An exploration of live music last year? An apology for not writing about the last MDF? Keeping myself accountable to write a piece on next year’s? Some other thing I can’t think of at the moment? Huh?!? I don’t need to tell you how shit this past year was (I’ll let 365 handle that), nor do I need to tell you 2026 isn’t shaping up to be a massive improvement. Yet, a bright spot in last year’s Year of the Snake(oil salesmen) for me was live music. Living in a town with a strong local scene that’s only a mini-road … Continue reading A Death[fest] in The [Maryland]: 2025 and Beyond