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- Finally, the giants of digital media are showing some social responsibility in cracking down on Alex Jones for violating hate speech policies. It is long overdue, but it is a step in the right direction in trying to regain control of a media ecosystem that has become polluted with hate.
- A big chunk of Neil Young's discography showed up on Apple Music and Spotify just a few days before Donald Trump's victory and I've been revisiting his noisy,
- Via The Fader, Baltimore's TT the Artist released her debut album "Queen of the Beat" on Monday.
- One Direction, the immensely popular boy band from London, performs in Baltimore for the first-time ever on Aug. 8.
- If someone would have told Pete Wentz -- bassist of the band Fall Out Boy, who plays Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., this weekend -- that the pop-punk quartet he formed in a Chicago suburb in 2001 would go on to write one of the biggest sports anthems in recent memory years later, he would have shook his head in disbelief.
- The return of Future Islands, the Baltimore-based synth-pop act, to the "Late Show With David Letterman" would have been noteworthy enough, given the impression singer Sam Herring and the group famously made on the mercurial host last year.
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- The flier may have read "record release show," but Mt. Royal's concert last Saturday in Charles Village felt more like a celebratory gathering of close friends and family.
- To get into character for "The Wire," Michael K. Williams listened to Jay-Z, Lauryn Hill and more.