January 2011 Concerts In Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia And Washington, DC

Here is a current list of some of the music concerts and stand-up comedy performances scheduled to take place during January 2011, at venues in the Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, DC areas.


Gregg Allman - January 5th -> Sold Out at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

B.B. King - January 8th at Hershey Theatre in Hershey, PA

Gregg Allman - January 9th at American Music Theatre
in Lancaster, PA

Sarah McLachlan - January 10th at DAR Constitution Hall
in Washington, DC

Little Feat with Roy Jay - January 11th at Rams Head Live!
in Baltimore, MD

The B-52s - January 19th at 9:30 Club in Washington, DC

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - January 19th at Rams Head
On Stage in Annapolis, MD

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - January 20th at Rams Head
On Stage in Annapolis, MD

Bryan Adams - January 26th at American Music Theatre
in Lancaster, PA - Part of the 'Bare Bones' Tour

Ron White - January 28th at Hershey Theatre in Hershey, PA
Part of the 'Behavioral Problems' Tour

The Bacon Brothers with Sahara Smith - January 28th 6:30 PM EST and 9:30 PM EST at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

The Bacon Brothers - January 29th 6:30 PM EST and 9:30 PM EST
at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

Bryan Adams - January 29th at the Hippodrome in Baltimore, MD
Part of the 'Bare Bones' Tour

*All details are subject to change!

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: February 10 - 11, 2010

Last Update - February 12, 2010 at 4:36 AM EST

Midweek is gone now. Here is the February 10 through February 11, 2010 'Reading And Viewing List'.


February 11, 2010

Postgame Notebook: Senators 6, Capitals 5
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

No Point – On Thursday night in Ottawa, the Capitals continued their habit of giving up the game’s first goal and coming back from a multiple-goal deficit. But in the end, they also lost their second game in as many nights by the same score. A night after dropping a 6-5 overtime decision to the Canadiens in Montreal, the Capitals absorbed a regulation setback by the same score at the hands of the Senators in Ottawa...

Defensive Breakdowns
By Joe Beninati - Capitals Play-By-Play at CSN - Washington, DC

Don't stand too close to Bruce Boudreau right now. He's not thrilled at all with the way his team has abandoned it's defensive structure. The Capitals lost another wide open, full-tilt, free-for-all in Ottawa tonight...

Washington Capitals At Ottawa Senators Game Highlights
Posted at Comcast SportsNet - Washington, DC

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Bruce Boudreau Spoke To Media After Loss To Ottawa Senators
Posted on Caps365 at WashingtonCaps.com

Washington Capitals Players Talk To Media After Loss
To Ottawa Senators
Posted on Caps365 at WashingtonCaps.com

Paul Rodgers Reveals Jamming With Fleetwood Mac's
Fleetwood & McVie
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Rock Radio UK is reporting that legendary vocalist Paul Rogers (Free, Bad Company, The Firm) has revealed he recently jammed with Fleetwood Mac veterans Mick Fleetwood and John McVie...

EXCLUSIVE: Edgar Wright Explains His 'Ant-Man' Priorities
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

Earlier this week, fans of Marvel's insect-wrangling superhero Ant-Man received word that plans for a movie based on the character were indeed moving along, with Stan Lee announcing the project was a go and that he'd met with director Edgar Wright...

Ray Davies On Tour
Posted by mdome at Classic Rock

Ray Davies of Kinks fame is heading out on a solo tour...

Exclusive: Slash Talks About His New Solo Album
By gbarton at Classic Rock

Come inside to watch a brand new video interview with the guitarist.

Slash’s debut solo album Slash is out in the UK in May, but Classic Rock is selling a very special Slash fanpack – containing the album, a special Slash trubite magagzine and a whole lot more – on the newsstands from April 7.

The album that comes with the Classic Rock Slashpack will also be the only version to include two extra bonus tracks: Baby Can’t Drive (with guests Alice Cooper/Nicole Scherzinger) and a wicked cover of the classic Guns N’ Roses track Paradise City (with guests Fergie/Cypress Hill)...

Bradley Bandwagon Or Laing Love Train?
By DC Sports Chick at On Frozen Blog

On Tuesday, the Caps’ PR man Nate Ewell posted the following on Twitter:

Who’s a bigger cult hero: Laing or Bradley? @dcsportsbog may lure some back to Lainger’s camp http://bit.ly/aWvr0I...

