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- The Ottobar is getting purchased by a longtime employee, the music venue announced in a Facebook post Friday.
- Officials with the Charles Village concert venue and bar announced in a social media post Friday that owners are planning to hand the reins over to a new group in 2019.
- Tate Kobang, Future Islands, Al Rogers Jr. and other Baltimore-based artists all released excellent new music in 2017.
- Knockout Fitness gym in the Federal Hill neighborhood has launched a boxing class with an upbeat atmosphere including blaring hip-hop and laser lights that bounce to the beat of the music.
- Top 40 radio fans might not know Charlie Puth by name. But chances are good they know the 24-year-old¿s wistful falsetto, thanks to his scene-stealing feature on Wiz Khalifa¿s ¿See You Again,¿ a surprise, quadruple-platinum hit from last year¿s ¿Furious 7¿ soundtrack.
- Electronic dance music duo the Chainsmokers, sing-songy rapper Fetty Wap and Towson pop-punk act All Time Low lead the music artists scheduled to perform at the Preakness Stakes' InfieldFest on May 21, the Maryland Jockey Club announced in a news release today. Tickets are on sale now here.
- Hip hop artist and fashion designer Kanye West debuted his newest album "The Life of Pablo" and clothing line ¿Yeezy Season 3¿ today at Madison Square Garden. But as if an album listening party combined with a fashion show wasn¿t innovative enough, the rap star also broadcasted the show via satellite in movie theatres across the globe, with several locations in Maryland, including Baltimore.
- Led by Adam Levine of "The Voice," Maroon 5 will bring its North America tour to Baltimore next September.
- Edsall has reached for one of America's great 21st-century philosophers
- 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 Baltimore area's summer concerts, with a steady flow of rock legends, rap and R&B stars and buzzy new acts, appeal to every type of music fan.
- Progressive trance DJ Armin van Buuren and actor-turned-rapper Childish Gambino will headline this year's 2015 Preakness InfieldFest concert on May 16, Pimlico Race Course general manager Sal Sinatra told The Sun on Thursday.
- State Del. Jon Cardin on Thursday rejected the endorsement of a Baltimore-based rapper after learning the man who calls himself Ski Money is facing charges of human trafficking.
- The singer-songwriter brought her A-game, though it was a bit polarizing for the crowd
- The early candidate for rap album of the year begins with a mother warning her son to stop following in the footsteps of his incarcerated father.
- Sundy Best and Go Go Gadjet will also perform at the Lorde-headlined InfieldFest.
- ZZ Ward, who brings her Last Love Tour to Rams Head Live on March 1, has spent the past two years surprising and winning over fans with her hybrid mix of blues, hip-hop, pop and folk.
- Now in its fifth year, 'Infieldfest' has quickly — and significantly — changed the culture at Preakness
- Baltimore rap fans have been waiting for Los' "Becoming King" since last year. On Thursday, the Bad Boy Records signee and Baltimore native finally released the free 17-track mixtape, which you can download from Datpiff.
- University of Maryland football player Ryan Schlothauer was stabbed multiple times in a fight that led to three injuries and two arrests at Charles Village Pub in Towson early Saturday morning, Baltimore County Police said.
- A man was stabbed during a fight early Saturday at the Charles Village Pub in Towson, Baltimore County Police said. Another man and a woman also suffered injuries in the altercation inside the bar.
- Towson community leaders have seen a sharp decease in community disturbances related to Towson University's annual Tigerfest in recent years, and hope that trend continues when the annual end-of-year celebration takes over campus this weekend.
- While we all marvel at the spectacle of Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster, let's not forget the substance of his 13-hour speech on the Senate floor.
- One of Top 40's consistent acts and a rising hip-hop star will perform May 18 at Pimlico Race Course.
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- Before his record-breaking sophomore season at Iowa Western Community College, Deon Long spent his summer days working out and running routes with Maryland quarterback Ricardo Young and wide receiver Stefon Diggs.
- Snoop Dogg underwhelms with fun, but too-brief Rams Head Live show
- While cows, pigs, goats, horses and sheep all come to mind when 4-H is mentioned, dogs are doing their best to upstage the traditional livestock stars of the Howard County Fair.
- A small but growing number of Baltimore artists are helping challenge hip-hop's homophobia
- A small but growing number of Baltimore artists are helping challenge hip-hop's homophobia
- Two days after Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another's thrilling win over Bodemeister under sunny skies and in front of a packed house, Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas pronounced the 137th running of the Preakness a rousing success.
- The largest crowd in Preakness Stakes history watched the thrilling victory of a horse that's now on a Triple Crown hunt, jammed to pop band Maroon 5 and basked under a clear Saturday sky.