Where Beyoncé leads, we must follow – even if that’s nights on the western range, rattlesnakes, whisky and all manner of heartbreak and loss. The Houston-raised pop superstar has expanded her formidable range with the release on Friday of Cowboy Carter. Where her last album, Renaissance, took us to Chicago for 90s house music, the…

Five years ago, when the alternative artist Ekkstacy was 16, he stole two T-shirts from a record shop in a mall by his childhood house in Vancouver. They were both merch for Seattle bands: one was a Nirvana shirt, the other was an Alice in Chains shirt. “I was like, I’m not wearing this unless…

Of all the ­musicians who have lived, worked or performed there, none has a stronger connection with Camden Town than Amy Winehouse. But the release of the Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, is a useful reminder of both the ­fragility of cultural moments and how Camden has been robust enough to survive a series of…

Robert T. “Rockin Rob” Bruns, a music promoter who was known for organizing dance parties throughout Baltimore, died March 15 of a heart attack at his Towson home. He was 74. “The dance parties and events he hosted brought joy and fond memories to thousands of Baltimoreans, many of whom are seniors,” wrote his brother,…