An Ending and a Beginning
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

The big picture: Hockey in the National League has been contested since 1917, and in all that time only two clubs have achieved winning streaks longer than the Washington Capitals’ run of 14 — the Islanders’ 15 consecutive wins of 1981-82 and the Penguins’ 17 in a row during the ‘92-’93 season. There’s a strong correlation between such winning and winning Stanley Cups — the Penguins were defending Cup champs in ‘92-’93, and the Islanders won another in ‘81-’82...

Caps Seek New Streak vs. Sens
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

The Eastern Conference’s two hottest teams go head-to-head in Ottawa on Thursday when the Washington Capitals make their second and final visit to Canada’s capital region.

Washington had its 14-game winning streak snapped in Montreal on Wednesday night, dropping a 6-5 overtime decision to the Habs. But the Caps went down swinging, roaring back from a 5-2 third-period deficit...

February 10, 2010

Postgame Notebook: Canadiens 6, Capitals 5, OT
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Fifteen Blue – It says a lot about these 2009-10 Washington Capitals that on the night their franchise-record winning streak came to a halt at 14 games, they still managed to come away from the game with a point. Not only that, they came back three separate times to knot the score...

Can't Win 'Em All
By Joe Beninati - Capitals Play-By-Play at CSN - Washington, DC

You can't win 'em all, but boy they sure did try. The Caps haven't been anywhere near their best in the last four games, but they've managed to win consistently and they almost pulled victory from the jaws of defeat again this evening...

Bruce Boudreau Spoke To Media After Loss To Montreal Canadiens
Posted on Caps365 at WashingtonCaps.com

Washington Capitals Players Talk To Media After Loss
To Montreal Canadiens
Posted on Caps365 at WashingtonCaps.com

Washington Capitals At Montreal Canadiens Game Highlights
Posted at Comcast SportsNet - Washington, DC

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Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, ZZ Top, Allman Brothers Among Guitar Stars Joining Clapton For Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, ZZ Top, Allman Brothers Among Guitar Stars Joining Clapton For Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010

More than 20 of the world’s best axemen will descend upon Chicago this summer for Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival...

Eliminating the "Fight After a Clean Hit" Epidemic: Easier Said Than Done
By David M. Getz at Japers' Rink

As the Capitals kept on rolling last weekend, extending their win streak to fourteen games with wins of the Thrashers and the Penguins, fans were treated not only to victories but to some entertaining hockey - and not just from the home town team. Atlanta, in it's first game of the post-Kovalchuk era, put forth a solid team effort and, as unappealing as it may be the admit, both of...

Blogstronauts!
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

...You can almost see that sort of “generational” effect growing up around the Capitals blogging community. We started our own scribbles back in July 2005, and (he said with all humility) you might think of that “era” of Caps blogging as the Mercury program era. There were a few blogs out there – the pioneers like...

Edgar Wright And Stan Lee Meet To Discuss 'Ant-Man' Movie?
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

Thankfully, "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" hasn't seemed to deter director Edgar Wright from his long discussed plans for an "Ant-Man" movie — in fact, the filmmaker recently met with a Marvel Comics icon to talk about the project...

Iggy And The Stooges Box Up Raw Power
By mdome at Classic Rock

Iggy And The Stooges are to release a three-CD box set version of their classic 1973 album Raw Power.

This will be out at the end of April. The first disc will have a remastered version of the David Bowie mix for the original album. The second disc is being titled the Georgia Peaches bootleg. This is a live recording straight off the sound desk of a show in...

Caps Take Streak on the Road
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

A trio of significant streaks will be on the line Wednesday night when the Washington Capitals open a three-game road trip against the Canadiens in Montreal. The Caps have won 14 straight games, the longest in the NHL since the Pittsburgh Penguins set the league mark with 17 consecutive victories in 1992-93...

October 2009 Concerts In Maryland, Virginia & Washington, DC

Here is a current list of some noteable music and comedy concerts scheduled to take place in October 2009, at venues in Maryland, Northern Virginia and the Washington, DC area.

Davy Jones - October 3rd at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

The Allman Brothers Band and Widespread Panic - October 6th at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD

Mike Birbiglia - October 10th at Warner Theatre in Washington, DC

Edgar Winter Band - October 11th (5:00 PM EDT and 8:00 PM EDT) at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

Kiss and Buckcherry - October 13th at Verizon Center in Washington, DC

Them Crooked Vultures - October 14th Sold Out at 9:30 Club in Washington, DC

Ian Anderson (Acoustic Jethro Tull) - October 15th at Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, MD

Steve Morse Band - October 15th at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

AC/DC - October 16th at Verizon Center in Washington, DC

Facedancer - October 16th at Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, MD

Lynyrd Skynyrd - October 16th at Wimcomic Youth & Civic Center in Salisbury, MD

Wayne Brady - October 17th at Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA

Robert Cray Band - October 19th at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

Little Richard - October 20th at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

Hall & Oats - October 21st (Additional charge for parking) at 9:30 Club in Washington, DC

Todd Rundgren - October 21st at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

Van Morrison - October 27th at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD

*All details are subject to change!

