‘Le Salon’ at TAG/The Artists Gallery

If you like variety, stop by TAG/The Artists Gallery in Frederick this month. The gallery offers its walls to the public once a year for its “Le Salon” exhibition. More than 120 works by guest artists are on view through Aug. 28.

Hours are noon to 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays.

TAG is at 501 N. Market St., Frederick. Learn more at theartistsgalleryfrederick.com, or call 301-2289860.

Timberwolves

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Marcus: Yeah, I think there’s a difference between learning a riff you like and then learning the entire song. Because even the parts that didn’t stick out in your head originally — they’ll teach you something if you learn it. Playing other people’s music will always influence you. At the same time, we never want to be considered a cover band. Once you become a cover band, it’s hard to shake that label.

How much of the band is a function of how close you guys are as people?

Putz: It’s family more than anything else. Being a three-piece helps, but what we do now is just hang out as best friends and mess around. It’s just a different monster when it’s your best friends instead of trying to schedule five people to get together to play. It’s a job compared to a hobby.

Marcus: And we started playing together when we were 15. It’s hard to imagine other people in bands with us right now. As soon as we connected with Marcus, for instance, it felt copacetic and unshakable after that. Who are some local bands you guys love?

Marcus: Doublemotorcycle [laughs].

Putz: Honestly, whatever you and Joe were doing was always going to be fun. Silent Old Mtns. are always really cool guys. Then some of the young kids

— Gatwick, who we play with all the time. The Vens have always been one our favorites.

Marcus: It’s more the people because sometimes people jump from bands, and if you really like someone from one band, you’re sure the new band is going to be cool, too.

Putz: Weed Coughin. Although. They’re the best. Same thing with Violet Evergreen.

Is the Nola show going to serve as the record release?

Putz: Yeah, we didn’t have an official one, and we didn’t advertise this show as one, but that’s how non-serious and on the fun side this band is. We don’t have to do anything too official; we just want you to show up and groove to some tunes.

If you only had five words to describe the Timberwolves sound, what would they be?

Marcus: That’s hard because I can never describe our music to anybody. Putz: Manic. Sexy. Heavy. Dream. Rock.

Colin McGuire has been in and out of bands for more than 20 years and also helps produce concerts in and around Frederick. His work has appeared in Alternative Press magazine, PopMatters and 72 Hours, among other outlets. He is convinced that the difference between being in a band and being in a romantic relationship is less than minimal. Contact him at mcguire.colin@gmail.com.

BY SHERYL MASSARO Special to The News-Post

July was the most beastly ever on Earth, weather-wise, but as I write on Aug. 1, it’s become glorious — more like plain old summer. We even can sit outside in the evenings and listen to little creatures. I hope this bodes well for the rest of the month.

What are we going to do with this world of ours that keeps heating up? People like to toss around the term “climate change,” but I tend to agree with someone I admire without hesitation — Arnold

Schwarzenegger — who feels we should stop using the term and go back to calling it by the cause: pollution. He feels it is a word that brings the issue to home ground and better resonates with the public.

Lots of us have been doing our part to help the situation, though. I would not have believed you if you’d told me when I was 12 that someday I painstakingly would remove labels and tape from packing material,