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Noise In Brief, Nov. 6: All the Baltimore Music News That Isn't Fit to Print
By Michael Byrne | 11/6/2009
The Talking Head is kinda sorta going away. Booker-in-chief Adam Savage assures us, however, that "Talking Head will never die." The Live Entertainment Bill passes a City Council vote; formerly hysterical DIY folks sleep in. The ever-prolific MC Wordsmith is circulating a new single, "Braggin' Rights." Grab it here. [Government Names] The forthcoming Beach House album on Sub Pop, Teen Dreams, is coming with a DVD of videos for each song, a la Liars' Drums Not Dead. Here's a preview (pictured ... [MORE]
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Ecstatic Sunshine Record Release, Nov. 7 at Open Space
By Michael Byrne | 11/6/2009
Apologies for not getting this in the print edition of City Paper, but there's an especially notable show Saturday night, Nov. 7. Ecstatic Sunshine, now a rotating cast revolving around co-founder Matt Papich, releases its first full-length record, Yesterday's Work (Hoss)—a set of sunny, pastoral electronically reimagined psychedelic folk—since early 2007 next week, with an unveiling/performance at Remington's Open Space. Cex (erstwhile CP contributor Rjyan Kidwell), Shave, Bear and ... [MORE]
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Jemina Pearl at the G-Spot Nov. 2
By Bret McCabe | 10/30/2009
For four years and two albums Nashville's Be Your Own Pet tore through garage punk with the sort of brashness that only teenagers can deliver. The quartet delivered everything at the frenetic clip of young people trying to live before they got old or the Jolt cola ran out—whichever came first. The blonde-haired personality at the eye of this tornado was the howling Jemina Pearl, 200 lbs. of don't-give-a-shit strained into what looked like a 90-lbs. soaking-wet package of flailing energy. S ... [MORE]
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Q&A: Twig Harper on Baltimore's Dreamworld Portals, Tape Loops, and the Human Instrument
By Raymond Cummings | 10/29/2009
When we chewed the fat with sonic collagist James "Twig" Harper about his latest compositions recently, the Nautical Almanac co-captain and HereSee co-operator had a great deal to tell us-more than we could cram into the print version of our recent story. In the full-length interview below, Harper clues us in on his unusual recording methodology, the state of Nautical Almanac, an unlikely inspiration, what Max Eisenberg is up to these days, and much, much more. City Paper: In an earlier e-mail, ... [MORE]
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A Baltimore Jazz Homecoming: the Josh Ginsburg Quartet at An die Musik, Oct. 23
By Geoffrey Himes | 10/28/2009
Josh Ginsburg was just a skinny, fledgling musician when he started playing bass as a teenager around his Baltimore hometown in the early '90s. On Friday he returned home for a concert at An Die Musik as the 32-year-old leader of the Josh Ginsburg Quartet. He brought along three top colleagues from New York, where he currently lives and where he works as a member of the Metta Quintet and an in-demand jazz bassist. It's a familiar story: a Baltimore jazz musician gets a good start in his home ... [MORE]
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Show the Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad Your Boobs (Also, Buy Them A Beer)
By Al Shipley | 10/20/2009
The Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad put on what has to be, by some distance, one of the oddest rock shows in Baltimore. Its members don outfits, such as a Mexican wrestling mask and a paper-mâché horse head, and perform under names such as Captain Mediocrity and Prof. Doktor Von Science, which are just the kind of stunts that made them an unpredictable favorite on the reality show The Next Great American Band. But like many costumed spectacles in rock history, from Kiss to Gwar, one thing ... [MORE]
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Noise In Brief, Oct. 16: All The Baltimore Music News That Isn't Fit To Print
By Michael Byrne | 10/16/2009
Ace Baltimore MC E Major is hyping a new scratch-happy track off his forthcoming mixtape. Listen to "You Send Me" here. Under Sound Music, E Major's label/collective, also has a new weekly event Tuesdays at Red Maple. Aural States is hosting/releasing a remix album from MC Height with new takes of last summer's Baltimore Highlands. Grab it here, and see Height with AK Slaughter at the Zodiac Windup Space tonight. Wham City's Mark Brown and DJ Schwarz have a new party, Deep in the Game-expect pl ... [MORE]
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The Third Man Reigns: Han Bennink at the Windup Space, Oct. 14
By Geoffrey Himes | 10/16/2009
Avant-garde jazz can sometimes be a dour, cerebral exercise but not when Han Bennink plays it. The Dutch drummer may be 67, his hair gone silver beneath his bright red headband, his Amsterdam home full of Europe's top jazz prizes, but at the Windup Space on Wednesday, he played with sheer abandon and infectious joy of an 11-year-old boy. The tall, lanky percussionist had only a single snare drum at his disposal, but that's all he needed to fill the Third Man Trio with rhythms that were ever surp ... [MORE]
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Not With a Bang, Not With a Whimper: Big Bang Party
By Brandon Soderburg | 10/14/2009
Booked at the Depot, but moved at the last minute to after-hours spot 1722 a couple of doors down, and then ended early by 1722, this past Saturday's installment of Senari's Big Bang was all about keeping everybody, from those in attendance to the talent to promoter Puja Patel herself, off-balance. At least part of the off-balance feeling, though, was intentional. Unpredictability is one of the most rewarding aspects of many of Patel's shows, especially past Big Bangs: DJ Booman at the Hexago ... [MORE]
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The Club Beat with DJ Patrick
By Al Shipley | 10/8/2009
