Music

Bon Jovi performed two secret, invite-only concerts this week at Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena ahead of the band’s “Forever” world tour — its first live run since 2022.

COLUMN | “The Star-Spangled Banner” is a freedom song written by an enslaver. What are we to make of the national anthem in Baltimore, a city that’s so proud of it?

UMD professor Dan Ortiz Leizman is going viral for instruments they create from unlikely materials — the cheap plastic chairs known as Monoblocs.

Ottobar, the Baltimore’s indie rock club, has been ordered to pay over $18,000 in statutory damages and attorney fees to Broadcast Music Inc. and three music publishers after conceding liability in a copyright infringement case.

Two Johns Hopkins University groups will get money from a benefit festival that Grammy Award-winning pop singer Olivia Rodrigo is hosting in California in August.

Clive Davis, the record company lawyer who became one of the music industry’s most powerful figures has died, his family confirmed. He was 94.

Pariz Motton, the Baltimore rapper starring on Zeus Network’s “Bad Boys: Dominican Republic,” discusses his music, reality TV career and Charm City nightlife.

Here’s what to do in the capital region, including Father’s Day and Juneteenth celebrations, a music festival, a comedy show and free yoga.

The 8x10 was set to shut down at the end of June — until new owners Rising Sun Presents from Pennsylvania stepped in.

The Washington National Opera is suing the Kennedy Center, alleging the performing arts center owes the opera company $17 million in donations after the WNO parted ways with the venue this year.

Maryland jazz musician Chuck Redd scored a legal victory this month when a D.C. judge threw out a Kennedy Center lawsuit that accused him of breaching a contract after he canceled a performance in protest of President Donald Trump’s association with the venue.

Baltimore’s week of LGBTQIA+ Pride celebrations kicks off this week, with dozens of events happening around the city.

As the country prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, a growing number of local theaters, museums, artists and performers in the left-leaning suburbs of Washington are highlighting art that protests the Trump administration.

You can also visit an art market, take a free workout class and see a TLC reality star onstage.

The Garage, an alternative music venue on Honey Acres in Montgomery County’s Agricultural Reserve, was ordered to shut down operations. It is fighting for its right to party.

Meet 4-year-old piano prodigy Michael Girgis, who will perform at Carnegie Hall twice within a few months after winning two prestigious music competitions.

By late Thursday, several previously announced performers had withdrawn from Freedom 250 festivities, including Bret Michaels, the Commodores, Martina McBride, Morris Day and Young MC.

A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations — the latest legal setback for Trump’s efforts to leave his personal mark on the landscape of the nation’s capital.

Bruce Springsteen is no stranger to criticizing President Donald Trump. He’ll likely do it again at the Power to the People protest concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia on Oct. 3.

Future Islands will perform at Pier Six Pavilion on Thursday in commemoration of the band’s 20th anniversary.