Baltimore’s Round Robin Tour

For months now, all the talk in my neighborhood has been about the Round Robin Tour. Something like a dozen Baltimore bands have been on tour together. What’s special about it is the format of the show. The show starts, and one band plays one song. Immediately after that, another band plays another song, and so on until all the bands have played a song. Then, they do it again, and again. It’s great! For anyone who gets sick of listening to sound checks between each and every band, this is a dream come true. It’s a wonderful idea, and Baltimore is very proud to have these bands draw huge crowds nationwide – no kidding, huge crowds! The show’s almost over, but there’s one performance left, and you can download the compilation from the tour!

Vote Me for the Baker Artist Awards

Please take a minute to visit my work on the Baker Artist Awards web site. As a Baltimore artist, I am eligible to win the significant Mary Sawyers Baker Prize or maybe bragging rights as Baltimore’s Choice. Either way, please follow the link and vote for me… and, if you live in Baltimore, you could also Nominate your own work! Now GO sign-up and vote to help me get my work out there!

Visit my nomination at http://www.bakerartistawards.org/nomination/view/dylan-kinnett

A “Wake” for Link Magazine

Tonight was a mournful night for the arts community of Baltimore, even though the mourning was mostly in jest. A “wake” was held for Baltimore’s defunct arts magazine, Link: A Critical Arts Journal in Baltimore and the World (1996-2006). For ten years or so, Link was a preeminent authority on the subject of – you guessed it – arts in Baltimore and the World.

Lizz King: Best Singer/Songwriter in Baltimore

Baltimore’s City paper awarded the title of Best Singer/Songwriter to Lizz King. Lizz is my friend, longtime neighbor and a fellow West Virginian. Congrats, Lizz. Here’s what the City Paper had to say about her.

Wham City might be best known for giddy, hyperactive noisemakers such as Dan Deacon and the Santa Dads. But the collective’s [...]

Reading Tonight at Red Emma’s

Red Emma’s hosts Wred Fright and Crzy Carl Robinson, authors from the Underground Literary Alliance, this evening along with special guest Sean Stewart of Baltimore’s own Thoughtworm zine, reading from their recent publications. Fright is the author of The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus, a great comedic novel that tells the hilarious story of a garage [...]

Welcome to Baltimore, “Charm City” A Charm Bracelet of Half-Baked Delicacies

Welcome to Baltimore, “Charm City”: A Charm Bracelet of Half-Baked Delicacies

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Xenophon’s Anabasis and the Collapse of the Avant Garde into Waves of Ecstasy

There’s an epigraph:

A motto or quotation, as at the beginning of a literary composition setting forth a theme. [Greek, epigraph, to write on] – American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

“Hey, Rock, watch [...]