The young dude of the future riding his ten speed, dodging cars. We’d see the wheels at the top of the stairs that lead to the literally underground record shop. The lanky kid would come bopping down the steps, dreads flopping. Electricity he’d bring, energy kinetic to the New York City he’s temporarily transplanted from. […]
Pop Songs and “Ambient Explorations for Hypothetical Australian Mind-Voyages” on New Album from Bel Air’s Sean Wilson
We asked Kevin Wenger of Sea Patterns to write about Sean Wilson’s dynamic new album “Chalkboard Kids”. They were classmates through Bel Air Middle, they graduated Loyola and Bel Air High respectively. By Kevin Wenger I’ll start by saying that I’ve known Sean since we were in kindergarten together. I’ll get to the music in […]
No Good Believing In Somebody Else
A recording engineer for the Beatles in 1968 at Abbey Road, working on “Let It Be” at the crisp, tender age of eighteen, British-born Alan Parsons etched a career in sound and imagery far ahead of where his next paycheck was coming from. Now 61 and touring with the instantly recognizable Alan Parsons Project, Mr. […]
Why Does Charm City Get The 15-Foot Statue Of Edgewood’s Own Rock Star Frank Zappa?
It was in Edgewood that Frank Zappa first inserted radioactive pellets into his nostrils. Now he’s being honored, sort of, with a 15-foot statue that was donated by his Lithuanian fans to the City of Baltimore. But why Baltimore? True, Zappa – the guitar-playing, anti-drug musician – was born in Charm City, but, as I’ve […]
