
Here's my shotgun approach to the holidaze, a hand-picked selection of tracks from albums that have been facilitating my aural merriment and mirth. And as a special treat, The Chipmunks' "Christmas Song" mix by Jason Willett is an Aural States exclusive. MP3: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - Linus and Lucy from Jingle All the Way (2008) MP3: Caleb Stine - Peace on Earth from Peace on Earth: Christmas (2007) MP3: Reverend Horton [...]

photo by Sam Holden CALEB STINE & THE BRAKEMEN myspace [mp3] Peace On Earth Caleb Stine also has a new CD out with MC Saleem called Outgrown These Walls . Buy Caleb Stine CDs at Atomic Books. ______________________________ _______________________ PLEASE NOTE: [...]

Photo credit: Greg Szeto Baltimore has once again served up a night of fantastic folk-inspired live music along with a cozy sense of brotherhood and community between the artists and the audience, and between the artists themselves. Andy Abelow headed off the night with probably the best set I've ever seen him play. As a solo artist, he is truly becoming a unique entity. A one-man show without the trite implications of comedians in the same vein. His compositional processes [...]
Caleb Stine and Saleem join forces to show Baltimore that color and class are not meant to keep us apart. Tags: Baltimore , Caleb Stine , Live Records , Nice Package , Saleem

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this interview are highly political and solely my own, which is why I have identified the interviewer as myself and not the whole of Aural States. Aural States as an entity is politically neutral...like Sweden. MP3: Wye Oak - Remember, Above from Daytrotter Session As I walked into El Rancho Grande, that lovely community-invoking coffee-house on Falls Road in Hampden, I see strewn across the table lots of construction paper. Surrounded by people cutting furiously and laughing. [...]

This sunday, baltimore-ites Wye Oak and Caleb Stine will put their creative juices together at the Metro Gallery for a night of live music called Hope Night, which will serve as a benefit for the Obama Campaign. Wye Oak described the reason for the event in a recent email: My friend Caleb and I were walking in Hampden a couple weeks back when we came across an Obama campaign sign which had been defaced with racist remarks. It got us talking about the mean-spiritedness which has filled this campaign season, [...]

Tonight in Baltimore Wham City presents Whartscape at Sonar and outside on 131 W. North Avenue (12pm-10pm). On North Avenue you can catch Oxes, Thank You, Killer Whales, The Death Set, The Mae Shi, DDMMYY, Eyeball Skeleton, Bird Names, Ecstatic Sunshine, Lexie Mountain Boys, The Creepers, WZT Hearts, Food For Animals, Dufus, Facts, Ed Schrader, Air Waves, Benny Stoofy, Smarts, and King Cloud. At Sonar you can catch Celebration, Videohippos, Food For Animals, Nuclear Powerplants, Blood Baby, and Human Host. The Metro Gallery is also having an Artscape event with Caleb Stine, The Jennifers, [...]