As Summer 2008 Wanes, So Does Live Music

The Summer of 2008 is coming to an end, and the amount of live concerts in the Mid-Atlantic is dwindling somewhat along with it. There isn't a huge number of good shows left on the schedule before the year ends. We should see some additions soon, but I thought I'd list most of what's currently on the horizon.

Hagerstown, MD's own hard rockers, Kix will be doing a few performances in the area this month. They'll be at Jaxx Night Club in West Springfield, VA on the 12th, onto Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, MD on the 13th (with Fishnet Stalkers), and at Cancun Cantina - West in Hagerstown, MD the 19th of September.

Motorhead pay another visit to the area on September 18th, but this time they are the headliners when they play at Rams Head Live! Opening for the band that never stops touring, will be The Misfits, Valient Thorr and Year Long Disaster.

Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD will host southerners The Allman Brothers Band, along with Phil Lesh And Friends, on September 30th.

One of the world's best classic rock bands, The Who play at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC on November 3rd. If there are any tickets left for this show, I'd be afraid to ask how much they're going for.


If you're into the blues, don't miss B.B. King, when he visits Birchmere in Alexandria, VA on November 26. There really isn't anyone else quite like him.

There are a couple more things happening before the end of the year, but I'll include them in another post.

August 2008 Concerts In Mid-Atlantic

The weather has been heating up and so has the local concert schedule. There are plenty of good shows to catch in the Mid-Atlantic area this August.

Counting Crows and Maroon 5 played Hershey Park Stadium in Hershey, PA tonight. On Friday, the stadium will be filled with the heavy sounds of Poison and Dokken.If you're a fan of Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, you can catch them there on the 19th. The Allman Brothers Band bring their bluesy southern rock to Hershey Monday August 25th. The other half of that bill is Bob Weir and RatDog. Ending the month's shows at Hershey, is a triple threat concert of Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick on the 28th.

At Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, MD tonight, Metallica wannabes and an embarrassment to all of us with even partial Welsh heritage, Bullet For My Valentine were scheduled to play. Opening for them was Cancer Bats, who could be a halfway decent band if they had a singer fronting the band instead of whatever you would call Liam Cormier. One upcoming concert that does get me excited, and for the right reasons, is Peter Frampton. He'll be playing real Rock and Roll music at Rams Head on Friday, August 15th. Ted Nugent may be a total whack job, but he sure can play guitar. You can "Wango Tango" with him on the 26th.

There are many reasons to visit Baltimore's Pier Six Pavilion this month. They'll have a wide range of musical styles in the entertainers headlining the venue. I'll just mention the most interesting. Classic Rock takes the stage on August 13th, when both Boston and Styx play there. Eight time Grammy Award winner Anita Baker follows with her beautiful voice two nights later, on the 15th. We change gears again on the 19th, with a harder edged style of blues in the forms of George Thorogood And The Destroyers and Buddy Guy. Performing their own hits, as well as 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' in it's entirety on August 21st, is an odd mix of musicians if you ask me (nobody's asking me). The list for the 'Sgt. Peppers' Tribute includes the great talents Todd Rundgren (He's gone metal with his latest album, you know), Lou Gramm (of Foreigner) and Denny Laine (of The Moody Blues, Wings), along with the less popular Christopher Cross and Bo Bice (former American Idol contestant). Speaking of Idols, Billy Idol will be at Pier Six on the 22nd. The wonderful blues artist Robert Cray will share the bill with Keb' Mo' on Saturday, August 23rd during the "Bringin' It Back Home Tour".

This coming weekend, Saturday August 9th and Sunday August 10th, it's time for "Virgin Music Festival 2008" . Held at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, MD as it has been each year since 2006, the festival will have a boat load of talent. The artists scheduled to perform this year include Bob Dylan, Nine Inch Nails, The Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Iggy Pop And The Stooges, etc., etc., etc.

There's a few really good concerts at Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, VA (a.k.a. Washington, DC) this month. The 'Metal Masters Tour 2008' featuring Motorhead, Judas Priest, Heaven And Hell and Testament rocks the place on Thursday, the 7th. Counting Crows along with Maroon 5, as well as Sara Bareilles visit on the 16th. The legendary singer, Rod Stewart appears on Sunday, August 24th. Finally, on the 27th, the combo of Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick play at Nissan Pavilion.