And it's bullshit! I'm off to a family reunion. I like my family of course - fam hang time is a great style. But ooooh goddammit, I want to be here for this. No doubt that if you're within a 100-mile radius of where I'm currently typing, you probably know about Siltbreeze's Sapat , but I'll go on and give you the skinny on all three acts, in an effort to admonish you to spend your Friday evening - this Friday evening - at Germantown's Swan Dive. Sapat is a local collective [...]
Hunter and A crew of Baltimore freak scene sound makers are just passing through town to play something a little different from what you're used to
THE GOLDEN WEST CAFE FESTIVAL 2009 kicks off TONIGHT. 1105 W. 36th St Tickets 6$ in advance, $8-$10 night of $20 for all four nights. MP3: Crazy Dreams Band - Separate Ways Thursday, August 20 Crazy Dreams Band Jana Hunter (purportedly last Baltimore show of the year!) Jones Young & Rusty presents his Cocaine Sex Jams [...]
Somehow the outcome of this feels like it doesn't mesh with the players that make it up. I mean hearing the names Lexie Mountain and Nate Nelson (of Religious Knives/ Mouthus) would instantly conjure up thoughts of experimental noise and dark havoc not so much classic rock, funk or soul. Now there are definitely some noisy bits contained within the Crazy Dreams Band's universe but more surprisingly there are some really pop moments as well. The pop never sticks around long enough to really knock this up to any radio frequency and it's often gobbled up by the aforementioned havoc, [...]
We mentioned War Child's Heroes and offered a listen to the contributions from Lily Allen and Hot Chip . Remember the concept behind the compilation: 15 "ultimate icons" chose a song from their own back catalogs and chose a new act to cover it. David Bowie chose TV On The Radio to take on the collection's namesake. If you recall, he sang backing vocals on Cookie Mountain 's "Province," so look at it as returning the favor. Or as trust. It doesn't approach the 1977 original, but then, how do [...]
Modern day hardcore bands namedropping Void, Negative Approach and Die Kreuzen automatically throw down the money-where-your-mouth-is gauntlet, so when Austin's Total Abuse does all that and then the singer talks about how he likes to hide behind a wall of power electronics noise and intone to the audience dictator-like, I am skeptical. But with the new weed of HC bands like Fucked Up and Sex Vid (covering the Dead C for heavens sake) the combo of select history lessons in sound vs. conceptual rulebook out the window can't be anything but a kool and [...]
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