As I've mentioned before, it was the best year for the festival and next year promises to be better when considering the venues available to host. More attention from fans and media doesn't hurt either. We've compiled live video footage, embeddable streams (Bandcamp/SoundCloud only), and legally available mp3s for artists who performed this year. The Videos... SpazzFester extraordinaire, Jonathan Harris, took lots of Spazz Fest video and then proceeded to share it on Facebook/YouTube. I thought I'd compile some of the better quality videos and share here-but owe a big shout to [...]

friday night vids :: METZ + Alligator Indian + YVETTE + The Babies + Height with Friends

For your streaming pleasure, here is our tenth installment of Friday Night Vids for the year numbered 2012... Streamable: Dirty Shirt (Live on KEXP) (youtube) by METZ ( as seen ) Streamable: Dark Fruit (vimeo) by Alligator Indian Streamable: Cold Sweat @ Living Bread Deli (youtube) by Yvette ( as seen ) [...]

Height With Friends' new album Rock and Roll has some interesting elements, many of which have delivered success to other acts in the past, but ultimately fall flat for this hip-hop release from Baltimore. [...]
Last month, Baltimore indie-rap veteran Dan Keech, who records as Height, released Rock And Roll , the most accomplished album he's made yet. We posted his propulsive first single " I Can't Stand To Be Refused " a while back, and now here's the video for "Sugar," a brief banger about doughnut dependency. In the clip Keech ferociously eyeballs an entire donut shop full of temptations. Watch it below. Read More...
Last week was one of the thinnest weeks for new releases of the summer. Yet again, there have been many thin weeks for releases this summer when compared to previous years. However, we have almost as many new, notable singles this week from albums by DIY artists who sent them to us, and many of [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

This week is a particularly exciting one for KEXP listeners because today marks the release of Live At KEXP Volume Eight ! Featuring performances from April 2011 to April 2012, the 19-track compilation houses live performances from some of KEXP's newest discoveries alongside longtime favorites, including songs from Alabama Shakes , Of Monsters and Men , Tame Impala , Dry The River , Brendan Perry and Robin Guthrie , Mark Lanegan Band , The Lumineers and more. Here's the tracklist: 1. Alabama Shakes [...]
To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Dead Can Dance, Wild Cub and Height With Friends. Also, vote for your favorite of today’s releases
Height with Friends is a Baltimore-based rap-rock group, and the songwriting vehicle for prolific emcee Height. Since 2008, the band has played over 500 shows, and released 13 records, Rock and Roll being the latest. While there’s certainly some cheekiness behind that album title (this ain’t rock ‘n roll in the literal sense), Height with Friends craft beats the old-fashioned way: with guitar, bass, and drums. And they’re simple beats, unattractive yet understated, fitting backdrops for Height’s wordplay, which is refreshingly direct and self-reflexive. Opening track “I Can’t Stand to be Refused” is a never-say-die [...]
Two almighty genres clash on Height With Friends' new album, Rock And Roll, with mixed results. Friends/Cold Rhymes, 2012 6.0 / 10.0 There's something marvellous and ridiculous about the idea of a rapper fronting a rock band. But if you do some research, you'll see that rock musicians have been experimenting [...]
We're back again this week with a slew of great artists to fill your MP3 desires. As always, our Weekly Download is an array of artists from varying genres sent right to us by the artists themselves. We hope you enjoy this week's list! First up is our featured band this week, San Francisco's Invisible Cities with their track "The Year Of Living Backwards". Something very ear-pleasing beckons from Han Wang's vocals. Perhaps its the eerie likeness to The Shins. The Mean Season might be ringing in my ears due to lead vocalist 'Cherie'. [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Birds and Batteries : "The Golden Age of Dreams" [mp3] from Stray Light (out August 7th) search for more Birds and Batteries posts at Largehearted Boy Catherine Irwin : "Mockingbird (with Bonnie Prince Billy)" [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Height with Friends will release their new LP, Rock and Rollout , on August 14th via Friends/Cold Rhymes Records. listen: "Hard Work" http://www.heightwithfriends.c om/
Baltimore's Height With Friends, a long long time Pasta favorite, has a pretty sweet LP Rock and Roll due out mid-August out on Friends/Cold Rhymes Records. They start a tour with Dan Deacon... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]

Some "new" for you... forgive the loose interpretations, summer is here. Bailterspace - "No Sense" from Strobosphere out 8/21 [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bailterspace : "No Sense" [mp3] from Strobosphere (out August 21st) search for more Bailterspace posts at Largehearted Boy Beau Jennings : free and legal Holy Tulsa Thunder album [mp3] [...]

Dan Keech, who records as Height, has been floating around Baltimore's underground rock scene and making oblique and heartfelt rap music for a long time now; I wrote this profile on Dan and his friend Bow N' Arrow eight years ago. Later this summer, Keech and his crew Height With Friends will release the new album Rock And Roll , and he'll follow that up by touring with Dan Deacon all this fall. "I Can't Stand To Be Refused," the first thing we've heard from the album, is a fiery banger built from psych-guitar loops, and you [...]

Stereogum Dan Keech, who records as Height, has been floating around Baltimore's underground rock scene and making oblique and heartfelt rap music for a long time now; I wrote this profile on Dan and his friend Bow N' Arrow eight years ago. Later this summer, Keech and his crew Height With Friends will release the new album Rock And Roll , and he'll follow that up by touring with Dan Deacon all this fall. "I Can't Stand To Be Refused," the first thing we've heard [...]
Friday, November 18, 2011 HEIGHT WITH FRIENDS + GUESTS $7. 1o:00pm. Golden West Cafe 1105 W. 36th St. Hampden, Baltimore. With... AK Slaughter Bookhouse feat. MCN Eye & Richard Benjamin Mickey Free and Secret Weapon Dave Facebook RSVP. An Unregistered Nurse Production.
This Friday the Fifth Annual All Rap Round Robin is back in effect at Floristree here in Baltimore (more info can be found here). This show is going to be D O P E. The line up is stacked with Mania... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]