) or maybe it was the sheer time it took to make the new record that created the well-documented tensions within the band, and thank goodness!

The wailing, double guitar attack and jagged percussion on "Under Cover of Darkness" sounds melodic and incendiary and make all the false starts worth it.