DJ Patrick is perhaps one of the most unsung heroes of Baltimore club music's early days. Just about any DJ that was active in the the late '80s and early '90s is likely to name-check him, but he's rarely received much press coverage himself. So when I finally got to track down the local legend at his Grove Park home, after getting in touch via longtime associate Jonny Blaze, I wasn't surprised to hear that Patrick feels a bit slighted. "I don't get my credit that I deserve," says the man who on ... [MORE]
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Taking it to the Tweets: Mos Def one night; Amanda Blank the next
By Robbie Whelan | 10/2/2009
So an odd thing happened to me Sept. 16: I had my first real-time Twitter-based interface with a performing artist. Maybe that's not that weird for some critics, but it was new to me. I was at Sonar for the Baltimore leg of Mos Def's Ecstatic Tour, and I had been there since about 7:45 p.m., because I'd been told that was when Soul Cannon, the only local act on the bill, would take the stage. Before the show, both keyboard player Jon Birkholz and MC Eze Jackson told me that there was a hold-up: ... [MORE]
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Beau Velasco Memorial, Viewing This Weekend
By Michael Byrne | 10/1/2009
From the Death Set's Johnny Siera: "R.I.P. my dear brother, friend and band mate Beau Velasco. We are all so devastated that I will keep this short. We love you and you will be missed. You affected us all so much in the most positive ways. Our lives would not be as is, if not for you. We love you." Beau Velasco, beloved brother, co-founding member, guitarist and vocalist of The Death Set, passed away Sunday, September 27, in Brooklyn, New York. Beau co-wrote the Worldwide album and previous tw ... [MORE]
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The BSO Brings Together Bloggers and Bluegrass
By Al Shipley | 9/29/2009
Being a music blogger generally means receiving a constant stream of promo e-mails, usually from every indie-rock band and mixtape rapper under the sun. So when you get an e-mail from, say, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, it's a refreshing change of pace, to say the least. The BSO held its first "bloggers' night" on Thursday, inviting an array of local writers out for a concert, friendly reception, and meet 'n' greet beforehand. As someone who generally writes about just about anything but cla ... [MORE]
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Beau Velasco, R.I.P.
By Michael Byrne | 9/28/2009
Robe Trotters: Sunn0))) at Sonar, Sept. 23
By Bret McCabe | 9/25/2009
Guitars are rock's phallic object, but volume remains its big dick. Ever since the Who hit 126 dB in the late 1970s, the loudness = greatness paradigm is both a joke and operating cliché, as pushing decibel levels became metal's concert Everest even though "softer" bands-see: My Blood Valentine, Survival Research Labs, Borbetomagus, etc.-routinely bled ears dry onstage. By the early 1990s it became such a dead horse that Seattle bands effortlessly made deadpan jokes about it: recall the Mel ... [MORE]
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Noise in Brief, Sept. 25: All the Baltimore Music News That Isn't Fit to Print
By Michael Byrne | 9/25/2009
Jazz-plus club An die Musik, which had been waiting on IRS approval for non-profit status, got it. Sources around Hampden and previously booked musicians report that coffeeshop/performance space El Rancho Grande has been shuttered for some time with an on vacation sign on the door. It's phone is also disconnected. On-fire local hip-hop duo the Get 'Em Mamis finally dropped their long-awaited album, for free. Grab it here. [Playboy] Folk-punk duo Misses Ellen Sunday and Her Fantastic Cats is putt ... [MORE]
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Know Your Product: Nuclear Power Pants, Wicked Eats the Warrior (Wham City)
By Raymond Cummings | 9/24/2009
In the mid-1990s, Nuclear Power Pants would have been lucky to snag a third-string indie stage gig on selected Lollapalooza dates. In the late-'90s, they might've found themselves opening for the Make-Up, Olivia Tremor Control, or Love As Laughter. Today, at the twilight of the penny-pinching '00s, this daffy, nomadic octet—formed in New York in 2003, only to dissolve and reconstitute itself in noise-fuck haven Providence, RI, two years later, then emigrate in dribs and drabs to Baltimore& ... [MORE]
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Saturday Night's Alright For High Zero
By Al Shipley | 9/21/2009
The High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is, perhaps more than other music festivals, best thought of as an exotic buffet. You might not enjoy the strange flavors it has to offer all the time but for one weekend every year you get to binge on a staggering variety of creative and unusual approaches to sound. Even merely attending one of the festival's several concerts is bound to introduce you to some wonderful musician or instrument you've never heard of before, out of more than a ... [MORE]
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Know Your Product: Abby Mott, Go West! Get East! (self-released)
By Bret McCabe | 9/18/2009
Four songs. That's the problem with beguiling songstress Abby Mott's new EP Go West! Get East!: it's only four songs. Yes, a mere four tracks that don't even crack the 20-minute mark in total running time from the supercute vixen with the golden pipes who wrote and recorded her 2007 debut Hearts a'Flutter all by her own bad self. Now she's backed by her band—drummer Pat Blades, guitarist/backing vocalist/keyboardist/percussionist Jason Hughes, vocalist/backing vocalist Jay Novak—and ... [MORE]
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Q&A: Amanda Blank Gets Deep
By Tony Ware | 9/17/2009
Hailing from Philadelphia, MC Amanda Blank has been blowing heads with the way she works a rhyme for a good five-plus years, though only in the wider public eye for the last three or so. After guesting on singles and mixtapes from Spank Rock, Aaron LaCrate, Britney Spears, and Ghostface Killah, Blank now steps out from the Diplo-anointed party circuit to weather the criticism of a solo artist with her debut full-length, I Love You. In the process she's managed to incite those prone to both raunc ... [MORE]
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